The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-05-08
\ Triumphant Tomorrow.

And now, dear brethren. with this re
view OF n past. We invite you TO look
with cheerful faith upon a triumphant
tomorrow, and grid yourselves for mo
mentouS duties.
Great changes have resulted in the
past several decades. and mighty rev
C~lutionary forces are now at work.
The map Of the world has entirely
changed. Deserts and dark places
have been explored and found. The
ports of all nations have been unlocked
and missionaries permitted to enter
with promised protection Of person to
be fertile regions. thickly populated.
The light of our CHRISTIAN civilization
has Well-nigh reached every habitable
shore. To take those lands for Christ
is the mission and work Of the church.
The Bible has been brought out
from its hiding places and put into
the hands of the millions. 1t has been
rescued from the tombs of the dead
language and translated into almost
every ~Vernacular of the world. And
never have its divine pages been so
eagerly and prayerfuIly studied. In
the year 800 the umbe of Bibles III
circulation was less than five millions.
Then it was translated into about sixty
languages; now into more than four
hundred.
More and more the great v~erities Of
our gospel are affecting the inteilec-
tual and moral life of the world, de-
termining its ethical standards, and
dominating, to a degree, it's social and
political ideals. christianity is revers-
ing the encient tendency, and instead
OF working through the state upon the
Individual, work upward and outward
from the person to the nation. The
doctrines of q Christian democracy are
liberalizing the governments of the
planet. and their national flags symbol
lZe. more or less, the principles Of per
sonal and religious liberty. Thus the
way is being cleared ana the ground
prepared for the saving and sanctify-
ing Of II holy religious. Can we not
hope for the speedy eVangelization Of
the verde
Mighty possibilities are near at
hand. Fields once distant and seem
ingly hopeless are at our very door.
and white unto the harvest. Ripened
grain awaits the p Our star l.
IN our brain, says Il brilliant Wesley
an preacher, mot in the sky; our ship
Of gold is at the quay awaiting its dis
charge. and not upon the high seas.
u fortune IS at our feet, not at the
foot OF the rainbow"
These vast harVcst fields are a di-
vine challenge to the faith of the
church Never III all the history Of
our planet have spiritual and secular
forces 50 conspired fer the conquest Of
me gospel. Every invention and
agency designed FOR the triumph Of
commerce gives speed ana wing to the
angel of the apocalypse car
rHing abroad the mcsSa~c o.
salvation. international treaties
and relationship make possible.
and give encouragement to spiritual
felloWships. The electric cables that
daily. if not hourly. the
market reports of the world, flash
across seas and continents the glad id
ings of gospel triumphs. Doors are
ana fields are white everywhere
AT home and abroad the tokens are
alike encouraging.
But if opportunity is bright. respon-
sibility great. The work is befor, us.
and necessity is upon us. A door is
lever opened Win out a m Ia
enter. Into every Whiteuca field the
Lord calls both reaper ana cleaner.
Go We into all the world is tn
standing q of heaven. never to b.
until the last ban
ner has been furled, and the last lost
sinner redeemed. To US. as in tha
oIden time, a voice from heaven
speaks IN tones of divine authority and
urgency. "Sanctify yourselves for To-
morrow the Lord viii do wonders
among You"