The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-03-05
in THE LOCAL PULPITS
TIMELY TOPICS ARE DISCUSSED BY
THE REV. j. A. KNOwLTON.
A Female Evangelist at CentraI-Ave-
burns sermon-Other Services.

Two interesting sermons were delivered
yesterday by the Rev. j. A. Knowlton, or
the South-street Baptist Church. The
morning subject was World Policy" and
was continued at the evening service I'M
der the caption ''World Glory"
His texts were several, being taken from
Genesis. where it is said, God commanded
men to multiply and subdue the earth;
from Numbers. xiv, p, "All the earth shall
be filled with the glory of the Lord and
from the Psalms, where 1t is said, They
shall govern the nations upon the earth. !"
Out of these he took four main points
to be considered-subdue the earth, fill 1t
with knowledge. govern 1T with righteous
ness and make 1t glorious unto the Lord.
''The world is divided by lines of sight"
he said. ION one side are the short
sighted, on the other the far-sighted. 1t Is
also divided by lines of service-on the one
side those who hinder all things for the
good of the world, and on the other the
helper 1t is further divided by lines of
hope. There are the hopeful and the hope
less. The world is either optimistic or
pessimistic. No Christian can be other
than optimistic. Let US taken a survey,
an historical survey, and a divine survey
of these things. There is world policy.
and 1t has been through the conjunction of
providential events. First is the use of
gunpowder at Constantinople in 1883 This
changed the whole mode of warfare of
the world from spears and swords to fire.
arms and made possible the modern guns
of such great destructive power. The sec
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Mazarin was issued In 1455, only two years
after the first use Of gunpowder. That
made possible the great achievements In
the line OF literature. the great magazines
have such an important bearing upon hu-
man events.
DISCOVERY OF AMERICA.
1.-THE third change Of the world policy
came with the discovery of America in
1892. Men had been oppressed and were
seeking an asylum. Then there was the
maritime commerce which made possible
the enormous commerce of to-day. Fol-
lowing this came the Reformation in 1917,
which affected Europe. America, and, in
fact, all of the civilized world. All of
these things came within the lifetime of a
man born in 1445.. He was eight years of
age when gunpowder was invented, and
seventy-two years old at the time Of the
Reformation. That generation, then, can
be compared with this in the changes In
the worlds policy. That period shows five
or six kingdoms rising into great power,
among them being France, Spain and Great
Britain, all of them insignificant at that
tire
Nov the conjunction of human events.
OF the first, learning. At that time only
two or three branches, such as mathemat-
les and logic, were complete among the
nations. Great. however are the children
of this century, as witness geology, chem
istry, sociology and the great number OF
sciences. This Is the great element to-day
I'm the change of the world policy. Second,
come inventions, among which we find the
invention of steam machinery, the tele-
graph, the telephone, processes for max
ing steel and many others. Following COM
merce comes militarism. Men are saying
to-day that we are wrong, but there Is no
nation of power that ever existed that was
not hewed out by the sword. God simply
makes use of the forces of man for the
furtherance of His cause, and He even
called Cyrus, the heather, His servant.
Fifth comes the growth of empire. Look
at Britain, now controlling fully one-fourth
of the earth's surface and Russia with one
| fifth, and the United States with an area
less than four million square miles. These
three are competing to-day for the ruler
ship of the world, but the Americans cannot
see Ii. They say we are wrong. When, In
| 1S03 Louisiana was. purchased. they said
we were wrong and did not need IL, and
| they did the same when we bought Florida
IN 1918 ana IekaS III 1870, when whitman
saved Washington for us, and in 1867 when
Alaska purchased from Russia Now,
every ten years, Alaska is paying into the
United States treasury all we gave for it.
and there is not a man who wants to sell
one foot of the ground.
THEY ARE WORTH IT
Men are now saying that we do not
want Hawaii, Porto Rico and the Philip
pines. What does it mean? 1t means that
he. 81, Is he of
human events and divine events have
made us, the United States, umpire of the
world When Dewey sent for the Oregon
at Manila, for political reasons. we did not
know what II meant, but when we got it
there we controlled the whole power of
European nations. And by the doing away
of the division of the eastern countries
and the establishment of the open door
through Secretary Hay, one of the great
est strokes of political policy that has
been enacted in this nineteenth century,
We became the umpire of the world.
Now for four or five spiritual events
which have taken place in less than a
century. First, there is the freedom of the
Republic I'm which all stand upon an equal
basis; then comes the establishment of
the Sunday schools, and following them
the missions. Others are the abolition of
slavery and the organizing of numberless
young peoples societies.
NOW that We have the conjunction or d.
vine, human and spiritual, what does Ii
| mean? 1t means the subjugation of the
| earth 1t means liberty throughout the
| United States and throughout the world.
| IL means the establishment Of Christianity
| over all the world.
There are those in this country express
| ing their sympathy for the Beers in Africa.
When. in 1884, Kruger signed the treaty
with England 1t was agreed that there
| should be equal taxation and that the out
landers should be given the greatest lib
! erty. Kruger has violated every article of
the treaty. These same people are crying
out against the tyranny of Russia. Britain
has, with her sword, done more than any
| other nation on the earth towards civiiza-
| ton and most for Christianity. There is no
nation that has prospered except by the
sword. When the English and Anglo-Sax-
on races have sway of the civilized world
then shall come 10 pass knowledge and
Christianity and then will IL be filled with
the glory of Christ