La Junta tribune., 1900-10-03
BISHOP FOWLER.
WHAT THE GREAT METHODIsT
LEADER SAYS OF MeKINLEY.
GOD HAS EXPANDED UA.-

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| GOD HAS EXPANDED UA.
All men now begin to recognise the
provideutial character Of Abraham Lin.
colin We see him as one OF Gods
prophets.
History repeats itself. One genera.
tion stones the prophets. and the next
their. children. build them monu-
ments. Only n few souls have the
Intuition TO recognize a living prophet.
| These prophets neither dress nor act
Ike the old prophets: that would be
mere chariatanism. Every prophet
must be fitted into his own time, suit
his own environment. One comes "A
+, pilgrim. Ike Abraham: another ~ .
hired man and berIsman. like Jacob;
another ms q leader and lawgiver. like
! Moses Another as a warrior. like Josh-
, un, another like an executioner. like
Elijah: another as scholar, like Paul:
. each man fitting his own age.
To find q prophet. we must not take
the grave clothes OF the dead seerr.
, and run through the mar. trying to
lind some mnn whom they will fit We
must 50 read events as to recognize
the man who fits and fills his time. lie
must be In league with events. Ma
pole0n on st. Helena said. AT Water
hsO CNtiltE dcrETt Iuc- lie 0EUpIcu
out of the nick OF time. The prophet
must bc history maker To ind our
prophet, we must ind the trend Of
events: then We can easily lind 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 u
lifting the trend of events In this age
He SO stands In the midst Of the
worlds forces that he reaches results
In civilization. He Is bending the
streams Of history in the right dircc-
tion. Sink down into the undercurrent.
down below the party strife on the sur
face. down into the great stream that
sweeps on through the sra of the CEN
turtles bearing the races up to higher
ATTITUDES and levels. and catch the
moral forces that are evolving the
worlds destiny. and you will find that
this statement is not politics. but relig-
ion-GOd's religion, that moves always
on in one direction.
The three greatest missionary events
OF the Christian era since the crucifix-
ion Of Jesus are: First. the conversion
of st. Paul. This opened the door to
the Gentiles: this was our chance. Sec
oIsi. the firing on Fort Sumpter. This
made the Saxon race fit for evengei1-
cni uses. Third. the blowing up OF the
Maine. This unified the nation and
sent us out about our work.
1t melted the American elements in
the furnace OF war, and made all
Americans one. The son of General
Grant and the nephew OF General Lee
marched side by side under one nag
and against a common enemy.
These Saxons are said to be bad
neighbOrs. We have some dark spots
In our history. The Saxon sometimes
has made a bad record. Yet II must
also be said that we have never en-
shaved a race. without leaving II freer
than II was before we enslnved 1t. For
the ages through and the world around
there can be found no such liberties
anywhere else NJ are found under the
Stars and Stripes.
The blowing up OF the Maine wns nm
cye-opener to us, and soon to all the
world. Our great Washington 1--WE
should never speak his name but to
honor III, our great Washington said
to us, as little strip Of Atlantic colo
nics. Beware Of foreign entanKle-
ments." 1t was the height OF wisdom.
1t suited our infancy like bib. He
pinned this bib upon us, and said:
Keep In the middle Of the lot, or the
boys on the next lot will throw mud
ON your bib" So we kept In the mid
die OF the lot, and grew till we out
grew the lot. We grew from 100000
TO 75.OOO.0OO. The bib was too ANAL
for US. 1t looked like a cotton patch
on the breast OF our uniform. We had
more becfsteaks and silk dresses, more
spelling-books and New Testnments, to
the Thousand people, than could be
found 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 60 "fnr
hence to the Gentiles:' but we stuck
to our Atlantic waters, coastetl by our
, shores, We held onto our little bib, con-
tented, expecting to stay always In our
western waters.
But one day the Spanish touched or
magazine under us. Then the Jig was
up. Come what might. we must fight
to the finish. We went up into the air,
and came down everywhere-tO stay.
This sent us out about our proyideii-
ttai job: this made missionaries Of us.
We are In Manila. We are ready to
help China.
God has expanded up: We can't help
II.
lou might as well try to catch that
eagle pcrched on crag Of the noun
tains, pluming his pinions to wrestle
with the whirlwfnd. and then try to
crowd him back into the little eggshell
out OF which he was broken, as to try
to throttle this American race and
crowd II back into the thirteen original
thirteen colonies. Some OF the old
gentlemen ON that old soil of some OF
those old thirteen colonies, who have
never left 1t. may think II would be 4
good thing for our great continents t-em-
hracing people to come back home. But
! 1t n impossible.
God has expanded us.
One mark OF the prophet Of our time
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