The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-07-19
M,kINLEY.s MIGHTY WORK
For Humanity and Nation in the Affairs of
China.-Re Speech of Bishop
EnIrIar.

tain the open door and thus prevent
the dismemberment of China he will
secure the Characterization of China
in half century, furnish a market
for our over-production and make
America the greatest and richest ma
ton known to history. He will then
be known as the profit of this event
full age and take his place in the
hearts OF a grateful people in the
same group with Abraham Lincoln"
So spoke Bishop Fowler Monday
evening, July 2, at Harrisburg, Pa,
in one Of the most remarkable address
es on national affairs delivered by
head of the great Methodist Episco-
pal church.
! Bishop Fowler came to Harrisburg
to preach a sermon on the occasion of
the reception of large class of pro-
bationers. On Monday evening Bis
I hop Fowler and Bishop Hurst, who
was invited from Washington, were
! given reception, and Bishop Fow-
Ter responded in an address that was
replete with patriotism. He referred
/ to President Mckinley as the prophet
of this age who is rapidly taking his
place with Lincoln.
ITO find our prophet" said the
! Bishop, 1--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 Nc
4 kinley may not fit the clothes of the
old prophets, but he is fitting the
trend of events in this age. He is
bending the streams of history in
the right direction. Sink down into
the undercurrent, down below the
party strifes on the surface, down in
to the great gulf stream that sweeps
on through the sea of the centuries,
bearing the races up to higher lati-
tudes and levels and catch the moral
forces that are evolving the worlds
destinies, and you will find that this
statement is not politics, but religion
Gods religion that moves always
on in one direction.
THE three greatest missionary
events of the Christian era since the
crucitiYion of Jesus are: First, the
conversion of st. Paul. This opened
the door to the Gentiles. This was
our chance. Second the firing on
Fort Sumpter. This made the Anglo
Saxon race fit for evangelical uses
Third, the blowing up of the Maine
This unified the great Anglo-Saxon
race and sent us out about our work
1t melted the American elements in
the furnace of war and made all
Americans one. The grandson of
General Grant and nephew of Gener-
al Lee marched side by side under
one flag and against the common en-
envy. 1t fused the American and En-
glish branches of this race. The err
rand of the united Anglo-Saxon race
is to keep the worlds peace. To-
gether they police the seas and pre-
vent the other nations from fighting.
ut soon will be true that not a
soldier will lift his foot unless the
command is given in the English
language.
These Saxons are said to be bad
neighbors. The smooth, slippery
races, who had rather lie than eat,
say that the Saxon is the robber of
mankind, the butcher of the races,
and we have some dark spots in our
history. Yet it must also be said
that we have never robbed a people
without leaving them richer than
they were before We robbed them.
We have never enslaved a race with
out leaving it freer than it was be-
fore we enslaved it. For the ages
through, and the world around, there
can be found no such liberties any
where else as are found under the
Stars and Stripes and the Union
Jack.
1.-The blowing up of the Maine was
an eve opener to US and soon to all
the world. Our great Washington
said to us as little strip of Atlantic
colonies: Beware of foreign entan-
clements. 1t was the height of
wisdom then. 1t suited our infancy
like bib. We grew from three mil
lions to the seventy-tive millions.
We had more beefsteaks and silk
, dresses, more spelling books and New
Testaments to the thousand people
than could be found anywhere else in
the world. We were as much under
obligation to help the poorer and
more ignorant races as ever st. Pau
, was to go for hence to the Gentiles,
but we stuck to our Sout hwestern
Atlantic waters, coasted by oul
shores. We held ON to our little bib
contented, expecting always to stay
in our western waters. But one day
: the Spanish touched off magazine
} under us. Then the jig was up
Come what might-come all Europe