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► _ — /-rar I A v !n]« F'~ >v «V- ’tM u ^ .i f Ly f.cv. frank De Witt Talmafe, I). I). rou how we are to fight, where we are to n^ht. but also to try to encourage you l>\ remintliug you of the great agt neles ( f our time whieli are going to us in this coining year’s strug gle. The glorious twentieth century is opening wide ns doors let theehurcli >t the Lord .lesus Clirist pass forth in to <1 > i's <• mfl'ci. ai led liy sciontitic I and soeial fnellities that no other age. J pos,e--sed, M hereby each man can dou | bh and treble and quadruple the amount of work which his grandfa- , liter or his great-grandfather was able ■ L<>s Anneles, Cal., Sept. 2.".—At the to do. It is saying to as: "Mail, if the cl >>e of the vacation season and the length of your life Is to be estimated opening of a new period of activity In umount of work you shall be the churches this sermon comes as a^ H * , ' e lo uccomplish I will let \ou lit e call to arms to all who are eager for! lon - or Jacob, "ho died of old , , . n-. . ^ i NP* 1 at one litimlred and forty-seven, or spiritual conquest. T lie text is liovela- , , ,. , i > ii i Isaac, who h ved one huudrecntnd eighty tiou iii. 8. "I have set before thee an ! year8 or A ,, rahaII1) who i ive d to be Vpe’i door, and no man can shut it.’ one hundred and seventy-live years. Have you ever roamed over any of or Noah, who lived to be nine hundred the great battlefields of the world? and fifty years, or Methuselah, who , Have you ever stood upon Lookout only lacked thirty-one years of being mountain and had an old Federal or one thousand years old. 1 will let you -VI Confederate soldier point out to you the chief places where the great “bat tle above the clouds” was fought? Have you ever walked along the stone fence of Fredericksburg, toward which | “Fighting Joe” Hooker drove bis troops j in three heroic charges, but near to! which that great giant of war, James J Longstreet, had planted his cannon? i Have you ever walked over the liistor- ; ic sites of Hull linn or Antietaiu or Shiloh or Fair Oaks or Vicksburg? Well, if you have and at the same time if you have studied these battle fields intelligently, you have been iin- pressed with one gigantic idea. A bat tlefield is not, as a rule, a mere hap hazard piece of meeting where two great armies wres'le in mortal combat, but a carefully eh . m position, afford ing opportunities for attack or defense. Thus the Japanese armies have been concentrating for weeks and months to acquire a commanding position at Port i Arthur and have been seizing strategic points from which i hey could drive the Russian armies which were being sent to its relief. These strategic move ments are planned in advance witii the utmost care in selection of the ground so as to get the advantage of elevated positions from which to tire upon the enemy. The generals on both sides are aware that the con iiiest of ihe region depends in no small degice on the skill exercised in this important matter. Months before an invading army moves for tiie subjugation of a coun try trained military minds study its natural features and intuitively settle 41 he strategic points which it is essen tial to capture and to hold and the course which the various corps must take to co-operate in the general scheme. It is related that before our own civil war, as far hack as the po litical campaign which resulted in Lin coln’s election and when a war was but a dim and dreaded possibility, the plan to he pursued in the event of hos tilities was considered. William T. Sherman, with one of Ids fellow olli- cers, George Henry Thomas, after- Waryl nicknamed “the Rock of Chicka- mauga,” was visiting his brother, the late Senator John Sherman of Ohio. John Sherman, in his subsequent biog raphy, relates that at that time these two soldiers placed a map of the southern states upon the floor. Then upon this map they practically traced out. every important military move ment which was to follow. With one line they showed how the great army of the west must light its mighty bat tles before Shiloh and Vicksburg to open the gateway of the Mississippi. With another line they traced the movements of a central army fighting on to Atlanta, and on to the sen, where William T. Sherman was to win ini-! mortal fame, although, as Henry W. Grady, the great Georgian orator, once quajutly put it. "Sonic people did think that he showed himself a little care less with fire.” With another line! they traced the movements of thcArmy of the I'otomac. lighting its way from Arlington heights to Richmond. All those movements of these different armies were carefully traced by the two soldiers, studying the map of the southern states, stretched out upon the floor of Senator John Sherman’s par lor, months before Major Anderson in Fortress Monroe heard the booming of the gun which started the most gigan-1 tic war of modern times. CamialirnM >liiNt lit- I’litnnt-il. Thus coining campaigns or the mill-1 tary lines of summer operations are planned for the most part by the dif ferent commanders of invading armies while their’ armies are encamped in winter quarters. Therefore the ques tion which at this season naturally forces itself upon my mind is this: live so long that what your ancestor? accomplished in the course of their lives will seem to ha as nothing t > what you shall he able to accomplish.” The twentieth century speaks thus not to one man, hut to all. Allvniitnici-H of mi Inventive Aire. This inventive age has literally dou bled and quadrupled and almost in finitely multiplied the material pro during power of man. Think