The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1903-03-12


example Of how a royal queen could be
a domestic queen, and the ships which
ply the Atlantic still return with as
heavy cargoes as when they left our
shores.
How We May 8ese Repap.
/ How, then, is America to cancel the
national debt in a moral and spiritual
sense which she owes to the modern
! Greeks and to the barbarians? WELL"
answers some one. Il suppose the best
| way to repay the debt We owe to for
| eign lands is to make our goods better
and cheaper than they can make them
and then go forward and capture their
markets for our home industries.' All,
my brother, ! am not here to fritter
away my time answering these selfish
| propositions prompted by mere COM
mercialism; l am here today to tell you
! how, in the language and the spirit Of
the apostle Paul, We are to cancel the
| national debt we owe to foreign lands;
l am here today TO tell you how best
we can pay the debt as individuals as
we'll as q nation. We can repay our
national debt first by conveying to for
etgn lands the sweet message of the
Calvary cross, When many years ago
| five humble. consCcratcd students met
behind q haystack in old Willamstovn.
where I used to 60 to college, and
! founded the first American foreign
missionary society, one of the greatest
purposes Of Americas future life was
given practical form. Those five young
men planned an evangelStic work
which had the same worldwide scope
that Pauls mission had for the Chris.
tan religion. If the religion of Jesus
Christ is the bencficent thing that we
profess to believe it, are we justified in
keeping the knowledge of it to our
selves? Are we not bound as debtors
to the whole world to repay Our obi
cations by making it known far and
wide?
The medical profession sets us an
example in its performance of this
duty. No sooner does a physician dis
cover means of alternating physical
suffering than he places it 'at the dis
posal of his professional brethren the
world over, When Edward Jpnner
demonstrated the marvellous immunity
of human being who was vaccinated
with cOWpOX, did he keep his discovery
from the world? Did he refuse to adj
vocate it lest he might be prosecuted
by such medical authorities as Dr. In
genhousZ and DR.. Pearson? Oh. no,
int hn
awful destruction made by this terri
BILE scourge of smallpox He knew that
whole countries had been almost dnpop-
ulated by the pest. Mexico was not
conquered sc much by Cortes as it was
made helpless by the invasion of this
king Of horrible plaques called small
pox. When the pilgrim fathers landed
upon the Massachusetts shores, they
found that the Indian tribe which the
year before had been inhabitins that
part of the country had been entirely
obliterated, with the exception of one
man, by the fatal ravages of smallpox.
So, in the face of derision and persecu-
ton, Jenner proclaimed the gospel of
vaccination. Though he might, and to
a great extent did, destroy his private
practice, he kept crying to suffering
humanity: Here is a remedy for this
dreadful and malignant disease. Take
it and live, Take it and liver
When James Y. Simpson perfected
his investigations in chloroform, did
he keep them to himself? Did he pat
ent them and say, You come to me or
suffer and die?" No. He freely gave
the ansesthetic to the world. And to-
day thousands upon thousands of men
and women who have been compelled
to lie upon an operating table have
risen up to call him blessed. Is the
German physician, Robert Koch, work
ing in his laboratory for personal gain?
Oh, no. He is trying, purely On phil
anthropie grounds, to cure consump-
tion which causes at least one-fourth
of the total annual mortality among
the human race. If he ever perfects
germicide for the tuberculosis bacilli.
he will at once tell all he knows. He
is struggling and working and analyz-
ing purely to save dying race.
Make known the Revelation.
What a lesson do these illustrious
benefactors Of the human race teach
us. How they study and investigate
and labor to alleviate suffering and in
crease the longevity of mankind! And
when any of them discovers a remedy
for disease or means of removing de-
formity how eagerly he makes the dis
covery known that all the world may
share ID the benefit! In our hands we
have revelation Of infinitely greater
value. Their discoveries can at the
best prolong life only a few years.
while the gospel of Jesus Christ is the
gospel Of eternal life and the remedy
for the universal malady Of sin. Yet
there are among US men calling them
selves Christians who make no effort
to publish the knowledge of that rem
edy. They say; IF the Chinese are not
willing to receive our gospel missiona-
ries, then let those missionaries stay
at home Let the Chinese hordes grow