Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1905-06-03


not been a little farmers college near
to my fathers farm l would never
have received an education at ALL"
When we praise the schoolteacher as a
messenger of international peace we
must also praise the noble men who
give of their wealth to support the
schools in out of the way places. We
must also praise the Christian dis
ciples who give of their little to sup
port teachers in foreign lands as well
as to help support the small sectarian
schools and colleges in our own.
The Place of the Church.
But what good does mere knowledge
do unless il is balanced by moral char
acter? What good does it do to plant
DIR. Dutf's missionary schools in India
or Roberts college i'm Constantinople
or our own schools in America unless
moral and spiritual development keeps
pace with mental growth: None, abso-
lutely none. So today. as the greatest
messenger of international peace. l
plant the church of the Lord Jesus
Christ between the legislative hall of
the just statesman and the schoolhouse
Of the just teacher. for l find that the
church of Christ Is the main leaven
which leavens the purity of govern
mental law as well as the chief herald
which is scattering true knowledge to
the farthermost parts of the earth.
Why does the church OF the Lord
Jesus Christ do all this! Because the
very essence of Its belief bids it to
carry this gospel work everywhere.
AS 1t looks forth into the great wide
world it sees deep into the hearts of
men. There II finds that, though men
may be divided into different classes,
yet. after all, they all belong to one
great class. That class says: I'VE are
all weary. We are all troubled. We
are all sick ut heart ut best. There
fore 1t Is our duty us far as in us lies
to try to bear each others burdens
through the help of Jesus Christ"
Thus everywhere the gospel mission
aries are going. Everywhere they are
planting their schools. Everywhere
they are trying to make the stronger
nations help the weaker and to make
each nation care for the weak among
its own subjects.
Never since the coming of Jesus
Christ to earth was there n better time
for the contamination of the worlds
peace than the present. Cannot the
laws of International arbitration,
through the power of the Holy Spir-
1t, accomplish this most beneficent
achievement! In order to lead all ma
tons to Join this international COM
pact and to disarm our armies and to
dismantle our fortresses we need not
wait until all nations are converted to
timent of the civilized world longing
for peace. Are not the better elements
Of Europe and Asia and Africa and
America longing for the stopping of
such carnage as was lately witnessed
at Port Arthur and Mukden! Are we
not longing that the sword may be
turned into the plOwshare and the
spear into the pruning hook and that
men may not war any more?
So. my friends, as never before l
want you to pray for the president of
the United States. Pray that God may
enable him to lead the rulers of the ma
lions to enter into compact to stop
hellish war and by the laws of interna-
tiOnal arbitration to stop it forever.
want you to pray, and pray as never
before. for the teachers of our public
schools and colleges and for the teach
ers who are laboring in our colonies
and missionary schools I'm foreign lands
as missionaries of perpetual peace. o
God of Paul. who sat at the feet Of
Gamaliel. teach thy teachers to lead
their scholars to thee, And l want you
also to pray and to work while you
pray for our church as a messenger of
peace. As the heart pumps the blood
to the farthermost parts Of the body.
SO u consccrated church of the Lord
Jesus Christ is the heart which sends
forth the spirit which will give us
Christian statesmen and Christian
teachers and Christian messengers of
perpetual peace everywhere.
May God bless those who are teach
ing men to love their fellow men and
to help them and to forgive them and
to lead them to the cross of that Christ
whose nativity song was Peace on
earth, good will to men"
copyright. 1905. by Louis Kiopsch.1
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