The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1922-04-13
DIR. sHALER MATHEWS.
Mr.. Wells Gives High Points Of visit
or's Leeture.

VI LrNtufe.
The Rev. DR.. Shaler Matthews. Dean
Of the Theological Department of the
University Of Chicago, lectured in
Port Gibson, in the library, on Satur-
day evening. April 8, on christianity
and lnternationalismn his lecture be-
ing the second in the ~lbrarv exten-
sion" series arranged for by the Clai-
borne County Library Board. Bishop
Bratton, It win be remembered. gave
the first Of the series last February
on The Christian Relation Of the
Races"
Dr. Matthews audience numbered
about sixty or seventy representative
men and woman, a number that near
" tilled the room. He was introduced
BY Miss Harriette Person. the libra
ran. who recalled with enthusiasm the
lectures she had received from him
during seven years at the New York
,Chautauqua.
In explanation Of the title Christ
ianity and Internationalisms DR.. Mat
thews said that nations properly 50
called were modern things. The an
cient world had sovereignties rather
than nations; that is, peoples gave al
legiance to their rulers, who were
often also their conquerors, but they
lacked the national consciousness and
the sense Of participation in govern
ment which goes with national life at
the present time. Moreover, the only
method employed or known for uniting
different tribal or racial groups under
one government was the method Of
conquest. OF such sort were the "em-
pires" Of Alexander (Hthe brilliant
young genius who drank himself to
death'o Of the Romans, Of Char
lemagne, and even Of Napoleon. Some
schemes or dreams these conquerors
doubtless had for effecting a more Vi
tai union Of their varied dominions;
but practically and really what held
them all together was conquest and
forcible domination. That separate
national groups may perhaps get to-
gether in q friendly union and con-
cord, without being subject one to an
other and without surrendering indie
pendence, but held together by a mu-
tual interest, each group being as
ready to give justice as to demand It.
s new thing in human history. The
one hundred years of peace between
Canada and the United States, now
being commemorated; the fact that
peace has been kept for a century BY
these two peoples with never a fort
or military maneuver along the entire
Canadian frontier and never q war
hip of either nation on the Great
Lakes, IS an illustration Of what can
e done by two national groups hav-
ng a sense of justice and fair play
and a willingness to make concessions
and practice restraint, being as ready
70 give justice as to exa rights. It
; also an emblem and parable of the
orld'sf hope A temper of this sort,
, spirit as willing to give justice as
70 exact rights, is essentially a Christ |
ian temper. and this constitutes the |
Christian Internationalism" which DR.. /
Matthews advocated. He did not adj |
gocate the Socialist -Internationalist |
which would abolish ma
sional loyalty and patriotism, but
lleaded simply for the practice of that /
Christian brotherhood in national re-
lations which until now the world has |
never dared attempt. Though new
shing in the world, the idea has laid |
bold upon the minds of men and the |
future is full Of hope. The binding
together Of national groups by con-
quest, as heretofore, promises anly a |
world suicide. Christian brotherhood |
S world salvation.
The theme Of the lecture was en-
Gospel theme, and natur-
ally DR.. Matthews continued and de-
veloped it in the two sermons which /
he preached Sunday morning and ev-
sning at the Presbyterian church. The /
text was Lord, to whom
shall we go? Thou hast the words Of
eternal life", and the evening text /
ras, "God sent not His Son into the
world to condemn the world, but that
The world through Him might be
saved" Both sermons were full of
the sane and sober hopefulness for
he future of Gods world which is
Of DR.. Matthews.
H. w. WELLS.