Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1911-06-07

fore he will submissively wear his bonds
Hence the castle OF human bondage has
oeen built upon the base block OF IL
norance and degradation, and tuttessed
with oppression and compulSion
Great Britain conld not further share
this crime of the age without relapsinr
towards barbarlsm, and so British intel
hgence and integrity sounded the toe
stu that on that memorable day of Aug
ust 1888 pealed out liberty in Jamacia
Ii was not Clarkson and Wllberforce
but the Magma Charta" and the Bible
that original charter of human rights
that put beneath the walls where human
beings We're imprisoned n lever NIGH
tier than that of Archimedes. Evcn
despotic Russia had to grant at least
nominal release to her serfs; and the
late four years conflict in America
could not end while upon one slave
| there was left one unbroken fetter :.
| those four millions of bondsman was
Gods contraband of war" Emanci-
patton means more than bodily freedom :;
lt brings lndividualism. Knock from
the body its shackles and the mind be-
gins To be free. Man begins to learn and
! think, to reflect and reason. He learns
the grandeur of reason and that truth is
reslstIess like the waves of the sea,
mighty enough to wreck the strongest
bark of falsehood and grind to powder
the age long rock of error. So n blood
less warfare of ideas is going on, before
which strongholds of error and inius
tlce are falling Never before has hber-
ty, beth civil and religious, reigned
among men so widely and wisely. The
consequences are most significant touch
Ing the work OF missions. Enliphtened
civilization shuts the gates of the
arena, and also puts out the fires of the
stake. All this forecasts that wider
emancipation of the soul of men when
they by the spirit of God and our coop
eration, shall be led to accept Jesus
Christ as their Sovereign Master
Let us briefly consider World Wide
Preparation - There is one aspect of
the present condition of the world
which implies preparation in itself so
peculiar that it needs extended refer
ence, i. o. the obvious and providontial
furnishing of facilities exactly adapted
for, and preparatory to, world. wide
work of evangelization. There Is
divine meaning in the fact that this
century, most prolific of missions has
been most fertile in inventions of all
ages one great epoch Of discovery, leav-
ing behind all other centuries.
To appreciate this fact, we need to
stop long enough TO take view of com
parative history This is the worlds
golden age so far as invention and dis
covery intelligence and material
progress can bring it, This is the age
of railway and steamship, photograph
and phonograph telescope and micro
scope, au6iphone and unicriphone,
telephone and wireless telegraphy.
petroleum and radium, typewriters and
sewing machines, graphophone and
automobile, electricity and aeroplane,
and thousand other stupenduous dis
coveries and inventions. We do not APP
preciate all this glory of achievement,
because the wonders of the age dazzles
our eyes and dulls our vision. How
wonderful is the electric telegraph AS
the earth's rotation on its axis takes a
full day, points on its surface at anti
podes TO each other are twelve hours
apart, reckoning by the sun. But tele-
graphic signals flash instantaneously,
and so far outrun the suns apparent
motion that an afternoon message
cabled from London, is read in San
Francisco on the morning of the same
day, and there are points further west
where we might have the paradox of
publishing news Of an event twenty
four hours before it takes place. If such
be the progress of this half century.
nothing which men may imagine to do
seems impossible It is one great sign
Of the times. IL marks this as the gold
en- age Of opportunity a worlds
evangelizatiOn Is not only possible but
practicable, with a rapidity proportion
ate to progress in other directions.
'Behold have set before thee an open
door an open door TO the nations-the
world is open before us, with all its
machinery and forces TO do onr bidding.
Opportunities are matched with facili-
ties equally great. Never such work
TO be done, never such tools TO work
with. What responsibility, if such op-
portunities be lost and such facilities lie
unused.
And last but not least of these seven
modern wonders is "World- Wide Or
ganization." Organization is the watch
word Of the age. Never before was
there such a period of practical union
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