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THE PULPIT.
A SCHOLARLY SUNDAY SERMON BY
DR. ROBERT J. KENT.
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Theme: The World-Wide Vision.
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Brooklyn, N. Y.—In the Lewis Ave-
nue Congregational Church, Sunday
morning, the pastor, the Rev. Dr.
~ Robert J. Kent, preached on ‘The
World-Wide Vision.”” He took for
his text, Revelation 11:15: ‘The
kingdom of the world is become the
kingdom of our Lord and of His
Christ, and He shall reign forever
and ever.” Dr. Kent said:
“The World-Wide Vision” and the
men who have been privileged to see
it is my theme this morning. The
power to see visions and to dream
dreams is one of the noblest God has
given to men. Men might be classi-
fied according to the scope and qual-
ity of their visions. There are those
who cannot sce beyond the narrow
horizon of their own selfish inter-
ests, their own health and happiness,
their own home and business. They
are spiritually near-sighted. “God
bless me and mine” is the burden of
their prayer if they pray at all.. Then
there are those whose vision includes
their village, their political party,
their denomination. They dream of a
glorious future, but of a future
hemmed in by their narrow interests.
They are like men who have climbed
to some spur of the mountains whence
they get a splendid view, but it is
Others there
are who climb to the summit and get
the inspiring prospect of a far-extend-
ed and unbrcken horizon. Such men
are thinking not only of theim city,
State, nation, but of the’world; not
only of their family, their clan, their
social class, their race, but of human-
ity. ; :
There have always been men who
have thought and hoped and prayed in
terms of the whole world. Their feet
may never have crossed the boundary
of their native lard, but their love
and hope and prayer have encom-
passed the earth. In a recent classifi-
cation of the books of the Bible, two
of the sacred writings, ‘Daniel and
Revelation, have been called books of
vision. But the entire collection,
psalm and prophecy, gospel and epis-
tle, is bright with the light of the
world-wide vision. That magnificent
statesman-prophet, Isaiah, prince of
preachers, whose messages we have
been pondering Sunday mornings,
stood on the summit and saw all na-
tions walking with glad willingness in
the light of the divine revelation that
should shine forth from Jerusalem.
And we hear the great prophet of the
exile proclaiming in words that after
all the intervening centuries still
sound like majestic music: “Arise,
shine; for thy light is come, and the
glory of the Lord is risen upon thee.
For, behold, the darkness shall cover
~ the earth, and gross darkness the peo-
ple, but the Lord shall arise upon
‘thee and His glory shall be seen by
thee. And the nations shall come to
thy light and kings to the brightness
of thy rising.”
future that the prophet saw, Jerusa-
lem was the centre and her dominion
was world-wide. Nevertheless, it was
a universal reign of righteousness,
good will and peace.
It seems strangethat anyone should
be satisfied with anything less than a
world-wide vision, who has vowed
loyal allegiance to Jesus and has pon-
dered the Master's words. For in
parable and prayer, in cheering assur-
ance and in the final commission He
spoke in terms of the wide world. You
recall His familiar words, “The field
is the world. The kingdom of heaven
is like the grain of mustard seed that
It is like
leaven that in time leavens the whole
lump. When the Son of Man shall
come to judge, all nations shall be
gathered before Him. Be of good
cheer, I have overcome the world.
When ye pray, say, our Father, which
art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name;
Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done
on the earth as it is in heaven. All
power in heaven and in earth is given
unto Me; go ve, therefore, and make
disciples of all the nations.” How
significant in this connection is the ti-
tle He assumed, Son of Man! As if
thereby to proclaim that He stood in
relation to the whole of humanity,
and that His mission of love and life
was to the whole world. That world-
wide vision has been part of the herit-
age handed down through the Chris-
tian centuries. It set on fire the heart
of Paul. He recognized no barrier to
the conquerqing advance of the gos-
pel. The world was divided into Jew
and Gentile, and toboththe gospel was
the power of God unto salvation. That
world-wide vision has given us our
New Testament.
