The Warriors

The Warriors

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THE WARRIORS
BY ANNA ROBERTSON BROWN LINDSAY PH.D.
AUTHOR OF

WHAT IS WORTH WHILE? CULTURE AND REFORM THE
VICTORY OF OUR FAITH

PREFACE
This work was begun nearly five years ago. Since then, the whole face
of American history has changed. We have had the Spanish-American
War, and the opening-up of our new possessions. In this period of time
Gladstone, Li Hung Chang, and Queen Victoria have died; there has
also occurred the assassination of the Empress of Austria and of
President McKinley. There has been the Chinese persecution, the
destruction of Galveston by storm and of Martinique by volcanic action.
Wireless telegraphy has been discovered, and the source of the spread
of certain fevers. In this time have been carried on gigantic engineering
undertakings,--the Trans-Siberian Railroad, the Trans-Balkan Railroad,
the rebuilding of New York. We have also looked upon the
consolidation of vast forces of steel, iron, sugar, shipping, and other
trusts. We have witnessed an extraordinary growth of universities,
libraries, and higher schools,--the widespread increase of commerce,
the prosperity of business, the rise in the price of food, and the great
coal-strike of 1902. Perhaps never before in the world's history have
there been crowded into five years such dramatic occurrences on the
world-stage, nor such large opportunities for the individual man or
woman.
It is interesting for me to notice that since the first outlines of the book
were written, many things then set down as prophecy have now been
fulfilled. It was my purpose, in projecting the essays at what seemed to
me to be the dawn of a great religious era, to help the onward
movement by a few earnest words. History itself has swept the world
far beyond one's dreams, and in completing them, I only ask that they
may stand a further witness to the overwhelming majesty and influence
of the Christian faith.
ANNA ROBERTSON BROWN LINDSAY

Philadelphia, November 1st, 1902

TABLE OF CONTENTS
I. CHORDS OF AWAKENING: THE HIGHER CONQUEST
II. PRELUDE: THE CALL OF JESUS
III. PROCESSIONAL: THE CHURCH OF GOD
IV. THE WORLD-MARCH: OF KINGS OF PRELATES AND
EVANGELISTS OF SAGES OF TRADERS OF WORKERS

I. CHORDS OF AWAKENING: THE HIGHER CONQUEST
[CUTLER]
_The Son of God goes forth to war, A kingly crown to gain: His
blood-red banner streams afar: Who follows in His train?
Who best can drink his cup of woe, Triumphant over pain; Who patient
bears his cross below, He follows in His train!
They met the tyrant's brandished steel, The lions gory mane; They
bowed their necks the death to feel: Who follows in their train?
They climbed the steep ascent of heaven Through peril, toil, and pain:
O God, to us may grace be given To follow in their train!_
REGINALD HEBER
The universe is not awry. Fate and man are not altogether at odds. Yet
there is a perpetual combat going on between man and nature, and
between the power of character and the tyranny of circumstance, death,
and sin. The great soul is tossed into the midst of the strife, the longing,
and the aspirations of the world. He rises Victor who is triumphant in

some great experience of the race.
The first energy is combative: the Warrior is the primitive hero. There
are natures to whom mere combat is a joy. Strife is the atmosphere in
which they find their finest physical and spiritual development. In the
early times, there must have been those who stood apart from their
tribesmen in contests of pure athletic skill,--in running, jumping,
leaping, wrestling, in laying on thew and thigh with arm, hand, and
curled fist in sheer delight of action, and of the display of strength. As
foes arose, these athletes of the tribe or clan would be the first to rush
forth to slay the wild beast, to brave the sea and storm, or to wreak
vengeance on assailing tribes. Their valor was their insignia. Their
prowess ranked them. Their exultation was in their freedom and
strength.
Such men did not ask a life of ease. Like Tortulf the Forester, they
learned "how to strike the foe, to sleep on the bare ground, to bear
hunger and toil, summer's