The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-10-15

loved and honored, in which was the impulse of this great missionary organ ization and which is in the hands or the missionaries sent out by 1t to carry to all the darkened world, My dear friends, let this conviction root ltselL deeply in our hearts as q vital, deter inmate conviction which nothing can shake-that the power to transform the world is in the new Testament of our Lord Jesus Christ (applause) as ac- compan!ed by the energy of the Holy Spirit.
 And then the third conviction is thls, that 1t is given to the English speaking peoples of the world and in a certain pfe-emlnent sense to the American peo- pie to proclaim this gospel of righteous ness and love of spiritual transforma- ton to the peoples of the earth. Every time the theme has come before me 1t has grasped me With more prodisious power, This nation, the great minister of God for doing this. His transcendant work, in these tremendous times It is shown to be by its very geographical position. Poised on the crest of the globe, with the two great oceans or the world on either hand, with it's l500O miles Of coast line inviting commerce from abroad, stimulating commerce i'll it's exit, with it's prodigious wealth so rapidly accommodating from the mine, from the prairie, from the meadow, from the orchard, from the orange grove, from the sugar plantation, from the wheat field and the cornfield and the cotton field, from the silver and the gold in the mines, from the great deposits of coal and iron and copper, from the great riches scattered over the surface, where men scoop up fortunes ill forenoon, this nation, becoming rapidly one of the wealthiest of the world, perhaps the very wealthiest at this hour, is placed here in this extraor- dinary geographical earth, searching every land with the enterprises of that commerce, carrying American nanufac- lures into China and Japan and India and the islands of the sea, all over the earth
 Then think of it's composite popula- ton, allying it with all peoples of the world, 16000,000 of emigrants in seventy years-let that idea be fully grasped- each of these persons and households with relations running back to the diff ferent and distant lands from which they have come. Think of this nation as recognized in all the earth in de- manding and promoting popular liberty and enterprise in education, in govern ment and politics, in social life and in all the departments of enterprise Think of it as having past strangely significant behind it as well as all this outreaching present around it now, the only missionary nation in the world, re- member, that was founded as a mis- sionary nation that has kept up the | temper of the missionary spirit from the beginning until now. The fathers came to this continent then a wilder | ness, as Governor Bradford said, in the great hope, in the intense zeal by com ing here to extend the kingdom ot | Christ in these remote ends of the earth, and you remember the old sea of the sachusetts colony, with the l figure of the Indian blazoned or it and the legend overhead. the
 Macedonian cry, Come over and helr 1 us"
 l That was the spirit in which the na- tion began and in the same spirit this development has been carried on evel since in the foundation of schools and churches and benevolent institutions ot whatever sort
 l This great university which gives ce- lebrity to this noble and beautiful city | was founded to teach men to preach | the gospel, to preach a sound, energet- ic theology to all who would hear, and it has been developed, expanded, built 1 tn tc q tions with that same idea behind it and that same idea within it, as Harvard college was founded in the same tenn per, as Williams and Amherst anG Bowdoin and Dartmouth have beer founded for the same purpose. to train men to preach the gospel. That has been the idea of this nation from the outset and it was that conviction in the minds of the Christian people of this country, that the nation was designed | of God to do a great work for Him ir the furtherance of His Kingdom in the earth which was an immense power ir our civil war, sustaining the spirit ot the people in the midst of disaster and defeat, carrying them upward and on ward till the final consummating vic. ] tory NdS IedCHcI. IHey DelleNeQ Il1al God meant this nation to abide, tC abide in unity, to abide in freedom that it might carry the gospel of salvation 1 to the ends Of the earth. and there came unseen battalions of mighty powe,
 from the distant lands to which orl missionaries had gone and in which oul missions had been established, to de- eide the fate of doubtful battles, tc carry to victory the ensigns of the re. public.
 This is the temper Of the nation, it is the indication within it, prophetic anG far sighted, of the divine plan and pur. pose concerning it. And here is to be
 the glory of this nation. It is not ir
 it's history, it is not in it's wealth. il
 is not in it's vast commerce. The glor,
 of this nation, of which you and I are part, is and is to be more and more
 distinctly in the work it does in further
 ing the gospel of Christ, the gospel o transforpG tion until the ends of tn,
 earth shall have seen the salvation Q
 the Lord. (Applause.)
 And then do not let us forge
 the final and most important con | viction of all, which has been re ferred 10 here again and agail
 in the course of these meetings, tha
 the power after all by which we are tC
 work in this effort to accomplish. as fa1