Never in the world’s history have
there been so many men and women
who have beheld the vision as to-day.
The increasing number of those who
stand on the highest peak of hope and
aspiration for humanity is an out-
standing feature of our own day. It
is a sign of the times. The young
men who saw visions while they
prayed in the shelter of the haystack,
the men who dreamed dreams while
they worked at the cobbler’s bench or
in the mill, have been followed by a
vast multitude, whose prayer is, “Thy
kingdom come,” and whose song is
“Christ for thé world.” This is the
day of great missionary conventions,
when the largest auditoriums in the
city are needed to accommodate the
multitudes who have seen the vision,
but the largest gathering is but a very
small minority of those who believe
and pray that the kingdom of this
world shall become the kingdom of
Christ.
It is only when we consider the es-
sential features of this world-wide vis-
ion that we appreciate the sublime
True, in the golden.
wide vision.
faith and hope of which it has been
born. It includes the establishment
of the kingdom of God in this world.
Men ‘still believe in heaven; its faith
is their comfort and support in be-
reavement and when life's evening
shadows lengthen, its songs inspire
them with peace and joy. But they
believe more than they ever did be-
fore in the future of this world, and
that here the purpose and plans of
God are to be worked out. Then the
vision embraces all classes and condi-
tions of humanity, separated though
they are by differences of culture and
caste, nationality and religion — far
more serious barriers to union than
are oceans and mountains. Moreover,
it contemplates a complete fusion of
mankind into one brotherhood. It
rqeans the regeneration and transfor-
mation of society. We are hearing a
good deal to-day about a social salva-
tion. It is a true and very significant
note to strike in the effort to redeem
the world. Not only must the heart
be changed, but the customs and rela-
tions of men must be brought into
conformity with the spirit of the Mas-
ter. The leaven must work in city and
village, in store and factory, in legis-
latures and courts, in the markets
and bank, as well as in the home and
church. Thecommand of Jesus includ-
ed more than the act of baptizing on
confession of one’s faith. A long, pa-
tient process of Christian education
was emphasized: “Teaching them to
observe all things whatsoever I have
commanded you.” That means the
translation of the Sermon on the
Mount into the life of the world. That
takes time. In the Laymen’s Mission-
ary Movement, which is interesting
our city just now, the idea of uniting
the energies of the denominations for
a speedy conquest ‘of the world is of-
ten mentioned. By all means speed
the day when the whole earth shall be
filled with the knowledge of the Lord
as the waters fill the sea.
not forget that the world-wide vision
will not be realized until the sover-
eignty of Jesus is established over the
life of the world. Consecrated men
and money could, within a generation,
doubtless carry the Gospel into all the
world, but it will take more than a
generation before the song that the
multitude sang in the apocalyptic vis-
‘ion shall be sung by a thoroughly
Christianized humanity: “The king-
dom of the world is become the king-
dom of our Lord, and of His Christ.”
Such is the scope and character of tha
world-wide vision. It is a dream of a
universal golden age. - It is a hope of
brotherhood embracing every tribe
and kindred. It is the kingdom of
God on earth.
Such a vision is proof either of
sublime faith or folly. Folly it would
be were it not that we have confi-
dence, first of all, in the purpose of
our Father. That confidence in the
Eternal justifies the vision. The
trend of the ages is toward its realiza-
tion. We cannot prevent the tides
from rising and falling; we cannot
change the course of the seasons; we
cannot stop the planets in their or4
bits, but we could do so sooner than
we could keep God from fulfilling Hid
purpose. Then, too, we have confis
dence in the mightiest of all solvents
—love. It is the miracle-worker of
every age. In Zangwill’s great play,
“The Melting Pot,” in response to the
passionate assertion that in every
land to which he has wandered or
been driven the maigamation of the
Jew with other peoples has never
been accomplished, he makes David
respond: “You have tried hatred and
failed; try love.” We have not for-
gotten the apostolic formula, “Faith
which worketh by love.” The world-
wide vision would be a colossal folly
were it not for this mightiest of all
powers in the world. Moreover, the
heroic achievements of those who!
have caught the vision and have toiled
and sacrificed inspires firm confidence
for the future.
