West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-10-17

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country Is neither hindrance nor advantage
IN the matter OF political elevation. All
Europe needs that. All the world needs that.
mans religion Is something between him.
sen me ms God, and IL must not directly or
indirectly be interfered with.
Furthermore, during that exposition,
christian civilization will confront bar.
oarism. We shall as a nation have a
greater opportunity 10 make an evange
hzlng impression upon foreign nation
%alities, than would otherwise be Afforded
US IN a quarter of a century. Let
the churches OF the city where the
exposition Is held be open every day,
and prayers be offered and sermons
less than three years between this and
that worlds conyocation, let US get a bap-
tism OF the Holy Ghost, so that the six
months of that worlds fair shall be fifty
Pentecosts in one, and instead of three thou.
sand converted, as in the former Pentecost,
hundreds OF thousands will be converted.
You must remember that the Pentecost
mentioned in the Bible occurred when there
was no p~rinting-press, no books, no Chris
tan pamphlets no religious newspapers,
and yet the influence was ire
mendous. How many n~ationalities
were touchedi The account saws:
"Parthians and Modes and Elamites.p
that is, people from the eastern countries;
"Phrygia and ~Pamphylia," that il, the west
ern countries; "Cyrene and strangers OF
Rome, Cretes and Arabians,n that is, the
southern countries; but they were all moved
by the mighty spectacle. Instead Of the
sixteen or eighteen tribes of people reported
at that Pentecost, all the chief nations OF
Europe and Asia, North and South America,
will be represented at our worlds fair in
1892, and n Pentecost here and then would
mean the salvation of the round world.
But, you say, we may have at that fair the
people OF all lands and all the machinery for
gospelization, the religious printing presses
and the churches, but all that would not
make Pentecost; we must have God. Well.
you can have Him. Has He not been gra-
ciously waiting and nothing stands in the
way but our own unbelief and Incidence and
sin. May God break down the barriersl The
grandest opportunity for the ~evangel-
lzation OF all nations since Jesus
christ died on the cross will
De the worlds exposition OF
lS92. God may take us out of the harvest
field before that, but let it be known through
out Christendom that that year, between
May and November, will be the mountain
Oh Christian advantage, the Alpine and
Himalayan height of opportunity o~vertop-
ping all others for salvation. Instead of the
slow process of having to send tho
Gospel TO other land by our own Ameri-
can missionaries, who AVE difficult
toll in acquiring the foreign language and
then must contend with foreign preiudices.
what a grand thing to nave able and infu-
entail foreigners converted during their visit
in America and then have them return to
their native lands with the glorious tidinpsi
Oh, for an overwhelming work of grace for
the year 1892, that work beginning in the
autumn of 1897
Another opportunity, if our public men
see 1t, and 1t is the duty OF pulpit and print
ing press to help them to see it, will be the
calling at that time and place Of q legal
peace congress for all nations. The conven-
ton of representatives from the Govern
ments of North and South America. now Mt
washington, is only a type of what we may
have ON a vast and n world wide scale at
the international exposition of 1892.
BY one stroke the gorgon of war might
be slain and buried so deep that neithap
trumpet of human dispute or of ~arch-angelA
blowing could resurrect 1t. When the last
Napoleon called such a congress of nations
many did not respond, and those that did re-
spond gathered wondering what trap that
WHY destroyer Of the French Republic and
the builder of a French monarchy might
spring on them. But what if the most popu-
Tar government on earth-I mean the United
states Government-should practically say
TO all nations; On the American continent
In 1892, we will hold a worlds fair
and all nations VIII send to it specimens or
their products, their manufactures and their
arts, and we invite all the Governments of
europe, Asia and Africa to send representa-
yves to a peace convention that shall be held
at the same time and place, and that shall
establish an international arbitration commits
sion to whom shall be referred all c~ontrover-
sizes between nation and nation. their decision
to be final, and so all nations would be re-
heved from the expense of standing armies
and naval equipment, war having been made
an everlasting impossiblity.
All the nations OF the earth worth con-
aderation would como to IL. mighty men OF
England and Germany and France and Rms
Sia and all the other great nationalities,
Bismarck who worships the Lord OF Hosts
and Gladstone who worships the God of
Heace. and Boulanger who worships himself.
The fact is that the nations are sick of drink
ing out of chalices made out of human skulls
and filled with blood. The United States
Government is the only government in the
whole world that could successfully call such n
Congress. Suppose France should call it..
Germany would not come; or Germany
should call 1t, France would not come. or
Russia should call it, Turkey would not come.
or England should call il. nations long ieal.
Gus OF her overshadowing power in Europa
would not come. America, in favor with all
~nationalities, standing out independent and
alone, Is the spot and 1892 will be the time.
May 1t please the President OK the United
states, may it please the Secretary OF STATE
may 1T please the Cabinet, may it please the
Senate and House Of Representatives. NAV IL
please the printing presses and the churches
ana the people who lift up and put down our
American rulers!
To them / make this timely and sol.
emn and Christian appeal. DO YOU
not think people die fast enough with
out this wholesale butchery OF WARP Do
you not think that we can trust to pneu.
monias and c-onsumptions and apopiexies
and palsies and yellow fevers and Asiatic
choleras the work Of killing them fast
enoughf Do you not think that the
greedy, wide open jaws OF the grave ought
TO be satisfied II filed by natural cause,
with hundreds Of thousands Of corpsss n
year, Do You not think we can do something
better with men than 70 dash their lite
out against easements or blow them into
fragments by torpedoes or send them out
into the world where they need all their
faculties, ~fo0tiess, ARMIES. eveiess? Do yo8
not think that women might be Copointed /,
an easier place than the edge Of n grave
trench % wiring their pale hands md weet
out Their cyeaght in widowhood and child
lessness' Why, the last glory has gone out
Of war.
There was q time when 81 demanded that
quality which we all admire namely. cour
age-for a man had 90 stand at the hlt 0
hls sword when the point pierced the Zoe and
While 10 was Staying another The other
might Stay him; o. IL was bayOnet CHARGE
But now 1t Is cool aud deliberate murder
and clear out at sea a bombshoil can bt
hurled miles away into a city, or while thou
sands Of private soidierL who have no inter
oct IN 81 5000 80 H