Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1872-07-17

| present our cause as great missionary
cause, in which they had an interes.s
was asked by the Governor in the
House of Representatives, and there
was such crowd that he himself had
/ to stand. Sir, they are beginning to
feel that these railroads that are
coming, and the gold to build them,
must come from the North, and the
men to work them must come from
the same quarter. Their sons were
swept away by the great war, and
| they expect us to come and take their
places. A man said to me, "You can
send a thousand men here, and if you
do not interfere with our planted
pastures, we will help you" / have
not particle of doubt, but If we go
down there in fraternal faith and
goodwill, that the Church Of Texas
will soon be in union and communion
with us. Gan elder from Texas, who
had lived there forty years, called out
Come" The Governor told me that
when DIR. Baker said anything, you
could rely upon it. That is the man
who said "Come."
Now this wonderful country is open
ing up by this great Kansas and
Pacific Railroad. Mr.. Pullman and
Sleep-man too, that founder of the
great palace and sleeping car, has
eovenanted on the first day Of NOvem-
Der, 1872, to send a Pullman Palace
Car from st. Louis to Austin, the
capital of Texas. The railroad will
take into Texas crowding and unnum-
bered multitudes, where the frost
seldom comes and the snow rarely
falls. I had q good description of
Texas once, in the East, from the lips
of q DTagOman. He came on board
the ship with me and said, II will go
with you if you will take me, and /
will charge you nothing for it."
Laughter. Said he, "When the
Pasha sent the eamels to Tehas (that
is Texas my brother went to Tehas,
and he has written, o Hassan, come
to Tehas. The birds always sing, and
the grass is always green. Laughter.
Again, Texas is the door to Mexico.
/ Mexico has ten millions of a popu-
lation to-day. Texas will have pro-
lection over Mexico in less than q
thousand years from to-day-and that
is ten years, according to Mr.. Hatfield.
When the Greek kingdom held the
gates of SILICA, the Persian was no.
where, and if we hold the gates to
Texas, we shall have Mexico. In
order to have it rightly the Gospel
must preached to Texas.
Now, Moderator and Brethren, this
is the field. Now think of the vast
resources of the land, think Of the
people who will come here from all
parts of the world, their traditions
and stories only reaching to US as q
door of hope and city of refuge. My
heart was moved as looked lately at
| Castle Garden on the great steamers
crowded with human beings. They
are coming, hundreds and thousands,
and the only thing that is keeping
multitudes from coming is, that
statesmen prevent it, looking to future
wars. They are coming to this land
with many prejudices and misappre-
tensions, it it true, but still we must
evangelize them, and German schools
must be maintained, and German
ministers must be multiplied. That
is why I would have chair for Ger
man. Who are we compared with
the Germans? In numbers we are
but drop in the bucket compared
with the Teutonians. When you
talk Of Germans in politics, and in
this and that, as far as Christendom
is concerned, they are almost every
body, except few of us. Laughter. ]
Has this home work then nothing to
do with other lands and with the
worlds salvation? Sir, it hiss every
thing. ...........
4
We are in another great crisis.
Evidently God is stretching His hand
forth to DO the last things before the
reigning of Christ. I will only
remind you of the words of the Pro-
phet Because they regarded not
the work of the Lord, nor the opera
tions of His hands, He destroyed them
and did not build them up" Let US
be admOnished, and watching His
hands, let US put ours forth to work
with Him in the erOwning Of His
glorious and exalted Son with one oi
the many crowns of the nations.