The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-04

| land, Germany, Warsaw,
Russia; Rome, and Jerusa-
lem-in all forty times. His largest
Udo %itn T GLASGOW k kood second
Mid-Ocean, May 29.-As I look
abroad and see water, water every
| where, without speck of land in
sight, and as I reflect that we are
which are as graet as five miles. am
| reminded of the promise in the
Lords Word that ultimately the whole
| earth, the world of mankind, shall!
have such an abundant knowledge or
the Creator and the Redeemer, as to
be fifty Illustrated by the depths of the
sea. I have therefore chosen as my
text the words 1.-The earth shall be
full of the knowledge of the Lord
as the waters cover the sea-" I re-
member also the very similar promise
by the Lord through the prophet
| (Habakkuk ii, 14), For the earth
shall be filled with the knowledge or
the glory of the Lord, as the waters
cover the sea- am reminded also
of the prophets declaration that the
time will come when Every knee
shall bow, and every tongue shall con-
fess Osaiah xiv, 2S). And again "Ihat
at the name of Jesus every knee shall
bow. of things in heaven, and things
in earth, and things under the earth;
And that every tongue shaH CONFESS
that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory
reminded that in that day, ''They shall
teach no more every man his ne1ghbor,
and every man his brother, saying
Know the Lord, for they shall all know
me, from the least of them unto the
| greatest of them, saith the Lord"
| Jeremiah xxi, 34). The question
properly arises, To what extent shall
we consider these statements literally
true? What kind of fulf1llrnent snould
we expect them to have?
haQfhPn
world, however sympathetic we may
| be in respect to foreign missionary
work, doing all In our power TO make
known to the heather the grace OF
| God. and the great Redeemer, we are
nevertheless compelled to admit that
| there is absolutely no hope or our ever
| causing every knee to bow, and every
tongue to confess Christ in heather
lands, even as we nave iong ago gIo osil
! in civilized lands. The work Is TOO
great for US, and the errors of heath
endom are too deeply seated to be
quickly eradicated. Government sta
| tistics show US that there are twice
as MANY heather today as there were
| a century ago. If, therefore, any or
us had been flattering ourselves re-
specting our ability to accomplish the
conversion of the world, 1t is time Tor
no to acknowledge our error and to
! look to the Lord, realizing that IN
| him alone is the worlds hope. DOUBT
less this Is just the lesson the Loro
| wishes us to learn. He does not WISH
unto all men as we have opportunity.
| especiaIly the household of fa1th,
for our own blessing is associated with
such activity on behalf OF others. But
| God does wish us to realize that OF
| ourselves we are unable to cope with
| the situation. He wishes us 10 realize
| that only through the establishments
| the kingdom of Gods dear Son can
the glorious blessings OF the Inhl en-.
| mum ever be hoped for. Alasi We
must admit. and should feel deeply
humble by the admission. that even in
| civilized lands, the number OF loot
step followers of the Lamp OF SToo Is
very few. The numbe who are walk
i ing. not after the flesh, but after the
| spirit" in civilized lands is very few,
/ in comparison with the population as
| a whole. We are not In this setting
! ourselves as judges of the hearts of
| orr fellow -crea tures-remarkab1y few
make any pretension to walking in the
| ssnarrow way which alone now leads
| to life everlasting (Matthew vii, 40.
| The Necessity for knowledge.
| MANY dear Christian people. de-
| sirous of thinking well of the heavenly
Father, are so befogged with tne
teachings of the past. that they try to
imagine that the way to eternal life is
not so narrow as the Master said; they
try to imagine that somehow the
/ heather Will be saved IN Inelr lSnor-
ance, notwithstanding the apostle
saws, "How shall they believe on him
of whom they have not heard (Rom-
ans x, 14). And again, his assurance
that "there is none other name under
heaven given among men, whereby we
must be saved (Acts Nv, 12).
The error from the past which led
1 IN this inconsistency in the teaching
that all of the heather are going to
| eternal torture, and that they never
will have an opportunity of accepting
Christ in the future They rebel
against the thought which has come
come down from the dark ages that
/ God foreknew the ignorance of the
4 heather and predestined their eternal
torture; that. they should not hear of
the only name under heaven or CIV
en- among men whereby they might be
saved and fixed their environments SO
that they never heard. The whole diff
ficulty, we see, lies in the fact that
i Gods people in the past have not stud