Forward ! 



LONDON, May 1st, 1912. 



" God buries His workmen, but 



carries on His work." John 



Wesley's saying here fits our case. 



The progress of the world is no 



longer traced by the hand of our chief. No longer is 



that progress 



quickened and 



widened on the 



visible plane by 



the strenuous en- 

 ergy of his ex- 



haustless person- 

 ality. But the 



thrust of his will 



is on us still. The 



movements he 



has launched still 



register "full 



steam ahead." 



And his own or- 

 gan remains to 



conserve his 



spirit and to 



I o n t i n u e his 



work. The ])ro- 



gressof the world 



will here be sur- 

 veyed from the 



standpoint whiih 



lie has erected, 



.ind will be re- 



1 orded, though 



not with his pen, yet with his purpose. 



First in the throng of memorable 

 The •• Titanic." •^'"^"ts /h'^t li-ive accelerated pro- 

 gress in April, 191 2, must he 

 ranked I lie tragic occurrence hence- 



lurth for ever associated willi his name. The sinking 



A Last Glimpse of the " Titanic " leaving Queenstown. 



Llfo Through Death. 



of the Titanic was an assemblage of horrors. As the 

 story is slowly ground out, the horrors deepen. To 

 conceive them all. and to narrate them all, would 

 require the imagination of a Dante. What Inferno 

 could equal that tangled mass of fifteen hundred men 

 and women and children struggling for more than an 



hour in the ice- 

 cold water, and 

 sending up to 

 Heaven vain 

 cries for help, 

 their shouts and 

 groans blending 

 in a long-drawn 

 chorus of anguLsh 

 that slowly sank 

 into the silence 

 of death ? Nor 

 were there want- 

 ing great gleams 

 of Paradise. The 

 disaster has cleft 

 as with a sword 

 of God to the 

 core of the heart 

 of humanity, and 

 has revealed, be- 

 side the black 

 streaks of a base- 

 ness that is al- 

 most incredible, 

 the rich red 

 proofs of moral 

 grandeur. 

 But tliis human Golgotha is a 

 Golgotha of redemption. These 

 fifteen hundred souls have not 

 passed through the pains of death 

 in vain. For every life lost in this disaster, hundreds— 

 mavbe thousands — of other lives will be saved. The 



