The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-07

the regions hitherto shut up, letting a draft
from Boston in ON Utah, bearing light and life
to the dark and the dead joining the worlds to-
gether by hgature so that men shall have one
pulse.
When 1 see the prophecy of God being thus
fulfilled 1 would like to put out my hands
and feel the machinery by which
it is fulfilled, and see if | cannot
find His initials on it. But l am told that it
came from a goddess machine-shop. 1t is awork
of civilization.
Again. see a swamp drained, and the land
redeemed from the curse and see piece OF new
earth lifting harvest to the sun-bread for the
children, instead of typhoid fever. But L ara
shut out from claiming this for the Lords work.
And then the work that is being done toward the
time when there shall be neither sorrow nor
crime neither shall there be any more pain,
the work of good physicians smoothing the path
of children along the roadtha has been so cruel
the whole treatment of the insane, of the
sick, Of the feeble minded, of all losers
by the accidents of ife-it is
something like what Christ did is it notl 1t
seems like the outcome of His spirit and mind,
does it not!
If the native human spirit, without any
prompting, does this kind of work. why did the
native human spirit in Sparta kill all the de-
formed and feeble minded children-killed them
for the welfare of the stated Apart from the
New Testament it is the policy to kill all these
unfortunates. Apart from the New Testament
they burden Even with the New Tesla
ment some advocate the taking Of their lives.
If what once was wonder of healing Is now
common it is because the great physician condo
scends to walk this hospital. The asy-
lums for the lost the homes
for the friendless are footprints of Him
as plain as any seen by Galilee. Was
chloroform merely lucky thought Has the
ptying God nothing to do with the equipment
of surgeon2 The name of the Sisters hospital
in New Orleans is the Hotel Deu. 1t seems so.
l am willing to give liberal leagues and the free
rnli yin thair Il b11f who lS
hospital Where is their House of the Good
Shepherd They make some provision for the
righteous, for the well, for the strong minded,
the survivors, the fttest, those who progress,
but where is their ambQlance9
Let those men who snuffed out the light,
mopped out the morning star, bring in at least
candle By their fruits we shall know them. L
hear none of them sing, Il go to the desert to
seek my sheep"
My friends, we pray 'GThy kingdom come"
We believe it will come. Is the answer to that
prayer and the reason of that belief only to be
seen in the membership of this visible church of
ourss Are the battles of Christ all fought on
Sundays and in protracted meetngsl And is
the world entitled to all that is done on
week days. There was no sacred and
profane with Christ. He was just as
much Christ making q little bread go great
way, or telling the fishermen where to cast the
net, or paying taxes, as when he was preaching.
l want to stretch forth my hand and claim
every good thing that is done under the sun as
done by impulse of the Lord On every new
shore that is discovered, by every river kneel
with Columbus and De Soto and plant the cross.
/ do it. 1 widen the definition of Gods work.
With St James, l make it include every good
thought and every perfect thought There was
no nature in the supernatural with David.
Heaven is my throne and the earth is my foot
stool. What house will you build for mel saith
the Lerti. Is civilization and the glory of it the
work of MANI So many men say; so many
Christians admit. So it does not seem to me.
1t is time to resurvey the kingdom of God on
earth. Pull up the stakes at the four corners of
the church and reset them at the four corners Of
the world.
All men are sons by birth. There is neither
jew nor Greek, bond nor free Monday lisa day of
the Lord. The Most High dwelleth not in
temples made with hands.
To make peace with the Seminoles, Congress
invited their chief to visit the States showed him
the waving harvest the army and navy that
once we had, the arsenal at Springfield, the
wealth and the power of the nation. He did
not know what he was fighting He saw that
his strife but the revolt of a sick baby
against strong father. He saw it and hushed
and allowed himself to be carried in quiet to
the reserve. Power enforces respect. The
mighty works draw attention to the sermon.
So this proud world complacent with the prog
ress it calls its own, needs to be taken and led
around and shown that Christ is in the world;
that all things were made by Him. and without
Him was not anything made that is made
There are two New Testaments; this and one
other. This is the printed programme; the
other is the performance before our eyes; the
will and the execution of the will. The two
agree. The needful thing is to know this other
when we see it unfold III history according to
the bill. Not to do this is to make the old say
ing still true: HE was in the world and the
world was made by Him, and the world knew
Him not"