The Minnesota fiery cross. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1924-19??, 1924-03-14

time is not far distant when Missis-
sippi will be organized as Realm,
with it's own state headquarters, and
state head.
words, which He must have believed
some day by His grace it would be
their joy to effect, was a prayer that
His kingdom might come and His will
be done upon this earth even as it
is in heaven.
Some fyou have heard. during the
last two years, that earnest group of
singers from Fisk University, and /
am sure that if you have one song of
theirs clings most tenaciously to your
memory. 1t was a simple old repe-
titious negro melody, that, child-like
they sang over again and again:
Lord, bless de hungry children, in
dis world, in dis world.
Lord, bless de widows and de orphans,
in dis world, in dis world.
Lord. bless de struggle for freedom,
in dis world, in dis world.
Lord, bless de armies or de righteous,
in dis world, in dis world"
We long together for the distant
isles of the blest, and the peace Of
the land beyond the evenings hor-
ION line, but our Lord babe us seek
to build on this earth the kingdom Of
His Father, that should be righteous
ness, and peace and joy of the Holy
Ghost, to set it up even today among
men. And over against a dark war
patterned world, filled with the pas
sions of inter-racial hatred. with the
ff1h pttu Of fnH1,arl oyal
worse, of man toward the little ones
possibility of such a kingdom, in an
adequate and efficient Saviour, in a
Lord able and alone able to meet the
need of the whole world. A dear old
Quaker sent me some time ago a
little bit of John Oxenham's verse:
"Only through Me!-The clear, high
call comes pealing
Above the thunders of the battel
plain;-
Only through Me can life's red
woun find healing;
Only through Me shall earth have
peace again.
"Only through Me! Loves might, all
might transcending,
Alone can draw the poison fangs
of hate.
Yours the beginning! Mine a nobler
ending
Peace upon earth and man regen-
crate.
"Only through Me can come the great
awakening!
Wrong cannot right the wrongs that
Wrong hath done;
Only through Me, all other gods for
saking.
Can We attain the heights that must
be won.
Can we not rise to such great height
of glory?
Shall this vast sorrow spend itself
in vain?
Shall future ages tell the woeful
story
Christ by His own was crucified
again?"
Or shall 1.-The future tell the other
story, that now at last in our day a
generation rose and saw with clearer
eyes the blac kand awful darkness of
the world, and that knew with richer
faith than ever the sufficiency OF Je-
sus Christ to save the world.
If these two things of which /
have been speaking are true, is not
the third as clear as day, that what
ever else may concern our lives, one
supreme duty must control them, the
duty of bearing Christ out to meet
the needs of our present world? /
know that other ideals than this are
finding their way again across the
thought of our nation. ] could quote
for you, if it were prudent to do so,
four great speeches made within the
last two weeks by four OF the most
conspicuous personalities o fthis ma
ton, in every one of which the ideal
Of unselfish duty is ignored. and the
idea of self-interest set up in its
place. We are counseled that our
policy must not be controlled by alb
stractions and vague ideals but by
the interest of our economic life.
we'll, there will come day when 1T
will be discovered that those who sub
ordinate duty to interest sacrificed
both duty and interest alike. AS God
is just, the men who do their full
duty are the men in whose hands the
interests of time and eternity lie,
and we need not hesitate for one mo-
ment to face the whole unselfish task
that we confront in the world because
of any fear that in living by the prin-
ciple of the brotherhood of all men
we are going to imperil any just in
terest of ours. The surest way for
the white race to bring about its
doom is to forget that God has made
of one blood al 1.-The nations OF men,
We have one God and Father over
us all, and one great family on the
earth, of whom the one Father in
heaven is the Head. Over against
world Of need, with sufficient Christ
in our possession, the plain obliga-
tion to share our Lord with al 1.-The
world is the clearest fact in our lives
] go on to say those things which
for a moment / was tempted to say
alone might, that we have now to-
day, in this gathering, certain clear
and concrete tasks laid upon us. to
do, by doing which we may show that
such thoughts as these Of which l
have spoken are not mere piouS gen.