The Savannah morning news., 1903-06-30

| of the oceans, they dominate the
worlds commerce, they transmit the
worlds news, they are teaching all
men their language and institutions
and they make every land they touch
the realm of the Bible and the Sun
day-school.
They are the governmental force of
the world, not only in controlling saw
a ges and directing the semi civilized,
but among the most advanced nations
their policies are respected, they give
direction to councils and determine re-
strictions.
The most remarkable fact in the CEN
fury just passed is the extent to which
the world has become in thought, habit
and ideal, as we'll as governmentally,
Anglo-Saxo But the marvel of all
centuries is the evolution of the Anglo
Saxon himself. His present trend is a
! long call from his earlier Characters
tics. He who in an earlier stage was
exclusive and predacious, cruel, indo-
lent and disregardful of domestic vir-
tue has come to stand for personal in
itiative, constructive intelligence, civic
righteousness and domestic probity.
Anglo -SaxOns Christianized.
All movements must be judged by
their tendency, as all ideals must be
judged by that which inheres. While
Anglo-SaXon expansion has been Sc
| cured ofttimes by cruelty and rapacity
and cannot be justified even when
compared with others of their age, yet
| 1.-THE tendency, never more manifest
| than in public sentiment to-day is to-
wards justice tempered with mercy.
OF the five states, and as between
the three races which competed for
the New World, and indeed for world
supremacy, success has not fallen to
that one which showed at the outset
I mol T.FaIsr
ton, nor to the one which surpassed
all others in daring, invention, energy
or the ability to marshal and command
| great armies, but to that one which
responded to the Transforming i'm
pulse of the Divine life, and exceeded
in moral earnestness. While there are
marked and many individual eXcep-
tions, as a race, in ideal, tradition and
trend, the Anglo-Saxon has been
Christianized and more than any other
stands for purity, progress and peace.
If the coetaneous rise of Methodism
and Anglo Saxon supremacy were SIM
ply a coincidence, only fact passed
and expended, still it would be worthy
of our study. But if the past is pro-
phetic of the future, If history is not
only a narration of facts, but the sug
gestion of problems, if when you
study English history you study not
the past of England only, but her flu
ture," and if the coetaneous rise of
Methodism and Anglo-Saxon supre-
macy were consequential, it is fact
of supreme Importance, challenging
most careful consideration.
Methodism is individualizing, co-or-
dinating, altruistic. 1t deals with the
unit and correlates him with the whole.
1t has promoted the development of
individuality, personal initiative and
organized effort by co-ordinating the
soul with God. 1t has raised the
standard and fostered personal puri-
ty, Hivic righteousness, official JUS
tice by proclaiming the law of the
Lord. 1t has safeguarded and elevat-
ed the sanctity of the home and every
thing pertaining TO childhood, wom-
anhood and manhood in their mutual
relations by keeping Christ in the
midst. The awakening and develop
ment of the chief Anglo-Saxon charac-
teristics, the prime elements of their
strength, is concentric with the propa-
ganda and quickening which Metho-
dism brought to the race.
Wesley and MethOdism.
AS our Lord said in the first century
Among them that are born of women
there hath not risen a greater than
John the Baptist" so it might be said
in the opening of the twentieth CEN
fury of John Wesley. None has made
more valuable contributions for the en-
| richment of human well-being. What
| CapurnicuS did for astronomy, what
Sir Isaac Newton did for physics, what
Lord Bacon did for philosophy Wesley
did for religion. He co-ordinated it
with it's true center, he organized its
various manifestations, formulating the
| law of its great attractive force-love
he remal,ded every pretense to the bar
| of exnarienpa and unclaimed that RI
| be the unanswerable demonstration. He
exemplified in his life the power and
| beauty of personal knowledge of God
Whom to know Alright is life ever
| lasting" and heralded the experience
to he accessible and essential to every
man, woman and child who would
please God
His work is imperishable. His mem.
DRY should be ever green. On this
| two hundredth anniversary of his birth
in this fair city of Savannah. halloweG
By his residence, ministries and wrest-
| lings of spirit, memorable as the scene
of his humiliation, where he became
convinced that austerities, vigils anC
works are inadequate to procure peace
that they are but results and not the
| cause of sa1Vation-we do we'll to marx
in enduring bronze the places especial
ly associated with his sojourn in Amer,
lea, as memorial for the generation.
to follow.
But above all, let us as Anglo Sax
ons thank God for the life which h.
lived, let us emulate the virtues which
he eNemplif1ed, let us contribute to tn,
extension of the glory of his God ant
ours, cooperating personally, heartily
continuously and devotedly, according
to cur ability, with the onward march
| of christianity in earnest"