The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1903-05-14

how can that gospel De preached QUICK
er to all people than through the me-
dunn of the telegraph and telephone
and railroad train and passenger
I steamboat lines and freight boats?
When the revision Of the New Tesla
ment was completed some years ago
was not the book telegraphed verbatim
in one night from New York to Chi
| cago? And can we not, through the
conquest of a mercenary commercial
ism, scatter practically in the twin
Killing of an eye the gospel of Jesus
Christ to the farthermost parts Of the
earth, so that whole nations shall be
born in q day?
Promise of Universal Peace.
Another great preliminary battle for
the worlds redemption was fought and
won when the parliament Of religions
assembled at the worlds fair in Chi
cago. Then all the intelligent members
of the Anglo-Saxon race realized as
never before that the gospel of Jesus
Christ was not only the best of all re-
ligions, but also that it is the only Cos
pei which promises perfect peace this
side of the grave as we'll as salvation
beyond.
In 1892 an American tourist was
talking in Calcutta to a high class Ben
gall. During their conversation this
dark colored native of India eXultantly
said: "Ah, you are from America. We
are soon going to send over our mis-
sionaries to Chicago, and we shall con-
vert America to the teachings Of Kali,
Buddha and Mohammed." But when
the oriental missionaries began to talk
we remembered the burning CHATS Of
the Gauges. We could hear the death
cries of the child widows who were
being sacrificed upon the funeral pyres.
We could see the superstitions and de-
baucheries Of the harems and the deg
radations Of their people in the east.
Edwin Arnold's Light of Asia" might
burn brightly when fed by the oil of
the poetic imagina ton of the gifted
English writer, who married dark
skinned daughter Of the east, but Ar
nold's Light of Asia" was found to be
as dark as India, with it's teeming mil
lions in utter darkness-darkness black
as that of Africa or as dark as the be-
nighted human beings who, as canni-
balls, are banqueting off human flesh.
AS all peoples must believe in 4 God
Of some sort, SO today, as never before.
the intelligent civilized nations know
that the gospel of Jesus Christ is the
only gospel which will bring true peace
and progress to the world. When a ma
tive chief asked Queen Victoria the
source of England's strength she hand
ed him Bible. So, today, most Of the
civilized races are ready to confess
that the strength of the mightiest
earthly governments is centered in the
word Of God. Where the Bible is not
there are superstition and ignorance
and brutalizing crime.
Thus many preliminary battles have
already been fought and won. Now
comes the practical question. What
race Of people is going to start forth
to lead in the last great battle. which
is to be fought for the redemption of
the world for Christ? Has Jesus a
right to look with hope toward any
people more confidently than to the
Anglo-SaXon race? From what race
came the crusaders. Godfrey and Fred
erick Barbarossa and Baldwin of
Flanders and Richard the Lion Heart
ed and Frederick IL? From what race
came the pilgrim fathers, who crossed
The seas imbued with many noble am
billions, the chief Of which was 10 car
ry the gospel Of Jesus Christ to the
farthermost ends of the earth? Among
the hearts of what people was the great
foreign missionary cause first born?
Who today are striving most of ali to
civilize and Christianize the world at
large? Is it not the members of the
Anglo-Saxon race? Are there any people
who can be more justly called Chris
tan people than the Anglo-Saxons?
The Dominant Anglo-saxon.
The Anglo-Saxon race is best quail
fed to lead in this great forward move
ment for Christ also because in this
century it holds a position of domi
nant power and influence among the
nations analogous to that held by an
clcul ElOulG Ut IlC UlFLu Vi CuTlStldLl-
ty. They geographically hold the stra-
tegic points of all the world. Open the
map Of the world where you will and
drop your finger at random. Gibraltar.
the key of the Mediterranean, held by
England. Suez canal and the sover-
eighty Of Egypt by England. Eastern
as well as northern Africa dominated
by England. The islands of the Pacific
held by Germany, England and the
United States. North and South Amer
lea dominated by the United States
government by its Monroe doctrine
Europe for the most part controlled or
influenced by Germany or England.
Both supreme in their own ways-Eng-
land by her navy, Germany by her
army. The whale and the lion practi-
cally unconquerable in their own do
mains. ..,a.s ~@s:@
Then where can you find people
mentally and spiritually and physically