New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-20

goal, and are troubled Win tne tHoush'
that when YOU are gone others may not
be qualified to take up the work you
leave off, be serene. Have no such dis
trust in the next generation. Go upon
your Mount Pisgah ard look forward 10
your promised land with the JOY that was
in the heart of Moses.
There will always be other leaders to
pick up the rens you must throw down.
There are so many old men and women
who make themselves nuisances' instead
Of loving chieftains who have had 70
leave the battlefield because Of the wounds
Of time-nuisances, because they refuse
10 believe that the battle can still De
waged.
ITO them. I say: Cultivate this serenity
this faith In God and ones fellow men,
and then. when the sunset CLOVIS upon
the promised land, lay We down upon
Mount Pisgah. satisfied. comforted. and
sleep TRANQUILITY
Bisop Brent Tells Of Nations.
The Right Rev. Charles Henry Brent
Bishop of the Philippines. in a sermon
before a large congregation in Grace
Church yesterday morning said that on'y
nation, no matter how powerful Una.
considered Christ as the cornerstone Oh
its national life could hope for perina-
nency. ..,,,
Rishop Brent, a tall. powerfully oui't
man. whose face has been well tahieu
I by tropical suns. first spoke OF the grsd,
[ helm the Grace Church congregations
have been to him in his work in the "a
cifc islands.
'Thrice has this great church sent me
a right hand. Dear people. continue 70
helm US by your prayers and your ln'eh'-
gence.
"A nation is a God-created entity anu
can only grow when il is God-sustalned'
said Bishop Brent in his sermon. "hen
reeus went over Jerusalem and lamenteu
80 10 sure fate. He was speaking OF II
as representative nation. When we
measure nations by the standard OF 'lip1
they are but as passing SHADOWS ieaFi''e
here and there the sad ruins OF tempe
or of a palace, grim reminders OIL 'o'e
mast glories, Even the mightiest Oh ia
tions have gone, leaving but splash "
paint upon a desert tomb
Were II not that Christ came 10 save
us we should be overwhelmed ohiis'
ga me- N do two things He did both' re
rarsonalized the individual and national
lied the nation.
"Nations. ike individuals, have ever
c,amored for permanence, but only threc
reon,es have achieved immortah'y-the
Greeks the Romans and the Jews lno
Iou,s rejected a God-given opportunity
uhan they rejected Him as the corner :
stone ~ their life Now they are race
only. with but memories s1ssd no nope, =.
ours Is a God-given nation anu ~
remains with you and me to decioe II "
shau he God-sustained. Do you oeHe'.
that our great political machinery u
,rh,ch NE have such an ABUNDANCE VI
INV constitution, shall alone make per
U,orent the nation? The difference DC,
queen the East and the west Is io.
adherence Of color or race; Is .ne
ference between the acceptance Oh Ni'
tiar,ty and the nom acceptance. nv.
"C,bina. Japan and the philippines
~ oaaor 70 achieve the highest type u
Generalization. The Philippines are
CHRISTIAN people, and It looks as II ,nes s
would he the first TO succeed. Inc ohi.eu
|, s,otes has brought rich blessings 10 ING
philippines-free government free eouca-
don and scientific knowledge-but they
ora ALL 7 feel, subsidiary 10 Chr1sushiV'
that great blessing that is going 10 piaoo
the nation In q place Of honor among na-
tons"