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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
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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
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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. It may he* yours
to share In the triumph, but If you per
ish In the- struggle you will yet be able
to say: “l have fought a good fight.
Henceforth there Is laid up for ms a
crown of righteousness.”
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