Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-05-19
DIR. RADCLIFFE ON EXPANSION.
Washington Pastor Addresses Pres
byterian Assembly Mt Minneapolis.

Rev. DR.. Wallace Radcliffe, in his SER
mon to the annual assembly of the Presby-
terrain Church in Minneapolis yesterday
said in part:
Ideals rule the world. Spain had dreams.
and she reels toward chaos. America had
visions. and she marches to glorious des-
tiny. Everywhere man moves from mean
ness to nobleness, from limitations to en-
iargemeHt, from subjugation to freedom
from sin to grace-pot so much by syllogism
and argument as by the distinct and radi-
ant vision.
The progress of the year is Christ's work.
1t is significant to recognize the five
epochal events of the past year, in each of
Them the pointing finger Of the Mediatorial
klng-the Spanish American war the Ang-
lo-Amer1can friendship, the cars proposal
Tor peace, the reformation of China, the
opening of the Soudan-liberty, unity peace,
light redemption. Christ is uplifting the
curtain as never before to human gaze. The
most significant century of history is clos
| ing; the most significant opportunity of his
| tory is opening
We are living in the golden age of human
ity. The beams of the sun of righteousness
CLEAN into open doors of the north, to the
south, to the east, to the west. Today as
we convene the peace congress meets in the
capital of Holland. The very call Is the
echo of Christs prayer, ''Thy kingdom
| come" In the presence of these opportuni-
| TIES the church cannot be careless We
| dare not refuse obedience. He calls us to
| subjugation. Force is the only argument
known to savages from Joshua to McKin-
| ley. The earth must be subdued that IT
/ may bring forth the rose and fruit and the
! tree of life, whose leaves are for the heal
| ing of the nations. Our national life has
| new impulse and dazzling ambition We
| are looking beyond from our provinoialism
| We have made war for humanity. We
! have conquered for humanity. The victory
| will be a defeat and that endowment a
poverty and destruction. save as through
| these open doors that the church shall i'm
| medfately and enthusiastically carry the
| vision of Jesus Christ
| l believe in Imperialism, but an imperial
| ism that is a beneficent republcanism
| believe in war for humanity but in a war
| for humanity that carries to humanity the
| enduring peace and good will of the Gospel
| or Christ We cannot escape responsibility,
| This is not the time for swollen ease If
| We daily, another will dominate, If we
| evade the scepter will fall from u.s. We
| have com. into the kingdom for such a
| time as this. Hawaii, Cuba, Porto Rico.
| the PhilippineS-these are the summons of
our Mediatorial King. The man of Mace
| donia waves and calls. This is not the day
for microscopic vision.
| We have waited long over material con-
| siderations and delicate distinctions and re-
| fined determinations. We are tempted ia
see and consider only the little circle which
| bound the domestic, the comfortable the
polite. II is the day for telescope vision
1t is not the time for retrenchment To
| retrench is to retrograde. Our Mediatorial
King commands now ~ never before. OPP