The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-18
SPEECH OF MIR. sEARcY.
On "our Reunited Country and US
 World Mission.

The speech of MT: Searcy on Our he united Country and It's world MisSion S,1 was beautiful in diction and was deilVer- ed with fine effect.
 He declared in his opening remarks that at last the hope of the Revolutionary fathers was realized and the United states had expanded. After reviewing the carry struggles of the country and toucnlng upon his love of the South. he spoke or the Spanuish war and its results Wnich he said brought about the opportunity for this country to become s Wottu ,s an age of opportunity" declared MT Searcy. Nations as well as individuals are broad enlng their horizon and intently resarolns the needs of their fellows who are not 50 fortunate in their circumstances as tnem- selves Great Britain, Germany ana all the other wideawake peoples are reacnins out into the remotest corners or the ..IIi Sioue' scattering the precious seeds or ciVlnza- ton and from the good ground reaplhS an hundred fold. Yet the Unteo otates, a nation which has received more at the hand of God during the one ana quarter centuries of its national existence than any other that now exists or aDout when history has to tell, yet this modern lsrael, the chosen people of the Most Hish must sit in its slothful opulence, While US moth- CT and sister nations possess themselves of all the gorgeous East. and make sweet their breath with the perfume or oriental myrrh and aloes! How can natlUh ni} . oa industrial giants sit still and see all the treasures of the golden morning ma away in the miserly bag of Europe? How can the ear of this the great people or mann moth fortunes be deaf to the Jingle or barbaric coin; how can It's eye be blind to the glmmer of the jewels that He un- discovered in the fabulous Wealth or Or- mus or of Ind?
 Contining Mir. Soarcy reviewed the his tory of expansion by all countries at con siderable length.
 "FinalIy, we note as a Christian na- tion." continued MT. Searcy, that there Is something higher than national glory which should guide our nations career. Today we owe our ccncern not only to the .lation wnose flotilla holds the world in terror; our greatest indebtedness not to the nation that Is the most liberal patron of the arts and sciences. Like Paul IS a nation. we are debtor to me Greek and the barbarian, to the wise and the unwise.' All power Is debtor to all weakness all learning to all 1gno- rance, all righteousness to all evil M
 TO the TurkiSh slave we owe our fp- erty. to the Hottentot groptng m hls 'n- ing; to the heathen Lowing peIore the image of stone we owe the story. We owe the spirit of Christ, we owe the l cleal, sing power of His blood. We nave our missionaries in foreign fields who are | such examples of Christian forutuoe as ] the world has not seen since the oays ol | Paul. They speak to the foreign peopISs i the words of Christ. But what the Woriu
 demands. and what Christ requires IS
 Deeds, not words AS a Christian Ueo-
 ple we are in fact our brothers keeper Cold and selfish we would be 1T Wo We
 content to wrap ourselevs WAREHOUSES
 in the folds of our holy religion ana res lunmindtnl of all the world beside. op
 portunity brings obligation; priVileg