this, if this world is ever won to God and the Church, it is going to be won by the St. Andrew method. And if I were the general manager of Christianity this afternoon on earth and were called upon to select a method to conquer the world with, and could have only one of two methods, - the method of Pentecostal scenes, or scenes like those initiated by that great leader Saint Andrew, it would not take me ten seconds to make my selection. There has been a vast deal of ranting and crying to God to give us a regular Pentecost. My friends, Pentecost comes every time one Christian man puts the warmth of his heart and life up against another man's heart and life, and wins him to Christ. That is a Pentecost, and the best kind of Pentecost that can occur in the world, and I want with all the earnestness I can command to commend to you that method, for which you have been standing so earnestly, and so say here, that the other brotherhoods of the denominations I know must either learn this method or die out. Some of them are struggling to-day for life, and to know why they are living, and I believe they are struggling because they lack the warmth of. this principle of winning men to Christ. The Men and Religion Movement, I have not mentioned it, but I would like to say a word to dissuade any of you from rushing into a new movement unless you have carefully counted the cost. If we are doing anything in the Men and Religion Movement today, we are trying to stop a lot of people from going into it half prepared. We have no desire to urge more to go in, for there are more cities and towns and organizations now launching out in the campaign than we can possibly care for. What does this topic mean today? What does this earnestness mean that is calling the men of all this land to a new allegiance to the Church and to Christ? It means this, that a good many thoughtful men are deeply concerned lest religion die out in our land. You say, "Nonsense, religion could not die out." Wait. Not too fast, my friend. I stood a little while ago on soil that was once Protestant, and a Mohammedan priest pointed his finger at me and said, "Where you now stand, this country once belonged to the Protestant Christian religion." Then said that man, with a tantalizing sneer in his voice, "If your Christian religion is the supreme religion, why didn't you hold this territory when you had it?" My friends, do you know that the Mohammedans are beating us back to-day in a good many places? What will be the conditions of life for my great grandchildren, and my great grandchildren's children? What will this country be? I know the religion my father hadI know what they say about him- hear it brothers I do not want to be one of the generation of whom some historian will write. "That was the generation that let the fire slumber and go out." Will you stand with me? I want it said of my generation that the fires of devotion to God and the Church burned hotter when I died than when I came into the world; and it is for that I believe in this modern day crusade. Men and Religion II-BY THE RT. Rev. DANIEL S. Tuttle, D.D., L OOKING into the faces of this large gathering I am frightened for fear I shall not say what I ought to say, and for the greater fear that I shall say what I ought not to say. First, as the Bishop of Missouri, I want to say some thanks to the Brotherhood of St. Andrew. We have a fine set of men out in St. Louis carrying your banner. They help me in many ways. Lately we have made a diocesan league of lay readers, and a good many of the Brotherhood men are among them, and it is astonishing what help they give to us of the cloth. I was out at a town last week and they said, "It is a fine lot of gentlemen that you have sent up here these Sundays that we have been vacant. We have been very much pleased with them." One of them sits yonder and these lay readers have been a wonderful help to me. God bless them all. I want to say next, as Senior Bishop, that we are ever so grateful for the earnestness and enthusiasm that the Brotherhood of St. Andrew has disseminated throughout the men of this American Church. Granted that the men, each man in his own sphere, might, if he would utilize the grace of the Holy Spirit, have pushed forward the same or a better sort of movement over the whole Church, but you must remember Did you LL.D., D.C.L., PRESIDING BISHOP, ST. LOUIS, MO. I want to say further, as Senior Bishop, my word of greeting also, to the men that have come over from the other side, from our sister Church of Canada. The spirit of brotherhood to the men that are over here should shine through us in this Convention. The interplay of love weaves a web to and fro between us and our Canadian Church folk, our Canadian Brotherhood and our Canadian citizens, you may be right sure. For a hundred years the law's commands, treaty's stipulation, our heart's desire, have made it that no warship should sail over the serene blue of the interlocking waters of these Great Lakes, and we all want the same plan to go on for hundreds of years of an in definite and unlimited future. The waters of Lake Erie and Niagara are not waters that separate Canada from us with a spirit of suspicious jealousy, but they are the waters that minister to commercial comity and earnest and loving good will, from the citizens of the North, and from us South of the wonderful waters. "I believe in life everlasting," you and I said a little while ago. Have you ever seated yourself down alone and taken yourself in hand to think of the life everlasting? No end to it. Forever and forever. Dear friends, the true life everlasting must begin here. It does not begin after we die. It begins now, and goes on; and that life everlasting is to live under Christ, to live for Christ, to live in Christ, to live with Christ; and