The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1912-01-24

short, let it become the political re-
ligion of the nation.
| If the mission of the church is not
primarily to deal with such questions
as sociology, politics, industrialism
and healing, though she may be an
almoner to the poor, an oracle on
vital political issues, a champion of
the rights of manhood, what is the
mission of the church? The great
and paramount mission of the church
is to set the world in harmony with
LAWN tune with the Infinite, and
what is this but the evangelism of
the world? Christ himself announced
that mission: Go yet unto all the
world and preach the gospel to every
creature. Disciple all nations. Is
not this task of sufficient magnitude
to be made ministers plenipotentiary,
ambassadors to foreign courts, bear
| ing invitations to grace and glory
from the Eternal Sovereign of the
| Universe? Is it possible for the hu-
man mind to grasp the infinite dig
nifty of mission such that through
the fundamentally of this earthly
court, the church, we are to be taken
|
engage in heavenly politics and
statescraft in the founding of an
everlasting Kingdom? Is this in
sufficient to challenge the attention
and zeal of men?
But alas, how feeble and earth
| bound is mans vision! How childish
| his comprehension of the task as
signed him! After nearly two thou
sand years how far has this King
dom of the Prince of Peace been ex-
tended? More than half the world
must be counted as heathens today.
| The estimated population of the world
is between 400 and 1900 million,
and of these $40 million are heathenj
217 million Mohammedan, IL million
Jews, 120 million Greek church, 273
million Roman Catholic, and 166 mil
lion Protestant. When one stops to
consider that the Mohammedans are
little more than step removed from
heathendom, that the Jews have not
as yet accepted the Christ and that
thousands of only nominal members
are counted in the Greek and Ro-
man Catholic churches, we discover
that not one-third Of the world is
even nominally Christian.
What mighty task lays before the
| church! Is the field white for the
harvest? Look at lawlessness at
| home! American manhood de-
bauched by liquor at the rate of co.
600 men per year; the marriage sac
rament shattered like broken reed
leaving dishonored children without
| hoy ri AL
where an easy complaisance at mob
law, which is nothing but open and
violent law breaking. Look at the
400 millions of China, they are law
breakers-largely it is true through
ignorance. The most common and
elemental laws of sanitation are vio-
| lated; laws of hygiene unknown; alb
surd in education, they do violence to
psychic law blindly; stepped in super
stition, they carry civic and social
burdens needlessly; besotted in ignor-
ance industrially, poverty and famine
comes suddenly upon them like a
conquering army; and finally because
| they are strangers to law, law has
crushed them to earth with the iron
hand of absolutism. More pitiable
still now rent with revolution, they
are wounded, starving, dying. Can
China catch the vision to which the
white hand of the Gospel points? Can
We sow her the vision of plentiful
harvests. happy industry. free schools,
political achievement, national glory
and a life large, sweet and hopeful
with immortality all to be attained
under the banner of the Cross? This
is the opportunity for which the GEN.
turtles have waited. The clock Of des-
| tiny strikes now.
The Crucial Moment
| To each mans life there comes a
time supreme;
One day, one night, one morning, or
one noon,
One freighted hour, one moment op-
| perfume,
One right through which sublime full
| ailments CLEAN,
One space when fate goes tiding with
| the stream,
One once, in balance 'twixt too late,
too soon,
And ready for the passing Instant
boon
! To tilt in favor of the uncertain beam
All, happy he who, knows how to
wait,
Knows also how to watch, and work
and stand
On life's broad deck alert, and at the
u prov,
To seize the passing moment, big
/ with fate.
From opportunity's extended hand
When the great clock Of destiny
i strikes now!
Is the church ready for her divine
| ly appointed task? She has accom-
plished a great work and as we look
back over the centuries, the fact OF
her conquests is written in large let
ters Today like an Old soldier she
rests on her laurels Her once mill
tant hosts have stacked their arms
and are at ease in Zion. o, for a
clarion call to arms! A call for vol
unteers for the conquest of China
Ten thousand men and women are
wanted and that would be but one
messenger to forty thousand people
/ Cry out we ministers on the watch
towers They come. the volunteers
they come! But holdl There is nc
ammunition, no provisions for the
commissary, no equipment for the
\ mighty campaign. Ten million dol