Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1903-05-14

way for n city to keep its streets clean
is for every man to clean the sidewalk
IN front Of his own home" The best
way for the Anglo Saxon race to start
on this worldwide mission is for us, ~
individuals, to start here and start
now. A little handful, under the power
of the Holy Spirit, we may accomplish
at least as much for Christ as did that
little band Of praying men and women
in the upper chamber Of Jerusalem.
The sign Of Victory.
SO, today. I want TO enlarge your
gospel horizon. ! want 10 show you
that the work you can do for Jesus
should be studied no longer through n
microscope, but through telescope.
want TO show you that, as all time il
merely nothing more than long stio-
cession of seconds and minutes and
days and weeks and years. so all great
events are merely the accumulation
of the works of single individuals Tho
Anglo-Sa in great units may be-
composed of nations. The AngloSaxon
race in small units Is composed Of in
dividuals Just like ourselves. Will you
and I start lrre and now, with God =
help for the conquest of the world for
Christ? Will rou and here and now
consecrate our lives to his service. SO
that we may become his acceptable
messengers for this work?
The final redemption of tho world
would not he far off if we could only
bring Jesus in touch with all man
kind. An imaginative religious writor'
once had this beautiful dream about
how the world was finally to be CON
quered for Jesus It was. believe,
to be in the year cool. A great inter
national war YVES about to burst over
Europe. All the nations Of that cont
nent were divided into two sides. Eng
land, Germany, Norway. Sweden. Pc
GUM and Holland were on the one
side. France. Spain, Italy, Turkey,
Austria and Russia were upon tho 9TH
err side The great armies were mar
shaded into two mighty hosts the tread
of whose feet and the rumble of whose
cannon male the earth shake. The
night before the decisive battle was 10
open the camp fires of the sleeping sol
diers stretched for miles and miles
away. But the night before that bat
tic opened Stran Ce being was seen
to go rapidly through the different
camps of the nations. Upon the breast
Of each soldier he pinned a badge or a
sign. The next morning the huGlCs
sounded. and the armies were draw
up in battle array. But when the ger
erals gave the commands Fire." and
"CharSo. not one gun spoke. not ono
soldier moved. Then the generals be
gan TO inquire the cause. They found
out the reason. The strange being who
the night before went from camp to
camp was Jesus Christ. The badge
which was pinned upon every soldiers
breast was the sign Of the cross. Jesus
had at last conquered The sign of for
Eivenoss and of love and pardon and
sinlessucss had at last spiked the guns
of war and turned every soldier into an
emissary of peace. There is only one
way | would change that wonderful
dream of the gospel writer. In the
| last great battle of sinful war | would
not have the members of the Anglo
Saxon race participants. The night
| before the battle was TO open l would
have Jesus Christ go through the camp
of the Slav, the Malay and all the peO-
pies Of the earth, led by a white
skinned guide. That guide | would
| have the ruddy. faXcn haired Cauca-
sian. the guide whom | would call the
| anglo-SaXon race. ON. my brother and
sister. by the conservation Of your lives
| and prayers will YOU not help make
! this scene possible: Will YOU not here
and now start forth. hy Gods help. 10
conquer in the near future the world
for Jesus Christ?
Copyright. 1908 by Louis Klopsch,l