The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-08-14


union, and l would not be misunder.
stood. I cannot forget the admonition
OF Isaiah, Say not We : confederacy
to all to whom this people shall say "A
confederacy' lisa. SID, nor to an
! equal extent on all points. We Metho-
| dists were first accused of heresy, and
| then of hyperorthodoXy. The average
between these two points is about our
| rightfu and recognized position now.
I But while we cannot emasculate our
| theology, and stultify our own preach
| ing by exchanging pulpits and church
| ly recognitions with those who deny our
| doctrine, or any essential part of it,
| nevertheless we can work In the whole
field of civil ethics shoulder to shoulder
with all good citizens, orthodox or het-
erodoX, Protestant or Catholic Jew or
Mohammedan or pagan-with anybody
who is laboring to defeat the devil
though he may not believe In the exist
ence of the devil, Though we think
he'll fight better If he does believe it
thoroughly
And how vast and Unreasonable the
power Of such a combination of all
the wholesome and salutary forces of
human society, especially with all the
churches Of Christ as the standard
bearers Of the mighty host. At the
great scientific congress of Berlin in
1887, great steam engineer and statis-
tician declared that he estimated the
combined power of all the steam en-
gines then at work on the globe to be
equal to the working strength of one
billion Of men, !, e., equal to the
strength of two~thirds of the total pop
ulation of the globe And this colossal
mechanical power is almost wholly in
the hands of Christian nations, and is
doing, directly or indirectly, the work Of
Christs kingdom in the world. What
are all the clumsy and obsolete physical
forces of heathenism, the millions of
China or India, or Africa, doing; what
can they do against the march of such
power as this? And what glorious
type we have In all this of that omnipo-
tent and celestial steam power, the
throttle valve of which the Lord Jesus
Christ threw wide open on the day of
Pentecost, when he set his mighty en-
CINE, the church, in motion That en-
CINE has since then done glorious
things, but it has never yet developed
half the power of which 1t is capable.
! we'll remember when thirty pounds to
the inch for low pressure, and sixty
pounds for high pressure, were reck-
oned the limit of safety in boilers and
engines. But now, with boilers, pipes
and engine cylinders all of fine steel,
two hundred and fifty pounds to the
inch of superheated dry steam. like
lightning is used with perfect safety,
and with the use of aluminium engines
we may yet see five hundred or thou
sand pounds to the inch! And just so
1t is with Gods engine, the church.
The finer and purer metal we are, the
stronger we are, and the more Holy
Ghost steam we can bear. May the
Lord refine us in His crucibles, roll us
in His mills. forge us with His hammers,
shape us to His work, until He can fill
us with all the fiery omnipotence of His
spirit and we shall be mighty engines
In His hands to help save our cities, to
save the nations. to save the world.
Then shall Ezekiel's vision (Ezek 4S:35)
he realized and Jehovah-shammah His
Jehovah town shall embrace all ma
tons and the Lord shall dwell among
Ills saints forever and ever The home
If the first murderer was city. But
he final home of the saints is also a
nity,-cubical perfection in Its form,
gems in its building, the
glory of God in its light, the snless and |
;orrowless city of God, wherein dwell
eth righteousness. May we all help to
build that city, and then dwell In 1t for
,vermore. Amen.