The St. Louis Republic., 1902-03-10
DOCTOR BURNHAM ON
THE SCATTERED DISCIPLES"
Declares God Has Exceptional
Men in All Ages of His
Church"

The Reverend Doctor Vi. Burnham pastor
OF Pilgrim congregational ChUrCn. preached
yesterday morning ON the text. Acts WI i:
They We're alt scattered abroad throughout
the regions OF Ju;ya and Samarta. except
III" apostle The doctor said. in part:
FIRST. IiOd has ,ptluCai men TN all
ages OF his church. in all ages Of the CHRIS
tian state. with exceptional CUties. rcspon-
sibilities. dangers and successes. they
must stand as pillars TO uphold the tnnu-
sand interests no one else can uphold and tU
serve a; no one else c;.!. serve
This Was true of ;he church oil the oIleh
G.sponsItlon-Een like Abraham. Moses,
Isaiah, Elijah. Samuel. Daniel and many
oJhrrs-stood as the peaks OF the Rockies
looking down upon surrounding plains:
They were men uf God; they We're eXalte1
men II God.
So it is true in the church OF the new
LisusnSati1r-ali OF ths apostles were eNcep-
t!oilai men-Peter. John. James and subse-
qurntiy Paul. born into the apostolate OUT
Of due time-Jll these were eNceptlonai
men amcnS the apostles.
The same X true OF the church of later
date in its Latin and Greek Fathers. IN
its Jerome. its Ambrose. its Augustine anu
Hilary. IN its Bernard of C!airvaIN. In rs
BERNARD Of CIuny. in its Luther and its
KUuN. its calvin, its BeZa and a thousand
others. IL has had It's eNcei tional men anu
names standing linked together in the MS
tory OF the church itself, in the history ot
it, doctrines. in the history of lis icentli-
C.rtiCn with great state movements
The same is true OF both church ami
state in all these modern ages. What mag
ui5Ccnt names has England blended IN
tAG.fn anu state IN .tT SNtlfNtla'll i4N'
cromwell. IN her preachers ike her JonE
Howe. hex WeSieyS. her WhitheldS. her
Rrblnsous. in her scholars in her telchers,
in her men who mu!d history-'Nceptionai
men for exceptional places.
The sam. thing = true Of our own
American history-AmeTica's Bradford. her
Carver her John Cotton. her Jonathan Ei-
wards. and her men of later date do not
care TO reason whether or not cVentfui
days make ,vvat'Ul men, or eventful men
make sventful d.ys-bOth in Gods Provi-
C-ar" aGi in the nn-SOinc Of history are
~ adsd in names like Washington. about
whom not only The sentiment Of the great
American people clusters more and more
- the years - hy. but the conscious af-
fsction os nation with who's destiny he
mad to du-thc admiration and the loyalty
- tn. nation with which he has become
IN al the years that have intcrvened be-
tween him and his sepuIchre as an integral
part OF American history. The same thing
Is true Of the great k.ud-he3rted broad
minded. honest Abraham Lincoln What
ever else he did lie put his hand on the
heart of the reuule ard holds il there with
constantly greater and greater power
though dead he vet Speaketh in every
American home. In every American InSti-
tuition. in our houses of Congress. iu the
voices Of III" past and of the future-iden-
titled Ey his manhood. his Christian man
hood identified by his loyalty to ruth. idsn-
tiiyd Ey all the power OF his personality.
his word ard his work. with the history ~
our native land and the growth cf free
dom ana honor and position in and for the
great American nation.