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Church. The elders did a splendid
thing tonight. The fact is, we have
done nothing but splendid things
since we got together as pastor and
elders, I said to them tonight,
“Brethren, I want to make a sugges
tion to you, The first is, I want to
see every person that unites with this
Church before they come in. I want
a little talk with them, and ask them
a few questions. There are some
things that I want to ask, as pastor of
the Church and then , I want to re
quest of you that every person that
joins the Church shall be assigned to
an elder in this Church for three
months and that the elder will look
after these persons for three months.
It is supposed that in three months
they ought to be acquainted with the
general working condition of the
Church, and be able somewhat to look
after themselves.” So, hereafter,
when people join the Church they will
be assigned, as fast as they come, to
one or another of the elders, who will
look after them, tell them what they
want to know and try to be an under
shepherd in connection with the pas
tor, and if they want his council in
the matter he is ready to give it. You
can easily see how that kind of ser
vice is going to give us a good time.
Oh, I just feel that God has great
things for us along simple apostolic
lines.
4. 4.
“A MAN AND HIS TASK.”
(Continued from Page 13.)
few men seem strong enough to re
sist its degrading power. The sec
ond motive is also fraught with per
ils. So self-centered is human nature
that he who yields his life to the am
bition to be famous may find at last
that it is a mere conceit. Any other
of these prizes is unstable and un
satisfying, when obtained, while the
horizon of the life that is so actuated
is ever contracting.
That life which is devoted to the
pursuit of truth can never become
selfish, for truth has the paradoxical
quality of increasing only as it is
given to others. “There is that scat
tereth and yet increaseth.” It can
never become monotonous, for be
fore it the universe is an unfolding
panorama presenting new wonders
each day. It can never become nar
row, for truth is a lofty height whose
ascending path extends the range of
vision continually.. It can never be
come enslaved, for truth breaks the
bands of ignorance and moral thrall
dom and sets the soul free. The
great Teacher said: “Ye shall know
the truth and the truth shall make
you free.” It can never become satis
fied with finite attainments, for truth
is without limitations and he who fol
lows its gleam shall go on in infinite
progression,
“Far as creation’s ample range ex
tends,
The scale of mental, sensual power
ascends.”
The world’s greatest benefactors
have been the men who have burned
the midnight oil, and have neither
spared the candle of life, in their
search for truth that they and their
fellowmen might be free from dis
ease of body, darkness of mind and
despair of soul. It is the path of
self-abnegation, yet its end is incom
parable joy.
A Japanese student entered the
study of a Christian teacher and
said, “Tell me the secret of the beau
tiful life that I may live it.” He who
spake as never man spake told that
secret when he said, “He that shall
lose his life (for the truth ) shall find
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it." He saved others because him
self he would not save, but he "en
dured the cross for the joy that was
set before him.” Lord Bacon said:
“Certainly it is heaven upon earth
to have a man’s miqd move in char
ity, rest in providence and turn upon
the poles of truth.”
On a little green island of a dozen
acres, that rises out of the water in
the middle of New York harbor, stands
Bartholdi’s great statue of “Liberty
Enlightening The World.” Upon a
lofty pedestal of enduring granite the
bronze goodess lifts her torch three
hundred and five feet above the sur
face of the harbor, and shines the
welcome of a free land to the ships
far out at sea. That staue is a fit
symbol of America’s destiny. One
standing in the crown that surmounts
the massive brow of that titan figure
may see in living characters the hypo
thesis of the problem of the century.
From that lofty altitude, attained by
laborious ascent, he looks down up
on a thousand vessels, flying at their
mastheads the flags of every nation
beneath the sun, and upon a thousand
missions bent. They bear the com
merce of the world, and carry the
currents of life that move to and fro
everywhere on the globe. Across the
harbor channel throbs the great heart
of the nation —the most cosmopolitan
city in the world. At the very base
of the statue the observer looks down
upon Ellis Island, the immigrant sta
tion, where the streams of life that flow
from the four corners of the earth
empty. Through a thousand arter
ies this marvelous mixture of blood is
flowing from that pulsing heart to
every part of our body social. The
vices and prejudices of ignorance, the
perils of untamed passions, the wild
fancies of untutored imagination, the
stoical indifference of eastern cults,
the daring defiance of anarchy, the
demoralizing doctrines of socialism
and the brutalizing creed of atheism
are all mingled in that blood. These
are the known quantities in the most
stupendous problem with which any
civilization has had to deal. Given
these it is required to find the way
to maintain liberty and equality, and
to realize the ideals of a Christian
commonwealth.
Looking at these visible factors of
the problem one is oppressed by the
sense of insufficiency for the treme i
dous task and doubts disturb his
mind. But standing on this sp'en
did eminence he lifts his eyes from
the things that are seen toward the
things that are not seen. He thinks
of the few and fleeting years since
the dutch colonists first entered that
harbor and took possession of that
narrow island, and of the miracle by
which a mighty nation has sprung
up in these years, extending its do
main across the continent, with pop
ulous cities, gigantic industries, ex
haustless resources, free government
and untrammelled conscience. He
feels that “no man could do these
miracles except God be with him,"
and surely this is the mighty work
ing of Jehovah for a better world.
Hope revives and his soul is kindled
as he thinks that God is surely try
ing to put his own power upon Amer
ica. That he would use her hands
to break the shackles of the race, and
her hearts to woo the race to Christ,
and from that place of vision he de
scends singing
“To us is given, by the power of heav
en,
With our peace flag far unfurled,
In our nation’s might, by the power
of right,
To rule, under God, the world.”
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