The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-10

serious. The world will yet call on God. And what a reverencel How profound
 1t will be when a world made big by sci ence, a world that understands problems that our forbears never dreamed of being solved, that knows the stars, that knows the earth, that controls the forces that move the world, when humanity in such world will bow in reverence to God wno made it, to God who said the end of it is that ye might know me and Jesus Christ whom l have sent, which is eternal life" So that the application of the facts of our existence will lose all of their materialism, and Wall street and the marts of great metropolis like London will yet glorify God in the mighty material forces which were intended to work to spiritual ends. Money will appear mean to men alongside of blood. Property will ap- pear as nothing alongside of the wants of a soul. The year of jubilee will not come by legislation, as it did in the Jewish nation, but the year of jubilee will be every year that men breathe the God-given air and feel the touch of Gods hand in the touch of the hand of a brother man. Christianity has broken the shackles that holds the slaves over the face of the earth, and Christianity will break the shackles that hold In the slave of sin men everywhere. Streets shall be made glad children shall laugh 
 out. and Christ is seen as the end. Money has it's place, wisdom has it's place, knowledge is to be desired, and wisdom, says Solomon, after having lived the fullest life possible In his day, Is the application of this mighty idea, this great Christ with his power to save and to redeem. There is where we are to come, and from which we are to go. if we would lift up mankind and make the world better.
 All Power in Christianity.
 Now my brother man, that is your work It is mine. You can do nothing for men until this mighty force shall take hold of them. The church has been abused, but it's enemies on the outside are nothing. The enemies of the church of Jesus Christ are on the inside. The man who wants the public earl would not speak unkindly because I would fear to do it of any of Gods annointed-but it is pitiabe how the pulpit has pended to public sentiment how the individual man in the pulpit has been controlled by money. It is day of great wealth. The world Is controlled by 1t. Evils strong hold is in money. Gods power is in love. Love meni and then you can't hurt men with anything. Let Gods benediction rest upon the property and the wealth that comes within your hand, and then you have God, and the earth sanctihed to God and business will be transacted on yet more gigantic scales than ever. Ships on the great sea will be transacting business for God who is in heaven. Machinery with it's chatter will be helping along God in redeeming this human family. degraded and lost because of sin. God and Christ and sin and yet men are frivolous. indifferent to the church of God the divine idea put in an earthly symbol so that you can understand the long reach of Gods arm in taking hold of humanity; should there be a bad man anywhere, should there be hippant woman anywhere on Gods earth, when 1t falls on our ear. Behold ye are watched round about by so great cloud of witnesses.
 Religion +he Only Bond.
 "The attempt has been to bind togeth- CT the fragments of the world from with out; the only certain bond is union from within. The power that controls Is that which stoops to the uttermost, nethermost. It must come down to those common wants which lie at the base of all life. and which because they lie at the base of all life, are alone fitted to be the binding chain of humanity. At no other point can men be united, because at every other point wants are artih- cial" This thought put in the minds | of men two thousand years ago, has germinated and grown, and has woven a conception of empire that has capti- | vated and dominated the human mind: which was destined to strike the first blow at dominions, and principalities, l and powers-at every form of govern ment in which the will of the individual had aspired to obliterate the will of the community In the realization of this new thought heaven and earth are again | met together. To take this attitude Is to have communion with man on the ground of his being a creature it is to | become affected with want because 1t is want; it is to take into your sympathy the great fact of sorrow, irrespective of its origin and independent of its cause; it is to incorporate suffering which per- haps even now is the fruit of sin.
 | They are blest who live for this who | let love to God and man be the animat- | ing principle of their being. confident | that death, come when it will and carry | them where 1t will shall not find them unprepared for it. knowing that the rem ding of the veil which hides the secrets | of the unseen world, the summons that will call them into regions unknown. ] need awaken in their breast no perturb-