if we begin the work here, then it is a simple question of continuance hereafter in that mysterious, unfathomable, baffling thought of life everlasting. And do we stop to think, poor sinners that we are, how the blessed Lord and Saviour has come to start us on the right field here of the life everlasting, to welcome us when we go behind the veil and to be with us side by side all through the eternal, unlimited and unending years of the life everlasting facing us in the future? And have you ever stopped to think that Almighty God has given us, to help us to take in the thought and to live out the thought, three great divine institutions? If we stop and think of that we will be grateful, so far as it goes, for what Mr. Smith spoke of, the people who are moral, the people who are philanthropic, the people who are charitable, the people who are kindly and the people who won't go to Church. Nevertheless, I say, if we think that Almighty God has put these three great divine institutions here, we will look kindly at any rate upon those who are moral, those who are charitable, those who are philanthropic, those who are kindly and those who are altruistic, and we will be thankful that thus far with the help of God the Holy Spirit, they are trying to do their nobler part as they tread the paths of this mysterious earthly course; but we will also know, when we try to wake men up to live in the religious way, to be religious themselves and help others to be religious, we will also bear in mind that we are bringing in the most valuable of the three divine institutions to give the help so much needed by human nature. Three Divine Institutions You need not me to tell what is the first and greatest divine institution, the family, the home. Where is a sweeter place? Where do sweeter things and stronger things start up, unfold in their blossoms and bear their perennial fruit? Where more than in the homes of this earth? Is it not God's primeval institution, the only one coming down from the unfallen Garden of Eden and bringing with it some of the sweetness and the strength and the divineness that it had even before man fell? Then, Men and Religion, we may not perhaps dwell so much upon the home and the family when speaking of Men and Religion, because the queen of the home, the monarch of the home, the ruler of the home, the guide of the home, the moulder Well, the second divine institution is the business, into the schools, into society, belongs to the state, and the state is a divine institution. There is a policeman standing on duty! If he does his duty, and stands by his duty day by day, discharges it to the City of Buffalo and to the community in which he lives, he is a minister of Almighty God as much as I am. He is doing his duty along the line of one great divine institution, the state. If we bear that in mind, why, then we will conclude that there is a vast deal of divine work done here in this world that priests and ministers do not have very much to do with; that there is a great deal done by the judges on the bench, a great deal done by the legislators in their assemblies, a great deal done by the policemen on their beat and a great deal done by the soldiers under the flag. I am glad to see the flag here. Yonder is the flag of our Canadian brothers too. I am glad to see them both. Loyalty to the flag! You cannot make me believe that ninety-nine out of a hundred who are in our legislative assemblies and in our executive chairs, I won't even whisper it of those on our judicial bench, I do not believe what is sometimes thought, that they are for sale. It is not true. They are doing their duty in the main. The large majority of American office holders are doing their duty day by day to the flag, to the state, to the city, to the community, to the people, where they are. While doing so, they may have the sweet consciousness, if they will only stop and think, that they are, as ministers, obeying Almighty God and treading in paths that the Lord Jesus Christ would have them tread in, because they are standing for and representing the divine institution called the state. What did the Saviour Himself say: "Render unto Cæsar the things that are Cæsar's" and then Tiberius Cæsar, an execrable profligate, was on the throne at Rome; but in spite of it, the Saviour said, "Render unto Cæsar the things that are Cæsar's," meaning the civil government. Civil government in its order of law is one of the divine institutions. What did the Saviour say to Pontius Pilate? Pilate said, just as he was to give Him over, "Do you not know I have the right to crucify thee? I have the power to release thee?" The Saviour answered, "Thou couldst have no power at all if it were not given thee from above."So that the state has its power from above. Pontius Pilate had his power from above. Government has its power from above. Now, if we remember this we will be charitable and allowance-making and grateful. I will not go into the field of business. I should take too much time, but you can carry the thought into the field of business and see that men who are doing their duty as business men, as commercial men, as financial men, as fiduciary men, that those men are discharg ing their duty along the line of one of the divine institutions, namely, the state, and we will be more charitable, more allowance-making and more grateful for what is being done. Then we come to the last divine institution, and we say to those who are guiding the home, and we say to those who are helping in the state, "in the third divine institution we have a sweet and strong help for you if you will come with us and pray, if you will come with us and believe, if you will come with us and eat a bit of bread and drink a drop of wine in memory of the blessed Lord and Saviour Who died for you on Calvary's