The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1907-08-30


alone can secure the law the sane
ton from each soul il should receive.
America needs religious MAJ
hood. From the point OF view of "A
minister OF the Gospel of Jesus
Christ, | am bound 10 say that we
need Christian manhood. For with
out religion morals cannot exist. Mo-
rality and religion are so related that
a mans religious capacity will sure
ly be an indication of his morality.
Religion and ecclesiasticism are not
one. Fine phrasing and fine living
likewise are not necessarily co.
terminoUS. We want no subserViency
20 systems and 10 creeds and TO au-
thorities OF human construction sim
ply for the sake of systems and
creeds and authorities. But we do
want full blooded. whole-hearted.
soulful manhood whose understand
ing of the character and sovereignty
of God shall be comprehensive and
exact, and whose lives shall he lived.
and purposes controlled. and plans
promulgated under the conscious
ness Of divine leading and OF judg-
ment day We do not want long
speeches on what we ought 10 be.
We do want long lives full of the
spirit of God and dominated by o
desire TO realize in action the con-
cepts of inspired minds.
Such men and such lives will be
self-sacrihcing. And America de-
mands self-sacrihcing manhood.
Too long have we taught our young
men 10 prepare To take care of them
selves. We need 10 teach them in
N tn n nf OIL
ers. Humanity needs guidance. Let
us raise up leaders. The country
needs saviors; let us educate them
under God. For the JOY of living
lies in giving self out I'm SER
vice. Self-culture is attained through
self-sacrihce.
There is no JOY in solitary pro-
gress. The loneliest life is the life
that looks largest toward the satis-
faction of self. We must carry 9TH
ers on with us If we would be happy.
We must labor for humanity IL wa
would find eternal peace. A nation
of self-sacrifcing manhood is invinci-
BILE, its history will be amaranthine,
its glory will perdure unto the eter-
mites of eternity.
We must have the sort of man
motto If America is TO endure. Ii
is not popular to state the evils that
afflict the American social system;
1t is unwise to magnify them. But
they do exist and they must be
curbed. They cannot be cured by
avoiding them. They cannot be dag
nosed by evading them. They can
only be rectified by a patriotic man
hood; a manhood of broad and deep
and sensitive intelligence. of superb
moral capacity, OF religious convic-
ton, of self-sacrificing loyalty TO the
interests of the people and the com
monwealths of Cod. It would be-
idle to deny the need To refrain to
declare il is reprehensible. Already
the money-changers are I'm the tenn
ples the thieves are in the treasury.
those who despoil the widows, the
orphans, and those who are without
guile, are at work. Already men are
"devising iniquity upon their beds. y"
Already they are carrying out in the
daylight the evil they design at night.
The wind is being sowed. The holo-
caust is being kindled. God forbid
we shorld await the whirlwind and
the flames with silent tongues.
America must have a consecrated
patriotic manhood of larger build,
OF wider vision, OF more divinely
inspired energy then any she has yet
possessed. Such manhood alone
can quench the smoldering fires and
combat with prevailing force the
gathering storm. With such a man
hood we shall be secure. We must
have 1t. We shall have IL.
The church OF the living Christ, as
the possessor OF the most enduring
revelation of the truth of God given
unto men to-day. will not fail TO
sieze her opportunity TO exercise her
capacity for social service. In her
hands lies the solution Of America s
perplexities, for under her dominion
are the flower Of American manhood.
II Is for her 20 enthuse her laity
with an increased sense OF civic re-
sponsibility. 1t is the duty Of her
ministry to give the call TO all the
hosts OF God, "let us show ourselves
men for the sake OF our people and
for the cities of our God"