of the facilities of communication! Suppos ing 1 wish io plead the cause of Chris', with some friend clear across the American continent. I sit down and pen my appeal. In a few minutes it is in the postman's hands. A little later it is in the mail wagon on its way to Hie depot. Sion it is in the mail oar going at lightning speed over the moun tains and across the alkali deserts and aero: . the rivers until it is dropped in the eastern home. It has taken only a few days for that message to reach its destination in the east, and in a few days longer an answer comes hack to me that my appeal 1ms I < cn read, and tun cr God's blessing it lias been made effectual to the salvation of a soul. Think how many times such an effort might he multiplied and how largely the facilities of communication might he utilized for the spread of the gospei! Vou must sec that all these increased advantages of man can he made to act and react mightily for good in the coming campaign of the church of Christ against sm. Matthew Simpson, the great bishop of the Methodist church, once delivered a lecture lo show how God is preparing tiie way for the glory of his coming millennium! in the inventions and the social move- meids of everyday life. The other day u hook came into my hand entitled “The Romance of Invention.” But no romance of inventions has ever been written which can fully depict the Chri tian romance of the uses to which these inveniions can lie applied in the extension of Christ's kingdom its Bish op Simpson explained them. One item alone of that lecture comes to my mind. I speak it in my own language, its I recall it from a blurred memory. The Methodist orator wanted to show how every modern facility was appro priated and used in the late civil war. The sewing machine had just been In vented. It was employed to insure the soldiers being properly clothed. The steam engine was utilized to cany the armies quickly to the scene of conflict so that the carna: e might sootier end. The modern improvements in arms were adopted, and so the terrible de struction of life in single combats by the old fashioned ax and spear was avoided. And as man used modern in ventions for carrying out his purposes, so might God use the terrible curse of slavc.y itself for the benefit of the color. I race. The negro torn from ins African home and sold as a slave m glit la* Christianized in the land of his bondage and return as a missionary to carry the tidings of the gospel to Ids people still on the hanks of the Kongo. Can we not believe, as did Matthew Simpson, that in the inven tion of tin* sewing machine, the type writer, the telephone, the steamboat, the electric car. in the great foundries and factories, in improved fire arms and tiie wonderful printing press, giv-1 ing birth to newspaper and magazine, the church of the Lord Jesus Christ can have an increased power spiritu- ally for the spreading of the gospel of Jesus in the coming year’s campaign against sin? K n fin I es From Williln. I find tlu* church of tiie Lord Jesus splendidly equipped materially and temporally for this winter’s campaign against sin. But, more than that, 1 find •What is the gospel campaign, ahead tliat »“?ver was a time when the of the Christian chureli for the ensii- ••'angelical churches were so Ing ten months? 1 am a captain In the thoroughly in accord on the funda- army of Christ. How am I to lead my mental doctrines of Christianity. In the people? Where am 1 to go?” In the pulpit and In the pew those doctrines beginning of this winter’s work I am 11 r e held firmly. Intelligently and do- exactly in the same position as the mil- voutly, and rhrjst as the Saviour of Itary leader of an invading army who the world has the whole smiled alle- Is about to break up winter quarters, glance of his people. Before a general Summer is really the time for winter &•>•« to invade an enemy’s coun- quarters in a city church. When July try It is very important for him to comes many of the Christian soldiers know that his own soldiers are loyal In a large city pastorate hie themselves to his country’s standards and are ot away to sea beach or to mountain one heart, one mind and one purpose, stream for rest. They are very tired When a Christian church goes forth from their winter’s labor. But by the hito a winter’s campaign against sin It time the middle of September Is here * s J ,,M t 1,8 Important for Its pastor to the schools are all opened and the know that his people are of one members of the elty congregations are thought and one mind In reference to back to their winter homes and are the great cardinal doctrines of the filling their church pews. When they church. A thousand enemies outblde of arrive and start out for gospel work » general’s camp are not so dangerous the Christian soldiers of each church n Hienace as one traitor inside of the naturally expect to know the kind of a guarding sentinels’ lines. A thousand gospel campaign which Is ahead. blatant Infidels attacking the church Christ is our great commander, and Jesus Flirlst In infidel convention os a captain under 1dm I would here hall or by saloon counter are not so and now point out to you the mighty formidable as the so called freethlnk- opportunities which are before us. I would sketch the line of campaign w.» as a church are about to enter. And furthermore, 1 not only want to show Ing liberal who Is attacking the church of God as a member of that chureli or as an ordained minister of that church. Home time ago before a famous New York cl ih an ordained minister arose ami delivered an explosive, heretical speech. This minister was afterward expelled from his church