,,five ,,sermons  ,,by ,,the ,,rt4      
,,rev4 ,h4,b4 ,,whipple1 ,d4,d41        
,,ll4,d4 ,,bishop ,,of ,,minnesota      
#ahij  ,,preface  ,my only excuse for   
printing these sermons is the request of
 friends who could not secure copies of 
them4  ,they are printed as delivered1  
and the repetition of incidents was a   
part of the historical statement4  ,the 
,third and ,fifth ,sermons were preached
 without notes and reported by a        
stenographer4 ,h4,b4,w4    ,,contents   
,i4   ,,sermon ,,at ,,the ,,opening     
,,services ,,of ,,the ,,general         
,,convention1      ,,october #ahhi      
,,ii4  ,,sermon ,,at ,,the ,,faribault  
,,celebration ,,of ,,the ,,centennial   
,,of ,,the ,,inauguration ,,of ,,george 
,,washington1 #aghi-ahhi  ,,iii4        
,,sermon ,,at ,,the ,,second ,,annual   
,,meeting ,,of ,,the ,,missionary       
,,council      ,,in ,,washington1       
,d4,c41 ,,november #ahhh  ,,iv4         
,,address ,,in ,,lambeth ,,chapel1 ,,at 
,,the ,,first ,,session ,,of ,,the      

,,lambeth      ,,conference1 ,,july #c1 
#ahhh  ,v4   ,,sermon ,,at ,,the        
,,fourth ,,annual ,,convention ,,of     
,,the ,,brotherhood ,,of      ,,st4     
,,andrew1 ,,in ,,cleveland1 ,,ohio1     
,,sept4 #bi1 #ahhi     ,i4  ,,sermon    
,,at ,,the ,,opening ,,services ,,of    
,,the ,,general ,,convention1           
,,october #b1 #ahhi4   ,we have heard   
with our ears1 ,o ,god1 our fathers have
 told us1 what work ,thou didst their   
days1 in the times of old4--,,psalm     
xliv4 ,i4   ,brethren3 ,i shall take it 
for granted that there is a visible     
,church2 that it was founded by ,our    
,lord ,jesus ,christ1 and has ,his      
promise that the gates of hell shall    
never prevail against it4  ,we believe  
that ours is a pure branch of the       
apostolic ,church2 that it has a        
threefold ministry2 that its two        
sacraments--,baptism and the ,supper of 
the ,lord--are of perpetual obligation1 
and are divine channels of grace2 that  
the faith once delivered to the saints  

is contained in the ,catholic creeds1   
and has the warrant of ,holy ,scripture 
which was written by inspiration of     
,god4  ,on this centennial day ,i shall 
speak of the history and mission of this
 branch of the ,church of our ,lord     
,jesus ,christ4  ,it was a singular     
providence that this continent1 laden   
with the bounty of ,god1 was unoccupied 
by civilization for thousands of years4 
,america was discovered by a devout son 
of the ,latin ,church1 whose name--     
,christopher1 ,christ-bearer1 and       
,columbus1 the dove--ought to have been 
the prophecy that he would bear the     
,gospel to the ,new ,world4  ,it was at 
a time when ,savonarola1 with the zeal  
of a prophet of ,god and the eloquence  
of a ,chrysostom1 was laboring to awaken
 the ,church to a new life4  ,no nation 
ever had a nobler mission than ,spain4  
,that mission was forfeited by unholy   
greed and untold cruelty4  ,it was lost 
forever4 ,other nations claimed the     
continent for their own4  ,in the       

providence of ,god2 this last of the    
nations was founded by the              
,english-speaking race4 ,i reverently   
believe that it was because they        
recognize as no other people the two    
truths which underlie the possibility of
 constitutional government1 i4e41 the   
inalienable rights of the individual    
citizen1 and loyalty to government as a 
delegated trust from ,god1 who alone has
 the right to govern4  ,these lessons   
are intertwined with two thousand years 
of history4  ,they reach back to the    
days when the savage ,briton came in    
contact with ,roman civilization and    
,roman law1 and have been deepened by   
centuries of ,christian influences which
 have changed our savage fathers into   
truth-speaking1 liberty-loving          
,christian men4  ,more marvellous are   
the providences intertwined with the    
history of the ,church4  ,it was planted
 by apostolic men1 and numbered heroes  
like ,st4 ,patrick and ,st4 ,alban      
before the missionary ,augustine came to

 ,canterbury4  ,through all of its      
history it has been the ,church of the  
,english-speaking race4  ,the liturgy   
contains the purest ,english of any     
book1 except the ,english ,bible1 which 
was translated by her sons4  ,the ritual
 which ,augustine found in ,england came
 from the ,east2 and the liturgy which  
he introduced was1 by the advice of     
,gregory1 taken from many national      
,churches4  ,the ,venerable ,hooker     
said3 ,our liturgy was must be          
acknowledged as the singular work of the
 providence of ,god4  ,in its services  
it represents the ,church of the        
,english-speaking race4  ,the           
exhortation to pray for the child to be 
baptized1 the direction to put pure     
water into the font at each baptism1 the
 sign of the cross1 the words of the    
reception of the baptized1 the joining  
of hands in holy matrimony1 the dust to 
dust of the burial1--are peculiar to the
 offices of the ,english-speaking       
people4  ,in the ,holy ,communion1 the  

rubric found in all western ,churches1  
commanding the priest1 after            
consecration1 to kneel and worship the  
elements1 never found a place in any    
service-book of the ,church of ,england4
  ,the ,book of ,common ,prayer has     
preserved for us ,catholic faith and    
,catholic worship4   ,the first ,english
 missionary priest in ,america of whose 
services we have record was ,master     
,wolfall1 who celebrated the ,holy      
,communion in #aegh for the crews of    
,martin ,forbisher on the shores of     
,hudson ,bay1 amid whose solitudes      
,bishop ,horden has won whole heathen   
tribes to ,jesus ,christ4 ,at about the 
same time the ,rev4 ,martin ,fletcher1  
the chaplain of ,sir ,francis ,drake1   
celebrated the ,holy ,communion in the  
bay of ,san ,francisco1 a prophecy that 
these distant shores should become our  
inheritance4  ,a few years later        
7#aehc71 divine service was held in the 
bay of ,st4 ,john's1 ,newfoundland1 for 
,sir ,humphrey ,gilbert1 and when his   

ill-fated ship foundered at sea1 the    
last words of the hero-admiral were1 ,we
 are as near heaven by sea as by land4  
,the mantle of ,gilbert fell on ,sir    
,walter ,raleigh1 who was commissioned  
by ,queen ,elizabeth to bear the evangel
 of ,god's love to the ,new ,world4     
,the faith behind the adventures of     
these men is seen in a woodcut of       
,raleigh's vessels at anchor2 a pinnace1
 with a man at the mast-head bearing a  
cross1 approaching the shore with the   
message of the ,gospel4  ,to some of us 
whose hearts have been touched with pity
 for the red men1 its is a beautiful    
incident that the first baptism on these
 shores was that of an ,indian chief1   
,mateo1 on the banks of the ,roanoke4   
,in ,may1 #afjg1 the first services on  
the shore of ,new ,england were held by 
the ,rev4 ,richard ,seymour4            
,missionary services in the wilderness  
were not unlike those of our pioneer    
bishops4  ,we did hang an awning to the 
trees to shield us from the sun1 our    

walls were rails of wood1 our seats     
unhewed trees1 our pulpit a bar of      
wood--this was our 'church4'  ,it was in
 this church that the ,rev4 ,robert     
,hunt celebrated the first communion in 
,virginia1 ,june #ba1 #afjg4  ,the      
missionary spirit of the times is seen  
when ,lord ,de la ,warr and his         
companions went in procession to the    
,temple ,church in ,london to receive   
the ,holy ,communion4  ,the ,rev4       
,richard ,crashaw said in his sermon3   
,go forward in the strength of the      
,lord1 look not for wealth1 look only   
for the things of the kingdom of        
,god--you go to win the heathen to the  
,gospel4  ,practise it yourselves4      
,make the name of ,christ honorable4    
,what blessings any nation has had by   
,christ must be given to all the nations
 of the earth4  ,the first act of       
,governor ,de la ,warr1 on landing in   
,virginia1 was to kneel in silent       
prayer1 and then1 with the whole people1
 they went to church1 where the services

 were conducted by the ,rev4 ,richard   
,burke4  ,in #afaa the saintly          
,alexander ,whittaker baptized          
,pocahontas4  ,disease and death often  
blighted the colonies1 and yet the old  
battle cry rang out--,god will found the
 ,state and build the ,church4  ,the    
work was marred by immoral adventurers1 
and it was not until these were         
repressed with a strong hand by ,sir    
,thomas ,dale that a new life dawned in 
,virginia4  ,the first elective assembly
 of the ,new ,world met in #afai4  ,it  
was opened by prayer4  ,its first       
enactment was to protect the ,indians   
from oppression4  ,its next was to found
 a university4  ,in the first           
legislative assembly which met in the   
choir of the ,church in ,jamestown1 more
 than one year before the ,mayflower    
left the shores of ,england1 was the    
foundation of popular government in     
,america4  ,time would fail me to tell  
the story inwrought in the lives of men 
like ,rev4 ,william ,clayton of         

,philadelphia1 the ,rev4 ,atkin         
,williamson of ,south ,carolina1 and the
 ,rev4 ,john ,wesley and the ,rev4      
,george ,whitefield1 also sons of the   
,church in ,georgia4   ,the ,church of  
,england had no rights in the ,english  
colony of ,massachusetts4  ,the ,rev4   
,william ,blaxton1 the ,rev4 ,richard   
,gibson1 and the ,rev4 ,robert ,jordan  
endured privation and suffering1 and    
were accused as addicted to the         
hierarchy of the ,church of ,england1   
guilty of offence against the           
,commonwealth by baptizing children on  
the ,lord's ,day1 and the more heinous  
sin of provoking the people to revolt by
 questioning the divine right of the    
,new ,england theocracy4  ,an new life  
dawned on the ,church in ,america when1 
in #agja1 there was organized in        
,england ,the ,society for the          
,propagation of the ,gospel in ,foreign 
,parts4  ,it awakened a new missionary  
spirit4  ,princess ,anne1 afterward     
,queen of ,england1 became its lifelong 

patron4  ,the blessed work among the    
,mohawks was largely due to her1 and    
when these ,indians were removed to     
,canada and left sheperdless1 their     
chief1 ,joseph ,brant1 officiated as lay
 reader for twenty years4  ,the men sent
 out by the society--the ,rev4 ,samuel  
,thomas1 the ,rev4 ,george ,keith1 the  
,rev4 ,patrick ,gordon1 the ,rev4 ,john 
,talbot1 and others--were ,christian    
heroes4  ,no fact in the history of the 
colonial ,church had so marked influence
 as the conversion of ,timothy ,cutler1 
,james ,wetmore1 ,samuel ,johnson1 and  
,daniel ,brown to the ,church4          
,puritans mourned that the gold had     
become dim4  ,churchmen rejoiced that   
some of the foremost scholars in        
,connecticut had returned to the        
,church4  ,i pass over the trials of the
 ,church in the eighteenth century1 to  
the meeting of the ,continental         
,congress in #aggd4  ,it was proposed to
 open ,congress with prayer4            
,objections were made on account of the 

religious differences of the delegates4 
,old ,samuel ,adams arose1 with his     
white hair streaming on his             
shoulders1--the same earnest ,puritan   
who1 in #agfh1 had written to ,england3 
,we hope in ,god that no such           
establishment as the ,protestant        
episcopate shall ever take place in     
,america1--and said3 ,gentlemen1 shall  
it be said that it is possible that     
there can be any religious differences  
which will prevent men from crying to   
that ,god who alone can save them8  ,i  
move that the ,rev4 ,dr4 ,duch1 minister
 of ,christ ,church in this city1 be    
asked to open this ,congress with       
prayer4  ,john ,adams1 writing to his   
wife1 said3 ,never can ,i forget that   
scene4  ,there were twenty ,quakers     
standing by my side1 and we were all    
bathed in tears4  ,when the ,psalms for 
the day were read1 it seemed as if      
,heaven was pleading for the oppressed3 
,o ,lord1 fight thou against them that  
fight against me4  ,lord1 who is like   

,thee to defend the poor and the needy8 
,avenge thou my cause1 my ,lord1 my     
,god4  ,on the #dth of ,july #aggf1     
,congress published to the world that   
these colonies were1 and of right ought 
to be1 free4  ,we believe that a        
majority of those who signed this       
declaration were sons of the ,church4   
,the ,american colonists were not       
rebels2 they were loyal1 ,god-fearing   
men4  ,the first appeal that ,congress  
made to the colonies was for the whole  
people to keep one and the same day as a
 day of fasting and prayer for the      
restoration of the invaded rights of    
,america1 and reconciliation with the   
parent ,state4  ,they stood for their   
inalienable rights1 guaranteed to them  
by the ,magna ,charta1 which nobles1    
headed by ,bishop ,stephen ,langton1 had
 wrung from ,king ,john4  ,the ,english 
clergy had at ordination taken an oath  
of allegiance to the ,british ,crown4   
,many who sympathized with their        
oppressed country felt bound to pray for

