The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1910-07-01

knees his soul windows open
toward Jerusalem. l love to
tell how, after delivering the Mem
orial Day address, while he was
lying at home in that closing
WEAKNESS of his life, when the
veterans had marched home and
the sounds of fife and drum had
died away, l sought his bedside.
How keenly he missed taking his
place with his comrades that day.
and would the pastor offer prayer?
At its close came like a benediction
from the ips of the Christian
soldier a fervent " Amen and amen.'
The church as well as the COM
munity is also wealthy in the life
of long-ago boy in our Sunday
School, whose parents were COM
municants of the church. The life
of that mother has left in this
community a fragrance that years
only increase. Breathing into their
son the spirit and courage of their
own Christian characters, they
sent him away to serve in his
country's navy The histories de-
light to tell how the "Oregon, a
white eagle of war, under his
command sailed two oceans and
struck her blow to make free an
oppressed people. l like, also, to
tell how Admiral Charles E. Clark
idolizes the memory of his Christian
mother.
Lives! lives! lives! Do you hear
the great Head of the church
calling upon the church to produce
Him lives?
The church of today faces giant
issues. The phrase, the social
unrest has a kind of dim, far-off
sound here where the hills look
down with their eternal "bene-
dicite''-but the cities are seething
with a vengeful cry that those who
work the hardest are not getting
the just reward Of their toil-spent
lives. "Get the rich mans money
away from him. some shout, "and
divide it evenly among all those
who produce itp' To divide the
worlds money between the capt.
talist and the laborer is a task
that calls for men, scientific experts,
to be sure, but back of them for
Christian men whom the church |
must produce, to blaze the way |
and then lead the way to a Christian
division of the money among the
people. The church must also
really know the laborer and his
conditions, must really concern
herself with his welfare. Keen
young lives, brought up in this
valley, must be trained in the
church as well as the school to go
out into the seething social unrest
and bring its violent spirit to
patience and to reason and. to love.
No spiritual movement in this
compares in Importance
with the missionary awakening of
this year 1910. Presidents, kings,
are at last recognizing
the missionary and the leadership
Of Jesus Christ in bringing the
coming peace and the coming Parli-
ment of Man" The laymen's
missionary movement has already
furnished the money for an immense
of Christian workers and
Institutions in all the foreign lands.
The Worlds Missionary Conference
S even now being held in Edinburg,
out what is to be a general !
of the host of God upon
5he cities of the nations. Only
me thing now is needed-lives!
Young men and women who will /
thoroughly fit themselves for posi-
ions of service as Christian preachers
Christian teachers, Christian '
physical directors, Christian musical
directors, Christian instructors in i
manual training and trade schools {
observation-disclosures and hospital 5
nurses.
Mind you, this is to be no life of l
,ase. There's the tang of danger
n it all, but if a young man wants to
make his life tell widely and deeply {
lpon his fellow-men, let him now |
orsake the overcrowded professional
md business competition at home, e
ct him step out on the missionary
iring line and taste life and do a {
title nation-building J
o church, with your honorable
years and invested funds
behind you, call once more to these
'oung lives in the voice of Jesus,
Go We into all the world and preach
he gospel to every creature.
ray and plan that one day, not !
90 distant, a member of this church d
hall represent you as a messenger .
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