The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-22

and these I'm turn present many threaten
Ing aspects. Agencies OF mans devising
may alleviate. but they cannot cure this
tendency 10 division and strife and substi-
tute a drift TO peace and unity. Christ In
the heart and His gospel Of love and minis
try In all the activities OF life is the only
cure.
A AIINIsTERING KING.
THE highest conception that has ever
entered the mind OF man is that of God
and the father Of all men-the one blood
the universal brotherhood. 1t was not
evolved. but revealed. The natural man
lives to be ministered unto-he lays his i'm
posts upon others. He buys slaves that
they may fan him TO sleep. bring him
the jeweled cup, dance before him, and
die in the arena for his sport. Into such
a world there came a King. not TO be
ministered unto but TO minister. The
rough winds famed His sleep: He drank
of the m0untain brook. and made not the
water wine for himself; would not use
His power to stay His own hunger, but
had compassion on the multitude. He
called them he had bought with a great
price no more servants but friends. He
entered the blody arena alone, and dying
broke all chains and brought life and i'm
mortality TO light.
Here is the perfect altruism; here the
true appraisal OF men. OTudmenlS OF BOlu
and gems. slken robes. houses. lands.
stocks and bonds-these are tare when men
are weighed. Where else Is there scale
so true? Where a brotherhood so wide
and perfect? Labor Is made noble-the
King credits the smallest service. His
values are relative: He takes account Of
the per cent when tribute rs brought into
His treasury. No coin OF love is base or
small 10 Him. The widows mite He sets
In His crown. Life is sweetened. the poor
man becomes OF account. Where also Is
found philosophy Of life so sweet and
adaptable. a philosophy OF death so COM
forting?
THE men who, like Paul. have gone to
heather lands with the message. we seek
by those who, coming after them, reversed
the message. Rum and other corrupting
agencies come In with our boasted civil
lzati0n, and the feeble races Wither before
the hot breath of the white mans vices
The great nations have combined to
suppress the slave trade. II Is too much
to ask that they shall combine TO pre-
vent the sale of spirits to men who. less
than our children, have acquired the habits
OF self-Tsstraint? If must have con-
sumers,' let us give them innocent diet
THE enemies OF foreign missions have
spoken tauntingly of the slowness of the
work and OF its great and disproportionate
cost, and we have too exclusively cOnSoled
ourselves and answered the criticism by
the suggestion that with God thousand
years Is as one day. We should not lose
sight OF the other side of that truth-one
day with Him is as thousand years. God
has not set Uniform pace for himSeH
in the work of bringing in the kingdom of
His Son. He Will hasten il I'm His day
The stride Of His march shall be so quick
ened that commerce will be the laggard.
Love shall outrun greed. He exacts faith.
He VIII not answer the demand TO show
course OF stone in His great cathedral
for every thousand dollars given But IL
may be justly asked that the administra-
tors OF our mission treasures justify their
accounts; that they use business wisdom
and economy; that there is no waste; that
the wOrl[men do not hinder each otner.
The blowing and the sowing must be well
done These may be and should be judged;
that is mems part of the work. But the
care of well-pIanted seed Is with God. We
shall have reports from the harvesters
Showing that He has given the promised
increase-some thirty and some an hundred
fold.
A BETTER WORK.
Gifts to education are increasingly mu-
nificent University endowments have been
sweIled by vast single gifts i'm the United
States during the last few years. We re-
joice in this. But may we not hope that in
the exposition of the greater needs of the
educational work in the mission fields to
be presented in this conference, some men
of wealth may find the suggestion to en-
dow great schools in mission lands? 1t Is
a great work 10 increase the candle power
of our educational arc lights, but to give
to cave jewellers an incandescent may be
a better one.
Not the least beneficent aspect and in
fuence Of this great gathering Will be
found in the Christian Union that is evil
dence. The value of this is great at home,
but tenfold greater in the mission field.
where ecclesiastical divisions suggest di-
verse prophets. The Bible does not draw
its Illustrations wholly from the home or
the fields. but uses also the strenuous
things of lfe-the race, the fight, the
girded soldier, the assault. There are
many fields; there are divers arms; the
battle Is in the BUSH and the comrades
that are seen are few. a view of the
whole army is a good thing the heart is
strengthened by an enlarged cOmradeship.
IL gives promise that the TANKS will be
covered and a reserve organized. After
days in the bush the sense of numbers is
lost 1t greatly strengthens the soldier and
quickens his pace when he advances 10
battle IL a glance to right or left reveals
many pennons and a marshaled host. NOV
ing under one great leader TO execute a
single battle plan.
During the Atlanta campaign of our
civil war the marching and fighting had
been largely in the brush. Sometimes. in
an advance, the commander of a regiment
could see no more than half of his own
line, while the supports to his right and
left were wholly hidden. To him Ii seemed
as IL his battalion making an unsup-
ported assault. The extended line, the re-
serve, were matters of faith. But one day
the advancing army broke suddenly from
the brush into a savannah long, mar
row, natural meadow-and the army was
revealed. From the center, far to the
right and left. the distinctive corps, divi-
sion. brigade and regimental colors ap-
peared. and associated with each of these
was the one flag that made the army one.
mighty spontaneous cheer burst from the
whole line, and every soldier frightened his
grip upon his rifle and quickened his step.
What the savannah did for that army this
worlds conference of missions should do
for the church"
Rev. DIR. JudsOn Smiths Welcome.