The Globe-republican., 1900-09-20
"God Has Expanded U.s." Says
Bishop c. ii. Fowler.
Powerful Sermon ON Expansion and
the Duties of the Hour. Preached
by the Noted Methodist Divine.

coin W. see him as one OF GOO >
prophets.
History repeats itself One generation
stones the prophets. and the next, their
children, build them monuments Only
a few souls have the intuition to recog-
nize a living prophet These prophets
neither dress nor act like the old proph-
cts: that would be mere charlatanisn-
Every prophet must be fitted into his
own time, suit his own environment One
comes as a pilgrim. like Abraham; an
other an q hired man and herdsman, like
Jacob; another leader and lawgiver.
like Moses. Another a warrior. like
Joshua; another executioner, like
Elijah; another a scholar. like Paul;
each man fitting his own age
To find a prophet, we must nos take
the grave clothes of the dead seers, and
run through the mart. trying to find some
man whom they viii fit We must SO
read events as to recognize the man who
fits and fills his time He must be in
league with events Napoleon on St
Helena said: AT Waterloo events desert
ed me- He dropped out of the nick Of
time The prophet must be a history
maker. To find prophet we must
find the trend OF events; then we can
easily find the hand that is making the
bend in the stream of history
This hand we find in the White House
President Mckinley may not ft the
clothes of the old prophets, but he is
fitting the trend of events in this age.
He stands in the midst OF the world $
forces that he reaches results in civiliza-
ton He is bending the streams of his
tory in the right direction Sink down
into the undeTcurre:,t, down below the
party strife on the surface, down into
the great stream that sweeps on through
the of the centuries bearing the races
up TO higher ATTITUDES and levels. and
catch the moral forces that are evolving
the worlds destiny, and you viii find that
this statement is not politics, but relig
ion-Go DDS religion, that moves always on
in direction
the Christian era since the crucifi1ion Of
Jesus are: First, the conversion o< St
Paul This opened the door to the Gen
tiles; this was our chance. Second, the
firing on Fort Sumter This made the
Saxon race fit for evangelical uses. Third.
the blowing up OF the Maine This uni
fed the nation and sent out about
work.
1t melted the American elements In the
furnace OF war, and made all Americans
one. The son of Gen. Grant and the
nephew of Gen. Lee marched side by side
under one flag and against common cn-
envy.
These Saxons said to he bad neigh
bors. We have some dark spots in our
history. The Saxon sometimes has made
a bad record Yet it must also be said
that we have never enslaved race, with
out leaving it freer than it was before
enslaved it. For the ages through and
the world around, there can be found no
such liberties anywhere else as are found
under the Stars and Stripes
The blowing mp of the Maine
cye-opener TO us, and soon to all the
world Our great Washington 1--WE should
never speak his name but to honor it,,
our great Washington said to us. as
little strip of Atlantic colonies, Beware
Of foreign entanglements.'' 1t the
height of wisdom. 1t suited our infancy
and said. Keep in the middle of the lot,
the boys the next lot will throw
mud on your bib" So we kept in the
middle o: the cot, and grew till we out
ions 10 seventy-fve millions The bib
was too small for It looked like a
cotton patch on the breast of uni
form We had more beefsteaks and silk
dresses. more spelling books and New
TestSinents. to the thousand people, than
could be 1o"nd anywhere else in the
world
We were as much under obligations to
help the poorer and more ignorant races
as ever. St Paul was to go Ear hence
to the Gentiles"; but stuck to our At
lantic waters, coasted by our shores, we
held to little big, contented ex-
pecting to stay always in western
waters.
But day the Spanish touched off
ma gazine under Then the jig was up
Come what might, we must fight to the
finish We went up into tine air, and
came down eyerywhere--to stay
This sent US out abou; providen-
o s.
We are in Manila We are ready to help
China
God has expanded us; we can't help IT.
You might well try to catch yonder
eagle perched on crag of the mountains,
pluming his pinions to wrestle with the
Svhirlxsind- and then try tn crowd him
back into the little eggShei1 out of which
he has broken. as to try to throttle this
American race and crowd it back into
the thirteen original colonies Some of
the old gentlemen on that old soil of some
Of those old thirteen colonies, who have
never left 1t, may think it would be a I
good thing for our great continent-em- /
oracing people to come back home. But |
L is impossible
God has expanded u.s.
Long years ago. back in the forties t
Thomas H Benton. United States Seaa- /
or from Missouri, standing in his place |
n the Senate. pleading for a Pacific rail- |
Dad, pointed toward the setting sun and |
.ried: See there, gentlemen, there is |
he Easti''
To-day we catch mp eur papers and |
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