 ,king ,george until another government 
was permanently established4  ,others1  
like ,dr4 ,provost1 retired to private  
life4  ,for two hundred years an        
,episcopal ,church had no resident      
,bishop4  ,no child of the ,church      
received confirmation4  ,no one could   
take orders without crossing the        
,atlantic1 where one man in five lost   
his life by disease or shipwreck4 ,at   
one time the ,rev4 ,william ,white was  
the only clergyman of the ,church in    
,pennsylvania4  ,even after we  had     
received the episcopate1 the outlook was
 so hopeless that one of her bishops    
said1 ,i am willing to do all ,i can for
 the rest of my days1 but there will be 
no such ,church when ,i am gone4  ,when 
,william ,meade told ,chief ,justice    
,marshall that he was to take orders in 
the ,episcopal ,church1 the ,chief      
,justice said1 ,i thought that this     
,church had perished in the ,revolution4
  ,of the less than two hundred clergy1 
many had returned to ,england or retired

 to private life4  ,in some of the      
colonies the endowments of the ,church  
had been confiscated4  ,there was no    
discipline for clergy or laity1 and it  
did seem as if the vine of the ,lord's  
planting was to perish out of the land4 
,on the ,feast of the ,annunciation1    
#aghc1 ten of the clergy of ,connecticut
 met in the glebe house at ,woodbury to 
elect a bishop4  ,they met privately1   
for the ,church was under the ban of    
civil authority1 and they feared the    
revival of bitter opposition to an      
,american episcopate which might alarm  
the ,english bishops and defeat their   
efforts4  ,they did not come to make a  
creed1 or frame a liturgy1 or found a   
,church4  ,they met to secure that which
 was lacking for the complete           
organization of the ,church1 and thus   
perpetuate for their country that       
ministry whose continuity was witnessed 
through all the ages in a living body1  
which is the body of ,christ4  ,i know  
of no greater heroism than that which   

sent ,samuel ,seabury to ask of the     
bishops of the ,church of ,england the  
episcopate for the scattered flock of   
,christ4  ,you remember the fourteen    
months' weary waiting1 and when his     
prayer was refused in ,england1 ,god led
 him to the persecuted ,church of       
,scotland4  ,now go with me to          
,aberdeen2 it is an upper room1 a       
congregation of clergy and laity are    
present4  ,the bishops and ,robert      
,kilgour1 ,bishop of ,aberdeen1 ,arthur 
,petrie1 ,bishop of ,moray1 and ,john   
,skinner1 ,coadjutor ,bishop of         
,aberdeen1 who preached the sermon4     
,the prayers were ended2 ,samuel        
,seabury1 a kingly man1 kneels for the  
imposition of apostolic hands1 and1     
according to the godly usage of the     
,catholic ,church1 is consecrated       
bishop1 and made the first apostle for  
the ,new ,world4  ,none can tell what1  
under ,god1 we owe to those venerable   
men4  ,they signed a concordat binding  
themselves and successors to use the    

,prayer of ,invocation in the ,scottish 
,communion ,office1 which sets forth    
that truth which is inwrought in all the
 teachings of our blessed ,lord and ,his
 apostles1 that the communion of the    
,body and ,blood of ,christ is limited  
to the worthy receiver of this blessed  
sacrament4  ,the consecration of        
,seabury touched the heart of the       
,english ,church4  ,in #aghc the ,church
 of ,england did not have one bishop    
beyond its shores4 ,there are to-day    
fifteen bishops in ,africa1 six in      
,china and ,japan1 and twenty-three in  
,australia and the ,pacific ,islands1   
ten in ,india1 seven in the ,west       
,indies1 and eighty-five in ,british    
,north ,america and the ,united ,states4
  ,every colony of the ,british ,empire 
and every ,state and ,territory of the  
,united ,states has its own bishop1     
except the ,territory of ,alaska4  ,on  
,february #dth1 #aghg1 the ,rev4 ,dr4   
,samuel ,provost1 ,d4,d41 were          
consecrated bishops in ,lambeth ,chapel1

 by ,john ,moore1 ,archbishop of        
,canterbury1 ,william ,markham1         
,archbishop of ,york1 ,charles ,moss1   
,bishop of ,bath and ,wells1 and ,john  
,hinchcliffe1 ,bishop of ,peterborough4 
,the sermon was preached by the chaplain
 of the primate4  ,our minister to      
,england1 ,hon4 ,john ,adams1 urged the 
application of ,drs4 ,provost and       
,white1 and in after years wrote3 ,there
 is no part of my life ,i look back with
 more satisfaction than the part ,i     
took--daring and hazardous as it was to 
myself and mine--in the introduction of 
episcopacy to ,america4 ,samuel ,provost
 was a devoted patriot and one of the   
ripest scholars of ,america4  ,in the   
convention which elected him ,bishop of 
,new ,york were ,john ,jay1             
,washington's chief justice1 ,marinus   
,willet1 one of ,washington's favorite  
generals1 ,james ,duane1 ,john ,alsop1  
,r4,r4 ,livingston1 and ,william ,duer1 
members of the ,continental ,congress1  
and ,david ,brooks1 commissary-general  

of the ,revolution1 and personal friend 
of ,washington4  ,if less prominent in  
his episcopal administration1 ,bishop   
,provost's name as a patriot was a tower
 of strength to the infant ,church4  ,of
 ,bishop ,white we can say1 as ,john    
,adams said of ,roger ,sherman1 ,he was 
pure as an angel and firm as ,mount     
,atlas4  ,he was beloved and reverenced 
by all ,christian people4  ,when        
,congress declared the colonies         
independent ,states in #aggf1 he at once
 took the oath of allegiance to the new 
government4  ,when a friend warned him  
that he had put his neck in a halter1 he
 replied3 ,i know the danger2 the cause 
is just2 ,i have put my faith in ,god4  
,in #aggg he was elected chaplain of    
,congress1 and held the office 7except  
when ,congress met in ,new ,york7 until 
the capital was removed to ,washington4 
,francis ,hopkinson1 a distinguished    
signer of the ,declaration of           
,independence1 and other loyal sons of  
the country1 were among those who       

elected him ,bishop of ,pennsylvania4   
,one hundred years ago today the        
representatives of the ,church in the   
different ,states met to adopt a        
constitution4  ,there had been tentative
 efforts to effect an organization and  
adopt a ,book of ,common ,prayer1 all of
 which were overruled by the good       
providence of ,god4  ,many not of our   
fold desired a liturgy4  ,benjamin      
,franklin published at his own expense a
 revised copy of the ,english liturgy4  
,the ,house of ,bishops was composed of 
,bishop ,seabury and ,bishop ,white4    
,bishop ,provost was absent4 ,in the    
,house of ,clerical and ,lay ,deputies  
were the ,rev4 ,abraham ,jarvis1 the    
,rev4 ,robert ,smith1 and the ,rev4     
,samuel ,parker1 who became bishops4    
,they met to show the world that the    
charter of the ,church is perpetual1 and
 that the ,church has the power to adapt
 herself to all the conditions of human 
society4  ,they met to consolidate the  
scattered fragments of the ,church in   

the thirteen colonies into a national   
,church1 and secure for themselves and  
children ,catholic faith and worship in 
the ,book of ,common ,prayer4  ,they    
builded wiser than they knew4  ,they    
secured for the ,church self-government1
 free from all secular control4  ,they  
preserved the traditions of the past1   
and yet every feature of executive1     
legislative1 and judicial administration
 was in harmony with the ,constitution  
of the ,republic4  ,they gave the laity 
a voice in the council of the ,church2  
they provided that bishops and clergy   
should be tried by their peers1 and that
 the clergy and laity of each diocese   
should elect their own bishop subject to
 the approval of the whole ,church4     
,there was the most delightful fraternal
 intercourse between the two bishops4   
,in the words of our ,presiding ,bishop1
 ,the blessed results of that convention
 were due1 under the guidance of the    
,holy ,spirit1 to the steadfast         
gentleness of ,bishop ,white and the    

gentle steadfast--of ,bishop ,seabury4  
,a century has passed4  ,the ,church    
which was then everywhere spoken against
 is everywhere known and respected2 the 
mantle of ,seabury1 ,white1 ,hobart1    
,ravenscroft1 ,eliot1 ,de ,lancey1 and  
,kemper has fallen on others1 and her   
sons are in the forefront of that mighty
 movement which will people this land   
with millions of souls4  ,while we say  
with grateful hearts1 ,what hath ,god   
wrought6 we also say1 ,not unto us1 ,o  
,lord1 not unto us1 but unto ,thy ,nave 
give the praise4 ,surely1 an awful      
responsibility rests upon a ,church     
whose history is so full of the mercy of
 ,god4  ,we are living in the great     
missionary age of the ,church4  ,there  
is no nation on the earth to whom we may
 not carry the ,gospel4  ,more than     
eight hundred millions of souls for whom
 ,christ died have not heard that there 
is a ,saviour4   ,one of the hinderances
 to the speedy evangelization of the    
world is the division among             

,christians1--alas6 both within and     
without the ,church4  ,our ,saviour     
said3 ,by this shall all men know that  
ye are my disciples1 if ye have love one
 to another4  ,christians have been     
separated in hostile camps1 and often   
divisions have ripened into hatred4     
,the saddest of all is that the things  
which separate us are not necessary for 
salvation4  ,the truths in which we     
agree are part of the ,catholic faith4  
,in the words of ,dr4 ,dollinger1 we can
 say each to the other as baptized1 we  
are on either side1 brothers and sisters
 in ,christ4  ,in the great garden of   
the ,lord1 let us shake hands over these
 confessional hedges1 and let us break  
them down1 so as to be able to embrace  
one another altogether4 ,these hedges   
are doctrinal divisions about which     
either we or you are in error4  ,if you 
are in the wrong1 we do not hold you    
morally culpable2 for your education1   
surroundings1 knowledge1 and training   
made the adherence to these doctrines   

excusable and even right4  ,let us      
examine1 compare1 and investigate the   
matter together1 and we shall discover  
the precious pearl of peace and unity2  
and then let us join hands together in  
cultivating and cleansing the garden of 
the ,lord1 which is overgrown with      
weeds4  ,there are blessed signs that   
the ,holy ,spirit is deepening the      
spiritual life of widely separated      
brothers4  ,historical ,churches are    
feeling the pulsation of a new life from
 the ,incarnate ,god4  ,all ,christian  
folk see that the ,holy ,spirit has     
passed over these human barriers and set
 ,his seal to the labors of separated   
brethren in ,christ4 ,the ever-blessed  
,comforter is quickening in ,christian  
hearts the divine spirit of charity4    
,christians are learning more and more  
the theology which centres in the person
 of ,jesus ,christ4  ,it is this which  
worldwide is creating a holy enthusiasm 
to stay the flood of intemperance1      
impurity1 and sin at home1 and gather   

lost heathen folk into the fold of      
,christ4  ,in our age every branch of   
the ,church can call over the roll of   
its confessors and martyr1 and so link  
its history to the purest ages of the   
,church4  ,we would not rob them of one 
sheaf they have gathered into the garner
 of the ,lord4  ,we share in every      
victory and we rejoice in every triumph4
  ,there is not one of that great       
company who have washed their robes     
white in the blood of the ,lamb1 who is 
not our kinsman in ,christ4  ,brothers  
in ,christ of every name1 shall we not  
pray for the healing of the wounds of   
the body of ,christ1 that the world may 
believe in him8  ,we are perplexed by   
the unbelief and sin of our time4  ,the 
,christian faith is assailed not only   
with scoffs of old as ,celsus and       
,julian1 but also with the keenest      
intellectual criticism of ,divine       
revelation1 the opposition of alleged   
scientific facts1 and a ,corinthian     
worldliness whose motto is ,eat and     

drink1 for to-morrow we die4  ,in many  
places ,christian homes are dying out4  
,crime and impurity are coming in as a  
flood1 and anarchy raises its hated form
 in a land where all men are equal      
before the law4  ,the lines between the 
,church and the world are dim4  ,never  
did greater problems confront a council 
of the ,church4  ,an ,apostolic ,church 
has a graver work than discussion about 
its name or the amending of its canons  
and rubrics4  ,i fear that some of this 
unbelief is a revolt from a caricature  
of ,god4  ,these mechanical ideas about 
the universe are the outcome of a       
mechanical theology which has lost sight
 of the ,fatherhood of ,god4  ,there is 
much honest unbelief4  ,in these        
yearnings of humanity1 in its clubs1    
brotherhoods1 and orders1 in their      
readiness to share all things with their
 brothers1 ,i see unconscious prophecies
 of the brotherhood of all men as the   
children of one ,god and ,father4       
,denunciation will not silence unbelief4

  ,the name infidel has lost its        
terrors4  ,there in only one remedy4    
,it is in the spirit1 the power1 and the
 love of ,jesus ,christ4  ,philosophy   
cannot touch the want4 ,it offers no    
hand to grasp1 no ,saviour to trust1 no 
,god to save4  ,when men see in us the  
hand1 the heart1 and the love of        
,christ1 they will believe in the       
brotherhood of men and the ,fatherhood  
of ,god4  ,there was nothing which      
impressed your bishops in the late visit
 to ,england more than the service in   
the cathedral at ,durham4  ,the church1 
with its thousand years of history was  
thronged4  ,the chants were sung by two 
thousand choristers in surplices4  ,the 
sermon was preached by the ,bishop of   
,western ,new ,york4  ,this grand       
service was to set apart some ,bible    
readers and lay-preachers to go into the
 collieries to tell these toilers of the
 love of ,jesus ,christ4  ,the same     
awful problems stare us in the          
face1--the centralization of swarms of  

souls in the cities2 the wealth of the  
nation in fewer hands2 competition      
making a life-and-death struggle for    
bread2 the poorest sinking into hopeless
 despair2 and the richest often         
forgetting that ,lazarus at his gate is 
a child of the same ,god and ,father4   
,we1 too1 must send our best men and    
women wherever there is sin1 sorrow1 and
 death1 to work and suffer1 and1 if need
 be1 die for ,christ4  ,we are living in
 the eventide of the world1 when all    
things point toward the second coming of
 our ,king4  ,god has placed the        
,english-speaking people in the         
fore-part of the nations4  ,they number 
one-tenth of the human family1 and ,i   
believe ,god calls them to do the work  
of the last time4  ,the wealth of the   
world is largely in ,christian hands4   
,there never have been such             
opportunities for ,christian work4      
,never such a harvest awaited the       
husbandman4   ,you may tell me of       
difficulties and dangers4  ,we have only

 one answer4 ,sin1 sorrow1 and death are
 not the inventions of a ,christian     
priest4 ,there is only one ,name under  
heaven whereby any man can be saved4    
,we have nothing to do with results4    
,it is ours to work and pray1 and pray  
and work and die4  ,so falls the seed   
into the earth1 and so ,god gives the   
harvest4  ,when the ,church sends out   
embassies commensurate with the dignity 
of our ,king1 it will be time to talk of
 failure4  ,is the kingdom of ,christ   
the only kingdom which has not the right
 to lay tribute on its citizens8  ,the  
only failure is the failure to do ,god's
 work4  ,was it failure when ,dr4 ,hill 
of blessed memory laid the foundation   
for that ,christian school which the    
wisest statesmen say is the chief factor
 in the regeneration of ,greece8  ,was  
it failure when ,james ,lloyd ,breck1   
our apostle of the wilderness1 carried  
the ,gospel to the ,indians8  ,did      
,williams1 ,selwyn1 and ,patteson fail  
in ,polynesia8  ,was it failure when    

