New-York tribune., 1900-04-22

And the missionary enterprise Is the dominant sn
cesses and signal trumphs and the preparation Is
complete for far wider reach and more rapid
speaks to-day in their tongue 10 the vast
majority of the human race The Church of Christ
gelized portions OF the world. and Its membership
OF L5OooH is Increasing at an anprecedented rate
already FIVE times as many as the missionaries ere
making ready for widened responsibility and leader
ship. What an accumulation OF experience ana
knowledge and power and materials and agencies
ades II is We'll that we survey the field the force
spring outlook for the years to come
TO REHEARsE THE DEEDS OF GOD.
We meet, not like the fathers at Nicaea and Chal-
redon, to fashion creed and define polty but TO
m the deeds @ Of God In many u lands to
vancing Kingdom. more grand and stirring than
epic human genius has formed etrn or
each equipment and armor; we employ
the victory of each is the victory of all. and the
nations IS as sure and Irresistible as the fash Of
the sunlight, as the sweep of the heavenly globes
In e the war OFT Of the British n against the Beers men
from Ganada @ and India and Australia have s{99d
Ea4r and I'd their Loyalty The he unit unity OF the BrIs
thus revealed and confirmed. So at the front in
this missionary campaign we find Protestants of
and moving as one; The unity of christ,s earthly y
ened to a changeess and resstless power,
The times are most suspicious for our gathering
missionary opportunity and power such as the
world has never known. The recent expansion or
American territory and responsibility. so striking
to make this epoch in our National history;
the fierce war of brave peoples in South Africa
fixes the gaze of the world. and in which the des-
TIMES Of great States, of continent are at stake
the ferment and apparent breakup Of China, in
which the great Powers of Europe and of one one
fourth of the human race are intimately involved;
that convention of the great Powers at The Hague
planning in concert for the peace of the world
these great events, and may seem to some 10
suggest If they do not constitute. the most sgnln-
cant fact of the times. And Vet IL we look beneath
the surface discover deeper drift, wider
movement which includes them all. The greater
nations making ready for larger part in the
worlds affairs. Lands of dense populations. China
and Africa. moving out of seclusion into the
open currents of the life of the times. The great
Powers are learning to think of themselves, and TO
act as one commonwealth The Christian Powers
possess the leadership in the affairs Of the word
We behold a divine preparation. plain as that
which made ready for the coming OF the Lord. or a
missionary movement that touches the wide. wide
world And we gather here to rehearse what God
has done in the century past. to marshal anew our
Christian forces and to await the call OF God Tor
the century TO come. His purpose is plain; the
field is open: the march has begun: and II rests
with us what share shall have in the glorious
toll and yet more glorious victory.
He is sounding forth the trumpet that shall never
call retreat.
Oh, be swift, heart, 10 answer Him; De juoiiat
feet:
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