12 Sep^fation or Continuity, Which?
above the thought of compromising with any individual or sect.
She has staked her existence on the eternal brotherhood of
man. It is her theme everywhere. She has met with many
enemies, some who claimed to be her friends, but in the midst
of all that she rides above all her foes, outlives them all and
shall finally swallow up them all. What, then, are the proba¬
bilities df the future? Those who are hopeful of effecting
■changes in Christianity may just as well be hopeful of changing
God. Some men in the Church of God seem to forget that
the spirit of Christianity rejects the factious barriers of caste
and stimulates the very lowest of the kind to the very noblest
ambitions of life. They forget that nations are no longer
governed by races, but are everywhere called upon to be
governed by Christian principles. They forget that the trium¬
phant spirit of the Church of Jesus Christ is to regard all men,
whether lowly or great. They forget that, regardless of Pope,
Consul, King or oligarchy, this same spirit of Christianity
lifts up her human sons to place and power, both to rule in
church and the world, and brings to the front a Dane, as King
of Greece and a Frenchman as King of Sweden; a Jew as Prime
Minister of England: a Gallatin and Schwez as cabinet ministers
in America; a Langston to Congrrss and a Douglas to cast the
ballot for the Electoral College of a President of the United
States. The achievements for the despised in the Church are
going to be greater than even those in the State. Some seem
to forget that Christianity is in the world directing the elevation
of mankind. Others seem to have forgotten that education is
spreading, and that all races are thinking.
Finally Christianity will take the weak things of theworld to
confound the mighty, and, by the Gospel, break down caste of
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