The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-06-08
CALLS The BIBLE
AGENT OF PEACE
President Says the Scriptures
Will Unite World.
ITS APPEAL is UNIVERSAL.
Spread Means obliterstion of Antason.
/ isms In All Countries-Prsises Work
| of Bible Societies as the Great Nom
denominationaI Missionary Enter
prise.

of Bible Societies as the Great Non.
denominationsl Missionary Enter.
prise.
"Those who weave together the
thought and the ideas and the concep.
tons OF mankind also weave together
its action" said President Wilson in
an address at the centennial celebra-
ton OF the American Bible society In
Washington.
''If all the world had a common lit
erature." he added. many lines OF
division would never have been ere
Rted. and many would now disappear"
The members of the American Bible
society. he declared. are engaged In
the work OF furnishing the world a
common literature whose appeal is
universal In part the president said:
ut is very interesting circumstance
perhaps | might add disappointing
circumstance-that the world should
have so late awakened 10 Its obliga-
tion and opportunity In respect of the
spread Of the Scripture. We are cele-
brating the one hundredth anniversary
OF the American Bible society, and
there are other Bible societies older
than it. but 100 years is a very small
part OF the history OF Christianity. aud
this great Bible Is the main vehicle of
Christianity.
widespread. systematic missionary
endeavor is also modern and recent as
gagged by the measures of history.
and IL is with a sort of feeling that we
stand at the youth. at the beginning
of the hope of what may be accom-
plshed by these means when we think |
of this great work and of its rapid |
progress and spread.
Separation of Races.
"Those who weave together the |
thought and the ideals and the concep-
tons of mankind also weave together
its action. They control the motive
forces of humanity If they can control
these things. One of the things-al-
most the only thing that separate
races and nations of men from one an
other is difference of thought, differ
ence of point of view, prompted by
difference of tradition, difference of ex
perience, differences In instruction.
IF all the world had common liter
allure. IL all the world had drunk at the
same sources OF inspiration and sug.
gestion many lines of division would
never have been created and many
would now disappear. and those who
spread the Scriptures are engaged, as II
were. In drawing the world together
under the spell of one body OF litera-
ture which belongs to no one race, to
no one civilization, to no one time in
the history of the world. but whose APP I
peal is universal. which searches and IL ,
Eliminates all hearts alike.
I'm proportion as men yield them {
selves 10 the kindly light of the gospel |
they are bound together In the bonds
Of mutual understanding and assured
peace.
surely, therefore, one can easily kin
die ones enthusiasm at the flame that
burns upon the altar of society like
this. We are trying In the spread of
the gospel to make all the nations of I
the world of one mind. OF one enlight-
Of one motive, driven through
every effort of their lives by one devo-
ion and one allegiance. Could you con- d
,eive greater enterprise than thisG
UNCONVENTIONAL Divisions.
1.-THE work OF the Bible societies of n
he world is the one great nondenomi-
rational missionary enterprise. | sup
'ose that you can discover the lines n
hat run between denominations in the n
Bible, although | must say | have new
r been able 10 discover them. They 9,
ave been drawn out by differences of
emperament and point of view which, -
take leave to say. are external TO the
bible itself.
And this process of division and di.
erslty ought surely to he Offset aud e,
eversed by the process which sends
broad through the earth this opportu.
ity to drink directly at the sources OF "
ivine inspiration without overmuch in.
srventlon and interpretationto drink VI
irectly from the Word OF God itself
he suggestion which II inevitably bears VI
} the human spirit no matter where
on touch il. II
80 that to my mind the colporteurs.
ne agents of the Bible society. the r.
Zen who. tramping through country
des or travelling by every sort of con,
eyance i'm every sort of land, carry IN
18th them little cargoes of books con- IN,
lining the Word of God and spreading 90,
lem, seem like the shuttles in a great ON
om that is weaving spirits of men to- !
ether.
"A hundred years cannot accomplish ~,
lat miracle, a hundred years cannot 49,
,alize that vision, but if the weaving 'i ;
oes on, if the light continues to be q
bread, if men do not lose heart in this
reat ideal enterprise, it will some day
: accomplished, and light will shine
pom the earth in which men cannot 20 4
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