The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1889-10-10

| not get tne worlds far by depreclatlng
Chicago, and Chicago will not get the
Worlds Fair by bombarding New York
Another suggestion concerning tho coming
| exposition; let not the materialistic and
monetary idea overpower the moral and reli.
gious During that exposition, the first time
in all their lives, there will be thousands of
people from other lands who will see n coun
try without a state religion. Let us, by an
| increased harmony among all denominations
| of religion, impress other nationalities as
they come here that year. with the superior
! advantage OF having all denominations
equal in the ight Of government. All the
rulers and chief men of Europe belong
10 the state religion, whatever II may
be. Although our last two Presidents have
| been Presbyterians, the previous one was an
| Episcopalian: and the two previous Metho-
dists; and going further back in that line OF
Presidents, we find Martin Van Buren,, a
Dutch Reformed; and John Quincy Adams
| a Unitarian; and mans religion in this
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
self and his God, and IL must not directly or
indirectly be interfered with.
Furthermore, during that exposition,
Christian civilization will confront bar
| barism. We shall as n nation have n
greater opportunity to make an evange-
lizing impression upon foreign nation.
aities, than would otherwise be afforded
us in n 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
preached and doxologies sung. In the
less than three years between this and
that worlds convocation let us get n hap
tism of the Holy Ghost, 50 that the six
months of that worlds fair shall be fifty
Pentecosts in one, and instead Of three thou
sand converted, ~ in the former Pentecsst,
hundreds of thousands will be converted.
You must remember that the Pentecost
mentioned in the Bible occurred when there
was no printing-press, no books no Chris
tian pamphlets, no religious newspapers,
and yet the influence was ire
mendous. How many nationalities
were touchedg The account says:
"Parthians and Medcs and Elamites,' -
that is people from the eastern countries;
"Phrygia and Pamphylia,' that is, 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 Pentccost 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
l,ospeliZation the religious printing presses
make n 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 barriers! The
graudest opportunity for the cyangel'
ization OF all nations since Jesus
| Christ died on the cross will
be tho worlds exposition Of
1892. God may take us out OF the harvest
field before that, but let IL be known through.
ont Christendom that that year, between
Nav and November, will be the mountain
OF Christian advantage, the Alpine and
Himalaynn height of opportunity overtop-
ping all others for salvation. Instead of tho
slow process of having to send the
Gospel TO other land by our own Amer.
can missionaries, who have difficult
toll in acquiring tho foreign language and
then must contend with foreign preiudices,
what n grand thing TO have able and infiu.
ential foreigners converted during their visit
III America and then have them return TO
their native lands with the glorious tdiugsl
oh, for an overwhelming work Of grace for
the year 1892, that work beginning i'll the
autumn of 1889
Another opportunity, II our public men
see it, and IL is the duty of pulpit and print
ing press TO help them to see IL, will be the
calling at that time and place of legal
peace congress for all nations. The conven.
ton of representatives from the Govern.
ments of North and South America, now at
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