The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-10-07


 people close their doors against the de- mands of commerce for entrance, those doors must be broken down, The whole world Is wakening to the neces- sity for business unity for all races, Now. the missionary does not preach this unity, but he breaches that Chris tan righteousness without which 1t can never be achieved. Truth Is neces- sary for commerce. Commerce sepa- rates and defeats itself If 1t is not un- der the authority of Christian ethics. The missionary spirit, by making busi- ness possible, appeals to business men.
 But the immediate appeal of the Board to the masculine comes as voice from the growing, modern con- sciousness of national life Man is a political being. Politics may be the in- terest and act of an individual local degrading self1shness, or of a broad, self-forgetful, divine ambition. Men in politics may be in a sewer or a sea bath. But the true poltic that stud les and serves the science of govern ment and the life of the state, awak- ems and challenges and satisfies the mo- plest vision, intention or sacrifice. The new world to-day Is rather political than business. There is movement Tn the consciousness of races toward a national idea. He has no feeling for the word thought who does not feel 1t in China, Japan, India Ancient Asia, southern Africa and in the islands of the sea. The thought is, so far, with out clear definition or purpose, but it is becoming more distinctive and in tentional. The whole world is becom- ing political The east, in it's higher ranges of living, has had thought of God and the philosophy of life; it has been the source of the religion and the religions of the world. The west has originated the science of government and defined the state The life of the east has gone west, bursting into states In it's progress.
 The east is now asking of the west, what is nation, and how may we be- come national? For centuries there have been Japanese, but no Japan; Chinese, but no China; races but no nation. Slowly solemn force is quickening the life of many peoples; it is becoming prophetic and all who are interested in politics believe in them, must send to the groping, incompetent longings for national life and the pow CT and comfort of patriotism, the mis- sionaries of that Lord who came to the world to become the founder not only of the Christian church, but of the Christian state. From His person and wisdom all the real states of modern times proceed, as the river comes from the fountain. and without Him no true state can ever be established on the face of the earth.
 There is in the United States na- tional consciousness, and the passion of a national idea. It sometimes slum- bers, and shallow and shameful politics prevail, but the voice of some great human need is surely sufficient to awaken it and patriotism inspires and commands great and united action. The true national spirit is more than local and passes out beyond the limits of the state. He whose soul is for America asks, what is America for Patriotism must be missionary. An exalted devotion to the state must de- mand an exalted devotion of the state. It must seek to awaken and establish a national consciousness among peoples where it has no existence or expression. The world needs to be nationalized is the cry of patriotism.
 In the three months war patriotism declared itself missionary by saying to it's unnationalized, denationalized neghbors, we will aid you in becoming national. We pity a people among whom patriotism is impossible. They do not live half life who are without patriotic imagination. The beginning of our war with Spain was the height of unreason, judged by the standard of serious, conservative wisdom. It ap- peared as the insanity of jingoism, pugilistic enthusiasm, a revenge for the loss of battleship, a sympathy for suffering. But in all this confusion of motives there was power and spirit that American political science had not made part of its system. A divine thought had been put into the life blood of the people without their knowledge. They did not know the secret of that new passion, that warmed that power and commanded it with irresistible au- thority to insist that a nation incapable of governing should cease from those abuses of human life which make gov ernment impossible. We thought only of the nefghbor, Cuba. Then came what seemed the accident of Manila, an accident luminous with heroism and made coronal by success. The ques- ton, who is our neighbor became, who Is not our neighbor, and Luzon the is- land of an Oriental sea comes into the field of view and is set beside Cuba, both netghbors, both in our world. What ought we to do with them? How shall we love our neighbors as ourselves? No president, nor party. nor commission nor political economist can answer The answer is with Him. who by the importation of a new patri- otism commanded us to war and led us to victory. He that hath an ear let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the nation.
 But the fact that we cannot evade nor obscure is that we shall love these neighbors as ourselves. Neither can we evade or obscure the knowledge that we must achieve some great good for the Philippines and the West In- dies. This has become an integral fac tor in the new national idea. The American nation has come to a new elf-consciousness of it's national life and of what it is to be both in conserv- ing an old and in creating a new histo- ry. In one hundred days we have ad- vanced a hundred years. We are more