The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-27
HOLD. THE PHILIPPINES
DIR. LUCAS THINKS THIS NATION HAS
DUTY THERE.
A Gospel, Rather than an AngIO-Sax-
ON, Alliance Is What the World
Most Needs.

In the course Of sermon on Gladstone
on the Gospel" Rev. d. r. Lucas, pastor of
the Sixth Christian Church, last night as
sumed the position that the United States
should keep possession of the Philippine
| islands for the furtherance of Christianity
In part DR.. Lucas said:
The great salesman Gladstone has gone
His lifework is ended, but his influence still
abldeS. one of the strongest minds OF his
generation, 1t is well for us to inquire as to
his view of the religion of the Christ whom
we worship He says: THE greatest of all
questions of the day is that of the gospel
1t can and will correct everything needing
correction. All men at the head of great
movements are Christian men. During the
many years i was cabinet officer l was
brought into association with sixty master
minds, and all but five of them were Chris
tianS.'
The speaker discussed the influence of the
gospel upon man and nations Continuing
arce. This may be all very well, but it is a
gospel alliance that the world needs. The
Christ is the light of nations and an open
Bible is the chart of liberty. The Philip
pine islands, once in our possession, can
never be forSaken by our country until they
are civilized Christianized, educated and
enlightened. Let us take one-half from
them that Spain has stolen from them in the
last century and give them in return
stable government and a Christian civiliza-
ton. This war is Gods call to a nation
with hundred years of liberty to take the
free press and free gospel that has uplifted
her and give them 10 the other nations of
the world. For US to now draw back would
be to act the towards part The man who
now stops to quote George Washington
should stop to consider that he has been
dead a hundred years.
New occasions teach new duties
Time makes ancient good uncouth;
They must upward still and onward
Who would keep abreast of truth
LO, before us CLEAN her campnreS,
We ourselves must pilgrims be-
Launch our Mayfiower and steer boldly,
Through the desperate winter sea,
Nor attempt the futures portal,
With the past's blood-crusted key
I'VE now see visions and dream dreams
that never disturbed the slumbers of our
fathers Let us not be recreant to the call
of God AS Paul, the great apostle, said
eighteen hundred years ago. The gospel is
the power of God unto salvation to every
one that believeth.' | speak in no sectarian
sense when / say that God calls us to break
the chains of heathenism and the iron rule
of Jesuitism in Cuba and the far East.
Rome herself is beginning to see the failure
of the Jesuitical hierarchy that in her name
ruled with her rod of power the subjects Of
Spain, and no American Catholic but Will
Roman Catholic Church has to-day is that
class in her own ranks that would tie her
irrevocably to the feudalsm of the past.
And the worst enemy America has to-day
is that class VINO, like Professor Won Hoist,
of the Chicago University, would keep us
shut up within our SHE'LL the prey to petty
politics and local Quarrels instead of ful-
filling our duty as a great nation to send
the light that has blest us to those yet in
the darkness. Sel1Sn Idnlly, VINO i've
within themselves sooner or later have a
disastrous quarrel, and SO with nation
ITO Shirk this duty is only possible TO a
man who is without faith in the Christ of
the gospel. Henry Clay was once asked
what was the greatest power in the world,
and he responded: The gospel of Christ, for
| have known it to turn a Kentucky feud
into a loving friendship, and the power that
can do that is divine Gladstone once, in
res ponSe to a workngman who asked his
opinion on the relation of religious faith to
political progress said: Read the gospels
and seen whether our Lord, whom we are
bound to follow, was the friend of injustice,
safest rule to follow truth in religion and
truth in politics in the faith that we shall
find the means of reconciling truth with
truth
'sThat we have here the gist of the whole
subject is apparent at once to the thinker;
for him to believe and hope as 1T is to eat
and breathe. When he believes that the
great God is the father of his spirit he Will
cheerfully accept the fact of the equality
of souls and the world becomes his parish,
and the 'pent-up Utica spirit gives way to
and love and unity. The fame of the Grand
Old Man is the legacy not of England alone,
but of the world. His childlike faith in
God and the risen Christ are not the least
of the elements that made his great charac-
ter. Let us learn this lesson. The cultiVa-
ton of the physical and intellectual nature
to the neglect of religious culture can never
make a truly great man. 1t is only the
man of faith that achieves success, and we
may add GladStoneS name to PaulS list or
worthless who through faith subdued king
doms. wrought Righteousness, stopped the
mouths of lions, quenched the violence of
fire, in weakness were made strong ana
oVercame the fear of death.