Y Cymro

lain o'r lnwyd evmdriiliasol ddy- munir ei. weled yn hanIdu, ac yn dwyn taognefedd' i'r holl fyd. "The Church must be an assoeia- tiion, not just of individuals living a supernatural life, but' an associ- ation for a. corporate holiness, which dlraws corporate well-being after it." Cymdeithas felly: oedd Israel, Eglwys yr Hen Destament, —-Duw-lywodraeth ddenai'r cen- hedloedd era ill i'w, eheiisiio- hefyd'. Fel-ly, Eglwys fore y T.N. Yno g-we lid ilawn-be rthynas rhwng meistr a .gwas; gofa.1 am glaf ac oedrannus-, dyrchafu pawb uwoh- law angen. Dyrna ran, bwysilg o dystiolaeth. yr Eglwys gerbron y byd. Felly y dylai fod befyd ac felly rhaid iddli fod, os am i Deym- as Dduw ddyfod ym mywyd cym- deitha,sol ein dydd. Beirniedir yr Eglwys am beidio tystioltaethu yn groew i ymarferoldeb egwyddorion cymdeithasol, sosiiaiaidd:, yr ef- enigiyl. Eitha teg. Ond sut y dylaii hi dystiolaefchu ? AI1 ar air yn unilg!' Na, ond trwy gOrffori egwyddorion. yr efengyl ym mywyd b zY yr Eglwys ei hun, e.g. Ei ffordd i egluro sut y dylid carlo. ymlaen fasnaoh ar egwydd orion Cristion- aglol yw drwy i fasnachwyr a gweithwyr sydd yn proffesu Crist- iono-gaeth i gario ymlaen fasnaoh yn ol egwyddorion Oristionogaeth. Y ffordd i wneud argraff air' 'profit- eering" cymdetthas. yw trwy i'r 9 1 Eglwys wneud "profiteering" yn aimhosibl ymhliiith ei haelodau ei hun. Ni fyn y byd unrhyw eglur- --bad na thystiolaeth, arall. Ac ofer pwyso ar y byd' i fabwyslilatdu eg- wyddoiriion masnachol Ciristionogol, heb wahodd y byd' i dderbyn holl gyninwys y profiad Crist ionogol drwy yr Eglwys, y ffydd Griis-tion- oigiod yn oi grym achubol, fel yn ei dysigeiidiaeth chwyldroadol. Heb hynny, rhoddi; 11am o ddlilledyn newydd mewn hen ddilledyn wnawm, gun wneuthur y rhwygiiad yliii fwy yn y fain:. Bwrw gwin new- ydd i hen gostrelau. lydd yn dryM- io'r hen gostrdéliu heb fod yn hir. Na, rhaid wrth Deyrnas Dduw yn ei holl gynwys—ac yn yr Eglwys. y ceir cynnyg ar honno, fel y dylai hoi yd gad ei oghiro mewnt bywyd yn oigystal a gain Rhaid wrth Elg- lwys gorffora fyvvyd cymdeithasol Teyraas- Dduw ynddiil ei hun; heb hynny bydd ei thystiolaeth yn an- mherffaith: gyda hynny, bydd yn ddigon cyflawn i fod yn effeithiol heiddyw i ddwyn Teyrnas Dduw i fywyd cymdeithasol y byd. Galwad Crilst heddiyw yw1 am Eglwys felly. GaJwad yw hynny, hefyd:, glir a chroew a mwy amseirol alt. arwr- iiajeith a, brwdfrydedd ein hieuenc- tid i fiyiniegi: ei hum yn ei holl rym a'i brydiferthwoh, trwy gydiweithiio i riadidi Eg'lwys felly i Grist. Wrth ateib yr ail wad hon eto, bydd (in hiieiuenctid mewn hardd,ach sanct- .eiddrwydd, fel gwlith o groth y walwr" (Ps. lIO 3. C.D.). Dy- wedwyd digom i'ch sicrhau, os am gylch geidw yn fyw arwriaeth a brwdandaeth didangoswyd yn y Rhyfel Fawir ai chwanegu ato, cew- isier Crist fe,l gwrthrycb ein ffydd, elin Harweinydd', ac Eglwys a'i bryd ar ddwvn Teyrnas Dduw yn 10 agos fel cylich ein igiwasanaeth dior- ffwys. Yn Slilor mali am, Grist a r gwiir Gristioin, o bob oedran, yn ar- bennig- y CristBan ieuamc, y llefar- odd R. L. Stevenson y ddameg honDIO agy male orynhodeb cftoni yn rhywbeth fel hyn: "Three men went on a pilgrimage, aind dis- cussed the grounds of their f^ith, I as they went. O'nie, a priest, based hiis faith on miracles; an-- ,,o,th,)er, .a virtuous, person,' on Metaphysics; the third, 'an old rover with his axe' says nothing ait all. At last one came runining" and told them all was lost, that the powlers of darkness I-i.ad, besieged the Heavenly Mansions, that Odin was to die and eviil triumph. 'I have been grossly1 deceived,' cried the virtuous person.' 'All i,s lost row,\sa,id the priest. 'I wonder if it is too late to make it up with the Devil,' said the virtuous per- son. 