Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-01-07

forces and would send a stream of
blessing far down through the coming
hundred years.
The tremendous significance of the
early missionary movements of the
last century did not at once appear;
but it is clear enough now. One has
truthfully said, What did it mean
that Fort William College was estab-
lished at Calcutta in 1901, eight years
after William Carey reao-ed that city,
and that he was appointed one of it's
professors? What meant it that he
gave the Hindus the entire Bible in
their o~wntongue in 1909? That the
Suffice was abolished through his in
fuence in 1929? We have the answer
now-now that English colleges and
schools are founded throughout all
India; now that Hindu soldiers have
marched abreast of Americans through
the streets of Pekin. What meant it
that Oboskiah of Hawaii was brought
to America in 1909, and moved the
heart of Samuel ]. Mills and others so
that ten years later missionaries We're
sent to the Sandwich Islands?
We may answer now-now that Ha-
waii is a part of the Republic, and
Honolulu a way station on the route
to its eastern possessions. What
meant it that Samuel Wells Williams
in 1887, was not permitted to land the
shlpwrecked Japanese sailors on the
shores of their own country,
and so, returning with them to Canton,
carried their language, translated for
them portions of the Scriptures and
received them to the Christian Church?
we knew in part when Williams went
with Commodore Perry to Japan as his
interpreter, and we know still better
now-now that a japanese officer com
manded for a time the allied forces of
! Christendom before Tien Tsin." Sim
I liar questions might be asked and sim
liar answers given concerning many
events OF the century. The trend of IS
history has been steadily in one direc-
ton.
What next? We stand almost breath
less within the Threshold of lie new
century. We know not what it may
bring forth; but surely there is need of
earnest and devout prayer that God
might grant us in these opening weeks
Nho L1OiIito VI tuS 1 WtuJl6lu c0UIury
such a gracious %outpouring Of His Holy
Spirit, such a mighty religious impulse
as the Nineteenth century experienced
in tn egreat revival.
Some years ago in a workingmen's
magazine, in Britain, a Christian me-
chanic wrote an article on his Three
Notices" They were Il and God"
God and l." God and not l." The
paper was a simple history of the
three stages of his service as a dis
| ciple; first, when he conceived of the
work as his wv and asked Gods help;
then, when he thought of the work as
Gods, and himself as a co-worker in
it; but the last and most restful and
successful stage, when he saw God Is
the n Great Worker and himself as
only an instrument, taken UP, fitted for
service, and used in Gods way and
time. 1nere is an ability we do not
possess, a strength we can not COM
mand, a result which we cannot con-
i troll. Obedience is ours, and only obedi-
ence; He assumes all responsibility,
both for the command and the conse-
quences. Let us remember what great
things God has done for our beloved
presbyterian Church. Among the
many material, mental and spiritual
blessings conferred by Jehovah, this is
to be counted foremost, rhat during the
Nineteenth century fully two million
two hundred thousand members were
added to the Presbyterian Church in
the United States of America. on con-
fession of their faith, and that the
church to-day has thirty-eight thou
sand communicates in foreign mission
churches, about twice as many as we're
in ner communion in the United States
ut the close of the Eighteenth CEN
fury.
The departed Nineteenth century has
handed over the watchword. For
ward!" to the new born Twentieth.
when the last century was in its in
fancy five godly young men were pray
ing under the historic 'haystack' at
Williams College, that God would show
them how to reach the heather. When
the century fired it's sunset gun, there
were 1910 foreign missionaries in the
field, with 10000 native communi-
! cants, and over a million children in
the mission schools. We must stop
talking about spreading civilization"
and talk lore about salvation. HUI
man selfshness believes in civilization
for the world; we must strike a note
that rings into eternity! The religion
OF the cross is the only religion for
every people under the whole heavens.
Theodore Cuyler says, Jesus Christ's
marching orders to His American
churches are: GO. and preach redemp-
ton to the poor bond-slaves of sin and
error and death! Let not your gold
and silver he cankered, and your hearts
be moth-eaten with commercial pros
perity. Speak to my b1ood-bought peo-
pie that they go forward" The de-
parted SPIRITS of Judson, and Duff, and
Livingstone seem to he gazing through