Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1909-01-14
TIE PULPIT.
IN ELOQUENT SUNDAY SERMON BY
Ia5E REV. CORTLAND MYERS.
Yhene. Uncle Sans Mark on TIE
WOrld.

~ AS Ak(
Cortland Myers, pastor OF the Bar
fist Temple, was appreciated. wa
evident from the large audienc
which f1Ied every part OF the Associa
ton Hail OF the Bedford Branch O
h Y NJ C. A. Dr. Myers theme
also. was popular, being: "Uncl
: Sam's Mark on the World He said
among other things:
Vken I 81 asked to Din he1'
and tell you something Of 1ny recen
tour around the world it seemed a.
1mpossI5ility, there was SO much t
be said Where shall a mar begin o
ende Well, we crossed this CONT
nent, which is in itself enough 70
one tour for any man; we visited tn
Hawaiian Islands, touched at thu
Philippines, saw China, japan, TIL
Malay Islands, Rurman, India. Cey
Ion; then through the Red Sea, pas
Arabic, to Egypt, to Palestine for thu
second time, across the Mediter
Taneau, through Europe and Grea'
Britain and finally home to Americ;
-Gcd's OWL country!
The enc thing that we noticed
everywhere in the world was tina,
there has been q tremendous amour
Ot nroEress, and that the progress o.
civilization has been greater in The
last ten years than in the hundred
yea previous; ard that the greatest
eleElent in this worldwide progress
is II influence OF American inst1tll-
tons and ideas. The eyes of the
whole world are turned to the Amer
lean Republic, the worlds purest and
greatest democracy The civilized
nations Of the earth are Interested in
h things we have here, and they are
saving: I'VE must have the same
things as America; we must know
the principles o. the American democ-
rdey, and We must apply them to our
own governments"
IN the past few years Japan has
adopted and applied the principles
OF democratic government, and China
has awakened and is demanding the
Institution of democracy, and God
only knows what is going to take
place there. The Empress Of China is
dead, and thank God she is, for,
though she was q remarkable woman,
worthy to be ranked with Catharine
OF Russia CT Queen Elizabeth of Eng
land IN many respects, her policies
nave been dealing death blows to
any Chances for advancement which
China may have had in the past. We
90 MOI EDOV yet what the outcome
VIII be, bat, in the province of God.
we believe that mighty and marvellous
things are COZ to happen in that vast
and ancient empire, and especially in
the next decade Already the I'M
heard Grand we'll nigh inconceivable
thkng has happened. AS the result If
what las TRANSFERRED, the Chinese peo-
Pie are demanding a constitution.
they win get it sooner or later.
It Is b same in India Lord Mimic.
the Governor-GeneTal of that COLONY.
rs writing back to ENGLAND that ITS
15u,0OG, e00 natives are 6ennandino
EeP<esenketfo and a greater snare IN
government of their land. and All
eee English newspapers ard period
Icais are taking about the possibility
o1 mutIny On the part of the Indian
naive army of 100000 men, which
VIII make L1ckacw and the sepoy
look like child's play. The
WaIcRword OF the people is now
.Ac1a fGr the Indians, with reore-
sentssave and constitutional
Inent!1 Persia has caught the spirit
oI the western World and clamors
,of Similar rights. The Turks. the
iotahG turks and all the Turks are
We will have constitutional
O'aiI1aenf," and the Sultan knows
that they are going TO have 1t. in
spite OF the fact that his promises are
Q believed and his efforts to Iut it
Oh as long as possible.
NOW q greatest, the most potent
IN all this worldwide agi-
tation O liberty and human rights
IS the Amerdcan Influence of which I
na7s SPOKE When we were COM
ing tnF1lsgh the Mediterranean, we
meL one OF those ignorant fellows on
our sap WhO know it all" and are
constantly displaying their Ignorance;
n he said to me: ~Haye YOU seen
that picture back of you on the vail?
"ei1," he continued, "that is the
greatest and finest clubhouse in the
Wofid!" His mother told him to Just
keep still. but he vent on talking
about 1t, showing his ignorance, till
MS mother informed him that It was
a picture Of the home OF the Presi-
dent of the United States; then I had
my turn and i said to them: Eyes.
Ih2ts right: That's the biggest club
mousse IN the world; that's the home
b Zig Stick" That big stic1S
nas a q wholesome influence oya-
Lne entire civilized world e
49,
say friends, the one great mark
tnat Uncle Sam has put on this world
and AID around the planet is tie prin-
<aple OF Individual responsibility.
.Ihis Is the mark q ciEilization, and It
As 4 mark, especially, of Christian
civilization The mark of heathenism
is the Can. the tribe, the class. the
FAMILY, the buarh; it puts a lot Of
hsads together, and when it has them
All together. they don't amount to
1nach anyway: but the mark Of civil
azation Is the individual man. his
rights and his responsibilities. 10
tne citizens OF this country of ours
Cnsie Sam says: HYou are citizen,
klngs; You have a crown wear iT.
yoa nave a throne. climb up on It:
your have a scapter, WELD it: Won
nav IA individual responsibility. nss
IT. Ina is the glory of a Christian
SiFaIszat1on that lies at the centre IF
~, and 1t reaches to the very core If
the religious life of the citizen: that
IS the 1onntaln-head out of which~all
tne streams OF his life as a citizen
mast now: it is a principle. more
over which comes to us directly from
the fA4RhSN~- ~e -.