The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-09-04
Christian Imperialism.


The following article on Christian citi-
zenshiD is from the pen OF John G.. Wool
ley. editor OF the New Voice:
ADDITIONAL Add to your faith vir-
tue: and to virtue knowledge; and to
knowledge temperance; and to temper
ance patience; and to patience godliness;
and to godliness brotherly kindness; and
to brotherlv kindness love"
This is Christian imperialism.
Faith Is consciousness of divine origin
To build up from that to realization Of
the divine nature is the Christian thesis
1t Is matter of conduct. There Is no
word or phrase in the Bible that can be
translated orthodox"
Add" There must be something to-
add to- What sit? Sonship I am no
accident, no LEFTOVER" in the pottery Of
creation, no poor relative of the cosnic
forces. | am a son of God by creation
first, then by recognition and acceptance,
and finally by the long slow labor of adop-
tion. Virtue" is fighting goodness To
be innocent in a vacudm is no virtue Such
innocence is simply well-balanced ignor-
ance, but to be tempted, yet triumphant,
or even to fall and stand erect again-to
fall a thousand times and yet to be stag
gering at the good-to be down and all but
lost vet gasping for a noble breath Of life.
That is the real thing; add it; be virile,
manly Christian. Virtue is man t'you.
Add 1t.
knowledge" is the only road to power.
Don't be afraid to know. If your creed
will not stand knowing. let the junk man
have 1t and get a new one. If your Bible.
is afraid Of science let them loose together,
and the devil take the hindmost God
speaks first hand to many-to all who lis
ten for His voice No matter how it comes
know what you know and stand for it.
Don't follow any decimal point of party
or authority; be an integer, great or small.
Temperance. Don't be so soft that
you won't hold an edge, nor so hard that
use breaks you. The church is full of these
feather-edge saints who spend their whole
energy at meetings getting whetted. Don't
be a bigot nor a mllk-sop. Don't draw
your Bible. on the elevator boy when he is
busy nor listen to the dirty stories OF the
clerk. Study to be fit.
Patiencer Is staying power, waiting Is
suffering This is where the compromiser
gets in mis- work. He says. GO to: yield
the point and be comfortable Put price
on 1t and prospect Forswear Yourself and
run for something Wheat is uncertain in
this climate, but tares will grow anywhere:
sow tsres The common greeting of the
New Zealand natives is "Tenakai"-"Are
YOU there?" Patience is there-ness. Add
1t.
Goodness is that splendor of charac.
ter that gives actions the shine of omnipo-
tenee. II you cant have your way, do
your way and shine. If you can't abolish
a wrong. brand it as it goes and bide your
time Take the God side Of every argu-
ment. Enter the will of God for everv
Judgment. This has a bumptious sound,
maybe, but it is very simple. 1t is almost
no trouble to know what God as we con-
celve Him, would say in any matter that
has moral character The labor of the
politician to know the mind of the crowd
Is Infinitely harder. Goodness is God.like-
ness. Add it,
"Brotherly kindness" is recornition
that, for all our differences. we are the
same kind Of pottery in different stages Of
hring-kind-ness. The Arabian proverb, "If
a man knows not and knows not that he
knows not, he is fool: shun him. If he
knows not. and knows that he knows not.
ne IS simple; teach him. If he knows and
knows not that he knows, he Is asleep.'
wake MN. Ii he knows and knows that
ne knows, he Is wise; follow him." This
IS great treatise on kindness. Kindness
Is social consciousness Add it.
Love is the eternal fixitive. Kindness
VIII be peevish, godliness will seem imnes-
sloIe' patience Will fail, temperance is al
ways an experiment, knowledge will vanish
away, virtue will nod faith itself will tr,r.
IN the shadowy partiality of our percep-
tlonS' out when love, the perfect thing
mas ,oeen added. we shall see the solutior
OF CHARACTER in the face OF God Himself
Add lie an imperialist in YOUR char
acter. Never concede that the whoIe
,,ning is too much for you. If sometime
hits you hard and you feel numb and mad
equate as II something had gone out of
The flesh is the bottom of things sn;r;t,sI sJ-
II anything has gone out il r. someth;nr
me and good, Deny subtraction 10 ths
bitter end. Add. ~ Sns