Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-10-08

wonderful death, a wonderful resurrection
No marvel that his name should be called
| Wonderful! Well, now, look at early
Christianity Cor a moment,-what wonder
full things in that. Christianity began
without any human aid, mean, the aid OF
any human power. Look at the power OF
| the schools, look at the power of literature,
look at the power of social influence, look
at the power of government, and all those
powers were arrayed againgt rising Christi
entity. 1t had not any of them, and as from
the hillside that overlooked Gaiiilee, ,sadder
them as he gazed upon them, s'Blessed are
the poor in spirit, for theirs is the king
| dom of heaven" A little company, and
yet what power had they! What could they
| do? Oh. the words of Jesus, how prophet
ic they were! And how they were fulfilled!
Let me call attention to but one, though it
may seem like little depression: | sec
| him standing near that same spot, prob
ably where he delivered that first sermon; !;
his disciples had come to him, the disciples
| of John had come to make inquiry, and
he answered them. gave his reasons, then
looking out on humanity as the shadows
of the evening wsre beginning to come,
and the men were coming with burdens
from the field, and the women,
bearing water pots on their shoulders
and on their leads, carrying them p from
the little springs and tho valleys toward the
hilisides where the little villages were
always built,-just as he sees humanity
iDg,-burdened oppressed labor
ing eiasses,-coming h-me,-he cries out
"Come unto me all ye that labor and are
heavy laden and will give you rest"
What could it mean? A young man from
thirty to thirty-three years OF age, stand
ing in the middle of an oldor class of men,
burdened down, overworked, fainting on
the way, and crying out to then, "O@me
unto me all ye that labor and are heavy
laden aud I will give you rest"
How could he do it? You may say it
was spiritual
REST AND PEACE.
So it was, but l think more than that.
Christ lived not for himself nor for his
day. but for humanity, and locking TO the
ends of the earth and seeing the men with
their burdens. He cries out, Come unto
Me and will give you rest" Where are
the women row in our land, carrying the
water pitchers on their shoulders and their
heads up from the valleys to the hillsides
where the towns and the cities now stand!
Steam does that work for
US. Wherever Christianity has
gone we have water works in our
Towns and villages, and in the cities; but
without human burden that water is dis
tributed al through the land. Where is
the necessity for the little wick burn
ing that the prophet alIudes to
when he says, 'fhe smoking flax shall he
not quench," nor put out the light of the
captive in his struggle. Now we draw the
light from the very bowels of the earth,
and we are sending it over all the cities
and towns Of our lend. Where are the
seen them in Constantinopie and the East,
where they bore burdens which seemed to
me enough to bear down even the beasts
of burden. None of them he1e Our To-
comotives draw our half-mlle-long trains
Of cars and carry thousands of to1s. What
does it all mean? Our women are no
longer stitching from morning. till night
with the household sewing, but
|. THE SEWING MACHINE.
comes to their help; and the great harvest
ers are cutting down, not as when was
boy, and when some of you were boys;
when we bent our backs under the sickles
and reaped all through the
hot, burning, wearisome day,
but now these wonderful moving machines
and raapipg machines travel right through
the harvest field and throw tho sheeves
bound from the ends of thsir great arms,
thus relieving the laborer. Christ saw all
this as the result OF hls doctrines, and
ha "a npf1 ol hat
labor and are heavy laden ard will give
you res'." It i5 not SO in Mohammedan
countries, it is not SO III pagan countries.
1 have seen them plowiDg i'll Palestine and
among 'Mohammedan people with sharp
stick just simply thro' the earth drawn,
by COW or some animal of that hind, and
sometimes even by human hands, just
scratching the surface of the earth! No
skill, no -provement-how do ycu &C.
count for it? What Is the meaning of ii?
Christianity does not teach plowirg. nor
reaping, nor moving, nor sewing, bat it
teaches a man to be 3 man. Cries of
halleluish!] It puts him on his feet
''thank God" it puts into his soul the
love of God; ne looks upward and he
learns
HOW TO GOVERN NATURE.
and to be what God intended him to be
the ruler of this lower earth. Cries of
thank God!] But rejoice in improve
ment and invention, and II progress; but
there is always shadow comes over me
while think of this matter; why we're we
so long finding those out? What kept Us
in darkness? 1t is great thing to have
these electric lights now sparkling in our
cities and shining away darkness, making
property and life secure. But there is
nothing new in electricity; the lightning
was flashing from tbs beginning; God had
put it here and we ought to have found it
thousands of years ago and man ought to
have had all this light; but he turned him
self down TO sin; he spent his time in SEN
suaIity and IN contests; not until Christ
came and put His spirit in his bosom did
msn look upward and outward and feel
that he was a son of God and "a heir of
glory.
Now. there are these prospective and
rich Influences coming out OF Chrisi'5 words
and uhrist's works every where, and Won
derful things are yet occurring.
TIE INFANT CHURCH
stood up and spread, and it is filing the
earth. How do You account for it? How
is it that men without learaiDg, without
power. have conquered this earth? Where