Show A GREAT SPEECH BenjaminHarrison Is ono of ttfo Intellectual In-tellectual giants oi this age Were ho equipped with a form and face as majestic ma-jestic as wero the face and form of Daniel Webster he would ho recognized as ono of tho foremost of Americans At the great Ecumenical conference In New York Gen Harrison presided the first day and made the opening speech I A few paragraphs from that address ore enough to show the difference between be-tween tho brain of Gen Harrison and that of tho ordinary gifted speaker It must bo remembered that he saoke asa as-a Christian to an assemblage of the I worlds missionaries and the promoters of missions After some apt preliminary prelimi-nary remarks he said The gigantic engines that nro driving forward uniatorlal development ore being wpocdtxl us never before The din of iho hammer and tho ILX and the hum of wheels luivc ponetratud tho abodes of soil j tudetho world has now few quiet places J Llfo la I strenuous tho boy IH started In hla j school upon the run and tho puce Is not j j often slackened until tho panting mm I falls Into his grave It Is to a generation thus Intentto a I generation that has wrought wondrously In tho realms of applied science that God In his Word and by tho preacher says All the iO are worthy only and In proportion pro-portion as they contribute to tho regeneration regen-eration of mankind Every Invention every worlc every mini every nation must ono day come to tills weighing platform plat-form and ho nppralid To what other end Is I nil this stir among men this Increase of knowledge That these great agencies may be put In livery and lined up In the halls of wraith to make life brilliant and soft or become the docllo messengers of a i countlnghouio or a stock exchange or tho swift counrru of contending armies or tho courtiers who wait In the halls of science to gu glory I to the mnn Into who < < c hand God has gien the key to ono of his mysteries I n nil tlinun PT nt 1 Invnnllmis 1 1 thfMA rush Ing l Inteilcctual u developments 1 exhaust their ministry In the malting of men rich and tho recnforcjng of armies and llccts No These aro soranta prophets forO runners They will find a heralds voice thoro will ho an annunciation and a coronation I coro-nation Tho first results seem to bo tho I stimulation of a material production and I a fiercer struggle for markets Cabinets as wfll as trada chambers aro thinking of the world chiefly as a markethouse I and of men as producers and consumers I consum-ers We now seldom havo wars of succession I suc-cession or for mere political dominion Places aro strategic primarily from the commercial standpoint Colonies arc corner I cor-ner stalls In tho worlds market place If tho product tnrrlos too long In the warehouse the mill must shut down and I discontent will walk the streets The propulsion pro-pulsion of this commercial force upon Cabinets and nations was never so strong as now The battlu of tho markets Is at1 Its fiercest Tho great quest of tho nations na-tions is for consumers Tho voice of commerce is And my hand shall find as the nest the riches of tho people and as ono gathercth eggs that aro left will I gather all tho earth But with tho Increase of commerce and wealth tho stress of social difficulties Is not rellocd but Increases In all of the great nations Tho tendency Is not to one brotherhood but to many Work for tho willing at a wago that will save tho spirit as well as tho body Is i a problem of increasing in-creasing tanglo and Intricacy Cpmpc tltlon forces economical devices and names wages that are In sonto cases Insufficient In-sufficient to renew the strength expended It suggests If It does not compel aggregations aggre-gations of capital and these In turn pro sent many threatening aapects Agencies of mans devising may allevlato but they cannot cure this tendency to division and strlfo and substitute a Orltt to peace and unity Christ In the heart and his gospel of love and ministry in all tho activities of Jlfo Is tho only cure The highest conception that has cvoren tored the mind of man Is that of God as tho Father of all m ntho one blood tho universal brotherhood It was not evolved but revealed The natural man lives to bo ministered untoho lays his Imposts upon others Ho buys slaves that they may fan his sleep bring him tho Jeweled cup danco before him and die in tho arena for his sport Into such a world there came a King not to be ministered min-istered I unto but to minister The rough winds fanned his sleep he drank of tho mountain brook and mado not r > water wine for himself would not use Is power to stay his own hunger but had compassion i compas-sion on tho multitude lie called those he had bought with a great prlco no more servants but friends Ho entered tho bloody arena alone and dying broke all chains and brought lIfo and immortality to light It will be hard to find In all the realms of literature such a tracing up of splendor to a sublime culmination as the above contains No finer portrayal of material power cnergy and progress can be found and when at the climax he makes all these agenciescommerce military prowess statesmanship mere instruments toward building upa real Christian civilization and ihe redemption redemp-tion of still barbarous man one Is I thrilled by the unfoldment Arouvd him were some of the foremost fore-most Intellects l of theworld The President Pres-ident of the United States was there theGoernor of lie Empire Stale and many of the most famous divines from both shores of the Atlantic but there surely was no mistake made in the selection of the orator to make tho opening address The closing words of the address arc most graceful as I follows Lately we have seen a new and wonder I ful thing In tho war of the British against the Boors men from Canada and India and Australia havo stood with those from Britain und proved at once their valor and their loyalty rue unity of the British empire on every continent In both hemispheres lu l thus revealed and con firmed So at the front In this mission ary campaign we find Protestants of every name and land J standing shoulder to shoulder and movng aM ono aho unity of UhrsiK earthly kingdom stands forth to tho view of nil and deepened to a changeless and resistless power The times aremosl auspicious foe our gathering In Gods providence wo uro entering on an era of missionary oppor tunity and power such as tho world han never known Tho recent expansion of American territory and responsibility HO striking op to make this an epoch In our national history tho fierce warof bravo i peoples In South Africa which JlxOa the I I raze of the world and In which iim iiojti < < nlefi of great States of continent u aro I I at stake the ferment and apparent breakup break-up of China In which the great powers of Europe und of onefourth of the human race arc intimately 111o1c1 that con vention of the great powers il The Hague planning In concert for the peace of the world these nro great events and may scorn to sqinu to suggest that they constitute the most significant fact of the times And yet If we look beneath tho surface wo discover deeper drift a wider movement which Includes them all The greater nations are making ready for a larger part In tho worlds affairs Lands i of dense populations China and 1 Africa aro moving out of inclusion Into the onen currents of tho life of tho times The rcat powers are learning to think of themselves and to act as ono common wealth The Christian powers possess tho leadership in the affairs of Iho world We behold a divine preparation as plain as that which made ready for the coming of tho Lord of a missionary movement that touches that wide wide world And wo I gather here to rrhoarso what God has done In the century past to marshal anew our ChrlHtjan forces and to await the call of God for the century to come Ills pur pose Is plain the field Is open thc march has begun and It rests with us what hnre vo shall have In tho glorious toll and rot more glorious victory Ho IH sounding forth tho trumpet that shall never call retreat O ho jwlft my heart to answer Him be Jubilant my foot Our God Is marching on The entire speech will go Into the literature of the tte as a masterpiece It Is such a framing of English and Is backed by a sublimity of thought us la not soon once In a decade |