,hoffman and ,auer died for ,christ in  
,africa8  ,have your great-hearted sons 
failed who have followed in the         
footsteps of the saintly ,kemper1 and   
laid with tears and prayers foundations 
for ,christian schools which are the    
glory of the ,west8  ,has the ,gospel   
failed in ,japan1 where a nation is     
awakening into the life of ,christian   
civilization8 ,never has ,god given ,his
 ,church more blessed rewards4  ,the    
century which has passed is only our    
school of preparation4  ,the voice of   
,god's ,providence says3 ,speak to the  
children of ,israel that they go        
forward4  ,we have some problems        
peculiar to ourselves4  ,twenty-five    
years ago four millions of slaves       
received ,american citizenship4  ,the   
nation owes them a debt of gratitude4   
,during all the horrors of our civil war
 they were the protectors of ,southern  
women and children4  ,knowing the       
failure of their masters would be the   
guarantee of the freedom1 there was not 

one act that master or slave might wish 
to blot4  ,we ought not to forget it1   
and ,god will not4  ,to-day there are   
eight millions4  ,they are here to stay4
 ,they will not be disfranchised4       
,through them ,africa can be redeemed4  
,they ought to be our fellow-citizens in
 the kingdom of ,god4  ,in a great      
crisis of missions the ,holy ,ghost sent
 ,philip on a long journey to preach    
,christ to one man of ,ethiopia4  ,the  
same blessed ,spirit of ,god calls us in
 the love of ,christ to carry the       
,gospel in the ,church to the millions  
of colored citizens of the ,united      
,states4  ,brethren1 the time is short4 
,since our last council nine of our     
noblest bishops have died4  ,since ,i   
was consecrated1 fifty-four bishops have
 entered into the rest if the people of 
,god4  ,it is eventide4  ,a little more 
work1 a few more toils and prayers1 and 
we who have lived and loved and worked  
together shall have a harvest in heaven4
      ,,ii4 ,,sermon ,,at ,,the         

,,faribault ,,celebration ,,of ,,the    
,,centennial ,,of ,,the ,,inauguration  
,,of ,,george ,,washington1 #aghi-ahhi4 
,then ,samuel took a stone and set it   
between ,mizpeh and ,shen1 and called   
the name of it ,ebeneser1 saying1       
,hitherto hath the ,lord helped us4-- #a
 ,,samuel vii4 #ab4   ,no words are more
 fitting on this ,centennial day4  ,one 
hundred years ago ,george ,washington   
was inaugurated the first ,president of 
the ,united ,states4  ,words are        
powerless to express the grateful       
thoughts which swell patriot hearts4    
,save that people whom ,god led out of  
,egypt with ,his pillar of fire and ,his
 pillar of cloud1 ,i know of no nation  
whose history is so full of the bounty  
of ,god4  ,this country was settled by  
,englishmen4  ,they were bound by ties  
of affection to the mother country4     
,they were not rebels1 they were loyal1 
,god-fearing men4  ,the ,english crown  
had violated rights which were          
guaranteed to them by the ,magna        

,charta1 which brave barons1 headed by  
,bishop ,stephen ,langton1 had wrung    
from ,king ,john and which under ,god   
has made ,english-speaking people the   
representatives of constitutional       
government throughout the world4  ,it   
was not until every plea for justice had
 been spurned1 their sacred rights      
trampled upon1 and the warnings of the  
wisest ,english statesmen unheeded1 that
 the ,american colonies resolved to be  
independent and free4  ,on the #eth of  
,september1 #aggd1 fifty-five delegates1
 from eleven colonies1 met in ,smith's  
tavern1 ,philadelphia1 and at the       
invitation of the carpenters of that    
city adjourned to their hall4           
,questions arose as to the numerical    
influence of the colonies4  ,patrick    
,henry voiced the sentiment of          
,congress1 ,i am not a ,virginian1 ,i am
 an ,american4  ,john ,jay1 who         
represented the conservative element    
said1 ,we have not come to make a       
constitution2 the measure of arbitrary  

power is not full1 it must run over     
before we undertake to frame a          
government4  ,it was proposed to open   
,congress with prayer4  ,objections were
 made on account of the religious       
differences of the delegates4  ,old     
,samuel ,adams rose1 with his long white
 hair streaming on his shoulders 7the   
same earnest ,puritan who in #agfh had  
written to ,england1 ,we hope in ,god   
that no such establishment as the       
,protestant ,episcopate shall ever take 
place in ,america17 and said1           
,gentlemen1 shall it be said that it is 
possible that there can be any religious
 difference which will prevent men from 
crying to that ,god who alone can save  
them8  ,puritan as ,i am1 ,i move that  
the ,rev4 ,dr4 ,duch1 minister of       
,christ ,church in the city1 be asked to
 open this ,congress with prayer4  ,john
 ,adams1 writhing to his wife1 said1    
,never can ,i forget that scene4  ,there
 were twenty ,quakers standing by my    
side and we were all bathed in tears4   

,when ,psalms for the day were read1 it 
seemed as if ,heaven itself was pleading
 for the oppressed3 ',o ,lord1 fight    
thou against them that fight against me4
 ,lord1 who is like unto ,thee to defend
 the poor and needy4  ,avenge ,thou my  
cause1 my ,lord and my ,god4'  ,although
 filled with indignation at the blood   
which had been shed in ,boston1         
,congress nevertheless issued an appeal 
to the people of ,england3 ,you have    
been told that we are impatient of      
government and desire independency4     
,these are calumnies4 ,permit us to be  
free as you are1 and our union with you 
will be our greatest glory4  ,but if    
your ministers sport with human rights1 
if neither the voice of justice1 the    
principles of the constitution1 nor     
humanity will restrain them from        
shedding human blood in an impious      
cause1 'we will never submit4'  ,we ask 
peace1 liberty and safety1 and for this 
we have laid our prayer at the feet of  
the king as a loving father4  ,the      

battles at ,lexington1 ,concord and     
,ticonderoga preceded the second meeting
 of ,congress in ,may1 #agge4  ,their   
plea for justice had been spurned4  ,the
 outlook was dark as midnight4  ,these  
brave men represented no government1    
they had no power to make laws1 they had
 no officers to execute them1 they could
 not impose customs1 they had no army1  
they did not own a foot of land1 they   
owed the use of their hall to the       
courtesy of the artisans of             
,philadelphia4  ,on the #abth of ,june  
,congress made its first appeal to the  
people of twelve colonies1 7 ,georgia   
was not represented74  ,it was a solemn 
call for the whole people to observe one
 and the same day as a day of fasting   
and prayer for the restoration of the   
invaded rights of ,america and          
reconciliation with the parent state4   
,they who sought the protection of ,god 
knew that under ,god they must protect  
themselves4  ,all hearts turned to      
,george ,washington1 a delegate from    

,virginia1 and he was unanimously chosen
 to be commander-in-chief4  ,when       
,congress met in ,july1 #aggf1 the      
people had been branded as traitors2 the
 slaves of ,virginia had been incited to
 insurrection1 the torch and tomahawk of
 the savage had been let loose on       
frontier settlements1 an army of foreign
 mercenaries had landed on their shores1
 their ports were blockaded1 an the army
 under ,washington for their defence    
only numbered #f1gdi men4  ,on the      
second day of ,july1 #aggf1 without one 
dissenting colony1 the representatives  
of the thirteen colonies resolved that  
these ,united ,colonies are1 and of     
right ought to be1 free and independent 
,states2 that they are absolved from all
 allegiance to the ,british crown1 and  
that all political connection between   
them and the ,state of ,great ,britain  
is and ought to be totally dissolved4   
,two days later ,benjamin ,harrison1 the
 great-grandfather of our present       
president1 the chairman of the committee

 of the whole1 reported to ,congress the
 form in which that resolution was to be
 published to the world1 and the reasons
 by which it was to be justified4 ,it   
was the work of ,thomas ,jefferson1 then
 aged thirty-three1 and never did graver
 responsibility rest on a young man than
 the preparation of that immortal paper1
 and never was the duty more nobly      
fulfilled4  ,in the original draft of   
the declaration there was the allegation
 that the king had prostituted his      
negative by suppressing every           
legislative attempt to prohibit or      
restrain this execrable commerce in     
human beings4  ,this was struck out1 as 
,mr4 ,jefferson tells us1 in            
complaisance to ,south ,carolina and    
,georgia1 not without tenderness to     
,northern ,brethren who held slaves4    
,time forbids my calling over the roll  
of these noble patriots who signed their
 names to our ,magna ,charta4 ,there is 
,john ,adams1 of whom ,jefferson said1  
,he was our ,colossus on that floor1 and

 spoke with such power as to move us    
from our seats4 ,benjamin ,franklin1    
printer philosopher and statesman4      
,roger ,sherman1 of whom ,john ,adams   
said1 ,he is honest as an angel and firm
 as ,mount ,atlas4  ,charles ,carroll1  
who1 when a member said1 ,oh1 ,carroll1 
you will get off1 there are so many     
,carrolls1 stepped back to the desk and 
wrote after his name1 of ,carrollton4   
,john ,hancock1 who1 when elected       
speaker1 ,benjamin ,harrison had        
playfully seated in the speaker's chair 
and said1 ,we will show ,mother ,britain
 how little we care for her1 by making a
 ,massachusetts man our president1 whom 
she has by proclamation excluded from   
pardon4  ,a friend said to ,john        
,hancock1 ,you have signed your name    
large4   ,yes1 he replied1 ,i wish ,john
 ,bull to read it without spectacles4   
,robert ,morris1 the financier and      
treasurer of the ,revolution4  ,elbridge
 ,gerry1 the youngest member1 the friend
 of ,gen4 ,warren1 to whom ,warren had  

said the night before the battle of     
,bunker ,hill1 ,it is sweet to die for  
our country4  ,what a roll of names6 the
 silver-tongued ,rutledge1 brave        
,stockton1 wise ,rush1 ,lee--fifty-five 
noble names1 not one of whom who did not
 know that1 as one member said1 ,if we  
do not hang together1 we shall hang     
separately4  ,it was not timidity which 
made any of the delegates hesitate to   
take the irrevocable step4 ,all the     
associations of their lives1 all the    
traditions and memories of the past     
bound them by ties of kindred and       
affection to the mother country4  ,they 
were venturing on an unknown sea2 there 
were no charts to guide them1 no        
precedents to follow4  ,the truth was1  
as ,jefferson so tersely said1 ,the     
people wait for us to lead the way4     
,the question is not whether by a       
declaration of independence we shall    
make ourselves what we are not1 but     
whether we shall declare a fact which   
exists4  ,so also ,john ,adams said1    