They who see the vision are not vis-
jonaries. There is a difference be-
tween them. There are idle dreams
and dreams that prompt to noble en-
deavor. The visionary is impractical,
but among the world’s most practical
men have been those who have looked
upon the splendid picture of a future
golden age. They have toiled hard to
make their dreams come true. The
American Board, completing a cen-
tury of activity and growth, owes its
origin to the young seers of haystack
fame. The men who compose the
[LLaymen’s Missionary Movement are
intensely practical. How to get and
equip and support the men who will
go forth to preach and teach; how to
secure the funds necessary to support
them from givers of large and small
financial ability, are the practical
problems they are taking hold of in
an earnest, business-like way.
No one need have any fear that in-
terest in the Christian conquest of the
world will lessen his sense of obliga-
tion to support the work in his own
land and his own church. The truth
is there is no real antagonism between
home and foreign missions. The dis-
tinction between them is being oblit-
erated. Foreign missions are at our
very doors. Samuel J. Mills had the
world-wide vision, but he was a faith-
ful, intelligent worker in the home
field. Our own land is but a segment
of the great circle of the earth. He
who looks afar from the mountain
top will not fail to see the village at
its base. The wish to win the world
will spur one on to Christianize his
own land that it may help in the
world-conquest. Our thought to-day
in national politics, in manufacture,
in commerce, in education, is on no
less a scale than that of the earth.
The inventor, the manufacturer, the
thinker wants an open door in every
country for his products. A good
thing, a thing that adds materially to
the joy of living, cannot be confined
to any land. Telephones, engines,
railroads, textbooks, the Bible and
the kingdom belong to the world.
I want you all to see the world.
I have no fear that it
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will lessen your interest in ur own
church. The people who pray and
sacrifice for the redemption of the
world are not the ones who neglect
the work at home. Rather do they
seek to make and to keep the church
strong, that it may do its part in sav-
ing the world. No better surety could
any pastor have that he will be sup-
ported in his work by his own people
than the fact that they are devoted to
the task of winning all nations to
Christ. \ Sry
I want you to get the world-wide
vision for your own sake. It will ex-
pand your thought, enlarge your
heart, enrich your life. It is an edu-
cation in the largest and noblest uni-
versity in the world. One is brought
into contact with whatever concerns
humanity. Religion, civilization, art,
government, the oldest and the new-
est, all have their bearing upon the
great problem and in ycur effort to
contribute to its solution you will find
yourselves growing in knowledge, in
interest, in sympathy. You become
citizens of the whole world. Let us
then offer the prayer the Master has
taught us, Thy kingdom come, with a
resolute determination to do more
than we have ever done to make the
kingdom of the world the kingdom of
Christ.
Even J. J. Hill, who fears ithat our
agriculture is failing, submits the
Philadelphia Ledger, may take com-
fort in the computation that the num-
ber of farms in the United States has
increased 18 per cent. in the last ten
years, nearly a million new farms be-
ing created in that period. Notwith-
standing the tendency to the amal-
gamation of small farms into larger
holdings, there are said to be three
times as many farms now as there
were in 1870, while their values are
at least two and a half times as
great. The aggregate valuation of
ed as something like thirty billions of
dollars, a gain of 44 per cent. in ten
years. These figures, which are com-
piled by the American Agriculturist,
are in general accord with those of
the Department of Agriculture. They
are especially interesting in the promi-
nence they give to the increase of
separate holdings, thus answering
the very frequent wail that the
American farmer is losing his inde-
pendence,
Cleveland’s example in forbidding
theatrical managers to permit late
comers to take their seats during the
progress of the play illustrates again
the simplicity of the Western mind
to the New York World. To appear
at the opera on time, Cleveland may
not know, is as bad form as to re-
main silent during the performance.
