North Park union., 1902-01-03

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things looked 20 different to what
they did lChristnas Eve. Back OF
ths pulpit had hsen the motto. "Wel-
come" II wss gone. Over The
door st,ll remained "llsrry Chrisnas.' .
The suspended motto "Chr,stmas
bells" Was gone. On one side still
remained "The Star Of Bethlehem
on the other, "Psace, the gift Of
Gods Love-" And ON both aides in
plain letters, was written the famous
motto known and sung in every
Christian land-the same one that
the myriad Of angsls sang at Christs
nativity in the historic land Of Ju-
dsa-and the motto .England's illus
trious Queen, Victoria, flashed over
the first Atlantic cable to James Bu-
chanAn. president Of the United
States, to.wt: "Glory to God in the
highest, and on earth, Peace and good
will toward men" And, il the
preacher will pardon us-while hs
preached . good orthodox sermon
No thought-thought Of that motto
whom it was susg BY angel voices to
human ears for tho first time~on the
plains Of Judes, st the first Christian
Christmas; thought Of the infant
Saviour; Of his growth like any other
child; his boyhood; his plsymates;
bis climbing trees; going fishing;
playing marbles; learning to read;
sharpening his tools to be . carpsn-
ter; beginning Of his ministry; bis
baptism; preaching; travels; going in
TO the wilderness; temptation; arrest;
trial cruciaxion; resurrection and fin
a ascension to heaven, and still that
motto kept ringing in our ears,
Peace on sarthl What glorious
thought, aud our soul was 30 wrought
up that We were ready to exclaim, Clio
~ to God in the highesti But another
thought oame-can you stop thought
I'VE cannot. Our thought was this.
Where 10 Christianity greatest and
strongest, snd the answer came, in
England and the United States, also
Russia, France and Germany. Then
another query. At what time in the
worlds history were any nations ever
so well prepared for war as these ma.
tions are to-day, and tho answer
tever was In our mind at once.
England to-day is calling upon
her distant colonies TO the farthest
ends Of tho earth, to send more sol.
diers to kill of the Beers, in order
that the Christian motto, Peace on
earth, good will to men, may be full
filed. She crowds the poor, helpless
Boer women and children into con.
centration camps by tens Of thou
sands and by slow cruel process Of
starvation they are dying at q great
er rate than the Oubsns did under
the cruel Weyler; at greater rate
than the black plague took off the
unhappy people of Bombay, and yet
the Christian church Of England
seems to rather delight in such u
policy. Are they illustrating the
motto, Peace on earth, good will to
men2 God pity them if they are.
Again. our own great land, strong
10 ply steal and so called moral force.
Our government has killed in open
battlo and various other ways 25,-
600 people Of weaker nation with
no just cause for war and are still
slaughtering them most mcrcilessly,
with no present intsntion Of ever
stopping so long as there is anyone
left TO kill. And the motto, "Peace
on earth, good will to men, is thus
being established. What . solemn
mockssy. And in the agony of my
soul l sxclaiml Oh, Jssusl Is the
King Of England thy servant, and is
it possible that the president of the
United States 10 thy hand maiden9
The answer comes sad and low, ~
know them not" Oh! God, what
has become Of primitive Christianity ?
Has 1t finished its usefulness on earth 2
Is the motto, Peace on earth good
will 70 men, deada Alas! Our pro-
fession is q sounding brass, tink-
ling cymbal. The Christian world
worships the God Of Greed. Hypo-
orisy 10 the main spring Of all her
actions.
TIE UNION CALLS attention to