,the ,revolution was effected before the
 war commenced4   ,i cannot tell the    
story of the seven year's war4  ,the    
articles of confederation were sent to  
the ,states in #aggh1 but the last of   
the thirteen ,states1 ,maryland1 did not
 adopt them until ,march1 #agha4        
,congress under he confederacy dealt    
with the ,states and did not have the   
confidence or the love of the people4   
,it required nine ,states to pass any   
measure of importance4  ,during the war 
the confederacy was a pitiable failure4 
,it issued bills which no one would     
take1 its certificates of indebtedness  
and promises to pay were so worthless   
that it gave rise to the proverb1 ,not  
worth a continental4  ,robert ,morris1  
the financier1 pleaded hopelessly for   
help4  ,alexander ,hamilton denounced   
the confederation as neither fit for war
 nor peace4  ,even ,washington1 always  
hopeful1 wrote in #agha3 ,our troops are
 fast approaching nakedness2 our        
hospitals are without medicine2 our sick

 are without meat2 our public works are 
at a standstill2 in a word1 we are at   
the end of our tether1 and now or never 
deliverance must come4  ,at last victory
 came--thanks to the generous assistance
 of ,france1 to the heroism of leaders  
like ,lafayette1 ,baron ,steuben1 and   
hosts of others1 who gave us their      
fortunes and hazarded their lives for   
,america1 the war was ended by the      
surrender of ,lord ,cornwallis4  ,victor
 ,hugo said1 ,napoleon was not defeated 
at ,waterloo by the allied forces4  ,it 
was ,god who conquered him4  ,who that  
remembers ,trenton1 ,valley ,forge1     
,saratoga and ,yorktown1 will not say   
,god fought for our ,washington8  ,in   
#aggg a ,quaker had occasion to pass    
through the woods near the headquarters 
of the army2 hearing a voice1 he        
approached the spot1 and saw ,washington
 in prayer4  ,returning home1 he said to
 his wife3 ,all's well6 ,all's well6    
,washington will prevail4  ,i have      
thought that no man can be a soldier and

 a ,christian4  ,george ,washington has 
convinced me of my mistake4 ,peace was  
declared in #aghc4  ,i have a           
water-color of the building used as the 
,department of ,state1 in which the     
treaty of peace was signed--it was a    
building #ab feet by #cj4   ,in         
,may1#aghg1 delegates from all the      
,states1 except ,rhode ,island1 met in  
the state house in ,philadelphia1 with  
,george ,washington as president1 to    
draft a constitution for these ,united  
,states4  ,all the delegates were       
convinced of the utter failure of the   
articles of confederation1 all were     
convinced of the need of a stronger     
government4  ,two parties honestly      
differed and were determined to fight it
 out to the bitter end4 ,at one time it 
looked as if the convention must disband
 without effecting its object4          
,franklin arose and said3 ,mr4          
,president1 the small progress we have  
made after five weeks is a melancholy   
proof of the imperfection of human      

understanding--we have gone back to     
ancient history for models of           
government--we have viewed modern       
states--we find none of their           
constitutions suitable to our           
circumstances--we are groping in the    
dark to find political truth1 and are   
scarcely able to distinguish it when    
presented to us4  ,how has it happened1 
sir1 that we have not once thought of   
humbly applying to the ,father of       
,lights to illumine our understandings8 
,in the beginning of the contest with   
,britain1 when we were sensible of      
danger1 we had daily prayers in this    
room for ,divine protection4  ,our      
prayers1 sir1 were heard and they were  
graciously answered4  ,all of us have   
observed frequent instances of a        
superintending ,providence in our favor4
  ,to that kind ,providence we owe this 
happy opportunity of consulting in peace
 on the means to establish our nation4  
,have we forgotten our powerful ,friend8
  ,do we imagine that we no longer need 

,his assistance8  ,i have lived1 sir1 a 
long time1 and the longer ,i live the   
more convinced ,i am that ,god governs  
in the affairs of men4  ,if a sparrow   
cannot fall to the ground without ,his  
notice1 is it probable that an empire   
can rise without ,his aid8  ,we are     
told1 sir in the sacred writings1 that  
'except the ,lord build the house1 they 
labor in vain that build it4'  ,i firmly
 believe this1 and ,i also believe that 
without ,his aid we shall succeed in our
 political building no better than the  
builders of ,babel4  ,we shall be       
divided by our little1 partial1 local   
interests1 our projects will be         
confounded1 and we ourselves shall      
become a reproach and a byword to future
 ages4  ,i therefore beg leave to move  
that henceforth prayers imploring the   
assistance of ,heaven an its blessing on
 our deliberations be held in this      
assembly every morning before we proceed
 to business1 and that one or more of   
the clergy of this city be requested to 

officiate4  ,when the ,constitution was 
adopted1 ,franklin rose1 and pointing to
 the speaker's chair1 on which was      
carved a sun half-hid by the horizon1   
said3 ,gentlemen1 ,i have long watched  
that sun and wondered whether it was a  
rising or a setting sun--,god has heard 
our prayers1 it is a rising sun4 ,this  
convention adopted the famous ordinance 
of #aghg1 which guaranteed that slavery 
should never enter the north-west       
territory1 and this1 under ,god1 saved  
the nation in the hour of trial4  ,the  
,constitution was ratified by eleven of 
the ,states in #aghh1 and the first     
,wednesday in ,january1 #aghi1 electors 
were chosen in all the ratifying        
,states1 except ,new ,york1 where a     
conflict between the senate and assembly
 prevented a choice4  ,in ,rhode ,island
 and ,north ,carolina no election was   
held4  ,the person receiving the highest
 number of votes was to be president1   
the man receiving the next highest      
number was to be vice-president4        

,washington received the whole number of
 votes1 #fi2 ,john ,adams received #cd4 
,they were elected the first president  
and vice-president of the ,united       
,states4    ,the world has only one     
,washington4  ,at sixteen he was county 
surveyor1 the support of his widowed    
mother2 at nineteen he was military     
inspector1 with the rank of major2 at   
twenty the governor of ,virginia sent   
him six hundred miles to ask the        
commander of the ,french forces by what 
authority he had invaded the king's     
dominions2 at twenty-two he was colonel 
in command of a regiment under ,general 
,braddock1 and in the absence of a      
chaplain he read prayers daily himself4 
,he saved the remnant of that ill-fated 
army from annihilation1 and fifteen     
years after an aged ,indian chief came  
to see the man at whom he had fired many
 times and who was protected by the     
,great ,spirit4  ,at his entrance as a  
member of the legislature of ,virginia1 
the speaker greeted him with thanks for 

his military services4  ,washington     
arose to reply and blushed and          
stammered4  ,the speaker said1 ,mr4     
,washington1 your modesty only equals   
your valor4  ,he was a member of the    
first ,continental ,congress of whom    
,patrick ,henry said1 ,mr4 ,rutledge1 of
 ,south ,carolina1 is the great orator1 
but for solid information and sound     
judgement ,col4 ,washington is          
unquestionably the greatest man on that 
floor4  ,when with one voice ,congress  
chose him to be the commander-in-chief1 
he said1  ,i beg it may be remembered by
 every gentleman in this room1 that ,i  
this day declare with the utmost        
sincerity that ,i do not think myself   
equal to the command ,i am honored with4
  ,no pecuniary consideration would     
tempt me to accept this position4  ,i   
will keep an exact account of my        
expenses1 those ,i doubt not you will   
discharge4  ,i ask no more4  ,the nation
 applauded the prudence1 the wisdom1 the
 bravery and patriotism of ,washington4 

,frederick the ,great said1 ,his        
achievements are the most brilliant in  
military annals4  ,napoleon directed    
that the standard of the ,french army   
should be hung with crape at his death4 
,fox said of him in the ,british        
,parliament1 ,illustrious man1 it has   
been reserved for him to run the race of
 glory without the smallest interruption
 to his course4  ,but the noblest eulogy
 ever uttered were the words of ,gen4   
,henry ,lee3 ,first in war1 first in    
peace and first in the hearts of his    
countrymen4  ,he had hoped to retire to 
private life1 and wrote to ,lafayette1  
,i am a private citizen on the banks of 
the ,potomac1 under the shadow of my own
 vine and fig tree4  ,i have retired    
from all public employment and tread the
 walks of private life with heartfelt   
satisfaction4  ,the country would not   
permit it4  ,he had refused to be a     
candidate for the office of president   
and accepted the nation's unanimous call
 with a heavy heart4  ,his last act     

before leaving for ,new ,york was to    
visit his aged mother1 then eighty-two1 
and in the last year of her life4  ,we  
can picture that tender farewell to one 
to whom he owed under ,god that         
beautiful faith which shed glory on his 
life4  ,the journey to ,new ,york was   
one continued ovation4  ,his ,virginia  
neighbors and friend gave him a         
,god-speed and benediction4  ,baltimore 
outdid itself in generous hospitality4  
,philadelphia crowned him with laurel1  
the bells rang out their joyous peals1  
cannons thundered and the people with   
one voice shouted ,long live the        
,president4  ,marvellous as was the     
enthusiasm of other cities1 the people  
of ,trenton1 who remembered the         
cruelties of the ,hessian in #aggf and  
their deliverance by ,washington1 outdid
 them all4  ,on a triumphal arch was    
written ,dec4 #bf1 #aggf4  ,the hero who
 defended the mothers will defend the   
daughters4  ,at ,elizabeth a committee  
of ,congress met him1 and ,caesar never 

had so beautiful a flotilla as that of  
the sea captains and pilots who bore him
 to ,new ,york on the #bc;d of ,april4  
,a week was spent in festivity4  ,it is 
the #cjth of ,april4  ,in all the       
churches of ,new ,york there have been  
prayers for the new government and its  
chosen head4  ,the streets swarm with   
people as the hour of noon approaches4  
,every house-top and porch and window   
near to ,federal ,hall is packed with a 
dense mass4  ,the president has been    
presented to the two houses of          
,congress4  ,the procession is formed4  
,washington follows the senators and    
representatives to the balcony4 ,around 
and behind him are his staff and        
distinguished patriots of the           
,revolution4  ,every eye is fixed on the
 stately1 majestic man4  ,a little over 
six feet high1 his form perfect in      
outline and figure1 a florid complexion1
 dark blue eyes deeply set1 his rich    
brown hair now tinged with gray1 firm   
jaws and broad nostrils1 lighted by a   

benignant expression4  ,such was the    
,father of his ,country4  ,the brave    
soldier trembles with emotion as the    
chancellor of the ,state of ,new ,york  
reads the oath2 the hand of ,washington 
is on the open ,bible4  ,was it a       
providence that they rested on the      
words1 ,his hands were made strong by   
the mighty ,god of ,israel8  ,the       
secretary would have raised the sacred  
book to the president's lips4           
,washington said solemnly1 ,i swear1 so 
help me ,god1 and then bowed reverently 
kissed the book4  ,he went to the senate
 chamber1 and with stammering words1 for
 his heart was almost too full for      
utterance1 he delivered his inaugural   
address1 and then turning to his friends
 said1 ,we will go to ,st4 ,paul's      
,church for prayers4  ,it had been the  
habit of his life4  ,his pastor1 ,rev4  
,lee ,massey1 said1 ,no company ever    
withheld him from church4' ,his         
secretary1 ,harrison1 said1 ,whenever   
the general could be spared from the    

camp on the ,sabbath1 he never failed to
 ride to some neighboring church to join
 in the worship of ,god4  ,he claimed no
 praise for his matchless victories1 but
 reverently gave all the glory to the   
blessing and protection of ,god4  ,he   
knew1 in the words of my friend ,robert 
,c4 ,winthrop1 that ,there can be no    
independence of ,god4  ,the poet will   
sing and the orator describe eloquently 
the pageant of that day1 but no incident
 will so touch the ,christian's heart as
 the first act of the president of the  
,united ,states1 kneeling reverently    
with his fellow-citizens in the public  
worship of ,god4  ,the service which had
 been set forth and was this day used in
 ,st4 ,paul's ,church by ,bishop        
,provost1 also a patriot of the         
,revolution1 and one who had suffered   
for his country's sake1 was             
substantially the same used by us       
to-day4  ,washington assumed office in  
the midst of dangers4  ,edmund          
,randolph1 one of the foremost members  

of the constitutional convention1 wrote 
to ,washington1 ,the ,constitution would
 never have been adopted but for the    
knowledge that you sanctioned it1 and   
the expectation that you would execute  
it4  ,it is in state of probation4  ,you
 alone can give it stability4  ,there   
was a stormy sea before the new ship of 
state4  ,the bitter hatreds between     
,federalist and anti-,federalist were   
not healed4  ,two states had not        
ratified the ,constitution--there were  
tokens in more than one direction of    
rebellion4 ,without on dollar in the    
treasury1 we were eighty millions in    
debt4  ,the pirates of ,morocco had     
destroyed our commerce in the           
,mediterranean1 ,spain threatened the   
valley of the ,mississippi4  ,our       
relations with ,england were full of    
bitter memories2 a country larger than  
,europe was to be protected1 and we had 
a standing army of only #fjj men4       
,washington called around him as        
advisers ,thomas ,jefferson1 ,secretary 

of ,foreign ,affairs2 ,alexander        
,hamilton1 ,secretary of the ,treasury2 
,henry ,knox1 ,secretary of ,war2       
,edmund ,randolph1 ,attorney-,general1  
and ,john ,jay1 ,chief ,justice1 and by 
these men1 under ,god1 the crumbling    
confederacy was cemented into one       
nation4  ,time forbids my reading you   
the words of wisdom1 apples of gold in  
pictures of silver1 of ,washington's    
inaugural and farewell addresses4  ,i   
wish ,i had time to tell how1 with a    
prophet's eye1 he saw the future of the 
,west1 and again and again urged the    
opening of lines of commerce to bind    
,east and ,west together4  ,after eight 
years of wise rule1 such as befitted the
 ,father of our ,country1 he retired to 
the shades of ,mt4 ,vernon1 to be1 as he
 had been through life1 the helper of   
the helpless1 the friend of the needy   
and the almoner of ,god4  ,on the #abth 
of ,december1 #agii1 he was exposed to a
 storm of sleet and rain1 the severest  
form of quinsy set in2 two days later1  

the #adth of ,december1 he died4  ,as   
friends stood weeping around his        
death-bed1 he said with a smile1 ,o     
don't1 don't2 ,i am dying1 but thank    
,god ,i am not afraid to die4  ,as the  
hour of his death drew near he asked to 
be left alone4  ,they all went out and  
left him with ,god4 ,there are lessons  
for our hearts to-day4  ,government is a
 delegated trust from ,god1 who alone   
has the right to govern4  ,he gives to  
every nation the right to say in what   
form this trust shall be clothed4  ,no  
man has the right to be his brother's   
master4  ,take away the truth that      
government is a trust which comes from  
,god1 and you have left nothing between 
man and man but cunning and brute force4
  ,burke said1 this sacred trust of     
government does not arise from our      
conventions and compacts1 but it gives  
our conventions and compacts all the    
force and sanction which they have4  ,i 
shall be told that the name of ,god is  
not found in the ,constitution of the   

