The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1889-10-12

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the chief nations of Europe and Asia
North and South America, will be repre-
sented ut our Worlds Fair in 1892. and
Pentscost here aud then would mean tn
salvation OF the round world. But, yol
say, We rave at that fair the people of al
lands and all the machinery for gospeliza
ton, the religious printing presse
and the churches, but ali that would no
make a Pen.sco,t; we must have God
Well, you can have Him. Has He not beef
graciously waiting; and nothing stands
IN the way but our own unbelief and in
dolence and sin. May God break dow
the barrier The grandest opportunit,
for the evangelization Of all nations sine,
Jesus Christ died on the cross will be tn,
Worlds Exposition OF 1892 God ma,
take us out OF the harvest field befor,
that, but let it be known Throughout
Christendom that that Year, between MAY
and November, will b. the mountain Of
Christian advantage, the Alpine anC
Himalayan height of opportunity over.
topping all Others for salvation. Instead
OF the slow process of having tc
send the Gospel to other lands by
our W American missionaries
who ave difficult toll in overcoming
foreign pre- judges, what a grand thing to
have able and Influential foreigners con
verted during their visit to America and
then have them return to their native
lands with the glorious tidingsl D, for an
overwhelming work OF grace for the year
1892, that work beginning in the autumn
of 1885,.
Another opportunity, IL our public men
see IT, and II Is the duty Of pulpit and
printing press to help them to see II, will
be the calling at that time and place Of a
great peace congress for all nations. The
convention OF representatives from the
Governments of North and South America
o at Washington is only a type of what
we may have on u vast and a world wide
scale at the International Exposition in
1917 by one stroke the Gorgon of war
might be slain and buried so deep that
neither trumpet of human dispute or of
archangePs blowing could resurrect it.
When the last Napoleon called such a con.
gress OF nations many did not respond.
and those who did respond gathered
wondering what trap the willy DESTROYER
OF the French Republic and the builder of
a French Monarchy might spring on them.
But what If t 20 most popular govern
ment on earth-I mean the United States
Government-Ihould practically saw to
all nations: On the American continent,
in 1892, we will hold a Worlds Fair. and
all nations will send to it specimens of
their products. their manufactures and
their arts. and we invite all the Govern.
ments OF Europe, Asia and Africa to send
representatives to a peace convention that
shall be held at this same time and place.
mi that shall establish an international
arbitration commission to whom shall be
nl nnnt rnxynrefa.
and nation. their decision to be final. and
so all nations would be relieved OF the
expense of standing armies and naval
equipment, wal having been made an
impossihility.
All the nations of the earth worth con-
sid eration would come to 1t, mighty men
Of England and Germany and France and
all the other great nationalities, Bismarck
who worships the Lord of Hosts, and
Gladstone, who worships the God of
and Boulanger who worships him. |
sell. The fact Is that the nations are sick
Of drinking out of chalices made out of
human skulls and filled with blood. The
States Government Is the only
in the whole world that
,ould successfully call such a congress, |
suppose France SHOULD call it, Germany |
would not c Ime; or Germany should call |
Z, Franc would not come; or Russia |
hould call II, Turkey would not come; or
England should call II, nations long jeal- |
JUS OF her overshadowing power in Eu-
ope would no come. America, in fay r
With all nationalities, standing out indie
and alone, is the spot and 1895
will be the time. May it please the Presi-
.ent of the United States, may it please
he Secretary If State, may it please the
may it please the Senate and
louise OF Representatives, may it please
printing presses and the churches and
he people who lift up and put down our
rulersl
To Them / make this timely and solemn
Christian appeal. Do you not think
eople die fast enough without this whole.
bu'chery OF war? Do you not think
hat We can trust 10 pneumonias and con-
and apoplexies and palsies and
elbow levers and Asiatic choleras the
'ork of killing them fast enough Do you
OF think that the greedy, wide-open jaws
I the grave ought to be satisfied IL filled
y natural causes with hundreds of thou
OF corpses a YEAR, DO you not
link we can 10 something better with
ZEN than to dash their life out against
or blow them into fragments
oOha v " IuLO I00 Il
orld, where they need all their faculties.
armless, eyelessi Do you not
link that women might be appointed to
easier place b the edge of a grave
ench to wiring their pale hands and
eep out their eyesightin widowLood and
lildlessness? Why, the last glory has
)ne out of war.
mere was q time when 1t demanded that
lalitv which we all admire-namely.
a man had to stand at the
lit OF the sword when the point pierced
10 foe, and while he was Staying another
le other might Stay him or it was bayo.
1t charge. But now ii is cool and dellber-
70 murder, and clear out at sea a bomb
Iell can be hurled miles away into a city,
while thousands of private soldiers,
no have no interest in the contest, for
ey we're conscripted, are losing their
res, their General may sit smoking ono
the best Havana cigars after a dinner
quail on toast 1t may be we'll enough
r graduating students of colleges on
announcement day to orate about the
'etry Of war, but do not talk about the
OF war to the men of the Federal or
armies who were at the front.
to some OF us who, as members Of the
commiss ion, saw the CHASTITY
sipItais at Antietam and Hagerstown.
you may worship n LORD OF Hosts, |
III Il you OF Feace' VINO
an from the dead our Lord Jesus :
rlst, mat great shepherd or the sheep" :
" ar Is an accursed monster and 1t was :
'Tn IN the lowest cavern Of perdition, {
pray tnat IL may speedily descend
sne pace from "nich IL arose, its last I
ora ana shleld ana musket rafting on .
. potion OF the red-hot mari OF hell. !
= y 'nere DC cai'eu a peace convention OF :
~ win sent by all the decent
OF Christendom ana while {