Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-11-24

Lessons Taught by the Recent War
With SpaIn

The Unit Of Power I'm the Redemption of
the World" was the theme of the discourse
of Rev. Stowell l.. Bryant. pastor of St
Pauls NJ. f. Church, who preached today
at union services in Gunton Temple Me
mortal Presbyterian Church.
The worlds optimists always have been
students of the word of Cod he said.
The most optimistic book that has ever
been written is the Bible. In his Looking
Backward Bellamy really looked forward
a hundred years: he had great hope for the
future of society. But John looks further
forward and has greater hope; he sees
new heaven and a new earth, wherein
dwell righteousness and peace
we talk of periods in history but there
are no periods. 1t is all one What the
sapllng is to the tree, what the bulb is TO
the HOVER. what the boy is to the man, the
past is to us men and women who live in
this day of privilege and power We are
favored children of a sacrificing past and
heirs to a splendid future. if we prove our
selves worthy of the requests into the nos
session of which We have come
I'VE are learning more and more that the
one great church of God is more than any
one denomination. We see this in the true
cathollcity of the church's greatest men
The time has come for all denominations to
unite in mighty movement to Danish
wlckedness and enthrone righteousness
There is absolutely nothing that the three
80 ~ -csldHl ACCOMMODATIONS can not
do If they will.
Learn this great lesson of the power of
unity that our country has just taught us
Florida forgot her 'Suwanee River and
kentucky left her ''Old Kentucky Home
and Massachusetts left Yankee Doodle be-
hind, and Maryland forgot My Maryland
and Virginia ignored her Dixie and we all
sang, with a shout that was heard to the
end OF the earth, My Country, It's of Thee
Sweet Land of Liberty God speed the
day when all Christian people will sing
only All Hail the Power of Jesus Name
We have had a good illustration of late
of the value of man. What is the unit
OF power that won in the last war? Not
our splendid resources, nor our commercial
Importance, nor our school system, nor our
our public institutions. We must msa sure
these things by men that made them. Num-
bers mean nothing against the man. The
Dutch republic, a mere handful wrested its
independence from Spain when she claimed
TO be the mistress of the world. Had num-
bers prevailed China would have over
whelmed Japan in their late war
To understand victory we must
study again the story of our colonization
There were two forces at work-the church
and the school There were two books-the
Bible and the primer. 1 need scarcely re-
call to your thought the solid worth of the
elements which the Pilgrims in the north
ana the Huguenots in the south builded
INTO our national character. In every ham
let they builded a meeting house, and on
every hilltop they erected a school house
The Congregationalists in New England
the QGakers in Pennsylvania, the Episco-
palians in Virginia. the Presbyterians in
New York and southwark. and later the
Methodists everywhere; these were the
sturdy and uncompromising men and wo-
men who in religious liberty laid the found.
alton of our state
And so when a few months ago it be
came necessary to raise an army and bring
our navy into service, we had men-with
this long line of Christian men behind them
tod for g.
war. God uses men. He no longer speaks
to the sun to stand still. but He calls men
and nations to work for Him.
There is not one of us-not from an ex-
ultant glorying over a defeated enemy, but
from his joy at the progress Of human
freedom and Observation-Disclosures is not one
OF us, worthy of his country, who is not
glad and proud that his nation was unset
fish and brave enough to teach the lesson"