The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-12-10

time of Boniface to Carey and Han
 nington, Eliot and Berkeley, have
 shown to the east and to the west
 what Anglo-Saxon Christianity means.
 And where shall America leare its
 most glorious record? An, my friends, certainly not in the blessings of mind or body that we have inherited out of
 the past; not the comforts, material or
 spiritual, that we may enjoy, or the little monuments that we rear to our
 wealth and wit in the form of cities and industries. In few hundred years, all
 these will have perfshed like so many
 toys, or have passed into relics for the amusement of those who care flo un- earth them. But the memorials that will endure are the labors of heroes who
 turn their backs upon prosperity to sow the seeds of a civilization to come
 where future ages will arise to call them blessed Rowe m Alaska, Brent in the Philippines, Roots, and that brilliant army of young men on the banks of the Yangtse-these are the light of their master Christ that shines through them, these who inspired our president not long ago to call the work of missions the most important respon- sibility of the nation, and moved the headmaster of a great school for boys to proclaim that he would rather see one of his pupils foreign missionary than in the presidential chair-these are the glory of the American people and of the American church.
 But morethan instances of heroism will result from the church's conquest of the world for Christ There is an- other glory that reflects upon coun
 try which demands the utmost bounds of the earth for it's field of influence; 1t is widening of the souls horizon. The confinement of religious interests to our own boundaries produces a contrac- ton of spiritual thought. This is not simply theory. I am not engaged in speculation on this matter We have been faced this very month by the hor- Christian thought The controversy that has wrung the church is a dis dressing symptom of stagnation in re- ligious life. Just as surely as the att tention of the Christian world is with drawn from the momentous questions in the field of large activities, the church is bound to descend to fine dis functions of theology and little ques- tions of opinion. l confess that I am not decided, believe no human mind is able to decide 1ogmatically as to the solution of the questions that have been raised; I prefer to leave the answer to these questions in all humility, where many another mystery belongs-in the mind of God, and where the mind of man can move but slowly and rever- ently. But of one thing I am certain, that if we were large enough in our experience and sympathy to include in our spiritual horoscope the varying shades of thought, the different points of view, and the vastly different intel lectual inheritances that are to be found among the races of the world, we should be larger minded in our att tttude to truth In other countries that have cultivated cosmopolitan habits through their intercourse with other peoples. busy with their welfare, mind fu of their religious standpolnts, these questions of interpretations are treat ed far more generously and more tol- erantlv. We are too provincial by in- i herltance and habit. Truth must con- form to our materialistic laws or to our own religious creeds, policies must contribute to our own national inter- ests. before we can appreciate and ac- cept them. The missionary habit is the surest escape from this contract ed spirit
 Why, it was only few years ago, while we were beginning to step beyond our boundaries in religious work. when we were sure that a heather who did not believe as we believed would be damned. The shame and folly of that attitude have been gradually dlspalled by the glory of a larger tolerance. And for that sense of universal brother h5od We have to thank the growing missionary spirit of the church.
 And another sort of glory will result q deeper. stronger love of the essen tfaI Iacts of faith as We fight anu work to spread that faith, The county,s flag grows dearer to usa as we watch the fortunes of the flag abr5ad in time of peril and of conquest; 50 no less our faith in Christ will become fuller and