Cross; if you will come and array yourself inside the Church you will get wonderful help, you will get help to do your work in business, and help to do your work in politics, and help to do your work in government, and help to do your work in the home, The Church will act and react in its influence, it will do you a great deal of good, and in its reaction you will do the Church a great deal of good." That is what we want, -the men to come into religious lines and put on religious harness, because then the Church can help them a good deal, and, on the other hand, in a reactive way, they can help the Church a vast deal. Dear friends, does it not, then, open a wonderful field and area for us men, in which to work? in government, in school, in business, in society, in the home, in communities, in nations, under the flag? and won't we get the greatest inspiration for the best sort of help by doing what the Brotherhood of St. Andrew is trying to do? get down on our knees in prayer for ourselves and in prayer for others, and then buttonhole a brother, take hold of him and bring him in too, see if he won't come to Church with you and get the same sort of inspiration. Dear friends, do you not see how it opens the work for us all to do while we tread the paths of what I call this mysterious human life, ere we come to the other, greater mystery of the life everlasting? If we can do this sort of thing, 'Like a mighty army moves the Church of God" would not be simply a poem, wouldn't be a line of verse, wouldn't be simply something sung to music to please our ear, but it would be the shout of a great Christian multitude marching from battle ground to battle ground, camping in a fresh field every night on its onward course of triumphant victory. A AN ADDRESS AT A NOONDAY MASS MEETING IN STAR THEATRE T this meeting yesterday we were told that the greatest need of the Church in our day was for personal service. Let us go on to-day to ask ourselves concerning certain aspects of personality which dulv incorporated into character help to make our service count in the world, make us more effective as soldiers and servants of Christ. of our purpose when we conceive of it in this Is Our Purpose Worthy? We have to ask concerning our purpose, in I wish to speak first of Purposefulness. I suppose that no one is without ambition, if it be only, perhaps, to ride in an aeroplane or to see a base-ball game. I suppose that purpose is born in every one of us, unconsciously, as we draw in breath day by day. It comes in three ways. Purpose comes to a boy in the desire to get the most and the best out of this present world. One of the things that I remark in the children of immigrants in our public schools is that they are among the most avid for education, the most faithful and diligent in preparing themselves to run a good course through the days of their life. One of the things that every boy desires, and I think it is perfectly legitimate and right, is that he should have something, his full measure, of the things which God has given us in this world richly to enjoy. Purpose comes into life at a later period, I think, through the desire to stand well with one's fellows. We get into the hero-worshipping period of life. The boy, the youth, begins to feel all of the tremendous weight of public opinion concerning himself and his doings, and no one can estimate the great worth in our social life of that great, strong opinion which all good men exercise as they stand together, and which makes the criminal or the wrong-doer in any fashion, anxious above all things to conceal his evil deeds. It is right that we should desire, that we should purpose, to live in such a fashion that it will be possible for all men to speak well of us. Purpose comes in the third way into most lives through a consciousness of something above either the desire to get and gain out of this world or the desire to stand well among one's fellows. There comes a time in a man's life when he asks concerning these two things, Is this all? Is there not something above these? And then perhaps there happens to him something analogous to that which happened to that Prophet in the temple who saw God on high and lifted up, and His glory filled the temple, and he covered his face before the image; he felt his own impurity, his own personality shriveled up into nothing, and he cried, "Woe is me, for I am undone"; and then he heard a voice saying, "Whom shall I send and who will go for us?" and something rose up within him, and he said, "Here am I. Send me." I say the greatest and the most wonderful purpose rises in the personality with a vocation from God, with a sense of mission, with a consciousness, a belief, a conviction, that God has sent us into this world to accomplish something for him which no other person can by any peradventure accomplish in our stead. There are three things that we have to ask The third thing we have to ask concerning our purpose as it bears upon personality is, Do we put it first? Do we put it in that place where we bend everything else to its accomplishment? Colonel Taylor, the adjutant of that splendid soldier and that matchless man of God's spirit, the adjutant of General Robert E. Lee, has told an incident in his life which I suppose has been repeated in the lives of many men, of some of us who are here, perhans. He tells of being sent for one day by the General for the usual daily conference concerning the matters of routine which had to do with the well being of the army. They transacted their business, they talked of all that had to be done, and the adjutant was dismissed; but in a moment he thought of something further and he returned. As he went in to the General unannounced, inking he might do that, because it was just a moment after, he saw the General bent