t of them," the United States would have replied, "We
thank you, but decline the offer." Not one man in ten in this country
would have voted to take them. But the next day we had them, had
fought to get them; and I believe the same superhuman power that took
from Spain, the Netherlands, Flanders, Malacca, Ceylon, Java,
Portugal, Holland, San Domingo, Louisiana, Florida, Trinidad, Mexico,
Venezuela, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chili, Argentina,
Uruguay, Paraguay, Patagonia, Guatemala, Honduras, San Salvador,
Nicaragua, Porto Rico, Cuba, and "then some," took away from Spain the
Philippine Islands and gave them to us, that the home, the church and
the school might be established in the Islands.

Perhaps some of you think I am getting off my subject. I am not; I am
talking now about the _old man_, Uncle Sam, and his mission in the
world.

It is the opinion of many that we are under no obligation to the
islands of the sea, but these conservative souls should not forget
that we are not only citizens of the United States, but of the globe
on which we dwell and of the universe of God. The world in which we
live, lives because of the light and heat it receives from other
worlds. If the rolling sun in the heavens is under obligation to
furnish light for our pathway, heat for our soil and warmth for our
blood, are we not under obligation to carry the light of civilization
to the people whose shores and ours are washed by the same waters? If
the full orbed moon is under obligation to pour its silver into our
nights, and lift the tides until our rivers are full, are not we under
obligation to lift the tide of hope in the heart of oppressed
humanity, and pour the light of intelligence into the night of
ignorance? Did God give us this grand country, with its boundless
resources, for us to draw our ocean skirts about our greatness and
pass by our bruised and bleeding neighbor, lying half dead on life's
Jericho road? If so, then call back our proud eagle of liberty from
its pinion flight through the skies of national achievement, and make
our national emblem the barnyard fowl that crows in the day dawn as if
creating light instead of noise, and then runs for his roost when the
shadows fall.

The Bible says we are fellow workers with God. What does this
fellowship imply? It means there are some things we can't do, which
God must do for us, and some things we can do He won't do for us. He
puts the coal in the earth; we must dig