St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-12
SIGNIFICANT MOVEMENTS.
DR.. Vail Talks Leafnedly Upon,
the Worlds History. IS

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There was not a vacant seat ntfle
Peoples theater yesterday morning,
and the scholarly sermon by W. S. Vail
was listened TO with rapt attention.
''Great Movements and Their Signii-
canoe" was the subject of the eloquent
divine's discourse, and his text was
chosen from Acts L., 4; And being as
handed that they should not depart
from Jerusalem. but wait for the PROM
Use of the Father"
In the course Of his sermon, Dr.. Vail
said: :.
After the death of Christ the apostles
were as timid as hunted deer. Sub
posing that He came to establish a
temporal kingdom. and was abundantly
able to resist the Romans, they now
felt that all had been lost. What did
He do? Command them to wait. What
was His object? To prepare them for
their work. After this preparation they
came forth like warriors in the line of
battle. During the time they had gone
through the black valley of detection,
heard the Kissing of concealed SerpentS,
felt the touch of quieksands beneath
their feet; but now they came to the
meadow beyond with its hoWer-decked
carpet.
PURE AIR, AND BRIGHT SUN.
From this we learn that God prepares
men and nations in ways they do not
{, understand: and in the light of this
truth many things become luminous.
which before were dark. 1t is curious
history and see the various ways in
which they work together for good.
The Hebrew nation. subjected to many
miSfOrtuneS, made most important
contribution to the preparation fer
Christianity. What did Egypt offer
Moses? A marble palace, FURNISHED
chariots, horses fleet as wind,
the highest office in the state.
What did he desire for himself. The
rocky hills of Palestine, the rushing.
Jordan, the rock where the prophet
stood, and freedom to worship the ur-
seen God. The Hebrew was often i'm
moral, put women and children to death
in war, was often unjust, but never lost
a belief in God. His contribution was
faith. A Hebrew prophet saw in vision
mountain goat bounding from peak to
peak. Later young warrior arose
flashing through the East like a meteor,
sending trained armies flying like
chaff before the wind, Ieveling the
walls of old cities and sending
fire and sword on every hand. That
man was Alexander, and what Signifi-
caIee has that to us? Modern scholar
ship answers that it has very much to
do with our subject. He planted Ian
guage that became common medium
OF thought Our German friend sees
his language die in his own house.
His children no longer sing the vigorous.
words declaring God a mountain strong,
or the voice ringing out, mid dash OF
wave and clang of STEEL" asking for
strong hands
TO GUARD THE RHINE.
But Alexander planted a language
that Smothered the native tongue, en-
abling the ministers in after years to
go preaching throughout the world. He
also carried away many young men,
planting them i'll the great cities. aud
thus founding synagogueS which after
wards became Christian churches. ~
After Greece came Rome; after Rome
came power. She swept down upon the
robbers of Asia Minor like the eagle
upon his prey. She built stone roads
through every province. Her phalanx
crushed with power against the foe and
was dreaded as men dread the rushing
avalanche. She said to a man to be 4
king and he was crowned. She
demned, and he was crucified.
You can only understand the greater
movements in st. Paurs life by under
standing that he was Roman citizen.
The three inheritances of Cbrist'S- age
contributing by different nations conf
bined to give Christianity larger scope
in five years than 1t could gain in fifty
under ordinary conditions. God had
been preparing the world for it's greatest
event. Ii man could have gone into
one of the churches Of provincial New
England he would have scarcely
predicted the liberal sentiment
everywhere filling the churches
to-day. Wendell Phillips says
the air was blue with the sermons
that were preached. God was tyIant,
man a diSObedient worm, and if the
tyrant crushed the worm, it had no
cause of complaint because He created
it. But at that time the word liberty
was taking on new significance. 1t
burned in the breast of Hampden, i'll
spired Pastor Robinson. nerved Paul
Revere, quickened Patrick Henry. 1t
was one thought in the mind OF the old
man 80.
w liz ELE CONSOhD
the youth who died on Lexington green,
and the minute men who marched from
Cambridge common to Bunker hill.
While national liberty was demanded,
religious liberty was in chains. But the
new day saw the beams of the morning.
Ballou, Claiming and Parker pleaded
for the rights of man and showed the
face of the Christian God. Others have
arisen to take their places. and when
faith rises tomorrow it will he a. faith
shorn of the harshneSs of Puritan the
ology."
THE DAY NURSERY.
A Refuge for the Little Ones of
Working Women.