,united ,states2 it did not need to be  
when it was written on the people's     
hearts4  ,while we commemorate the noble
 deeds of our fathers1 which under ,god 
were this day crowned with success1 we  
gratefully remember that our fathers'   
,god has guided us through all dangers4 
,what other nation has come out of the  
horrors of civil war with victors and   
vanquished vieing with each other in    
love for one common country8  ,where has
 the hand of the assassin bowed the     
whole people by the leader's grave8     
,this is no day for boasting or to call 
over the roll of our great dead4  ,we   
have sinned deeply1 and deeply have we  
paid the penalty4  ,no hand but ,god's  
could have over-ruled our mistakes and  
given us our favored position to-day4   
,we must not forget that no nation has  
ever survived the loss of its religion4 
,the year which saw ,washington         
inaugurated president1 saw in the fair  
land of ,lafayette the beginnings of    
that holocaust of murder which turned   

,france into a hell4  ,the fear of the  
,lord is the beginning of wisdom4  ,no  
high-sounding words about freedom1 no   
,godless philosophy1 no infidel creed1  
which robs men of homes here and heaven 
hereafter1 can save this nation4  ,not  
unto us1 but unto ,thy name be the      
praise1 must be our song1 as it was the 
song of our fathers4   ,there are clouds
 and darkness on the horizon for the    
future4  ,i see it in the impatience of 
law1 in the jealousies between class and
 class1 in the selfishness of the rich1 
and in the misery of the poor1 in       
bribery and corruption in high places1  
and in the turbulence of mobs4  ,i see  
it in the foul monster of intemperance  
and impurity which stalk unabashed      
through the land4  ,but ,i see the      
greatest danger in that insidious       
teaching which robs humanity of an      
eternal standard of right1 which makes  
morality prudence or imprudence1 which  
limits man's horizon by the grave1 and  
takes from hearts and homes ,god and    

,christ and heaven4  ,yet1 ,i reverently
 believe that ,god has set us in the    
forefront of the nations to be1 as our  
text says1 a beacon on the mountain-top1
 to lead on in ,his work in the last    
time4  ,it may be that for our sins we  
shall walk again into the furnace1 as we
 have walked and come out of it purified
 and fitted for the ,master's use4  ,i  
sometimes lose faith in men1 but ,i will
 not lose faith in ,god4  ,it is ours to
 work and bide our time2 so did our     
fathers1 and so will ,god give the      
harvest4  ,i should wrong my heart and  
yours to-day1 if ,i forgot the daughters
 of the ,revolution4  ,we might have had
 no ,washington but for the lessons he  
learned at that mother's knee1 that his 
duty to ,god was to believe in ,him1 to 
fear ,him and to love ,him with all his 
heart1 with all his mind1 with all his  
soul and with all his strength1 to      
worship ,him1 to give ,him thanks1 to   
put his whole trust in ,him1 to call on 
,him1 to honor ,his holy name and ,his  

word and to love ,him truly all the days
 of his life2 that his duty towards his 
neighbor--was to love him as himself1   
and to do to all men as he would have   
them do unto him1 to love1 honor and    
succor his father and mother1 to honor  
and obey the civil authority1 to hurt   
nobody by word or deed1 to be true and  
just in all his dealings1 to bear no    
malice or hatred in his heart1 to keep  
his hands from picking and stealing1 and
 his tongue from evil speaking1 lying   
and slandering1 to keep his body in     
temperance1 soberness and chastity4     
,not to covet or desire other men's     
goods1 but to learn and labor truly to  
get his own living and to do his duty in
 that state of life unto which it should
 please ,god to call him4 ,we know this 
was the rule of his life4  ,the ,father 
of his ,country found his solace1       
inspiration and help1 as many of us have
 found it1 in the love of a ,christian  
wife4  ,there are no fairer names in our
 country's history than ,martha         

,washington1 ,abigail ,adams1 ,elizabeth
 ,schuyler ,hamilton1 ,sally ,foster    
,otis1 ,alice ,de,lancy ,izard1 ,jane   
,ketelas ,beekman1 and many more1 who   
made up the republican court of         
,washington2 and we do not forget humble
 names like ,mollie ,stark1 whose lives 
were consecrated to their country4      
,wives1 mothers1 daughters6 none have   
places of greater influence in shaping  
and moulding our country than you4      
,your power is the power of a ,christian
 mother1 a ,christian wife1 a ,christian
 daughter4  ,in the darkest hour look to
 ,god1 believe that your mission is a   
nobler one than to be a slave of fashion
 or the leader of a party4 ,plant your  
feet on the rock of eternal truth--never
 speak with uncertain voice of the      
verities of the ,christian faith4  ,for 
you ,st4 ,paul said3 ,how knowest thou1 
,o ,woman1 but thou mayest save thy     
husband and thy child1 and saving them a
 nation is saved4      ,,iii4 ,,sermon  
,,at ,,the ,,second ,,annual ,,meeting  

,,of ,,the ,,missionary ,,council ,,in  
,,washington1 ,d4,c41 ,,nov4 #ac1 #ahhh4
   ,the kingdoms of this world have     
become the kingdoms of our ,lord and of 
,his ,christ1 and ,he shall reign for   
ever and ever4--,,revelation xi4 #ae4   
,,these words are ,god's surety that the
 prayers1 the trials and the labors of  
,his ,church shall be crowned with      
success4  ,we are living in the great   
missionary age of the ,church4          
,impenetrable barriers have been broken 
down4  ,fast-closed doors have been     
opened4 ,there is no country where we   
may not carry the ,gospel of ,jesus     
,christ4 ,divine ,providence has been   
fusing the nations of the earth into one
 common brotherhood4  ,man has created  
nothing4  ,the lightening would run its 
circuit in the ,garden of ,eden as well 
as when ,morse made it man's messenger4 
,in the fullness of time ,god has lifted
 the veil from human eyes to see the    
mysteries of ,his bounty1 and so prepare
 a highway for the coming of our ,king4 

,i have no argument about the obligation
 of missions4  ,it is eighteen hundred  
years too late for this4  ,i speak to   
you to-day of the progress of the       
,kingdom of ,christ4  ,pray for me that 
the story may lead us to the foot of the
 ,cross to consecrate all that we have  
to ,his blessed service4   ,at the close
 of the last century a thoughtful young 
,englishman asked the governor of the   
,east ,india ,company to go to ,india to
 preach the ,gospel4 ,the answer was3   
,the man that would go to ,india upon   
that errand is as mad as a man who would
 put a torch to a powder magazine4  ,a  
few years ago ,chunder ,sen1 the great  
scholar of ,india1 died4  ,on his       
death-bed a friend asked him what he    
thought were the prospects of           
,christianity in ,india4  ,he answered3 
,jesus ,christ has conquered the heart  
of ,india4  ,not that great battles are 
not yet to be fought1 much weary work to
 be done1 but with more than half a     
million of ,christians in ,india1 which 

have been won in this century1 we are   
certain that the nation will be won to  
,christ4  ,i turn to that dark continent
 which has had more of human sorrow     
bound up in its history than any place  
on earth4  ,forty years ago in a cottage
 in the highlands of ,scotland an aged  
man said to his son3 ,david1 you will   
have family prayer to-day1 for when we  
part we shall never meet again until we 
meet before the great white throne4     
,david ,livingstone read the            
thirty-fourth ,psalm1 the key-note of   
that wonderful life1 and then poured out
 his heart to ,god in prayer1 threw his 
arms around his father's neck and kissed
 him2 they parted never to meet again in
 this world1 and so he went to ,africa4 
,he did a wonderful work in the         
,bechuana country4  ,he was a carpenter1
 blacksmith1 teacher1 laborer1 physician
 and minister to these poor souls1 but  
the man's heart was in the interior of  
,africa4  ,one day1 with about as much  
preparation as ,i take when ,i go to the

 north woods of ,minnesota1 he left for 
the interior of ,africa4  ,his route was
 along the path of slave traders1 and   
every few days he came to some place    
where a poor woman had fainted in the   
chain-gang and had been strapped to a   
tree with her babe at her breast and    
left to be stung to death by insects4   
,no wonder that he wrote in his         
,journal1 and blotted it with tears3    
,oh1 ,god1 when will the great sore of  
the world be healed8  ,when you remember
 that the followers of the false prophet
 are the only people engaged in this    
traffic in human flesh1 and that to the 
poor ,african it means slavery or death1
 you have the answer to the stories of  
the progress of ,mohammedanism in       
,africa4  ,i cannot tell the story of   
his life4   ,one day he was found dead  
on his knees in prayer in an ,african   
hut4  ,that life had so impressed itself
 upon the heathen folk that they did    
what will always be a marvel of history4
  ,they wrapped the body in leaves4     

,they covered it with pitch4 ,they      
carried it nine months on their         
shoulders4  ,they fought hostile tribes4
  ,they swam swollen rivers4  ,they cut 
their way through impenetrable thickets1
 and at last stood at the door of a     
mission house in ,zanzibar1 and said1   
,we have brought the man of ,god to be  
buried with his people4  ,and so ,david 
,livingstone sleeps in ,westminster     
,abbey4  ,our ,stanley took up          
,livingstone's work1 and he laid ,africa
 open to the gaze of the world4  ,he    
travelled nine hundred and ninety-nine  
days1 and the thousandth day reached the
 sea-coast4  ,in all that journey he did
 not meet a single1 solitary soul who   
had heard that ,jesus ,christ had come  
into the world4  ,stanley tells the     
reason why he went back to ,africa4  ,he
 said3   ,when ,i found ,livingstone ,i 
cared no more for missions than the     
veriest atheist in ,england4  ,i had    
been a press reporter1 and my business  
was to follow armies and to describe    

battles2 to attend conventions and      
report speeches1 but my heart had not   
been touched with sympathy for missions4
 ,when ,i found this grand old man ,i   
asked3 ',what is he here for8  ,is he   
crazy8  ,is he cracked8  ,i sat at his  
feet four months and ,i saw that a power
 above his will had taken possession of 
his life1 and given him a hunger to lead
 poor heathen folk out of their         
darkness4  ,i have heard the same voice 
speaking to my heart1 ',follow me1' and 
,i go back to ,africa to finish         
,livingstone's work4  ,this was a few   
years ago4  ,to-day there are fifteen   
,christian ,bishops of our communion in 
,africa4  ,eight were present at the    
,lambeth ,conference4 ,one of them1     
,bishop ,crowther1 was captured when a  
boy ten years of age on a slave ship1   
placed in a mission school1 transferred 
to a high school1 then to the           
university1 graduated with honors1 and  
went back to ,africa as a ,bishop4  ,as 
,i looked in the face of that black man 

and thought of his wonderful history1 ,i
 remembered another man from ,africa    
that carried the cross of my blessed    
,master up the hill to ,calvary1 and    
that this aged servant of ,christ was   
following in his blessed footsteps4     
,another of these ,bishops was one of   
the manliest men that ,i ever looked    
upon2 ,bishop ,smythies1 the picture of 
manly beauty1 honored by his university1
 beloved by friends1 a face gentle and  
loving as that of ,st4 ,john4  ,when ,i 
thought of this man going on foot in the
 interior of ,africa1 perhaps to die for
 ,christ1 ,i could not keep back the    
tears1 and ,i went to him and said1 ,my 
good brother1 ,i cannot tell you how my 
heart goes out to you in loving         
sympathy4  ,he smiled and said1 ,bishop1
 when the ,church in ,jerusalem had more
 work than it knew how to do1 the ,holy 
,ghost sent one of its ministers upon a 
long journey to convert one ,african4   
,surely it is not much for the          
,christians of ,christian ,england to   

send a ,christian ,bishop to millions   
who never heard there is a ,savior4     
,and now ,i turn to the opposite quarter
 of the globe--,australasia1 ,new       
,zealand1 and ,polynesia4  ,when ,i was 
a boy there was but one ,english        
settlement1 and that was known          
throughout the world as ,botany ,bay1   
the abode of the most abandoned         
criminals of ,english civilization4     
,there are to-day twenty-one ,bishops in
 those islands4  ,i wish ,i could tell  
the story inwrought in the lives of     
,selwyn1 ,patteson1 ,williams1 and a    
host of others1 some of whom have laid  
down their lives for ,christ4  ,to-day  
cannibalism is a thing of the past4     
,human sacrifices1 thank ,god1 are to be
 found nowhere on the earth4  ,there is 
not one of those islands without its    
,christian church1 and in some of them  
the last vestige of heathenism has      
passed away4  ,they have thousands of   
,christian men and women under their    
native pastors4  ,surely this is no time

 to talk about the failure of ,christian
 missions4  ,now ,i turn to ,japan4     
,less than forty year ago one of our    
brave ,american sailors1 ,commodore     
,perry1 cast anchor on ,sunday morning  
in the harbor of ,yeddo4  ,he called his
 officers and crew together for public  
worship1 and they sang that old hymn of 
our fathers1 ,old ,hundred2 and the     
first sound that this hermit nation     
heard from her younger sister of the    
,west was that grand old hymn4   ,next  
year ,japan will have a constitutional  
government4  ,it has already adopted the
 ,christian calendar4  ,there are more  
that a million of children in their     
public schools4  ,many of these schools 
are under the charge of ,christian men  
and women1 and it is only a question of 
a few years when ,japan will take her   
place beside other ,christian nations4  
,this is more wonderful when we remember
 that until recently there was a statute
 in ,japan that1 if any ,christian shall
 set his foot on the ,island of ,japan1 

or if the ,christian's ,god1 ,jesus1    
shall come1 he shall be beheaded4  ,i   
turn to ,china4  ,i wonder that its     
doors are open to ,christian missions   
when ,i remember that ,christian nations
 at the mouth of the cannon have forced 
upon that people that deadly drug which 
drags body and soul to death1 that their
 names have been by-words and hissing in
 ,christian lands4  ,the secret is that 
,god sent to ,china a young ,englishman 
whose life was hid with ,christ in ,god4
  ,chinese ,gordon saved the nation of  
,china1 and his name will be a household
 word forever4  ,surely a people where  
the poorest laborer can become the first
 prince of the realm if he becomes the  
first scholar1 and if his son is a      
vagabond sinks to the place from which  
his father came1 surely such a people   
have the elements to receive the ,gospel
 of ,christ4  ,time would fail me to    
tell the story of missions in ,north    
,america2 ,i should begin at ,hudson's  
,bay1 where ,bishop ,john ,horden has   

