41 RIGHT REV. BISHOP E. GRAHAM IXGHAM, D.D., ON 



There is something after all, however, bigger than the British 

 Empire ! If we. as a people, can serve our day and generation, 

 and work for world-righteousness and world-peace, it will be 

 well. 



But there are some serious facts that look in another direction, 

 but which it is popular to-day to ignore. 

 There is the fact of sin ! 

 There is the fact of the fall of man ! 



There is the fact that mankind largely lost the power to govern 

 when he ceased to obey ! 



And there are signs that developments are going on in the 

 direction of lawlessness and deterioration. 



Then, lastly and most mercifully, there is the fact of the 

 Kingdom of God — a Kingdom coming not with outward demon- 

 stration ! Its foimdations have been well and truly laid. The 

 Spirit of its King is already at work amongst us. The time 

 may not be far off when He shall have put down all rule, all 

 authority and power, for He must reign." 



Let this goal be kept weU in view. It wiU correct all wrong 

 tendencies in the matter of race feeling and race pride — a sin 

 that may most easily beset us ! 



Nothing wiU humble us, nothing will quicken high resolve, 

 nothing more surely increase our influence for good, than a return 

 to the primary duty of world-witness ! What will this mean ? 

 It wiU mean that we are not out to get the world converted in a 

 given time, not out even to make heathen nations into Christian 

 nations, but to give out a clear-cut witness to Jesus Christ and 

 to see that in all our world-travels, world-trade and Imperial 

 administration this witness is not blurred by our own short- 

 comings and inconsistency. 



The Lord said, " Ye shall be witnesses unto Me . . . unto the 

 uttermost part of the earth. ' He also said, '* Ye shall receive 

 power." 



Xo nation has ever been granted such influence, such prestige, 

 such a base of operations before I 



If we \\ill " think imperially " in this higher and more cathoHc 

 sense, we shall surely see, gathered out from all these peoples 

 and races, a Kingdom that shall not pass away, and our own 

 Empire, which we have seen grow and expand in so unexampled 

 a manner, will have served its day of opportunitv according to 

 the WiU of God. 



