The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1912-05-03

are overstocked with churches and I'M
HeIstocked with Christianity. There
Is 100 much overlapping even here in
caldwell. So many churches are no.
needed. There are not too m.nv
preachers but they are improperly dis.
triDuted: In my opinion Cod Al
mighty is forcing in His divine nrov; :
dence the churches that will not from
.he motive OF love and through snirit-
uai vision get together to force them
INTO union through necessity and
sen preservation. The peoples in the
foreign fields have more reiio;o, ,han
we. They are asking over fhere I fon
united church of Christ in CHI,
d united church in India, and united
cnurch IN Japan. The missionaries are
pleading for this for they see the sin
OF DIVISION and the disaster following
overlapping. When Christendom takes
the l/th chapter of John as its PRAYER
oook, then there will speedily come
10 pass the union for which Christ
prayed. ''S'
The inundating floods of foreipn
population coming to our shores with
oifferent modes of living, lower stand
ARDS OF morals, and lower ideals is a
menace. Only Christianity can solve
the problem and divided Christian;tv
cannot do it.
But the signs of the times point to
a coming union. There is a heartier
fellowship among the churches and
among the preachers as this meeting
tonight testifes. There is coming to
be the feeling that after ali the inn
Portant thing is the exaltation of the
Snrist rather than credal differences,
These. are days of synthesis; men
are putting things together. We have
too long. looked at religious condi-
tons, religious doctrines, with a mi
croscope. We have lost the perspec-
tive and these are days when men are
regaining the perspective. They do not
care tor the fine analysis that charac-
terized the preaching and teaching of
former days. They are thinking in
terms OF continents. They care for the
great enterprises, combinations. This
is the day of unions and corporations
and monopolies This is the day when
men who aresdrawn toward the church
will be drawn because it is a big en-
terprise, not divided and heteroge-
nous organization.
The great task of the church is to
bring about that union, stop the fric
ton and overlapping and division.
and really to go earnestly about mis-
sionizing the world.
Isaiah, What of the Future, what
Of the night? The morning cometh.
They shall beat their swords into
plowshares and their spears into
pruning hooks. The lion shall lie
down with the lamb and little child
shall lead them. In the desert shall
streams of water break out and the
destert shall blossom as a rose. Oh,
Daniel, What of the Morning? What
of the Future? The morning cometh.
l beheld till stone was cut out of
the mountain without hands and roll
ed on till it filled the whole earth.
In that shall the Lord God OF. Heaven
set up kingdom and it shall have no
end. Oh. Joel, What of the Future?
What of the morning? The morning
cometh. In that day will I pour out
my spirit upon all flesh and your old
men shall dream dreams and your
young men shall see visions Yea, upon
my servants and upon my handmai.
dens will / pour out my spirit and
they shall prophesy. The sun shall be
darkened and the moon shall be turn
ed into blood before that great day of
the Lord. And it shall come to pass
that whatsoever shall call upon the
name of the Lord shall be saved. Oh,
Malachi, the last of the old prophets,
What of the Morning, What of the
Future? The morning cometh. And
unto them that fear the Lord shall the
Son of Righteousness arise with heal
ing in his wings. Oh matchless one
of Galilee; oh, Son of Man and Son
of God-what of the morning? What
of the night? What of the future?
The morning cometh. Upon this rock
will l build my church and the gates
of hades shall not prevail against it.
Oh John, beloved disciple of our
Lord, the last to leave the earth who
companied with Him, what of the
night? And the angel sounded and l
heard great voices in heaven saying,
the Kingdoms of this world are becom-
ing the kingdom of our Lord and of
his Christ.
The morning cometh, but also the
night; the night that puts an end to
human endeavor and human opportu-
nifty. Let us do what we can to speed
on that great coming ere the night
cometh.