lived thirty-five years amid its        
solitudes and won every one of its      
,indian tribes to ,christianity4  ,i    
should tell you of the ,bishop of       
,athabasca1 whose home is within the    
,arctic circle1 who could not attend the
 ,lambeth ,conference because he could  
not go and return the same year4  ,i    
should tell of my young friend1 the     
,bishop of ,mackenzie ,river1 when ,i   
knew that he spent nine months each year
 travelling upon snowshoes and three    
months in a birch-bark canoe2 that the  
only way that he could carry to them the
 ,gospel was to follow them in the      
chase1 hunt with them1 fish with them1  
lie down in their wigwams in his blanket
 and always have waiting upon his lips  
the sweet story of the love of ,god1 our
 ,father4  ,i told him ,i wished he     
would give me his post-office address   
and ,i would send him books and papers2 
he said3 ,bishop1 ,i am a thousand miles
 from a post-office and only get one    
mail a year4  ,i should tell you of     

another1 the ,bishop of ,rupertsland1   
,dr4 ,macrae1 the only ,bishop in       
,christendom who has a university made  
up of a ,roman ,catholic college1 a     
,presbyterian college1 and a college of 
the ,church of ,england2 so             
large-hearted that almost by one consent
 the people of ,manitoba have made him  
the president of their entire           
educational system4   ,if ,i turn to our
 own land1 it would be to tell you that 
one hundred years ago the ,church was a 
feeble folk1 scattered along the        
,atlantic coast and known as a people   
that were everywhere spoken against4    
,thank ,god1 to-day her voice is heard  
in the miner's camp1 in the schoolhouse 
of the border1 in the wigwam of the     
,indians1 and sturdy heralds are in the 
fore-front of that mighty movement which
 is peopling this land with its millions
 of souls4  ,marvellous as is the       
progress of ,christian missions and the 
work which has been done in this        
century1 it has largely been committed  

to the ,english-speaking race4  ,in the 
providence of ,god races of men have    
been selected by ,him to do ,his work4  
,two hundred years ago the              
,english-speaking people of ,europe were
 less than many of the nations of the   
,latin races4  ,spain outnumbered       
,england two to one4  ,to-day there are 
one hundred and fifty millions of       
,english-speaking people in the world1  
one-tenth of the entire human family4   
,when we think of the future1 that by   
the close of another century more than  
five hundred millions will be speaking  
one language1 it leads us to ask1 on    
bended knees1 why has this commission   
been committed to this ,english-speaking
 race1 and what are the responsibilities
 that rest upon our branch of the       
,church of ,god8  ,i reverently believe 
that it is because on its civil side it 
recognizes as no other race that        
government is a delegated trust from    
,god1 who alone has the right to govern4
  ,it represents constitutional         

government1 and it has done so since    
,bishop ,stephen ,langton1 at the head  
of the nobles of ,england1 wrung the    
,magna ,charta from ,king ,john1 and    
henceforth recognized the sacredness of 
the citizen1 who has been clothed with  
an individuality unlike any being who   
lives or will live in all the ages of   
eternity4  ,on its religious side it    
recognizes the two truths which underlie
 the possibility of the reunion of      
,christendom--the validity of all       
,christian ,baptism in the name of the  
,father1 the ,son1 and the ,holy ,ghost1
 and that the condition of fellowship in
 the ,church of ,god is faith in the    
incarnate ,son of ,god as contained in  
the ,old ,catholic creeds4  ,surely we  
may hold up the olive branch of ,god's  
peace over all strife and divisions     
among the disciples of ,christ1 and say 
,ye are brethren4  ,when we remember    
that in the providence of ,god the      
,greek tongue was spoken throughout the 
civilized world to prepare a way for the

 coming of ,his ,son and the preaching  
of the blessed ,gospel1 we see in these 
facts forerunning tokens of his         
preparation for the second coming of    
,jesus ,christ4  ,if ,i had time to-day1
 ,i would love to tell you the story    
that is inwrought in the history of our 
noble ,missionary ,bishops2 men who have
 hazarded their lives for the ,lord     
,jesus4  ,i wish ,i could tell you of   
their ventures of faith1 foundations for
 ,christian schools which they have laid
 with prayers and watered with tears1   
and with a prophet's eye looked forward 
to a future when the land will swarm    
with millions of souls1 that so by      
,christian nurture and ,christian       
training the ,church may fulfil the     
,master's words1 ,feed my lambs4  ,i    
wish ,i could tell you of the work1 dear
 to every ,bishop's heart1 of the       
daughters of the ,cross2 yes1 and ,i    
would like to bring to this ,council    
some of the tempest-tossed and weary    
souls who have been led out of their    

darkness to the rest and peace and      
gladness of ,christian faith4  ,i wish  
,i could bring here some from the       
northern forests and the prairies of the
 ,west1 the men of the trembling eye and
 the wandering foot1 that they might    
thank you for having led them out of    
their heritage of anguish and sorrow    
into the light of the children of ,god4 
,i may not close without a word of      
tribute to those who have fallen asleep4
  ,since our last ,general ,convention  
nine ,bishops have crossed the river and
 are waiting for us on the other shore4 
,unbidden tears come as ,i remember the 
loving ,elliot1 our ,st4 ,john2 ,welles1
 another holy ,herbert2 ,brown1 with his
 ,catholic heart that had room enough to
 take in all the poor and the sorrowful 
of his diocese2 ,harris1 every whit a   
great leader in our ,israel2 ,dunlop1   
the soldier on the outpost1 often       
debarred brotherly sympathy1 who in     
loneliness and weariness bravely did his
 work4  ,others who were patriarchs of  

the ,church of ,god--,green1 ,lee1      
,potter and ,stevens--all men who were  
great leaders in the ,church of ,god1   
who bravely did their work1 whose faces 
are upon every heart1 and who have      
entered into rest4  ,since ,i entered   
the ,house of ,bishops1 fifty-three     
,bishops have laid down their shepherd's
 staves and entered into rest4   ,a     
word1 and ,i have done4  ,surely in such
 a day as this it is no time to discuss 
shibboleths4  ,its is a time for        
brotherly sympathy and great-hearted    
work4  ,with such responsibilities      
around us there must be no divisions    
among those who love the same ,saviour  
and look for the same heavenly home4  ,i
 remember that at a critical period in  
our missionary work the venerable       
,doctor ,dyer said to me with tears in  
his eyes1 ,strife is an awful price to  
pay for the best results1 but strife    
among the kinsmen of ,christ in the     
presence of those for whom ,he died1 and
 when wandering souls are going down to 

death1 is almost an unpardonable sin4   
,may ,i not ask you to-day1 dear        
brothers and sisters1 what have we done 
to help on in the great work which is to
 be done in the eventide of the world8  
,what lonely missionary have we         
remembered in prayer during the past    
week8  ,what wanderer have we tried with
 love to lead to the ,saviour8  ,have we
 given the cost of the trimmings of a   
dress8  ,have we made any sacrifices for
 ,him who gave ,himself for us8  ,may ,i
 not ask you to-day here beside ,god's  
altar to consecrate all you have and are
 to ,his service8  ,with some of us the 
eventide draws on4  ,a little while1    
such a little while1 just time enough to
 do ,his work1 and then the end shall   
come4 ,and when we reach that other     
home1 next to seeing the ,saviour1 next 
to having the old ties re-united1 will  
be the comfort and the blessedness of   
meeting some one whom we helped         
heavenward and home4      ,,iv4         
,,address ,,in ,,lambeth ,,chapel1 ,,at 

,,the ,,first ,,session ,,of ,,the      
,,lambeth ,,conference1 ,,july #c1      
#ahhh4   ,most reverend and right       
reverend brethren3 ,no assembly is      
fraught with such awful responsibility  
to ,god1 as a council of the ,bishops of
 ,his ,church4  ,since the ,holy ,spirit
 presided in the first council of       
,jerusalem1 faithful souls have looked  
with deep interest to the deliberations 
of those whom ,christ has made the      
shepherds of ,his flock1 and to whom he 
gave ,his promise1 ,lo1 ,i am with you  
always to the end of the world4  ,the   
responsibility is greater when division 
has marred the beauty of the ,lamb's    
,bride4  ,our words and acts will surely
 hasten or 7which ,god forbid7 retard   
the reunion of ,christendom4  ,feeling  
the grave responsibility which is       
imposed on me to-day1 my heart cries out
 as did the prophet's1 ,i am a child and
 cannot speak4  ,pray for me1 venerable 
brethren1 that ,god may help me to obey 
,his word--,whatsoever ,i command1 that 

shalt thou speak4  ,i would kneel with  
you at our ,master's feet and pray that 
the ,holy ,spirit may guide us into all 
truth4  ,we meet as the representatives 
of national ,churches2 each with its own
 peculiar responsibility to ,god for the
 souls intrusted to its care2 each with 
all the rights of a national ,church1 to
 adapt itself to the varying conditions 
of human society2 and each bound to     
preserve the order1 the faith1 the      
sacraments1 and the worship of the      
,catholic ,church1 for which it is a    
trustee4  ,as we kneel by the table of  
our common ,lord we remember separated  
brothers4  ,division has multiplied     
division until infidelity sneers at     
,christianity as an effete superstition1
 and the modern ,sadducee1 more bold    
than his ,jewish brother1 denies the    
existence of ,god4  ,millions for whom  
,christ died have not so much as heard  
that there is a ,saviour4  ,it will heal
 no divisions to say1 ,who is at fault8 
,the sin of schism does not lie at one  

door4  ,if one has sinned by self-will1 
the other has sinned as deeply by lack  
of charity and love4 ,the way to reunion
 looks difficult4  ,to man it is        
impossible4  ,no human eirenicon can    
bridge the gulf of separation4  ,there  
are unkind words to be taken back1      
alienations to be healed1 and           
heartburnings to be forgiven4  ,where we
 are blind1 ,god can make a way4  ,when 
the ,god of ,peace rules in all         
,christian hearts1 our ,lord's prayer   
will be answered--,that they all may be 
one1 as ,thou1 ,father1 art in ,me1 and 
,i in ,thee1 that they all may be one in
 ,us1 that the world may believe that   
,thou hast sent ,me4  ,no one branch of 
the ,church is absolutely by itself     
alone the ,catholic ,church2 all        
branches need reunion in order to the   
completeness of the ,church4  ,there are
 blessed signs that the ,holy ,spirit is
 quickening ,christian hearts to seek   
for unity4  ,we all know that this      
divided ,christianity cannot conquer the

 world4  ,at a time when every form of  
error and sin is banded together to     
oppose the kingdom of ,christ1 the world
 needs the witness of a united ,church4 
,men must hear again the voice which    
peals through the lapse of centuries    
bearing witness to the faith once       
delivered to the saints1 or else for    
many souls there will be only           
rationalism and unbelief--while this    
sad1 weary world1 so full of sin and    
sorrow1 is pleading for help1 it is a   
wrong to ,christ and to the souls for   
whom ,he died that ,his children should 
be separated in rival folds4  ,as       
baptised into ,christ we are brothers4  
,notwithstanding the hedges of human    
opinions which men have builded in the  
garden of the ,lord1 all who look for   
salvation alone through faith in ,jesus 
,christ do hold the great verities of   
,divine faith4  ,the opinions which     
separate us are not necessary to be     
believed in order to salvation4  ,the   
truths in which we agree are parts of   

the ,catholic faith4  ,the ,holy ,spirit
 has passed over these human barriers1  
and set his seal to the labors of       
separated brethren in ,christ1 and      
rewarded them in the salvation of many  
precious souls4  ,the grace of the ,lord
 ,jesus ,christ and the renewing and    
sanctifying influences of the ,holy     
,ghost are the same in the peasant in   
the cottage1 and in the emperor on the  
throne4  ,they share with us in the long
 line of confessors and martyrs for     
,christ4  ,we would not rob them of one 
sheaf which they have gathered in the   
garner of the ,lord4  ,we rejoice that  
,churches with a like historic lineage  
with us are seeking reunion4  ,churches 
whose faith has been dimmed by coldness 
or clouded by error are being quickened 
into new life from the ,incarnate ,son  
of ,god4  ,our hearts go out in loving  
sympathy to the ,old ,catholics of      
,europe and ,america1 whose names always
 will be linked with ,selwyn1           
,wilberforce1 and ,wordsworth1          

,whittingham1 ,kerfoot1 and ,brown1 in  
defence of the faith4 ,it is with deep  
sorrow that we remember that the ,church
 of ,rome has separated herself from the
 teaching of the primitive ,church by   
additions to the faith once delivered to
 the saints1 and by claiming for its    
,bishop prerogatives which belong only  
to the ,divine ,head of the ,church     
,while we honor the devotion and zeal of
 her missionary heroes1 and rejoice at  
the good works of multitudes of her     
children1 we lament that lack of charity
 which anathematizes disciples of       
,christ who have carried the ,gospel to 
the ends of the earth4  ,we bless ,god's
 ,holy ,name for the fraternal work     
which has been carried on under the     
guidance of the see of ,canterbury1 and 
which we trust will lead ancient        
,churches to a deeper personal faith in 
,jesus ,christ4   ,we are sad that some 
of our kinsmen in ,christ1 children of  
one mother1 have forsaken her ways4     
,god can over-rule even this sorrow1 so 

that it shall fall out to the           
furtherance of the ,gospel4  ,they must 
take with them precious memories of the 
love and the faith of the mother whom   
they have forsaken1 and of the liberty  
wherewith the truth in ,christ has made 
her children free--under ,god these may 
be a link in the chain of ,his          
providence to the restoration of unity4 
,it is a singular providence that at    
this period of the world's history1 when
 marvellous discoveries have united the 
people of divers tongues in common      
interests1 ,he has placed the           
,anglo-,saxon race in the forefront of  
the nations4  ,they are carrying        
civilization to the ends of the earth4  
,they are bringing liberty to the       
oppressed1 elevating the down-trodden1  
and are giving to all these divers      
tongues and kindreds their customs1     
traditions1 and laws4  ,i reverently    
believe that the ,anglo-,saxon ,church  
has been preserved by ,god's ,providence
 7if her children will accept this      

