the race whose devotion has then fastened on the divine ruler and the federal Man, Christ Jesus.  For nearly a hundred years the barriers that segregated us will have been a memory.  The Church will have discovered not only fields of labor, but forces for her replenishing.  Then will our posterity rejoice in the larger Christ who is to be.  The virtuous elements of all other faiths will be placed under the purification and control of the priesthood and authority of Jesus.  And tho in these ancient religions that await the Bridegroom, the mortal stains the immortal and the human mars the beauty of the divine, in the light of His appearing they will assume new attitudes and receive His quickening and thrill with His pulse.  When I conceive of this reward for our Daysman I protest that all other triumphs seem as tinsel and sham.  The Desire of all nations shall then see of the travail of His soul and shall be satisfied.  The subtle patience of China, the fierce resistance of Japan, the brooding soul that haunts the Ganges valley, the tumult of emotion of the Ethiopian breast, all are for His appearing; they must be saved unto noble ends by His sanctification.  For that time there will be a Church whose canonization of the infinite is beyond our dreams, enriched on every side, with common allegiance and diversity of gifts, and every gift the boon of all, and Christ’s dower in His bride increased beyond compare.

This is the ideal of the new day; may it become our personal ideal.  Then shall we fight with new courage for the right, and abhor the imperfect, the unjust, and the mean.  Our leaders will care nothing for flattery and praise or odium and abuse.  Enthusiasm can not be soured, nor courage diminished.  The Almighty has placed our hand on the greatest of His plows, in whose furrow the nations I have named are germinating religiously.  And to drive forward the blade if but a little, and to plant any seed of justice and of joy, any sense of manliness or moral worth, to aid in any way the gospel which is the friend of liberty, the companion of the conscience and the parent of the intellectual enlightenment—­is not that enough?  Is it not a complete justification of our plea?

We shall do well to remember that no evangel can prosper without the evangelical temper.  The parsing of grammarians is of little avail here, and to have all critical knowledge of the prophets and apostles of the faith without their fervor and consecration is profitable merely for study, and useless mainly for the larger life.  Our culture must be the passion-flower of Christ Jesus.  To be more anxious about intellectual pre-eminence or ecclesiastical origins than about “the trial of the immigrant” and the condition of the colored races is not helpful.  “There is a sort of orthodoxy that revels in the visions of apocalypses and refuses to fight the beast,” says Dr. Nurgan.  Such barren indulgence is excluded from any glory to follow.  Technicalities, niceties, knowledge remote and knowledge general must be appropriated and made dynamic in this life-and-death conflict; any that can not be thus used can be sent to the rear for a further debate.