The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-21
The jingling of the guinea helps the
 hurt that Honor feels,'

The jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that Honor feeIs,'
 but by and by honor feels no hurt, and starved manhood Iieis quiet in the gild- ed chains. It may be, and more often is, that the soul has never yet been reused. The avenues of life are chOked with these sleepers. Here is a world throbbing and heavinig around them, world packed with possibilities of reve- lation, of growth, of achievement, in- viting them to master it; here is a life pulsing with the life of God and promising eternal satisfactions and honors; here is 8 soul within them equipped with every potency infinite in-
 telligenee could devise, but they are content to be dumb, driven cattle,' to wear a slaves tunic the serfs of some petty Babylonia, instead of living in
 the holy city, clad in roves which be-
 speak the nobility of their lineage and
 the greatness of their natures. O, for trumpet voice! O, for some great,
 dynamic word that would break in up- on this ignoble content, waken ambi- tions worthy of a man, and move these sluggish souls to put on strength and
 march back to the place of power!
 "One may not pass nasty and ill-di-
 gested criticism on the church, Yet we all must admit the slowness of appar- ent gains and the appropriateness of some such exhortation as this of the 1 prophet. The fault is not in the ma chinery, that is of the latest pattern
 and is kept well oiled; neither is it in the men who run the machinery, they
 have had the necessary training and bear all the marks of skilled workmen. l No more is the fault in the character
 of the church's utterances. Whatever | heresies the fathers might detect were
 they to return to the pews, they would
 discover little obscuring or weakening
 of, the old appeals to conscience, they 1 would hear the familiar call to seek the
 Lord whle He may be found
 | What then is the defect? I think it l is spiritual; there is lack, first of l all, of spiritual earnestness-I will not { say sincerity. It is possible that there I has been weakening of some of the 1 old motives and that no similarly irn-
 polling motives have yet taken their i places. It seems certain that we do not
 realize the peril of estranged souls as
 the fathers did, we do not appeal to
 men So fervently or so keenly feel re- l sponsibility for the salvation of the
 world. Then the multiplying of literary i and social opportunities, and the press ure of great business interests, fill our time and thought, spiritual things have
 been losing their impressiveness as ] these other things have been gaining; { in spiritual concerns we are becoming
 extreme individualists and placidly leaving each man to make his unaided 1 way as best he can. ! This lack has begotten another. the
 lack of spiritual aggressiveness. Our attitude toward the world is the attitude
 of passive waiting. Our Lord affirmed that He came to seek the lost, we waiti for the lost to seek us. And when one of these same lost, arrested by the
 church-bell some fine Sunday morning the bell which reminds him of his mother and his prayers-timidly creeps
 up the church steps, we ask him some l rather sharp questions about his social l standing and his bank account before
 we let him come very far into the fold.
 Judged by some modern standards
 Jesus Christ was; how quixotic was His 1 whole movement to save the lost! He
 cut across all the lines society had la
 boriously laid down; He smashed he- reditary partition walls; He saw no dif- l ferences in men except moral differ l ences. He took 'soiled dove from the ] streets by the hand. and, facing the
 mob of sniveling hypocrites who &C.,
 cused her, cried, let the man without I sin cast the first stone; He pasesd the open doors of the first families in Jeri-
 cho and went to dinner with little, out cast Zaccheus, with whom no respecta-
 ble member of the synagogue would as-
 sociate; He went about everywhere
 searching for men lest some busy man
 might fail to hear that, the Kingdom
 of heaven was at hand How quixotio
 it all was, what an impossible gospel | he preachedi But what shall we do
 with the truth that is in it?
 l Awake, awake, O Zion, and put on
 thy strength; put on thy beautiful gar-
 ments, o Jereusalem!' Spiritual earn estness, spiritual aggressiveness are to
 save this world, and you and are calI-
 ed, you know, to save the world; if not l then we have no calling and have no
 business with our machinery and our
 badges. We must resume our strength
 for the work is difficult and the time
 is short; the anxious world needs it, the Christ needs it. We cannot leave the
 world to it's doubt and despair, we can- not leave the Master alone in the bat
 tie He is waging for the souls of men; i we must rally to His call, we must be
 with Him in the days of the regenera-
 ton if we would sit on thrones in His i kingdom