,mission7 to heal the divisions of      
,christendom1 and lead on in ,his work  
to be done in the eventide of the world4
  ,she holds the truths which underlie  
the possibility of reunion1 the validity
 of all ,christian baptism in the ,name 
of the ,father1 the ,son1 and the ,holy 
,ghost4  ,she ministers the two         
sacraments of ,christ as of perpetual   
obligation1 and makes faith in ,jesus   
,christ1 as contained in the ,catholic  
,creeds1 a condition of ,christian      
fellowship4  ,the ,anglo-,saxon ,church 
does not perplex men with theories and  
shibboleths which many a poor           
,ephraimite cannot speak--she believes  
in ,god the ,father ,almighty1 ,maker of
 heaven and earth1 and in ,jesus ,christ
 ,his only ,son1 and in the ,holy       
,ghost1 three ,persons and one ,god1 but
 she does not weaken faith in the       
,triune ,god by human speculations about
 the ,trinity in ,unity4  ,she believes 
that the sacred ,scriptures were written
 by inspiration of ,god1 but she has no 

theory about inspiration4  ,she holds up
 the ,atonement of ,christ as the only  
hope of a lost world2 but she has no    
philosophy about the ,atonement4 ,she   
teaches that it is through the ,holy    
,ghost that men are united to ,christ4  
,she ministers the sacraments appointed 
by ,christ as ,his channels of grace2   
but she has no theory to explain the    
manner of ,christ's presence to penitent
 believing souls4  ,she does not explain
 what ,god has explained1 but celebrates
 these ,divine mysteries1 as they were  
held and celebrated for one thousand    
years after our ,lord ascended into     
heaven1 before there was any ,east or   
,west arrayed against each other in the 
,church of ,god4  ,surely we may and    
ought to be first to hold up the olive  
branch of peace over strife1 and say1   
,sirs1 ye are brethren4  ,in so grave a 
matter as the restoration of organic    
unity1 we may not surrender anything    
which is of ,divine authority1 or accept
 terms of communion which are contrary  

to ,god's ,word4  ,we cannot recognize  
any usurpation of the rights and        
prerogatives of national ,churches which
 have a common ancestry1 lest we heal   
the hurt of the daughter of my people   
slightly1 and say peace1 where there is 
no peace2 but we do say that all which  
is temporary and of human choice or     
preference we will forego1 from our love
 to our own kinsmen in ,christ4  ,the   
,church of the ,reconciliation will be  
an historical and ,catholic ,church in  
its ministry1 its faith1 and its        
sacraments4  ,it will inherit the       
promises of its ,divine ,lord4  ,it will
 preserve all which is catholic and     
,divine4  ,it will adopt and use all    
instrumentalities of any existing       
organization which will aid it in doing 
the ,lord's work4  ,it will put away all
 which is individual1 narrow1 and       
sectarian4  ,it will concede to all who 
hold the faith all the liberty wherewith
 ,christ hath made ,his children free4  
,missions4--,in the presence of brethren

 who bear in their bodies the marks of  
the ,lord ,jesus1 ,i hardly know how to 
clothe in words my thoughts as ,i speak 
of ,missions4  ,the providence of ,god  
has broken down impenetrable            
barriers--the doors of hermit nations   
have been opened2 commerce has bound men
 in common interests1 and so prepared a 
highway for our ,god--,japan1 ,india1   
,china1 ,africa1 ,polynesia1 amid the   
solitudes of icy north1 and in the lands
 of tropic suns1 world-wide there are   
signs of the coming of the kingdom of   
,jesus ,christ4  ,the veil which has so 
long blinded the eyes of the ancient    
people1 our ,lord's kinsmen according to
 the flesh1 is being taken away4  ,we   
bless ,god for the good example of      
martyrs like ,patteson1 ,mackenzie1     
,parker1 ,hannington1 and others1 who   
have laid down their lives for the ,lord
 ,jesus4  ,we rejoice that our branch of
 the ,church has been counted worthy to 
add to the names of those who came out  
of great tribulation1 and have washed   

their robes1 and made them white in the 
blood of the ,lamb4  ,a great and       
effectual door is opened4  ,there is no 
country on the earth where we may not   
carry the ,gospel4  ,the wealth of the  
world is largely in ,christian hands4   
,the ,church only needs faith to grasp  
the opportunity to do the work4  ,in the
 presence of fields so white for the    
harvest1 we must ask1 ,lord1 what wilt  
,thou have me to do8  #a4 ,there must be
 unceasing1 prevailing intercessory     
prayer for those whom we send out to    
heathen lands4  ,the hearts of all      
,christian nations were turned with     
anxious solicitude to that brave servant
 of ,god and ,his country in ,khartoum4 
,shall we feel less for the servants of 
,christ who have given up home and      
country to suffer and it may be to die  
for ,him8 ,some of us remember that when
 ,missions were destroyed1 when clouds  
were all around us1 and the very ground 
drifting from under our feet1 that we   
were made brave to work and wait for the

 salvation of ,god by the prayers which 
went up to ,god for us4  ,when prayers  
were made without ceasing of the ,church
 unto ,god1 the fast-closed doors of the
 prison were opened for the ,apostles4  
,it will be so again4  #b4 ,there must  
be the entire consecration of all unto  
,christ4  ,the wisdom of ,paul and the  
eloquence of ,apollos may plant1 but    
,god alone giveth the increase4  ,if    
success comes1 if the rod of the        
priesthood bud and blossom and bear     
fruit1 it must be laid up in the ark of 
,god4  ,he will not give ,his glory to  
another4  ,the work is ,christ's4  ,we  
are ambassadors for ,him4  ,i have      
chosen you and ordained you that ye     
should go and bring forth fruit4  #c4   
,they who would win souls must have a   
ripe knowledge of the sacred            
,scriptures4  ,they were written by     
inspiration of ,god4 4 4 4 that the man 
of ,god may be perfect1 thoroughly      
furnished unto all good works4 ,our     
orders may be unquestioned1 our doctrine

 perfect in every line and feature1 but 
we shall not reach the hearts of men    
unless we preach ,christ out of an      
experimental knowledge of the truths of 
,divine ,revelation4  ,there is but one 
,book which can bring light to homes of 
sorrow1 one light to scatter clouds and 
darkness1 one message to lead wandering 
folk unto ,god4  ,this blessed ,book    
will be to every soldier and lonely     
missionary what it was to ,livingstone  
dying alone in ,africa1 or to ,captain  
,gardiner dead on the desolate shores of
 ,patagonia1 whose finger pointed to the
 words1 ,the ,blood of ,jesus ,christ   
cleanseth from all sin4  #d4 ,we must   
love all whom ,christ loves4  ,we may   
have the gift of teaching1 we may       
understand all mysteries1 we may have   
all knowledge1 we may bestow all our    
goods to the poor1 we may even give our 
bodies to be burned1 but without that   
love which comes alone from ,christ1 we 
shall be as sounding brass and a        
tinkling cymbal4  ,with ,st4 ,paul we   

must say1 ,whereinsoever ,christ is     
preached ,i do rejoice1 and will        
rejoice4  #e4 ,above all gifts we need  
the baptism of the ,holy ,ghost4  ,when 
this consecration comes there will be no
 cry of an empty treasury4  ,we shall no
 longer be weary with the bleating of   
lost sheep1 to whom we have to say1 ,i  
have no means and no shepherd to send   
you4    ,christian ,work--,we rejoice at
 every sign that ,christians realize    
that wealth is a sacred trust1 for which
 they shall give an account4  ,we       
rejoice more that they are giving that  
personal service which is a law of ,his 
kingdom4  ,men and women of culture and 
gentle birth are going into the abodes  
of sickness and sorrow to comfort       
stricken homes and lead sinful folk to  
the ,saviour4  ,brotherhoods1           
,sisterhoods1 and deaconesses are       
multiplying4  ,never was there greater  
need for their holy work4  ,many of our 
own baptized children have drifted away 
from all faith4  ,to thousands ,god is a

 name1 the ,bible a tradition1 faith an 
opinion1 and heaven and hell fables4    
,but that which gives us the deepest    
sadness and makes all ,christian work   
more difficult is that so many of those 
to whom the people look for example have
 given up the ,bible1 the ,lord's ,day1 
the house of ,god1 and ,christian faith4
  ,alas6 they are telling these weary   
toilers whose lives are clouded by      
anxiety and sorrow that there is no     
hereafter4  ,they know not what they do4
 ,they are sowing to the wind and will  
reap the whirlwind4  ,may ,god show them
 the danger before if is too late6  ,the
 loss of faith is the loss of           
everything2 without it morality becomes 
prudence or imprudence4  ,when the tie  
which binds man to ,god is broken all   
other ties snap asunder4 ,no nation has 
survived the loss of its religion4  ,we 
are appalled at the mad cry of anarchy  
which tramples all which we hold dear   
for time and eternity under its feet4   
,we cannot look into its face without   

seeing the lineaments of that man of sin
 who opposeth and exalteth himself above
 all that is called ,god and worshipped4
  ,antichrist is he who usurps the place
 of ,christ4  ,he is antichrist who     
denieth the ,father and the ,son4  ,our 
hearts go out in pity for those whose   
mechanical ideas of the universe may be 
a revolt from a mechanical theology     
which has lost sight of the ,fatherhood 
of ,god4  ,we stand where two ways meet4
 ,we shall take care of the people or   
the people will take care of us4 ,the   
people are the rulers2 the power of the 
future is in their hands4 ,limit their  
horizon to this life1 let penury1       
sickness1 and sorrow change the man to a
 wolf1 let him know no ,god and ,father 
,who hears his cry1 no ,saviour to help1
 no brother to bind up his wounds1 let  
there be on the one side wealth and     
luxury and wanton waste1 and on the     
other side poverty1 misery1 and despair1
 and there will be1 as there has been1 a
 cry for blood4  ,we wonder why men pass

 by the ,church to found clubs and      
brotherhoods and orders4  ,they will    
have them1 and they ought to have them1 
until the ,church is in its ,divine love
 what its ,founder designed it to       
be--the brotherhood in ,christ of the   
children of our ,god and ,father4  ,what
 the world needs to-day is not alms1 not
 hospitals1 not homes of mercy alone4   
,it needs the spirit and the power of   
the love of ,christ4  ,it needs the     
voice1 the ear1 the hand1 and the heart 
of ,christ seen in and working in ,his  
children4  ,no powers of government1 no 
prestige of social position1 no         
prerogatives of ,churchly authority can 
meet the issues of this hour2 we have   
waited already too long4 ,brotherhood   
men will have1 and it will be the       
brotherhood of the commune1 or          
brotherhood in ,christ as the children  
of our ,god and ,father4 ,infidelity    
answers no questions1 heals no wounds1  
fulfils no hopes4  ,the ,gospel will do1
 is doing1 to-day what it has done      

through all the ages3 leading men out of
 sin and darkness and despair to the    
liberty of sons of ,god4   ,in a day of 
division and unrest there will be many  
questions which perplex earnest souls4  
,some will dwell on the subjective side 
of the faith1 others will think most of 
its manifestations in the life4  ,these 
questions will affect organization for  
,christian work1 public worship1 and    
find expression in the ritual of the    
,church4  ,there is no room for         
differences if ,christ be first1 ,christ
 be last1 and ,christ in everything4    
,the ritual of the ,church must be the  
expression of her life4  ,it must       
symbolize her faith2 it must be subject 
to her authority4 ,as the years go by   
worship will be more beautiful4  ,the   
garments of the king's daughter may be  
of wrought gold1 and she clothed in     
raiment of needlework1 but she will have
 a name that she liveth and is dead1    
unless her fine linen is the            
righteousness of the saints4  ,lastly1  

to none is this council so dear as to   
those whose lives are spent in the      
darkness of heathenism1 or who have gone
 out to new lands to lay foundations for
 the work of the ,church of ,god4  ,in  
loneliness1 with deferred hope1         
neglected by brethren1 your only refuge 
to cry as a child to ,god1 it is a joy  
for you to feel the beating of a        
brother's heart1 and hear the music of a
 brother's voice1 and kneel with        
brothers at the dear old trysting-place1
 the table of our ,lord4  ,let us       
consecrate all we have and are to ,him1 
let us remember loved ones far away1 let
 us gather all the work we have so long 
garnered in our hearts and lay it at his
 feet4  ,we shall not have met in vain  
if out of the love learned of ,him we   
give each to the other1 and to all      
fellow-laborers for ,him1 a brother's   
love1 a brother's sympathy1 and a       
brother's prayers4  ,i do not know how  
to clothe in words the thronging        
memories which cluster around us in this