for his out rage c.is utterance. He denied that: Jesus wis divine except that “he wurs divine as we are divine.” He denied that tiie inspiration of the Bible was uny more infallible than was the in-1 epilation of Shakespeare's works. Aft er he had finished and the applause of those among his hearers who sympa thized witii his remarks had subsided I »r. Gotthcil arose. l»r. Gotthcil was a Jew and at that time was the leading Jewish rabbi of America. Amid death like silence he said: "I know not how , others may feel; but, though I am not a disciple ot the gentile's Christ, I like not this talk of the preceding speaker. If I had been In the place of my; brother and had entertained doubts! And suspicions similar to his I would J have quietly slipped out of the church ! with which those doubts collided, keep- < ing my lips tightly sealed. I do not ! think I could do such an injury to | the church which gave me my ordina- j tion vows as when a member of that! church to attack it openly.” All honor, j say I, to the answer of Dr. Gottheil, ; the Jew! I believe that the most serl- j ous damage which can he inflicted up- i on the church of the Lord Jesus Christ! is done not by his avowed enemies who are outside the church, hut by ’ traitorous foes within. The Dent Year Fop n Xeiv Start. But I take a s!e; further in this' mighty subject. W'c have a wonder ful time in which wc are to enter the coming campaign for Christ. This is the youngest of tiie centuries, but into it are gathered the • ipc fruits of the past. Tiie thought and experience of; all the centuries that are gone have j in these years come (o fruition. It is; the mightv movements and trials and struggles of past generations which | have made tiie present tiiiie possible. ; From the triumphs and failures of the past, from tin* wisdom and the mis takes of our fort-fa tie as, we have learn ed lessons which should make us mas ters in the art of son! winning and sue-! tcssfnl leaders in the assault on the intrenchments of sin. This is the very' best vear of ail years to start in a| gospel campaign for Clirist. But take another step turther in this! momentous subject. M e have another campaign blessing In addition to these two of which wc have spoken. Wei have a church with all of its great; leaders as well as thousands and tens of thousands of members moved to holy enthusiasm by knowledge of the strength of the Satanic enemies we are about to meet in combat. We know that as the church of Christ is strong the Satanic enemies arc strong also, so j strong that unless we go forth to this | battle with a full endowment of the! lloiy Spirit to fight as we ought to! light for Christ we shall fail ignomin- iously, as we deserve to fail. Outside of his own intrinsic strength | nothing brings out the hidden power of a general more than the realization that his enemy is strong and wily— an adversary whose power it would he folly to underestimate, against whom he must marshal his forces with all his skill and develop their lighting quali ties to the highest efficiency. When Goliath saw the puny form of David, who was to give him battle, the 1‘hil- istiue giant laughed him to scorn. lie sneeringly cried, "Am I a dog that ! thou comest to me with stones?” That; contempt lost him the battle. Not so j with David. His weapons were those with which he was familiar, and he employed the skill developed by long ; experience. He knew his enemy to lie) superior in might and cruel and relent less. and he nerved his strength for the j unequal struggle*. The church of! Christ is made resolute by the knowl edge that it is to meet a strong arm- j eel foe. We know we must fight hard; to win. And we also know that unless | like David, the shepherd hoy, we go j forth in unfaltering faith in the divine r*-enforcement we shall fail In the bat tle. A stalwart foe always brings out the best that is in a worthy opponent. Let me illustrate my thought by a homely scene of vacation life. Some weeks ago, with my wife and little children, I was driving over the hills of southern California. We were far from any human residence. Suddenly, Just upon the hillside overlooking the road. I saw the gleaming eyes and the ! crouching form of a coyote. I was at, the time entirely unarmed. But,; though I knew that poor miserable; brute had just as sinewy a limb as a | mountain lion, that he was as swift of foot as a deer, that his teeth were as white and sharp as a tiger’s molars, i that he could, if In* would, leap at my horses’ throats and leave us helpless | lief ore his attack, still I also knew that he was a coward. He belonged to a j race of cowards. Therefore I drove | right past him. When my children i hallooed at him he turned and skulked away. Maat D«* A1 wii> m on Guard. Had the church of Christ only craven hearted foes to tight it would become as indifferent to them as I was toward Unit sneaking coyote, whose worst depredations are found In the barn yard among the dead chickens. Un less starving and in numbers, he never attacks a strong foe. But today the church of God has no cowardly enemy. Like a hunter stalking the man eating monsters of India or Africa, the church is and nnist^fic continually on Its guard. As It ™es forth Into the com ing winter’s campaign to do the best It can and with the help of the Holy Spirit to do all it can for Christ, the consciousness that its foe has almost unlimited prowess has made the church strong and confident. But where is the gospel campaign of this church during the coming winter to he fought? We have talked about the time. Me have spoken about the oneness of purpose and the divine strength In which we T»ro to