The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-10-07

ing southwest, cried: Land! Land
Landm And "Gloria in Excelsisn was sung
in raining tars on all the three ships of
the expedition. Most appropriate
and patriotic and christian viii
be a commemorative worlds fair
to others the discussion as to the site of such
exposition. and l wonder not that some five
or six of our cities are struggling to have it,
for it will give to any CITY TO which it is
assigned an impulse of prosperity for a hun
d ed years. say, leaving to others the
selection of the particular locality to be
thus honored, want TO say some thi gs
from the point of chr stisn patriotism
which ought to be said, and the earlier the
better, that we get thousands of people
talking in the right direction, and that will
make healthful public opinion. | beg you
TO consider pIayerfully what | feel called
upon of God as an American citizen and as
a preacher of righteous iess to utter.
Ny first suggestion is that it is not wise,
as certainl y it is not christian, to continus
this wide and persistent atte npt Of Anne i
can cities to belittle and depreciate other
cities. 1t has been going on for years, but
in this discussion as to where the worlds
fair shall be held, a style OF dis
cussion which has a tendency to
injure the success Of the fair as a great
moral and patriotic enterprise, after { g
locality has been decided uDon. There
is such a thing as healthful rivalry between
cities. but you will bear me out in saying
that there can be no good TO come from the
uncanny things said about each other by
New York and Chicago, by Chicago and
St. Louis, by St. Paul and Minneapolis. by
Tacoma and Seattle, and all tn ough the
states by almost every two proximate cities.
All cities, like individuals, have their Writ
ues and their vices. All our American
cities should be our exultation. What
churchesl What public libraries
What-asylums of mercvl What academies
of mu'lcl What mighty men in law and
medicine and art and scholarship! What
schools and colleges and uIiverstiesl What
women radiant and gracious and an im-
provement on all the generations Of women
since Eve What phila athropists who do
not feel satisfied with taeir own charities
until they get i to the hundreds of thou
sands and the millions What Gods acresn
for the dead, gardens of beauty and palaces
of marble for those VIII sleep the last sleepl
Now stop your slander of American cities. Do
you say they are the centers of crime d
political corruptions Please admit the TACT
that they are the centers of intelli gence
and &c erosity and the mightiest patrons
of architecture and scul Jture and painting
and music and reservoirs of religious inf1u-
ence for ali the con inent. 1t viii be well
for the country districts to cease talking
against the cities, and it will be well for
the city of one locality to stop talking
against the cities of other local. les. New
York will not get the worlds fair by de-
preeiating Chicago, and Chicago will not
get the worlds fair by bombarding New
York.
Another suggestion concerning the COM
ing exposition: let not the naterialistic ID
monetary idea overpower the moral and
religious. During thai exposition, the
first time in ali their lives, there sill b,
thousands of people from other lands who
will see country wit out state relgi n.
Let us by an increased harmony among
all denominations OF religion, impress
other natonalitIes, as they come here
that year, with the superior advantage
of having all denominations equal in
the sight of government. All the rulers
and chief men of E Irope belong to t %
state religion, whatever it may be- AL
thou b nur last two presidents have been
Presbyterians, the previous Que was an
Eplscopalian; and the two previous. Meth
odists aud going further back in that line of
presidents, we find Martin Van Buren, a
Du ch Reformed; and Joh Quincy Adams
Unitarian; and mans religion in this
country is neither hi de 'ance nor adva ntag
in the IN tier of political elevation. All
Europe needs that. All the world needs th t.
A mans religion is something between
himself and his God, and it must not,
directly or indirectly, be ilterfered with.
Furthermore, during that exposition,
christian civilization will confront bar
barlsm. We shall as a nation have a greater
opportunity to make an evangelizing i'm
preston upon foreign nationalities than
would otherwise be afforded US III quarter
of century. Let the churches of the city
where the exposition is he'd bs open every
day, and prayers be offered and sermo
preached and doxologies sung. In the less
tnan rec years between this and that
worlds convocation, let us get ba tisn
OF the Holy Gh st, so thai the six months
OF that worlds fair shall be fifty PenEeoo It's
in one, and ius cad of 5000 co lverted, as i l
the former Pentecost, hundreds of thousands
will be converted. You must remember
that toe Pentecost mentioned in the Bible
occurred when there was no printing press
no books, no christian pamphlets, no re-
ligious newspapers. d yet the influence
was tremendous. How many nationalities
were touched2 The acc cpunt says
"Parthians and Medes and ElamiteS, tnat
is, "Phraygia and Pamphylia," that is,
the western countries; people fr IN
the eastern countries; "Cyrene and
strangers Of Rome, Cretes and
Arabians," that is. the southern countries
but they were all moved by the mighty
spectacle. Instead of the sixteen or eighteen
tribes of people repor cd at that Pentecost,
all the chief nations of Europe and Asa
North and South America, will be repre-
sented at our worlds fair in 1892, and q
Pentecost here and then would mean the
salvation of the wound world.
But, you say, we may h We at that fair
the pc )ple of all lands and all the machin ry
for gospelization. tle religious printing
presses and The chu ches, but all that would
not make Pentecost; we must have God.
Well, you can have aim. Has he not been
graclously wal ing? and nothing sta dis in
the way but our own unbelief and Incidence
and sin. May @ d break down the bar
riersl The grandest opportunity for the
evangelization of all nations siace
Jesus Christ died on the cross
will be the worlds exposition of
1892. God may take US out Of the harvest
field before that, but let it be known
throughout c1ristendom hat that year.
between May and November, will be the
mountain of Christian advantages, the
Alpine and Hiinalayan hight OF opp r.
tn ity overlapping all others for sal
walton. Instead OF the slow proc
ess of haviag to send the gospel
to other lands by our own Amer
ican missionaries, who have difficult toll IN
acquiring the foreign language and then
must contendn with foreign prsjudiceg,
what and thi e to have abe aid In
hcentsal foreigners converted during tleig
yisit in America and then have them return
TO their native lands With the glorious
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