 holy place1 what searchings of heart1  
what cries to ,god1 what communions with
 ,christ1 what consolations of the ,holy
 ,spirit have been witnessed in this    
sacred place4  ,i cannot call over the  
long roll of saints1 confessors1 and    
martyrs1 whose name are written in the  
,lamb's ,book of ,life4  ,two names will
 be remembered to-day by us all4  ,one1 
that gentle ,archbishop ,longley1 who in
 the greatness of his love saw with a   
prophet's eye the ,mission of the       
,church and planned these conferences   
that our hearts might beat as one in the
 battle of the last time4  ,the other1  
the wisest of counsellors and the most  
loving of brethren1 the great-hearted   
,archbishop ,tait1 whose dying legacy to
 his brethren was love one another4     
,they have finished their course and    
entered into rest4  ,a little more work1
 a few more trials1 and we1 too1 shall  
finish our course4  ,we are not two     
companies1 the militant and triumphant  
are one4  ,we are the advance and rear  

of one host travelling to the ,canaan of
 ,god's rest4  ,god grant that we1 too1 
may so follow ,christ that we may have  
an abundant entrance to ,his eternal    
kingdom4      ,v4 ,,sermon ,,at ,,the   
,,fourth ,,annual ,,convention ,,of     
,,the ,,brotherhood ,,of ,,st4 ,,andrew 
,,in ,,cleveland1 ,,ohio1 ,,sept4 #bi1  
#ahhi4   ,god so loved the world1 that  
,he gave ,his only begotten ,son1 that  
whosoever believeth in ,him should not  
perish1 but have everlasting            
life4--,,st4 ,,john1 iii4 #af4   ,,sin1 
sorrow and death have not been invented 
by ,christian priests4  ,they are world 
facts1 they belong to every home1 and   
are hid in every man's heart4  ,there   
can be no design without a designer1 no 
law without a lawgiver1 no creation     
without a creator4  ,so ,i say1 with the
 leading scientist of ,england1 ,god is 
a necessity of human thought4  ,is this 
,god an inexorable ruler1 whose right is
 ,his infinite might8 or is ,he an      
eternal ,father1 whose might is ,his    

infinite right8  ,and so the question   
comes home to the heart3  ,does ,god    
care for us8  ,the body is cared for4   
,every invention of man ministers to the
 life that is between the cradle and the
 grave4  ,man has created nothing4  ,the
 lightning would run its circuit in the 
,garden of ,eden as well as when ,morse 
made it man's messenger4  ,the veil has 
been lifted so that man can look into   
,god's storehouse and read laws as old  
as creation4  ,but the body is not the  
man4  ,you ask me how do ,i know ,i have
 a soul8  ,i know it as ,i know ,i have 
a body--by self-consciousness4  ,there  
is no place in this world where men are 
not compelled by absolute necessity to  
recognize the act and the will of a soul
 within1 which directs the act4  ,i ask 
again1 does ,god care for me8  ,i say it
 reverently1 brother1 you cannot        
conceive of a ,god who could create a   
world like this1 if ,he can feel one    
throb of pity for ,his children1 unless 
you believe ,he has provided a remedy   

for sin1 sorrow1 and death4  ,the coming
 of ,god into the family of man is an   
absolute necessity of the very being of 
,god4  ,the incarnation is the outcome  
of the possibility that ,god can love4  
,i turn then to this record and ,i ask1 
is this ,jesus the friend that the world
 has waited for and looked for8  ,no one
 that has walked this earth could use   
the words which every day rested upon   
,his lips3 ,i and the ,god you worship  
are one4  ,i am the bread that is come  
down from heaven1 and the bread ,i shall
 give you is ,my flesh1 and ,i give it  
for the life of the world4 ,i am the    
resurrection and the life2 if any man   
shall believe in ,me1 if he were dead he
 shall live--unless he were ,god        
incarnate4   ,the miracles of ,jesus    
were not violations of the laws of      
nature2 they were the divine proofs that
 that ,god whose hand is behind every   
law of nature had come into the world to
 help those who needed help4  ,when ,he 
multiplied bread in ,his hands1 ,he did 

of ,his own will that which ,god does   
when ,he multiplies the wheat in the    
harvest4  ,when ,he created the wine of 
,cana1 ,he did that of ,his own will    
which ,he does when ,he distills the    
dewdrop in the clusters of the vine4    
,but that which unseals my heart1 is the
 divine compassion1 is the tender pity1 
is the love that never turns from the   
weary4  ,if man had invented this       
,gospel1 the story of ,mary ,magdalene  
would never have been in the record4    
,it is not in the wrecks strewn along   
the path of life that men would find    
those they would lift to the bosom of   
,god4  ,it is the ,divine eye that      
pities1 it is the ,divine hand that is  
reached out to save4  ,i follow ,him to 
the cross1 ,i follow ,him to the grave1 
where we are going1 where our loved ones
 are sleeping4  ,the third day ,he came 
back from the darkness2 ,he showed men1 
by the marks of the nails in ,his hands 
and by the print of the spear in ,his   
side1 that ,he was the very ,jesus they 

parted with at the foot of the cross2   
and ,he ascended to heaven to be the    
friend of any aching heart that needs a 
friend at the right hand of ,god4  ,the 
,gospel of ,jesus ,christ is not a      
philosophy1 it is not a dogma2 it is the
 story of a ,person1 a real hand to     
grasp1 a real ,saviour to love1 a real  
,god to save4 ,marvelous as is this     
story that never can grow old and will  
be the burden of the songs of the       
redeemed1 more wonderful is the ,christ 
of history4  ,men ask for proof4  ,you  
do not ask for proof of a sun when the  
world is bending low with golden        
harvests   ,the other day there was a   
gathering of great men1 scholars1       
philosophers4  ,it so happened that one 
man who had lost his faith1             
congratulated his fellows that          
superstition was dying out1 that the day
 was at hand when ,christianity would be
 an effete thing of the past4  ,james   
,russell ,lowell rose1 the blood rushing
 to his cheeks1 and quietly said3 ,show 

me twelve miles square in the world in  
which ,i live where childhood is cared  
for1 where womanhood is reverenced1     
where old age is protected1 where life  
and property are absolutely safe1 where 
it is possible for a decent man to live 
decently--where the ,gospel of ,jesus   
,christ has not gone before and made    
that life possible2 and then ,i will    
listen to your revilings of my ,master4 
,can ,i go nearer your heart8 ,there is 
a wide difference between men1 but there
 is one side of human nature that is the
 same2 it is that we call the           
heart--that which loves1 that which     
fears1 that which suffers1 that which is
 the same in the poorest laborer that   
ever handled the spade as in the        
greatest scholar that ever graced a     
university4  ,if we can get the rubbish 
from the heart1 the good news of ,god   
sounds the same to all4   ,when ,sir    
,walter ,scott was dying1 in suffering  
and agony he turned to ,lockhart and    
said1 ,read to me2 ,i am in such agony4 

,he said1 ,what book1 ,sir ,walter8     
,what book8  ,there is but one book for 
a dying man2 it is the story of the ,one
 that passed this way before me1 of     
,jesus the ,saviour4  ,i stood the other
 day by the death-bed of one who1 when  
,i first met him was a savage warrior4  
,he looked up in my face and said1 ,the 
,great ,spirit has called me4  ,i am    
going on the last journey4  ,i am not   
afraid1 for ,jesus is going with me and 
,i shan't be lonesome on the road4      
,brothers1 it is to tell this story that
 you have banded yourselves together in 
the service of ,him who redeemed you    
with ,his precious blood4  ,your motto  
must be the words of that sainted       
apostle whose honored name you bear3    
,we have found ,christ4  ,for it is only
 when we have reached out our hand to   
grasp the hand of ,jesus1 that1 because 
we cannot help it1 we reach out the     
other hand to help some one else4  ,we  
cannot from the heart say1 ,our ,father1
 and not remember wandering brothers    

whom we may lead to the ,lamb of ,god   
that taketh away the sins of the world4 
,the story is not for wage-workers      
alone1 not for the poor in the attic and
 the cellar alone2 it is for the man who
 lives in the marble house1 it is for   
the trafficker in the market1 it is for 
every one away from home and heaven and 
,god4  ,we must find the way to speak as
 one tempted man has the right to speak 
to a brother that is battling with      
temptation4  ,it is not done by         
assailing sinners as you would besiege a
 city4  ,we have tried hard words and   
the have answered us with a curse4  ,it 
does no good to tell the poor wretch in 
the ditch1 ,it is your fault4  ,we have 
led men to ,mount ,sinai1 and their     
hearts would break if we led them to    
,mount ,calvary4  ,it is this that makes
 the life of an earnest minister of     
,christ the happiest life that ,god ever
 gave to man4  ,i am not here to-day to 
tell you what to do1 but to tell you    
your ,master's secret1 ,if you give ,him

 the will1 ,he will find for you the    
way4  ,although you might be the veriest
 stammerer1 if ,christ speaks out in all
 your life1 you will be the best talker 
in the world4  ,we must believe in our  
work2 we cannot make others believe     
until we first believe ourselves4  ,our 
feet must be upon the rock2 there is no 
question of success or failure there4   
,it may be ,athanasius against the      
world1 but the ,athanasius and the faith
 of ,christ will conquer4  ,and lastly1 
brothers1 never since man has lived on  
the earth has there been an hour when a 
,christian man might be so thankful to  
,god that he can live and that he can   
work4  ,in all the ages of this world's 
history there never have been such      
marvels before man's eyes as we see     
to-day4 ,i speak not only of the        
wondrous secrets of ,god's storehouse1  
that1 for some end in the councils of   
eternity1 have been reserved for the    
last days4  ,you are living at a time   
when impenetrable barriers have been    

broken down2 when ,god is fusing the    
nations of the earth into a common      
brotherhood2 when there is not a place  
in the wide world1 where1 if you will1  
you may not carry the ,gospel of ,jesus 
,christ4  ,nay1 more2 you are part of a 
race that ,god in ,his ,providence seems
 to have placed in the forefront of the 
nations of the earth4  ,i am not        
speaking of ,anglo-,saxons1 but ,i am   
speaking of the race that ,god has been 
fusing out of every tongue1 and tie1 and
 kin of the earth2 and they having one  
language1 are1 ,i believe1 to do ,god's 
work in the last days4  ,one hundred    
years ago ,english speaking people      
numbered less than many of the ,latin   
races of ,europe2 to-day there are one  
hundred and fifty millions4 ,and when ,i
 remember how ,god ordered that the     
,greek tongue should become the tongue  
of the whole civilized world to prepare 
for the first preaching of the ,gospel2 
and when ,i think of all that ,god's    
,providence has done for us1 ,i can     

believe ,he calls us to lead on in the  
work of the last time4  ,in the days    
when ,rome had overrun the world1 if    
some one regiment was to be placed in   
the jaws of death1 and perhaps upon that
 legion rested the fate of an empire1   
they came out in front of the assembled 
host1 and kneeling down on one knee they
 raised their hands to heaven and took  
an oath to die for ,rome2 and that was  
called the sacramental oath4  ,and our  
,saxon forefathers1 when they came to   
the ,lord's trysting-place of love1     
thought it was a place for taking the   
oath anew4   ,after our ,civil ,war1    
,george ,peabody1 one of our noblest    
,americans1 gave his fortune for schools
 in the desolated south4  ,he visited   
the ,white ,sulphur ,springs4  ,no king 
ever received so heart-felt a welcome4  
,the south laid the homage of grateful  
hearts at his feet4  ,an aged bishop1   
now in ,paradise--,bishop ,wilmer1 of   
,louisiana1 came to see him1 and said3  
,mr4 ,peabody1 ,i am a southern man1 and

 my heart goes out in love for the man  
who has been our benefactor4  ,but1 ,mr4
 ,peabody1 if you are saved1 it will not
 be because you gave your fortune to the
 needy4  ,you will be saved1 as the     
poorest laborer1 for your faith in      
,jesus ,christ4  ,mr4 ,peabody said1 ,i 
know that4  ,i do believe in ,him2 ,i do
 pray to ,him4 ,but1 said ,bishop       
,wilmer1 ,mr4 ,peabody1 the night before
 the ,saviour died for you1 ,he         
instituted the sacrament of the ,holy   
,communion1 and ,he left a request for  
you to come and receive it4  ,he has a  
gift for you4 ,have you ever come to    
,his table8  ,mr4 ,peabody said1 ,i     
never knew that4 ,no one ever told me4  
,i knew about the ,holy ,communion1 but 
,i thought it was for saints--men who   
felt sure they were going to heaven4  ,i
 never knew it was a place to come and  
receive a gift the ,saviour had for me4 
,that day ,mr4 ,peabody left the ,white 
,sulphur ,springs4  ,he knew that the   
,holy ,communion was to be celebrated in

 his mother's church1 at ,danvers1 the  
next ,sunday4  ,he reached ,danvers     
,saturday1 and at once called on the    
pastor and said1 ,i am coming to the    
,holy ,communion tomorrow4  ,i did not  
know it was my duty till a few days ago4
  ,and he did come4  ,that was royal    
faith4  ,not faith in water1 not faith  
in bread and wine1 not faith in priestly
 hands1 but faith in ,christ4  ,such    
faith as little children have who take  
the words just as they read and for all 
they mean1 and then are safe in the     
everlasting arms4  ,so let us to-day    
consecrate every thought and all we have
 to ,him1 and giving ,him the will go   
out to do ,his work4  ,and ,he will do  
the rest4  ,we may fall in battle2 we   
may sow the seed and die2 but it will   
fall into the ground and ,god will give 
the harvest4  ,when we reach the other  
home-- not a place of bodiless shades2  
not a confused throng of nameless       
spirits1 but a home of brothers in our  
,father's house--next to seeing the     

,saviour1 next to having the old times  
re-united1 will be the comfort of       
meeting some one that we have helped    
home4  ,and now to ,god the ,father1    
,god the ,son1 and ,god the ,holy       
,ghost1 be all might1 majesty1 dominion 
and power1 world without end4  ,amen4