The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-06-22

| nation is part of him; that it's sovereign
 ty IS his privilege and responsibility. II l means also (9 Improvement in the art oI government, The best government is that which in the best way brings mer
 to knowledge and choice of the true
 sovereignty, the real supreme of individ-
 ual national life Governments do not derive their just powers from the con
 sent of the governed to the govern l ment." Crolier and Pratt, murderers of real democracy, have such a consent to
 their government as the Declaration of
 Independence never dreamed of, but
 such consent does not create justice. A | government derives it's just powers from
 the consent of the governed when it so 1 regulates and informs them that they
 consent to that higher sovereignty to
 which it also makes it's appeal. The na- | tion advances when it receives as well
 as imparts law, and makes law under
 the authority of law.
 National progress is also marked by l the growth of the capacity of self-gov-
 ernment, that is the capacity for liberty. The ideal of a nation is that of an or ganized liberty, in which the governed
 
 their law, Self-government means the self-governed as well as the self-govern-
 ing, self-submission as well as self-as-
 serti0n. The progress of all the nations
 of the world is practically determined by the quality of it's organized liberty
 it's capacity for government. There
 is more national self government to-day
 than in any period of national history.
 All study of the source and meaning
 of history and political life leads us to
 the conviction that the nation is not an
 end but a means; that there is social
 state higher than the political state.
 That social state, the highest fact in the
 life of the world, is the kingdom of God.
 It is not formal kingdom, but king
 dom that informs and interprets all oth-
 CTS. It is the Scriptural, the Christian
 ideal of humanity Christ came preach
 ing the gospel of the kingdom. He taught all men and unions of men to
 pray Thy Kingdom Come" This king dom was to come into the world by growing with it, as the leaven or seed grow. It was not an abstraction, but personal fact He was coming as the King. The world was to be one in Him. There is in the Christian world an deal of the world state. It is mora than the Roman imperialism. more than the au- thority and mediation of the popes of the middle ages; it appears more clearly in the growing supremacy of interna- tional law, in the dreams of statesmen uttered in the passion and dignity and faith of prophecy. The thought of 1rf f1r ie, familiar in the works of large visioned jurists. There is world state--is one article in the statesman's confession of faith. This has a Christian origin.
 This introduced new idea of authori- ty not found in Cyrus nor Alexander. for the Caesar nor the pope; not found in any church from the so-called Catholic to the so-caled Christian Science. Re ligious people seem to scorn the section ists. The kingdom will come when Christ is fully come to every man as in- dividual and as part of the home, the state and church. The kingdom of God may come as an organized religion or when every organization shall be organ ized religion.
 The dominant interest in the world to- day is political. More men and more money are devoted to it than to any other. The one conspicuous idea of the world is nationalism. The intellect of mankind is largely given to answering questions. What is the nation? How shall it be governed? How sup ported? From what source shall it ac- quire funds for it's administra tion and its armies? What is due from the na- tions to the people and the people to the nations? What are national rights and | duties? How are nations related to each l other? So deep is the national interest | that all people that have become na- tionalized seem to have joined in an un- unspoken agreement, that the whole world must be nationalized | There is no room for areas of waste nor useless peoples Heathendom is becom- ing an impertinence in the eyes of this national assertion. Every place and | every race need every other that they may achieve their own safety, wealth and progress. Every part of the world must become nationalized, enter on an era of self-conscious national life, with the responsibilities and fellowship of na- tions It is a day of national revival The nations of the world are saying to he un-nationalized peoples take your place as nations or become part iof us The consciousness of these people is now vague. but the spirit of nationalism is moving and they are haunted by the thought, We are people. Japan has come to this self-consciousness and the world respects it's position. If China shall soon declare, We are nation, it will become within a century one of the great powers" Africa must wait but he time is coming when nationalism hall change spheres of influence to pheres with an influence. when they lnd all people of the world shall say Ve are national. The spirit of national sm is in all the earth All races feel it. What shall we do to be saved? is asked " the undeveloped races. Become na- ional, is the answer of the nations. with he consciousness and obligations of the ato1, and we will respect your integri- V and admit you to a place in the inter- life. Failing in this we will make you our slaves or colonies, or yards Whatever the definition of national rogress, we discover that they point to nd end in something greater than the ation. Internationalism, the fact and { of world state, are above the individual nation. The highest advance f nationalism is internationalism. In 1ord every national progress is a prepa- aton for the kingdom of God. For the onGession and accomplishment of inter- 1 e. .1,1 1,