The Portland daily press., 1896-01-20

AIOu Sill.
General Booth said that as long as his
only prayed they, accom-
plished nothing, but when they began to
to others, to teach others to be
manly and industrious and good, they
became a power, and others believed in
the religion they professed, and as
Christian Unionist our influence will
be the greatest, when we-.contribute our
selves to helping God to emancipate the
world from sin, and it has been in this
out Committee, 4" and assigned to 1T the
duty of helping the church and it's in
terests, of helping it to increase it's men,
bership and its influence, that we have
made it committee of hospitality and
kindly greeting. That we have sent our
young people out to invite people to the
church, and to bring children to the
Sunday school. 1t is grand missionary
work. 1t supplements the eloquence of
the pastor by the eloquence of appeal.
Then there is the flower mission, and
know of none more gracious, showing
the aged and the sick that they are still
dear to us. And then / find our Union
lists insist on keeping our work of chart
ty up to the times, and that our Chris
tain Unionists believe not only in arms
giving, but in making of friends. The
greatest misery in this world is not hun
ger and cold, but sorrow of the mind,
hunger for comradship, Inconsistencies,
it may be in city of homes
MIR. Garfield here spoke eloquently of
the work of the Christian Unionists in
the sluns, i'll the spirit of the grateful
remeinb erance of the much that God has
given, and with the desire to give also.
He then spoke of the duty of enacting
and enforcing righteous laws, and said
that before the organized Christian man.
hood of the country no public wrong
could exist twelve month in this ma
tion. With this fact in mind, the Union
lists have organized Christian citizenship
clubs, and there young men are trying
to find how to become, not only good
thanked God that in New York city it is
young man who has become terror
to evil oers, and invoked the blessings
OF God upon all young men who in the
strength of Christian manhood are will
ing to stand up to his work in solving
the problems of this age.
The Christian Unionists believe tho
roughly in the Universalist church While
they believe that to other churches God
has committed some measure Of His
truth, they believe that the Universalist
church has something that in the Same
measure other churches have not. That
God has given to our church certain
portions of his truth that is of vital i'm
portapoe to the. world that He has laid
upon us the duty of making that truth
known, that the light Of God may shine
before man. This truth of the universal
love of God is the principal uf progress
1t can 90 to the south and help out the
solution of the race problem there. 1t
can be applied to the settlement of finan-
cial social and industrial problems, and
solved than by the acceptance of a faith
in the universal brotherhood of man and
the universal love of God.
And we believe that these principles
will go out to do glorious work for Christ
and His Church, and SO we have in that
faith organized our ''Postoffice Depart
ment," and we are sending the literature
of the Universalist church to people who
live hundreds of miles from the nearest
Universalist church.
MWe believe that as Uniyersalists and
as Christian Unionists we have mission
and duty. and that it is help Others,
and SO we have our church extension
society, kept up by the two cents a week
of all our members, and
we hope to carry our church all over the
we make the systematic giving Of this
work. common human duty. We had
rather have a man give So times year
than to give the same amount once, for
then we know that he has thought inter.
estingly OF this work SO times at least.
And then our Christian Unioni.ts In
the youthfulness of their ambition,
OF their hope and, of their faith, desire
to see large church. If two or three
are gathered together in the name of
Jesus Christ, there He viii be IN their
midst, but none the less will He be with
two Or three thousand, or two or three
thrilling them with His spirit,
leading them forward to new conquests
We do not ask and we 90 not pray for
a large church that we may escape from
the do. ng of any duty, but only that with
more pledged to the work Of the most
high we may accomplish more for the
Master. I would sound the praises of
youth. OF that youth that knows no
defeat, that OF failure organizes success,
that never grows old, that out even of
the ruins of life builds something worthy
of the approval of God. There is no such
thing as real Christian who has become
weary in we'll doing. "He who awaits
upon God shall renew his strength. -;
WITHDRAWAL CONFIRMED.