enter the j conflict. We now speak about the geo- j \i e are to 1 • reh’s I’laiu ■ ... -:hon pass. 1 p.iieal plain i >i the Ameri- ' ist nation j rap'.ilea I reg fight. Me trust l! , Of F.sdraelon in . America is to he L - of gospel maiieu . can church. It i- • lu the world today. .1 as power and [ Influence are rapid.y growing. In euer- ! fy, : n wealth, in enurprise, it takes I the Mid among the nations of the ! Wo 'hl. If U boldly takes its stand for j Chr-d and declares that the principles of Christ are its guide and that he is Us supreme ruler the effect on the world will be overwhelming. An enor- ' mens step will then have been taken j toward the conquest of the whole I world for him. America is the stra-) tegic point in the Christian campaign. Let every Christian church in this country realize that fact and unite to! win this fair land for the Prince of Peace. Amcrtrn In Melnfc WutchtMl. The great Australian colonies are sill-posed to belong to Great Britain. Their political allegiance is given to King Edward VII. Yet, when a few year.*, ago I was in Sydney, in the home of Sir Henry Parks, the Gladstone of Australia, the most honored states man of that Island continent and the thrice premier of Now South Wales, the most conspicuous picture 1 saw over his study mantelpiece was that of George M’asliington, and the most con spicuous hooks on his shelves were the Cot-gressional Records of our own na tional eapitel. The eyes of all nations are watching us industrially and gov- ernmentally. The peace conference of The Hague showed the trend of inter national thought. The time will yet come when the nations will cease to submit their quarrels to the arbitra ment of the sword. Justice and right eousness shall he the standard of the peoples, and when that time comes our land, whose influence is always for peace, will lie at the front. And what our country is doing for temporal jus tice our American church is doing for Christ in a spiritual way. All nations shall yet follow our Christian leadings, i if America becomes truly Christian, j Let the American church take America ! for Christ, and it will capture the! world for Christ. Oh, my friends, with such a glorious outlook for our coining gospel cam paign. should not the church of Christ as a whole and our own individual churches go forth into this winter’s I campaign strong in God, strong in j faith, strong in holy zeal? For the most part I have been talking about how God is going to bless the great American church as a whole*. M ill he bless our own indhlnfcal churches to which we have given our allegiance as he will bless other churches? Yes, if we go into this gospel conflict as wc ought to go. Are you and I willing by | our own consecrated lives to let our; church, our dear individual church, with its glorious past, take the position | in the church army on the front line! of battle where she ought to stand? Remember, the open door which God opened for the Philippian church was) not a doorway off in the distance, but; near at hand. And so the open doori of gospel opportunity of our church is right at hand. As consecrated, Holy Spirit inspired, earnest Christian c-Uwrch members will you and I join today in the forward march for Christ? Tin* Macciloninn Call. Oh, the Macedonian call for the phys ical and mental and social and spiritu al salvation which is coming through the open door of tiie American church from a sin struck and a dying world! The whole world groans under the burden of sin. It is here; it is every where. The only way of deliverance Is that Christ’s church set itself to the task in the povrer of his Spirit. Begin- i uiug at its own doors, it must lead the ! assault and, uniting with the churches in other cities and states, work faith- : fully and bravely for the emancipation of this land and of the whole world. A , few years ago tiie wife of a native In dian prince was dying. By the hide- t bound Mohammedan laws it was ini- j possible to let an English surgeon see | her, because no white man under any ! conditions is allowed to enter the room i of a Mohammedan woman of the up- j per classes. At last, in despair, her' husband sent for a missionary lady, j Miss Bailly, who was working among j the natives of Lucknow. When she en- • tered the Invalid's room the sick worn- ! an said: “When you go hack to Eng land I want you to meet your good Queen Victoria. 1 hear that she Is a good queen. Tell her how we poor In dian women have to suffer when we are sick and how we have to die. Tell your good queen that and then ask her for me to send us help.” But it was not in the good queen's ; power to send the only help that could be effectual. The gospel and that alone can avail. Let our cry go to no earth ly throne, Isit to the throne that is set in the heavens, and from that throne will come the power that will enable us to win the whole world for Christ, i That appeal which, raised In Macedo nia, reached the ears of the apostle, “Come over and help us!” Is raised to day by a world oppressed by the do minion of Satan. It comes to the Amer-! Scan church as a whole- and to the In dividual churches. Men and women, and children, will you not hear that cry ; from foreign lands? Will you pass through the door that is opened to Christ’s people? Oh, for the salvation of our cities! Oh, for the salvation of | the United States! Oh, that the whole world may hear the word of deliver- j ance and bow before the throne of; Christ! I would enlist you one and all lu this glorious war. Your trials may be se vere, your labor arduous, but lu the end victory Is certain. 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