The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1907-02-22

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up the mountain to v. P. l., 1--WE
welcome you to an alliance for
clean teams and square playing"
Men Of Carolina, give me a mes
sage for Virginia, I'VE are going
to fight till the last man is out in
the ninth inning; we'll fight you
to the goal line at the last second
of the last half. But we are going
to have clean athletics, or we will
have none!'
The address of DIR. LaFlamme
Sunday afternoon was in part as
follows:
Prof. William James, in recent
work says: One hears of the me-
chanical equipment of heat
What we now need to discover in
the social realm is the moral
equivalent of var; something
heroic that will speak to men
universally as war does and yet
will be compatible with their
spiritual selves as war has proved
itself to be incompatible, - This
discovery has long since been
made in the foreign mission
enterprise Of the Christian church,
an enterprise that amply satisfies
all Ptof James requirements.
In the first place, this foreign
mission effort is a war. War is
defined as contest between ma
tions carried on by force. In the
social realm this is the struggle
between the King Of Righteous
ness and his hosts and the Adver-
sary Of all good and his followers.
The forces with which this war is
waged are light. lie and love
against darkness. death and hate,
and the outcome of the battle is
righteousness, liberty and good
as against sin bondage and evil.
Then, secondly, in the very ma
ture Of the case, this struggle is
universal, Every nation. lam
guage, tribe and tongue is in
volved. The Kingdom Of Christ
is frontierless, his armies wage
war in all chimes No race is too
inaccessible, no condition TO
hopeless. no people is too insig-
nifcant for the succor and support
of the followers of Christ.
In the third place this is spirit
nal enterprise. War, though in.
compatible with the moral nature
of man, has in some respects a
distinct moral value. That val
tie is negative, positive and incl
dental. Negatively war prevents
the facilitating and effeminate
tendency to luxury and ease that
are inseparable with material
prosperity. Positively war de-
selops tile qualities of strength,
courage, daring and adventure,
hardihood, endurance, wathful-
ness, alertness, activity, counsel
and sacrifice necessitated by the
stress, strain and struggle Of nat
ional strife. incidentally war. |
by objectifying national passion
and impulse against a common
foe exerts powerful unilying in-
fluence, reconciling internal fac
tons in the state and centering
diffusive and disintegrating forces
in the effort to resist invasion or
conduct a glorious conquest. |
Then, paradoxical as it may seem.
war has contributed greatly to in
accommodations and world
wide fraternity by opening up
highways as in the cru,ades. All
this is pre.eminently true OF the
foreign mission campaign OF the
church Of Christ on arth. The
direct and reflex influence Of mis-
sions has done more to prevent
materialism, to develop the high.
or spiritual qualities aud to pro.
mote interdenomInational union
of the churches than all other
causes combined.
In the fourth place, this is an
heroic enterprise. "The blood Of
the martyrs is still the seed Of the
church" No appeal is so pow.
eriul as the self.denying and he,,I
roic. The cross is the emblem Of
sacrifice Of Christianity. Moth
ing comes closer to the heart of
Christ and his spirit than that
great truth. Except a grain Of
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