Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1904-07-23

than these snail ne DOR HOW mas tne
promise been fulfilled in the great
preachers and organizers of the Chris
tan church? Inspired by his life and
teaching men have arisen whose
achievements. as far as they can be
measured by numbers, have surpassed
a thousandfold those of their Divine
Master.
Growth of the Y. NJ. c. A.
Compare If you will the rapid ad-
vancement of Christianity during the
century just passed with the seeming
ly paltry number Of 120 whom Christ
gathered about him In Jerusalem dur
ing his earthly ministry. In 1914
George Williams of London organized
the first Y. NJ. c. A. association Of the
world. Forty-six years later, as di-
rect outgrowth Of his work, there were
8,625 different Y. NJ. C.. A. association
societies with their enrolment OF 65O,-
600 members, with property worth over
S2G.OO0OOO. In 1866 William Booth,
a humble Methodist minister, stepped
out of the church Of his birth and In
Nottingham, England, organized the
Christian Mission, the outgrowth or
which is the modern Salvation Army. In
thirty-hve years that army, as direct
result Of William Booths work, had
its 1000 officers stationed In all parts
of the world, holding annually over
2,OO0,OOO meetings and possessing its
own printing presses, scattering fortn
As. 900, 900 pamphlets and papers OF
gospel news and with an income OF
nearly $4,OOO,000 per year In 1881
Francis e. Clark, a comparatively un-
known minister, organized his young
people into a band of Christian work
ers. called the Christian Endeayor So
ciety. He is called Father Clark
now. not. however, because he Is an
old man. but because he was the IA
ther Of a movement which in twenty
years had society with nearly 4,OOO,-
600 members. Consider the work OF
John Wesley Compare the hrst Dailu
of 100 members with the conversions
under the power Of the Holy Ghost or
Whitefeld, Finney, Moody. These men
led the people by the tens of thousands
TO kneel at the foot Of the cross. Tel
me. I'm reference to the criterion OF
number. has not man as n preacher
and a Christian organizer done great
er things" than did Christ!
But. again, In this worldwide sweep
! of mans greater works" we must see
how man is everywhere overturning
the heather doctrine that might
makes right" rather than right MAKES
might" We must see man as the de-
fender OF the weak man, the hope OF
the HELPLESS man, the friend OF the De
reft man and In one sense the rescuer
of the lost. Christ comes as the friend
of the friendless. But, oh, how friend
Iess and helpless he himself became!
James Morrison in q wonderful review
Of the works Of Christ's life pictures
him as a mighty conqueror. Even In
his defeats he saw the oncoming con-
quests. Said this mighty pulpiteer:
"He strobe on to victory. From his el
evated standpoint he saw as the conse
ouence Of his triumphal ascent to his
Father the overthrow Of Phariseelsm
and Sadduceeism. He looked farther
and saw the overthrow of Roman ana
Grecian and Scythian idolatry. He
looked farther and saw the destruction
of slavery. He looked farther and saw
the gradual emancipation OF the mass
es from the oppression Of tyrants and
their elevation into political and social
privileges. He looked farther and saw
the erection Of hospitals and other In
stitutions of benevolence. He saw the
establishment on the one hand OF home
missions extending to the hundreds OF
thousands who have lapsed and the es-
teblishment on the other hand or Tor
eign missions, sending the gospel OF
his grace to the ends Of the earth IN
hundreds Of tongues" But, though
Christ in his exaltation and prophetic
vision may have seen all this, yet, IKE
Moses, with his eyes overlooking the
yerdant fields of the promised land
Christ was to have no direct physical
contact in the consummation of the
worlds salvation.
Christ Never visited India.
All India was yet to give up Its Wild
ow burning and the tossing of its help
less girl infants into the Ganges to be
eaten by crocodiles and the heather
worship of idols, but Christ was not, In
body. able as a man to set foot on the
soil of India. William Carey and Alexan
der Duff and Bishop ThOburn were tC
do that. Afr ca, with its murder and
rapine and cannibalistic orgies, was tC
build its affairs TO the worship OF the
true God" but Christ, as physica
man. was never to penetrate into those
dark missionary fields. A Livingstone
Taylor and q Hartzell were to Dc
that. Europe at that time shaking
under the tread Of the Roman leSions
North and South America utterly un
known to civilization; the Islands OF th'
sea. most of them unylsited-all arr
vet TO bow to Christ and come undel
t the reign of love and gentleness anc
purity and truth. These are to be wor
through the fundamentally of men
> Men energized by the Holy Spirit arr
TO gain the whole world for him. Tru
ly, as we look at such a conquest ant
compare 1t with the work that he &C
> complished In Palestine we see what h
o meant when he said, Greater things
than these shall We do" Christ saw