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_ 1_st_, 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