The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1901-11-01

hands Of brothers beloved, and we go
forth boldly into the night-the
night OF trial and of battle-look-
ing for and waiting for the dawn
of victory and peace"
The letter then reviews the missio-
nary work of the church, and con-
tinues
"Perhaps We may describe the chief
hindrance in the way of the Kingdoms
advancement in our times as, indeed, it
has been in every period of the church's
history, as the zeitgiest, the spirit Of
the age, the very atmosphere in which
we must have our life. Because that
spirit changes, because that Unfolding
atmosphere is different now from any
that before did encompass Christian
warriors, therefore it is that the new
dangers are apparent and new methods
of warfare must be employed.
THE PEKNIClOUS LIFE.
"But We must bid you note and
strive against the last and most evil
result of our age, tendency in the reck-
less spirit Of individual license, the
caricature and contradiction of that
ideal of personal liberty which the
church has created and perpetuated
among man. The fool who saith in
his heart there is no God is quick to
60 forward to the natural corollary
that there is no human authority or
right demanding his recognition and
obedience. The man who derides the
revealed foundation of all ethical obli-
cation is the easy victim of the devils
delusion that seif-interest is the sole
motive of human action and selfadvan-
cement the only test of moral con-
duct.
"And, finally, the defiant denial of
the God who ordaineth, finds culmi-
nation in the assertion that there shall
be no longer powers of human govern
ment to whom in superstitious faith
obedience has been rendered and
anarchy is here as the legitimate off
spring Vt unbelief.
"The crime at Buffalo month ago
by which the head of our nation was
taken away, was but the natural fruit
of this tree of God-defying denial. The
great and good President was slain by
the spirit Of our age. We must recog-
nize that this awful crime, thrice re-
peated within forty years, is the off
spring of the spirit of lawlessness, full
grown to maturity and of malevolence,
and that other children of this same
evil spirit are close about US on either
hand, themselves the strength of the
family of lawlessness, who make posi-
BILE and certain these giant monsters
whose deeds of violence have shocked
our souls. The failure of the citizens
of a Republican form of government
to do his duty in the endeavor to elect
honest and true men to Offices of that
government is the earliest political
manifestation of this pernicious lite.
TAKING THE DOWNWARD PATH.
"The citizen who first selfshly re-
fuses his civic duty, and then in natu.
raj descent along the easy path be-
comes the giver of bribes and the cor
rupter Of his fellows is himself de-
graded more and more in the process,
and the bottom is found when civic
rights and civic righteousness are alike
forgotten, when duty to his neighbor
demands performance, when protec-
tion to weakness, the equality of free
men, the conversation OF honesty are no
longer the ends of the government,
but only the securing Of peculiar
privileges for class, the comfortable
enjoyment of protected license when
duty to man is forgotten because duty
to God is denied"
The people are called upon to guard
the sanctity OF their homes and the
growing disregard of the observance
of Sunday is deplored. Lastly the
letter urges the members to carry
away from the great synod 1.-THE watch
word of battle for the time to come
missions, missions, missions"