The evening times., 1898-10-05

ucdTeE at our nome Oh our Continent
Extension of Influence.
Then, for our own countrymen, shall
this church be content with any mar
rover aim than TO be In seal and duty
and sympathy. the American church. We
need not the fact that we are gathered
in the Nations Capital TO remind US how
thick and fast are growing the nation s
responsibilities. which are centering here
To meet them bravely and discharge
them well. under the smile OF heaven
and the plaudits of world, our people
must have Gods approval. Gods laws.
Gods guidance. engrafted into their
lives. Gods providence has lodged in
this church fullness of grace and a
completeness of power and a balanced
roundness Of truth TO keep nightly any
such craving and grating.
I'VE are but a feeble folk. We are
sadly at loss in rising TO our privileges.
but we utterly refuse to be counted out
as an element OF national spiritual
strength. We humbly claim that We have
helped a little in the reconciliation of
North and South, and the softening of
prejudices East and West, which have
eliminated iu the wonderful reunion of
hearts and hands recently witnessed and
so abundantly welcomed. And with our
coney nest in the rock of such blessed
union we sturdily insist on being CHEEKY
and hopeful, spite of straitness that
presses and crookedness that perplexes in
our steady work for the Master and His
church.
so long as SOW in little children's
hearts the seeds of Christmas and Easter
joy, and swell In the hearts of the chill
dren of the church growth into the har-
vest of the two truths more beneficent to
Lrrrn nit han hat
be named-incarnation and resurrection:
so long as we thOughtfully recognize the
two great institutions provided by AL
mighty God the family, the state the
Church--and to keep emphasizing all
three, through love. through education.
through baptism her eminently impor-
tant factors. so long as We bring out in
the cycle of the Christian year the whole
somely varied cycle of Gods revelation in
Christ: so long 9s we tie the present to
the past in such way as soberly to guide
and safely to steady, and link the past tn
the present In such way as to pour the
warm blood of the new into the wisely
created and well-proven framework of
the old; so long as in prayer and faith
and love and duty we enter homes to
make them more sweet and preside over
marriages to make them more holy and
touch consciences to make them more
tender and link arms with citizenship to
lift up and move unconsciousness and en-
tertain brotherly kindness and charity
toward all who profess and perform
themselves Christians. however fau.ty
and imperfect their systems may seem to
u.s. just so long we may be to degree
far greater than our brothers could count
up. and with a steady. molding force. II
not always acknowledged or appreciated,
of use and help to the entire American
people, and more and more. as destiny
seems to point, to the whole human race.
feeble folk only, 1t is still persisted we
must be called. So we are in many things.
And imperfect. We are praying God to
make us better. With the better if we
have the grace to get and keep it, will go
the stronger The white OK to be offered
to Jupiter, If it had dark spots on the
skin, must be rubbed with chalk to make
them also white. Spots and blemishes are
also upon this church, we know but we
ask in love to blot them out by some ap-
pIiance as Of whitening chalk. II she
offer herself and we be Instrumental In
her a willing, loving working
sacrifice unto her Lord. He will have
thought of her loving zeal and devotion
and any of her blemishes, and will pre-
sent her to Himself a glorious church,
1ot having spot or wrinkle or any such
thing
''The Anglo-SaXon race seems harness. |
ed to the two-fold work of giving to the
world the sweets of personal liberty and !
he restraints of order without which |
liberty cannot be preserved. The Anglo |
Saxon church would go hand In hand !
With the Anglo-SaXon race, and proclaim |
by such fact, if her proclamation be |
heard that in the long run the sweets |
md restraints are dependent on the ac- |
,eptance in the heart of Gods truth. |