Evening journal., 1898-07-18

E0c at ali Drug DtOreSs
would forget and forgive. 1 consider
Admiral Dewey the lion Of Manila, and
thank America from my heart for Civ
ing us Consuls Wildman and Williams
They are wonderful men for freeing
my country from Spanish cruelty and
| licentious greed. God and history will
repay.
Il de not believe that America will
sell the Philippines to the highest bid
der"
After listening to this cry and prom
ising Cuba that she should be free,
what il we should annex these islands
as dependencies? How would we stand
then with God and history?
1 tremble when l think that in THE |
4 God-given opportunity we may bel
driven, possibly by public clamor, in |
the road of imperialism and perish as
the nations Of old, when It is our priyi-
lege to follow the lead of Providence
in the cause of the oppressed and be
come the leader of nations and thel
chosen Of God in working out His inn
mutable purposes. If we should miss
the right road the finger on the dial
plate of time would be turned back
many centuries and the day of freedom
indefinitely postponed. Moreover, we
should be set aside, and another nation
with higher instincts and nObler aspi-
> rations take our place in human devel-
opment.
One hundred years ago Napoleon
startled the world by the declaration
that Europe soon would either be Cos
j sack or Republican, imperial or ma
tional. He saw and realized the work
ing OF Titanic forces in this supreme
Y conflict. His phophecy has not yet been
fulfilled, but the end is coming, and 1t
: may be is not remote. The same
y forces are working in all nations OPP
Q pressed peoples are struggling for ma
; tionality and are all looking wistfuly
d for a national leader No nation has
d ever been 50 well equipped for this
r. mission as the United States Of Amer
Is lea. No banner more beautiful or win
II ming than the stars and stripes
II gemmed, as It is with the light OF
e heaven and full OF all earthly promise.
k The twentieth century Is upon lis.
e The time has come The nations of the
. earth are looking with bated breath to
see what road we shall take, the i'm
y perial or the national. The lessons Of
4 all the dead nations Of the past teach
l. us that Imperialism is death. The
Il hopes Of mankind and the promises and
/. laws Of the Lord OF Hosts tell us that
IS nationalism Is life.
, DR.. George Dana Bo2rdman, the
/ great Baptist scholar and divine, last
IA Easter Sunday, in a pamphlet upon
Z The Christian Outlook for the Twen-
l. tieth Century" expressed the possible
elimination Of a right choice by oul
. people, in words that should find q
lie lodgment in every Christian heart and
ID govern the conduct Of every lover OF
mankind. l could not equal their force
te and beauty even II l would. and there
r fore adopt them. He says: The Chris
le tian outlook for the twentieth century
)t seems to me to be very bright. Oh
g, course. there Will be occasional retro
h grade and it may be grave catastro-
Plies; for IL Is the very nature OF lifC
Jt to be subject to crises. Nevertheless
h. feel sure that the general trend of the
20 next century will be onward and up
4 ward; and this because / feel sure thai
the Lord Of the centuries has not lived
!. and diad and risen in vain. According
c. ly. 1 believe that the spirit OF Jesus
le Christ will be the dominant force IN
II the coming century / believe, for in.
'e stance, that His mountain sermon viii
r become more and more the suprem,
D. Constitution for mankind; that as the
x church understands more and more o,
De His mission and character, and teach.
et ings and work her conceptions OF Goo
will be more and more heightened, anC
D. her conceptions of man will be more
IN and more broadened, that the instinct.
I'd Of animalism will be lost in the sens'
y: Of divine sonship; that agnosticisn
so will melt in the heat of personal Chris
ne tian experiences; that anarchy agains
ye man Will fee before loyalty to God
IN that the Kingdom of God will be les.
is in word and more in power; that sec
u tarianism will be swallowed in catho
er licity: that ecclesiasticism will wan'
lg and Christianity will wax; that char
- acter. rather than opinion, will be th
he test OF orthodoxy; that church an,
Ill state will dissolve partnership; tha
ly church and academy will join hands II
glad bridal-the church Acknowledge
o. the Bible of nature and the academ.
ks acknowledging the Bible OF Scripture
II ludL lut Sldnudlu VI NtuiNo pelo obld
domestic. social, educational. CONNER
he cial. national, international, Christian
nd will grow higher and higher; tina
r. heredity will gain Christian momen
sh tum; that environment will underg
| TRANSPORTATION; that the sense Of ind
cd vidual responsibility. and also OF cor
.p- porate community. VIII alike deepen
IRE that society will agree that chastit
/ woman; that life Imprisonment wi
- supplant death penalty; that legisla
- tion, whether mandatory or prohib
Il tory, will make way for intelligent an
,e- cheerful self-regimen; that office wi
ed suaI from aiilDltlon ihto selNlVei .n'
lat wealth and work, instead OF Quarrelinl
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