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farms, buildings and stock is estimat-.
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George Kabot Ward, Secretary of
State of Porto Rico, has resigned that
post.
Major Alfred Dreyfus spends his
leisure hours in the study of the so-
cial problems.
Dr Jean Charcot gave a summary
of the scientific results of his Antarc-
tic expedition.
Ex-Vice-President Fairbanks was
received by the French Senate and
the Chamber of Deputies.
Chancellor MacCracken,of the New
York University. announced that he
would retire on September 26.
Andrew Carnegie wrote to Mayor
indorsing his proposal to
abando= taxation of personalty.
The estate left by Henry O. Have-
mever was shown by New York State
appraisal to be worth $14,500,000.
Brander Matthews, author, educa-
tor, member of the bar, has written
largely on the drama, is fifty-eight.
Thomas W. , Lawson, frenzied
finance expert, and author of “Fri-
day, the 13th,” is fifty-three years old.
George Gray Ward, vice-president
of the Cnmmercial Cable Company,
declares the cost of service has been
reduced.
T.lovd C. Griscom succeeded Her-
bert Parsons as president of the Re-
publican County Committee in New,
York City.
William B. Hornblower, eminent
counsel for financiers, appeared as
counsel for a friendless negro charged
with murder in New York City.
Henry Smallwood Redmond, bank’
er and vachtsman, of New York City,
died aboard Commodore Thompson's
houseboat Everglades at Miami, Fla.
President Wheler, of the Univer
sity of California, delivered his fare-
well lecture at the University or Ber-
Jin. The students presented a silver
cup to him.
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Our idea of a great financier, sub-
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man who ‘worries more about the
price of call money than he does
about the price of pork chops.
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STUB ENDS OF NEWS,
The American financial group in
Pekin, China, opened new quarters.
Fears were expressed in Paris that
the Turko-Bulgarian situation might
lead to war.
A great boom in rubber shares oc-
curred in London, and many new coms
panies have been formed.
Germany, Austria-Hungary and
Russia prepared to intervene to pre-
vent a Turco-Bulgarian war.
The Czar left Tsar-skoe-Selo and
drove into St. Petersburg, where he
called on King Ferdinand of Bulgaria.
The City of Montgomery, the larg-
est of steamships built for coastwise
service, was launched at Newport
News, Va.
President Taft sent a special mes-
sage to Congress urging the adoption
sonnel of the navy,
Fire destroyed a Dartmouth Col-
lege dormitory at Hanover, N. H., the
students barely escaping with their,
lives and losing all their effects.
Mayor Gaynor, of New York City,
decided to appoint a committee of
100 citizens to greet ex-President
Roosevelt on his return in June.
Plans are under way for a new aero
club federation to be formed at the
national convention in St. Louis of
affiliated American aero clubs.
The Metropolitan Life Insurance
Company, of New York, settled by
compromise a dispute over the pay-
ment of a policy on the life of an exe-
cuted murderer. 3
The Controller of the Currency
susnended E. S. Pepper, the bank ex-
aminer who examined the books of
the wrecked National City Bank, of
Cambridge, Mass.
“Red” Adams, the international
swindler, who posed in Brooklyn as
“Mr. Currie, real estate man,” was
found guilty on five indictments for
misusing the mails.
The only inscription on the corner
stone of the giant new municipal
building will be the date in Roman
numerals, MCMIX. That is all very
well, sontends the New York Tribune,
so long as it is not mistaken for a
monument to some New York states-
man. It is quite possible that in a
future age the question will arise,
Who was McMix?
The fellow who makes the most
noise, defines the Philadelphia Ree-
ord, doesn’t always have a sound
mind.
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