Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1908-09-11
paYAN'S SUPREME EFFORT

The Des MOines Daily Tribune,
of Des Moines, Iowa, contains
report of missionary adj
dress delivered in that city by Rev.
A. Wesley Nell, Phi. D., recent pas
tor of Bowen Memorial Church,
Bombay, India. The report of the
address contain this very interest
ing reference to Hon. w. j. Bryan's
address delivered in Bombay on
"The Prince of Peace"
"In Bombay's great city hall
Mr.. Bryan delivered his address.
So great was the desire to hear him
that, though the address was not
to be given until $50 in the even
ing, the crowd gathered at o'clock
in the afternoon. BY 4 o'clock the
hall was filed. at o'clock thous-
ands were being turned away. But
the vast audience assembled waited
patiently for another hour and a
half. All classes were represented;
English, Anglo-Indians, but the
great majority were Mohamn edans,
Hindus, and Parsees. The wealth.
lest, most intelligent, and most in
huential men of Western India were
gathered in that assembly. The
address was to all India. When at
$50 o'clock stepped to. the front
of the platform, he was pale with
emotion. Who could measure the
opportunity orweigh the RESPONSE
bility of that hour? He was to talk
on Jesus Christ to those who recog-
nized him not as Lord.
Mr.. Bryan spoke on the same
subject before the Methodist Cen
eral Conference at Baltimore. But
| it was no more like the. address
that he delivered in Bombay than
starlight is like MONDAY. Here was
a challenge, an intellectual and
spirital battle. Prejudices were to
be overcome, objections answered.
and assent won. For an hour and
a half Mr.. Bryan threw himself in
to that supreme effort. He began
with such words as these: MY
message to you is not a political
one, but one that reaches deeper
need, and is of more universal in
terest. For whether you battle in
the Ganges, or turn your face to-
ward Mecca or Jerusalem to pray,
the one thing that every man desires
and needs to know is how to obtain
forgiveness of sin, how to be recon-
ciled to God, and how as sinful
creature to find the sinless Saviour.
And it is on this theme that | adj
dress you. 1t is Jesus Christ that
present to you.
"Thst address produced a most
profound sensation. English offic-
! ials were astounded that so public
man as Mr.. Bryan should dare to
attempt to present such sermonlc
Christian address to native audi
ence so bitterly opposed to the pro-
pagation of Christianityin India.
"But it was done, and the adj
dress was given with such courage
and sympathy, logic and persuasive
eloquence that the vast audience
cheered again aud again, and the
address was followed by demon
stration seldom seen save at great
political convention--cheers filling
the air and hundreds pressing for
ward to meet the speaker. The
reception of that address was sig
nifcant, and one Of the most hope
| full indications of the regal supre-
macy of the Christ over the minds
and hearts of men. Its influence
can never be realized. But in In
dia's blind seeking for national uni-
ty and imperial power she can new
er forget the message that pointed
her to the Christ whose spirit can
alone bring unity to diverse races
and in whose principles there is
alone found the power that, builds
nations into empires that endure
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