'Oh, I hope not,' s,a,i,d the priest, and1 at any rate, we can but try. But what are you doing- with the axe 1" says he to the Rover. "I am off to die with O,d:ini, saiid the Rover. "Awn niinruau, fel y byddwn feirw gydaig Ef." Ac ar I Z, liinellau ymdrech. a buddugOililae th y wilr Eglwys ymhob oes, fel yr eg- lurir hwy yn ymdrech a budduigol- iaeth yr Eglwys. fore ar baganiiaeth y byd Rhufeinig, y gelwir yr un:g- olyn Criistionogol arwrol i ym- drechu a buddugoliaethu o hydc- meddwl yn well na'r byd', byw yn well nag ef, ac, os bydd raid, ma,rw yn well nag ef "yn yr Arglwydd." "Yn y rhyfel mi, arosaf, Y,n y rhyfel male fy lie Boed fy ngenau tua'r ddaear, Boed fy ilygaid tua'r ne'; Doed y goucwest: bryd y delo, Mi 'ddiisgwyliiaif wrth fy Nuw, Nes o'r diwedd weled pechod Vledi derbyn marwol fáw." Rev. J. H. Howard, Golwyn Bay. Our Lord estaibbshedr a kingdom Z, in which the will of God shall be done on. earth as it is In. heaven. For this purpose he needs no costly armaments, or gorgeous ritual or rigid organisation; He depends upon His own sacrifice, the loyalty of His subjects and the appeal of His love. Throughout the ages, ,9, men of all sorts and conditions a.re invited1 into this kingdom, of truth and love and: peace; nationality is no barrier, language is no. limita- tion and racial claim can, never be made to the inheritance of saints in the light. But Jesus not only offers gifts, He also, makes de- mands; Jews lose a church upon entering the kingdom and are re- pudiated by the seed of Abraham when. they become real sons of God j the Pagan gives up associ- ates and idols, creeds and customs to join th3 heavenly common- wealth and still from the hills of Galilee floats- across the centuries the solemn and searching chal- lenge, "If any m'an come to me, and hate not his father and moth- er, 'and wife and children, and bwth ren and sisters, yea, and his oWn life also, lie cannot be my disciple"'(Lk. xiv. 26). Yet the response to the call is the miracle of history; men have gone to the gory arena and dim-lit catacombs, to the block and the stake, to exile and prison for the Name; have bled, suffered and died. with songs ün their lips-, and, like their Lord, blessed their executioners with their last breath; so that through crus-adeis and martyrdoms, revol- utions and: inquisitions, the rise and. fall of systems, the progress and decay_ of civilisations, the kingdom is growing, ever extend- ing and soon shall be supreme. The work is accomplished through human agents; men not angels are God's evangelists, men. are the grand League of Mercy, the Great Army of Pity—the Crusaders of self-sacrifice, the God'-enthused Host filled with fil,ilal love to the King, passionate loyalty to Christ .and unbounded faith in the destiny of mankind. These people are possessed of a, God-like power, a continuous constraint and a frame n of mind in tune with the middle Cross. The Gospel Is thus, a call, a demand and a challenge to the heroic in main and especially to the young. The old have 'had their day-, and outlived their ar- dour, illusions and enthusiasms; sometimes they get a dream like the afterglow of the setting sun to illumine their path to rest, but, as they wistfully linger amidst the glory now fading into seven, thou- sand yesterdays, all are conscious of the fact that their time for h-eroiie action is gone ;.e but the young have energy and hope, vig- Z, our and faith in the best that is to be, and the future is in their un-' tried. hands. There are crisis in history when the call for action is clamant, dis- tinct and., most insistent; times of great enterprise, transition and unsettlement; days like Pentecost when. a new spirit finds terrified men huddled behind locked doors and drives them out to challenge the' murderous throng of Jerusal- em; epochs. like the Reformation when a lonely monk left his cell and shook'the world; eras like the end of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th century, when the great missionary societies were started, Pain, demanded the rights of man, Robert Owen championed the cause of the child1, Wilberforce heard the wail of the slave, and Wesley set out to evangelise the peasantry of Britain the occasion has always found the man j and the saints, reformers, writers and statesmen, who respond to the call of their time- are the pride and glory of our Race. It seems to us that the present is such a critical time when there is dire need for men Gof action and ideals. Old things, institu- tions, and policies are passing, a new system is on the way; whether the- present era ushers in. the holy city of God or the new outburst of grasp and greed; whether it is the harbinger of hope and bliss or a carnival of passion and prejudice depends upon. the youth of our land. Britain calls for men with noble empires in their brain, clean cities in their heart, healthy homes in their thoughts and a passion- ate resolve to see them translated into fact, but the requisite for that is the vision that sent Abraham forth on his lonely quest, that thrilled Paul's soul with the Mace- donian call, that haunted Francis, inspired S.avoniarola and deprived Granville Sharp of many a. night's sleep; that enthused Shaftesbury, illumined Bright and revealed to Booth the possible, saint in the criminal; we must have men aflame with a consuming passion for souls., who, like the bees, put life into the sting. The enthus- iasm now spent in Sport, on the Stock exchange and with the mili- tary machine is needed, for a crus.