Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1904-10-01

you how we are To :i.ht. where we are
TO fight. but also To try to encourage
you 10y reminding you of the great
agencies OF our time which are going
TO help us in this coming years strus
gle.
The glorious twentieth century iS
opening wide its doors To let the church
of the Lord Jesus Christ pass forth in
to Gods conflict. aided by scientific
and social facilities that no other age
possessed. whereby each man can dou-
bic and treble and quadruple the
amount OF work which his GRANDPA
ther or his great grandfather was able
TO do. Ii is saying TO us: Man. IL the
length OF your life is To be estimated
by the amount of work you shall be
able to accomplish | will let you live
longer than did jacob. who died Of Old
age at one hundred and forty Or
Isaac. who lived one hIndred and eighty
Years or Abraham who lived 20 DE
one hundred and seventy-five years
or Noah. who lived 20 be nine hundred
and fifty years or Methuse!ah. who
only lacked thirty-one years of being
one thousand years old. will let YOU
live so long that what your ancestors
accomplished in the course of their
lives will seem TO he as nothing 70
what you shall be able TO accomplish"
The twentieth century speaks thus not
TO one man. but to all
Advantages of an Inventive Age.
This inventive age has literally dou-
bled and a. adrupled and almost ill.,
finitely multiplied the material pro
ducing power Of man. Think of the
facilities of communication. Suppos-
ing ! wish to plead the cause of Christ
with some friend clear across The
American continent. | sit down and
pen my appC VI. In II few minutes ii is
in the postE ms hands little later
It is in the mail wagon OH its way to
the depot Soon il is in the mail ear
going at ligl ming sreed over the NOUN
tains AMI II, "oss The alkali deserts and
across the rivers until il is dropped i'm
the eastern home. 1t has taken only
few days for that message TO reach
its destination i'm the east. and in II
few days longer an answer comes back
to me that my appeal has been read.
and unGer Gods blessing II has been
made effectual to the salvation of a
soul Think how many times such an
effort might he multiplied and how
largely the facilities of communication
might be utilized for tile spread of the
gospel.
You must see that all these Increased
advantages of man can he made to
act and react nightly for good I'm the
coming campaign of the church of
Christ against sin. Matthew Simpson.
the great bishop of the Methodist
church. once delivered II lecture &c
show how God is preparing the way
for the glory of his coming millennium
in the inventions and the social move
ments of everyday life. The other day
book came into my hand entitled
a. he Romance of Invention" But 10
romance of inventions has ever been
written which can fully depict the
Christian romance of the uses TO which
these inventions can be applied in the
extension of Christ's Kingdom as Bsh-
op Simpson explained them. One item
alone of that lecture comes TO my
mind. speak il in my own language.
as | recall il from blurred memory.
The Methodist orator wanted 10 show
how every modern facility was appro
priated and used in the late civil war
The sewing machine had just been in
vented. 1t was employed to insure the
soldiers being properly clothed. The
steam engine was utilized to carry the
armies quickly to the scene of conflict
so that the carnage might sooner end
The modern improvements in arms
were adopted. and So the terrible de
struction of life in single comba:s by
the old fashioned aX and spear was
avoided. And as man used modern in
vcntions for carrying out his purposes.
SO might Gcd use the terrible curse of
slavery itself for tile benefit of the
colored race. The negro torn from his
African home AMI sold as slave
might be ChristianiZcd in the land of
his bondage and return as a missionary
to carry the tidings of the gospel to
his people still on the banks of the
Kongo Can we not believe. as did
Matthew Simpson. that i'm the inven-
ton of the sewing machine. the type
writer. the telephone. the steamboat.
the electric car. in the great foundries
and factories. i'm improved fire arms
and the wonderful printing press. Civ,
ing birth to newspaper and magazine.
the church OF the Lord Jesus Christ
can have an increased power spiritu-
ally for the spreading of the gospel of
Jesus in the coming years campaign
against sin:
Enemies From within.
! find the church of the Lord Jesus
splendidly equipped materially and
temporarily for this winters campaign
against sin. But. more than that. find
that there never was n time when the
great evangelical churches were so
thoroughly in accord on the funda-
mental doctrines of Christianity In the
pulpit and in the pew those doctrines
are held firmly intelligently and de-
voutly. and Christ as the Saviour of
the world has the whole souled allie.