The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1886-09-25

absorbs and assimilates the expanding capa.
cities of the soul that is honest with itself and
with God, striving to be good for goodness
sake. till, forgetting its foibles, it alike for
gets and gets away from self, and when the
Esprit and the Bride say come, such listen,
ing souls will hear and say Come" And
how much more that would sound like con-
verting the world than does . Gre as NAL,
lion a veQr for ten years and zoe tciu conUet
the ,corld.' And it would really, seem that
that ten millions would more rapidly subserve
the conversion of the world, expended at
home upon the little less unfortunate than the
foreign heather.
First is the compulsorily applied dissent
nation of useful knowledge; when the mag
unanimous donors might see the work of their
hands, and looking benignly into pleadingly
expectant uplifted eyes, grasping extended
hands and lead the way to the Sunday schools,
which with their component, public education,
are the hope of our republic and the church.
Such work at home, executed in detail and
comprehensiveness, would convert the world
make true converts, vaster than the pro-
posed application of ten millions; much of
which would inevitably cater to curiosity and
fame loving propensties, by inviting young
aspirants to where distance lends enchant
ment to the view,n and thus to no small ex-
tent render that ten millions petty acquisi
ton won from the enemy's large supply of
weapons, which he, perhaps, would quite
willingly relinquish, to keep up the turmoil
and the strife-continue the din of war, while
he himself could but the more effectively
WELD the vaster billions. Will men look at
it, think of it? before they too precipitately
essay to pioneer the angel of the Apocalyptic
vision, whom John saw 'hying in mid heaven
having the everlasting Gospel to preach unto
them that dwell on the earth, and unto every
nation and kindred and tongue and people"
What does 81 am Alpha and Omega" signify
if it does not imply that she will make
everything beautiful in His time?'' And
when ''the fullness of time shall come"
will he not develop the plan to convert the
world This move toward the conversion of
the world began with the announcement of
the angel to the Wise Men of the birth of a
Prince and Saviour; and when that Saviour
was promulgating ''the glad tidiTngs of great
low SO meagre were his worldly benefits
that he exclaimed, ''the foxes have holes, and
the birds of the air nests, but the Son of Man
hath not where to lay His head" How does
this compare with those champions of the
same religion, who, o-day, recline in the lap
of ease and luxury; are the worshipped recip-
tents of the highest human honors, while they
tell us that they "believe in luxurious christi
anity,' and rising up from downy pillows,
quaff the sparkling wine, and then appeal to
the rich and poor in common for millions to
convert the world Would not such pam
pered ones find the conversion of the world to
begin with themselves, if their gratitude to
God, and their sympathy for and with the
poor, the unlearned, the toiling and the suf
fering, bore any adequate proportion to their
own easy surroundings. We do not intend to
apply these remarks indiscriminately; while
we do think that he who said "One is your
master, even Christ, and all ye are brethren"
never intended masters to lord it in luxury
over his heritage, and Cypress his true work
men, who like the Master, go about doing
good-giving a cup of cold water, speaking
soothingly to the sorrowing, kindly to the
erring, lifting up the fallen, taking the OPP
pressed by the hand and daring to face the
oppressor and telling the "Glad Tidiugs" to
the poor. Such workers stand upon Gods
common platform, bearing the same relation
to each other, and all common relation to
God; and never grow pulled up with the con-
ceit that they will stand away above the rest
of the General Assembly and Church of the
first horn," and looking at God Almighty
himself on level exclaim, SIS not this the
great world ,ce have converted"