Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-10-08
BISHOP SIMPSON.
Continued from First P..ge.)

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though few of them only-the few that
| had dared to come and first as Christianity
| got hold of their hearts they came a
little closer to the door; then they could
| look in and see the speaker, and then the
veil was taken OFF their faces, when they
| were made one with US
IN Christ Jesus the Lord.
Cries of "Bless the Lord" Christianity
she is educating them and making them
mothers OF the redeemed millions of men
that shall yet grace this earth of ours
["Praise the Lord."] And I do rejoice
that wherever Christianity gees she takes
woman by the baud. She lifts her up and
she beauties society, and she const .ates
phere around her, and we have such audi
ences as this to-day, where we come to-
| gether to hear the word of the Lord, and
then go out to do the work of the Lord,
side by side, hand to hand with the men,
and the women of our church are becom-
ing the great power of the world in be-
half of purity and of Righteousness. God
bless them, Cries of "Amen," and make
them more and more power in the
world! Cries OF amen" But it is
Christianity that does this, and nothing
else. There is
| NO SEX IN CHRISTIANITY;
there is no race in Christianity; we are ell
one in Christ Jesus, our Lord. Cries Of
amen"
Now while this teaching and the higher
education is going on and the schools are
! Christian schools, men sometimes try to
found some schools which are not Chris
| tian, but they never succeed. In our city
a French infidel did grand good work by
founding the Girard college, and leftit
after his own name. { 1 speak of the city of
Philadelphia. To-day there are many hun
dreds of refined boys gathered there, and
they receive an education to prepare them
for business. One of the fundamental
principles of that institution was that no
clergyman should ever GO inside the gate
OF the walls that surround that institution.
I have lived in Philadelphia number of
years and [ have never been per-
| mitted to so inside Of it.
No known clergyman can go inside of it.
He did it because he had been brought up
in the midst Of Catholicism, anu he
thought that the priests would draw every
thing into their grasp. But he made this
law the fundamental principle in the in
stitution, and what has been the result?
Ministers could not go there, but the man
ayers of the institution have not been able
to find teacher IN whom they could put
full confidence that did not go liz there as
Christian man and he has taught the
children the Bible; and there are lay ser
mons preached there every Sabbath, and
I think, from what can learn, though rs
yet, l have not been inside of it, as I said,
I think there is as much Christian infu-
ence exercised IN that school to-day as
thera is in many of the Christian schools
in our land. Cries o f "thank the Lord"
You may do what you please, you
may build halls for operas and for thea
tres aud for business and We will ill them
with the gospel. Cries of ''Blegs the
Lord'' and "Halleiujah." Yoq may
| gather the earth together for wickedness,
but it shall all become the LORDS. ''The
gold and tho silver are his, and the cattle
on Il thousand hills" and they will all,
somehow or other, go into the service OF
his cause. How do you account for it?
The Christians, they say, were feeble men,
and weak men and unlearned men. How
have they got this power over the earth?
How is it that the nations are bowed be-
fore the cross? How is it that the
Cross shines above your highest
buildings? 1t is the emblem of
power and the individual heart is
| TURNING IT TO GOOD,
thus making Christian principle the prin-
ciple of the nation.
Then this power is used, not for destruc-
ton, but for good. Oh, how rejoice as I
go about through the land and see the
schools for humanity, and how men and
women are laboring to take care of ell the
poor and all the wretched. Our hearts are
touched. Brethren, Christ is the 'Ever-
lasting Father" and Christianity, like
| Christ, its founder, cares for the the sor-
rowful of this earth every where. It comes
to wipe away the tears; it comes to give
comfort to the dist essed; it comes to
make humanity pure everywhere, and 1t
tries to lift man up toward heaven. Gin,
thank God that I am sent to preach
a system that has not in it
haired for any human being. Cries of
"Amep." No, God is love, and His love
fills this universe Of ours and He is
ready to take in His arms any human
being that will como unto Him. On, how
sorry l am that there are some who will
not come! There are some that refuse to
come. Oh, my audience-oh, young men
of this faic city of the northwest, why
Will you stay away from Christ? Why
Will you stay away when He calls you to
peace, to rest and to glory?
Now, how deep is this yearning Of hu-
;nanity for humanity? May tell little
Incident that I have sometimes related?
In Pennsylvania, some years ago, 1 was
present at public gathering Of pupils for
SCHOOLS .FoR IMEECILEs.
Now, idiots seem to be- hopeless.
In ancient times, many Of you
know how they We're treated.
In modern times they were also treated
very badly. 1t was thought that nothing
could be done for them. A young man in
the east learned that in France expert
ments had been made to teach idiots, I'M
beetles. His heart was touched-a Christian
young man-and he went over TO Europe
10 study their plans and to see what could
be done; and he became SO confident Of
success and so enthusiastic that he came
back to this country and advertised Ia the
papers that the most helpless and in1beciie
that conld be found i'll the land should be
brought to him. He had, in the meantime,
gathered up mum Der and had q school
established for them. By and by there
was found what WAS thought to be the
Tnusa haIoiess of in, hHciJeS little how of