The evening times., 1898-10-05

had lived about 1000 years. 1t is not TO
merge itself. as the other two forms nave
done in a successor and heir in this world.
The gates of hades are not 10 prevail
against it. Until the scroll of this world 5
history is rolled up il is to continue to De
the reVealer of the truth of God, the
proclaimer of the will of God and the
preacher OF the duty of man.
watchwords of the Church.
And what watchwords are to be bla-
zoned on its banner? Go ye into all the
world and preach the gospel unto every
creature The Christian church can fling
wide the tent cords and tie them with
love fastenings, for the merciful shelter
ing protection of all men of the earth,
for that Christ was born unto them to
live among them and to die for them.
Christ died for all the men of the earth.
He wants Us to be his hands and his feet
and his purse, TO seek out and help and
save, through him, all the men of all the
earth Shall we draw back from such
safe and blessed copartnership as that?
Conservatism and progress. / do not
ask to enter into philosophical disser-
tation upon them, as that they are fG<ces
opposed TO each other but complementary
of each other. That they are opposing
powers like two rOwerS in boat, where
the power of their oars against the wa
ter opposes vet co-works in sending the
craft bounding over the waves to its aim
of rescue or its haven of rest. That, In
the life of the state, the safeguarding
of what is and the outreaching after
what is not, though it ought 10, be are
equally important And that in every
day experience to hold what is got is
qaite as valuable a quality of well-bal-
anced human nature as TO get more to
hold
And. limiting the view of this church
of ours suffer some thoughts. Humbly
Vet mistakenly We hold that our histor-
icaI lineage Is clear and fiawless from
the church which Christ chartered and
which his Apostles established 1865 years
ago. With this truth settled in our
CONNECTIONS and welcomed in the heart,
two corolIaries seem naturally TO de-
duce themselves
Men Should Not BE Narrow.
81. How wide the work and deep the
love of the church ought to be! We
ought to stand for breath. The Father
hood OF God-the Brotherhood of Christ
the Motherhood OF the church! Narrow
ness should have no clutch upon our
thought of these. AS in Adam all die
is the sad dirge of the worlds expert
ence. Even so in Christ may all be
made alive is the glad rebound of
faith to hope. So the missionary spirit
is said to be the real life OF the church.
And so ii is, most emphaticaliy. Earn
estly We are TO look out 10 help and
save. We are to look wide. and to look
far. Missions must be the elemental life
boat. and missions the crowning epic ,,
poetry of the living church. Its founder,
our dear Lord preached missions in ser
mons upon the predigal STRIVING in
far country, and the lost sheep bleating
in the wilderness. He lived missions in
going about unweariedly doing good. He
endowed missions by dying for all men
on the cross. And the promise of the |
legacy, though spoken into the ears of |
the heather and bigots. were the ten
derest this poor earth ever heard !
Father, forgive them
The Roman soldiers. prosecuting Jews. |
Father, forgive them, for they know |
not what they do In the lowest aspect |
Of His sacred person He was a citizen of /
Jewry. II was foreign missions then that
He endowed when He pleaded for the Ro-
man soldiers and died for them as for
IS and all the world
IF down the clear current of historic
the good ship of this church
las happily found her way. shall we who
head her decks and enjoy her protection
admit narrowness into our minds and
hearts? Some leader of religious thought
las seen vfvidly one aspect of religious
ruth. It has shined so gloriously to him
hat his dazed eyes grew blind to other
spects. He made il his queen. He bowed
lown to it. Belief in ii he pressed and
,ushed and deeDened and spread until IL
'ecame TO him and his followers the all
Important articulus stantis vel cadentis
cclesfas: and they have found thus a |
eparate faith of believers-select worship
RS In school of esoteric theology. Mar
owness has made them captive. but their
arrowness is earnestness. Like to the
hield of the old story fixed upon the one
ide is narrowness. On the other is ear