The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-10-14

light. It mas drawn to it's support null tltudes of the ablest men and women ot our time. Statesmen, judges, phi lanthropists, financicrs, scholars, edu- . cators and orators have sat in its coun- els and guided it's deliberations. Upon US more than three thousand Ameri- can and native missionaries the sun never sets. It has printed two thou sand millions of pages Of Christian lit efatu9e in fifty languages, thirty or WHlcn US own missionaries have flfSt reduced to grammatical form. Fifteen tribes of North American Indians first received the gospel at it's hands. It gave oregon and the great Northwest to the American Union through it's he- fo-fnissionary, Marcus Whitman. Pal estlne, Syria, Greece Siam, Cyprus and the Gabboon have ali been occupied by It and it's work turned over to other societies. Now it holds fourteen hun dfed distinct points in it's twenty mis- slons in pagan lands, stretching through Japan, China, India, Turkey, spain, Austria, Africa Mexico, the Ha~ Waiian Islands and the Marshall, Gil- bert and Caroline groups of the far
 
 forty missionary physicians, ten hospi- tals and thirty dispensaries, which are hourly bringing relief to suffering thousands. But some say, "You can't do any good by just teaching hymns and psalms; you must educate, civil lze. And these wise critics overlook the fact that this is precisely what the missionaries have been doing, for hun dred years! It is well to rememh mher that in the more than one thousand schools and colleges of the American Board alone there are several thousand more of enrolled pupils than in all the Congregational schools, academies and colleges of the United States put to- gether. Here is a vast educational plant that has grown up like corn in the night while most men have slept And what treasures of promise are here! What PauIs and Luthers and Neesimas are now under Gods training hand who shall yet become leaders and commanders of their people!
 But our backward glance must not be prolonged. The solemn fact con- fronts us, as we round out this mis- sionary century, that we are as yet only touching the rim of our denomina- tional responsibility. It may be safely set down that the Congregationalists of America are fairly answerable for the evangeliZation of 100000 of our own people. By the same rule we must take upon ourselves one hundred mill lions of the pagan world, a number twenty-five times as large. Now, if We were to send to these benighted chill dren of our trust twenty-five times as many teachers and missionaries, where, from the New Testament standpoint. would be the error in the arithmetic? But we do not even send as many to the hundred millions as we keep for the four millions; in fact, not a half, nor tenth, nor a tWentieth--only one in twenty -nine! And so far as money goes. only one dollar out of nineteen. Now, suppose man having eighty bushels of wheat to SOW upon forty acres of land should adopt a habit of scattering one bushel sparsely over thirty-nine acres and then pouring sev- enty-nine bushels upon one acre; his method would succeed better in awak ening curiosity than in raising wheat. And yet taking the broad field togeth- CT into which our Lord has sent us forth, that is about the way we are sowing the gospel seed. Our denOmina- tiOnal missionary problem must take into account the one hundred millions committed to us across the sea- They are our share. Who will take them if we fail? Unless we fall behind and God removes the candlestick from us, 1,;e 1,1 nd p1 just cur plans to it's accomplishment.
 Are there not few watchwords for the hour? Methinks I hear them in the tides and tumultS of our time. The main question is not how we shall pay a debt, or meet the emergency of 8 passing year, CT tide over hard times There are TO hard times in heaven, and the farther earth gets from heaven the harder grow the times.
 i. Renewed loyalty to Christ is clear ly one of the Natchwords of the hour We have little of the ponlp of ecclesi- asticism or the glitter of machinery. If we are not loyal to Christ we haven't much else to be loyal to. But He is the Risen Lord, the Redeemer, tine Head of the Church, the Author and Finisher of our faith, the Captain of our Salva- ton, the Light of the World. Give Him His rightful place in church and creed. in politics and business, in social and private life and all things else as- sunae their fit proportions. The whole | round earth waits for the day of His full supremacy. Let His voice be heard and obeyed and the mutterings of dis i content. the strifes of wealth and toll, ! the wars Of nations and of men, will 1 cease. This is the gospel that the groaning world waits for.
 9 And the call grows louder for a clear acknowledgment of our steward i, ship as servants of Christ Mere accu- mutation of property for it's own sake and in excess of moral uses is scarcely | more rational than if one wishing to furnish kitchen should collect dozen l tables, and forty tea kettles, and twen- l ty or thirty kitchen stoves. Moreover, 1 it is obvious that such procedure is es- i sentially immoral and distinctly un- | Christian. 'Ye are not your OWn;' ! Lay not Gp for yourselves treasures l upon earth;" Seek ye first the king | dom of God" The New Testament con- ception of covetousness is almost start | ling. It is first classed with the works | of the flesh as an infamous and degrad- l ing sin. Next it is branded as idolatry, | q mark Of na o.alisfn Then Our Lord 1