Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-03
Christianity and the Long Look


world. and rejoice that there are some
common bands in the spectra But We
now know. what we never knew before,
that there is not another religion on
earth which we need to fear.
We can afford to stop our misrepresen-
tatiOns. We may say amen to every
good and true word that can be said
about Confucius the wise or Buddha the
compassionate: but we do not fear them
They cannot conquer the world. If any
religion now on earth is to become uni
versal, 1t will be the Christian religion. No
other religion has such a revelation, such
a God such Savior, such a leverage
upon conscience, such an appeal to char
acter, such a hope for the evolution OF
humanity, such faith in a glorious i'm
mortality. Not in the unreckoning boast
fulness Of the past. but with something
approaching knowledge Of what is in
volved in the prediction. we dare to hope
that Christianity is to be the ultimate
faith of mankind.
We are long way from the consumma-
ton of this hope We will not chill the
ardor of those who cry. THE world for
Christ in this generation: for this gen.
Grafton is all we have to employ: we
must bring the world to Christ in this
generation, or it will not be brought to
Christ by U.S. And the same will be true
OF the next generation. and the next and
the next and the next. We are here to
fight it out.
The Indian juggler clears the ground
and grows mango plant. and hands you
the fruit to eat while you wait. The
magician of the Nile puts egg in his
sleeve. and produces chicken ere you
wink. But Gods method is the blade.
the ear and the full corn in the ear God
has too much faith in His own truth to
hasten the millennium 1t is coming: the
good time is coming: it's been long, long,
long on the way: and it will still be long
on the way. Have We faith still to be-
lieve in it. or must we see signs and
wonders?
Fine was the ardor of the first regi-
ments responding to the call of Lincoln,
and going forth to put down the civil
strife in ninety days. Perhaps no later
enlistment had quite the same picturesque
dash and enthusiasm as that which on
that April Sunday in 1861 turned many
q church into a place of enlistment and
overlooked the 10000 call till the ennst-
ment had to be stopped. But after Buii
Run and the weary, pitiful and humihat-
ing days that followed, when sometimes
the draft had to be employed, and When
every northern and southern community
had it's visible sorrow, then with chas-
tened but no less loyal devotion the boys
Father Abraham. Three Hundred Thous-
and More" And these came for three
years or the war"
The ninety days enlistments nave all
run out. We are in for the war. u is
a long war We shall be fighting alcohol.
prostitution, lawlessness. bribery. race
hatred, graft and murder thousand
years hence We shall leave our own
bones in the wilderness before the prom
sed land is gained.
Others will sing the song.
Others will right the wrong,
Finish what l begin,
And all hoped to win.'
We are on the mountain top OF faith.
where we see these promises afar of. and
we know that they are not for us. They
belong to the long future. What then!
Still we are persuaded of the promises
and embrace them. and the promised land
IL ours already.