over in the most bitter anguish and pain of heart, upon his knee the letter that told him of the death of his dearly beloved daughter, and his eyes gushed with tears of personal grief and sorrow; but not until after he had cared for and had tried to meet the duty that lay upon him. I think, brethren, that it is this our Lord meant when He said, "Whosoever loveth father or mother or sister or brother more than Me is not worthy of Me"; it is this, I think, that we teach our children in the first commandment, when we teach them to put God first and above all things in their life. Purpose must have real personality if it is to count, if it is to be effective; and purpose must be put first, we must respond to it through ill and through good, through sunshine and through days of darkness. Practicalness I wish now to say a word about Practicalness as it affects our personality and its value in the world. It is said that poets are not practical in the daily, material affairs of life, and there are, undoubtedly, men who can paint great images and dream great dreams, who have not got their feet upon earth, who are not in touch with the daily methods of accomplishing the great dreams and conceptions that they have. A ship may fail of coming to its port because it has not the right direction set for it, — it may fail also because it is badly managed; and our personalities must have not only purpose, if they are to achieve and to count, but our personalities must be linked up with definite, wise, splendid methods for accomplishing the work which we conceive that God has given us to do. There are two things in regard to practicalness that we do well to bear in mind. Our personality counts in proportion as we have the gift of sympathy, not love, but sympathy: in proportion as we can, in doing our daily tasks, day by day, feel for those who are round about us. There is a beautiful and sweet story in the Koran of a traveler across the desert who discovered in the time of his thirst a spring at the bottom of quite a pit. Lowering himself with care and diligence he knelt and slaked his bitter, burning thirst. He came up again, scrambled to the ground and started on his way, when he saw a dog coming toward him, his tongue hanging out and panting with all the torture of that craving which had just been satisfied in the man himself. Going back to the pit, he descended again and filled his boot with water, and carrying that in his teeth he clambered up, and he slaked the thirst of the poor dumb brute. When it was told to the prophet he said, "This man hath been forgiven for all his sins by God." We read in the Gospels, of our blessed Lord that He was called the friend of publicans and sinners. It was not, I conceive. that He condoned their misdeeds; it was not. I imagine, that He made light of the things which they had done that were wrong. It was because He understood, it was because He had that divine intuition which is able to look into the circumstances and conditions of men's lives and to appreciate that there are some things which are well nigh impossible for some men to do in their circumstances, under their conditions, which some of us more happily situated would accomplish with ease. So as He went from place to place men hung upon His words because they felt that in His heart there beat sympathy, comprehension, understanding, for them and for the hard and terrible struggle that they had to wage. Beloved, if we wish to make our personality count, we must have that same love, that same sympathy, pouring out into the lives of those who are round about us. We must have that quality, that trait, of the poet, which is described in the lines of James Russell Lowell, who speaks of him as one, Who doth not hold his soul's own freedom are nearer Him to whose heart his fellow man is nigh, Who doth not hold his soul's own freedom dearer Than that of all his brethren, low or high, us. In this quality of practicalness, we must add to sympathy, faith in those who are round about The watchword of our best modern charity, as you all know, lies in the motto, "Not alms, but a friend." Those who work among the depressed of all kinds, those who deal with the ignorant, the erring and sinning, have become convinced that we can do more with sympathy and prayer than by simply giving money. The need of those who are down is that there shall be by their side some strong, inspiring, uplifting and helpful personality; and so it is that we must feel as we go about our daily task, that what we have to do for our fellow men is to give them inspiration, by having confidence and trust and faith in the divine powers that are in them. "All things are possible to him that believeth," saith our Lord, and how true it is in all our daily intercourse that the men who move us, the men who stir us and lift us up, are the men who believe in us and who somehow or other draw out the very best potentialities that lie wrapped up within us. There are men whom we meet that depress us - we may call them pessimists. There are men we meet day by day who make no great impression upon us for good or ill. They are faithful and true men, they try to do their duty in that state of life in which it has pleased God to put them. Some way or other, we part from them without having been greatly stirred. But there are some men who come into our pres ence, and it is not what they say, it is not what they do, but, some way, there is something in them which stirs something within us. Deep calleth to deep in the sight of God, something is roused within us, and we say, "Here is one who believeth in all that is possible for mankind; he believes it for himself and he believes it for me also." "Be noble! and the nobleness that lies In other men, sleeping but never dead, Will rise in majesty to meet thine own; |