- ade. that will know no rest until every wrong i's righted and the Fatherhood of Gtod and the Brotherhood of M.an are incarnate facts of time. •J This call comes with an awaken- ed- sense of obligation. "The love of Christ oonstraineth us," therefore, "I am a debtor to the Jew and to the Gen-tile," i.e. to all men. "We preach, warning every man and teaching everyman in, all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus," said Paul. "The world' is my home, humanity are my brothers, and to serve the least of men is my joy and religion," exclaimed the secular author of "The Rights of Man." To-night we would call the attention of young people to some openings, opportunities and responsibilities for religious ser- vice. Let us remember that the call seldom comes to a man more than once "Once to every man and nation Comeis) the moment to decide, In the strife of truth and falsehood, For the good' or evil side Some great Cause, God's new Messiah, Offeiring each, the bloom or .blight, Parts the goats- upon the- left hand And the sheep upon the right, Anid that ch oite. goesi by forever, 'Twixt that diarknes.s and that lighit." A PROGRESSIVE CHURCH. The most pathetic spectacle in Revelation is a-dead church, her candlestick removed, the Spirit de- parted and nothing left but a glit- tering corpse; history points to broken churches as well as brokc-ii empires. A disheartenihtg sight to God and man is a lukewarm church she may be rich, learned, well en- dowed and outwardly illustrious, but the One who holds the seven stars says, "I will spew her out of my mouth." A term we dread to hear is "A comfortable church, The word of God says, "Woe to them that are at ease in Zion"—-the comfort- able church. We need restless, ag re ssi ve, d is con te nte-d chu rches; Z" venturesome, not content to walk in the beaten track of custom and tradition, and' always on the de- fensive, but opening up new paths, seeking fresh fields of conquest, carrying the. war into the heart of a. hostile world, casting ais;ide ease and spiritual sloth, unafraid of failiire and not ashamed of mis- takes, but, Like her Founder, aflame with the zeal of the Lord of Hosts. Prudence is often a cloak for cowardice. If Paul had been prudent another had been the .apostle of the Gentiles; prudence would have silenced Luther; Wes- ley might have had a comfortable vicarage, England is richer be- cause he followed the vision of his soul with divide abandon. Gibbon thought that the ,chri,ef cause of the wonderful progress' of the Earliy Church was the consummate and inflexible zeal of the Christians. But where can the church find enthusiasm if not in her children.? You are the church, her life, her hope and mainstaiy. Have you thought of your indebtedness to her? Her claims upon you ? You were baptised at her font, taught at her schools, and admitted to. her Table; her prayers, surrounded your cradle, her ministers guided your faltering" footsteps with her blessing1 you set out to make your way in the world: you were help- ed and instructed by her sons in a strange land; encouraged when faint, helped in distress, comfort- ed iin sorrow, strengthened during weakness, steadied! in the hour of temptation, welcomed when lonely and loved unselfishly: in the dark hours of life; she has. been a Friend, a Mother, and a Home to you; some of you know that when you were on. duty in the lone dread. hours of the night, or in the awful rush of clashing1 armies, or await- ing delayed' succour in' No Man's Land, in the crowded hospitals, and beside the mound where so many friends now step their last, you know that the love, sympathy, healing, and sacraments of the Bride of Christ were your comfort; the Red Cross, Sit., John's ambul- ance, doctors, nurses:, chaplains, #