Daily Yellowstone journal., 1889-10-13

cities are struggling TO have il, for il
will give 10 any city To which il is as
signed an impulse Of prosperity for a
hundred years. say, leaving TO
others the selection of the particular To-
cality 10 bcthus honored, lwant to say
some things from the point of Chris,
tan patriotism which ought TO be said,
and the earlier the better, that we
get thousands of people talking in the
right direction, ard that will make
healthful public opinion. beg you
TO consider prayerfully what | feel
called upon of God as an American
citizen and as a preacher Of righteous,
ness TO utter.
STOP THROWING MUD.
My first suggestion is that il is not
wise, as certainly it is not Christian,
TO continue this wide and persistent
attempt OF American cities Ia bclittle
and depreCiate other cities. Ii has
been going on for years, but now the
spirit seems 10 eliminate in this dis.
ruSsion rs TO where the Worlds fair
thall be held, Il style Of discussion
which has a tendency TO injurc the
success Of the tair rs a great moral
and patriotic enterprise, after the To-
cali.y has been decided upon. There
is such a thing rs healthful rivalry
between cities, but you will bear
me out in saying that there can be- no
| good tocOmc from tie mcauny things
said about each u,hCr by New York
and Chicago, by Chicago and st.
Louis, by st. Paul and Mime
apulis, by Tacoma and Seattle, and all
through the state; 10y almost every
two pPoNiuaic cities. All cities, Ike
individuals, have their virtues and
thg!r" vices. .Ali our American cities
should bc oar eXultatiou. What
CHURCHES. Wllal public libraries!
What a,ylam@ ot mercy What acudc-
mics Of music. What mighty men In
law and medicine and AT and scholar
ship, What NhoUls and COLLEGES and
universities, What women radiant
and gracious and an Improvement on
all the generations Of women since
Eve! Whit phiiantiropisus who do
not feel satisfied with their own chart
ties until they got into the hundreds
Of thousands and the millions, What
Gods acres for the dead. gardens Of
beauty and palaces Of marble for those
who sleep Tie last sleep! Now stop
your SANDER Of American cities. DO
you sly they are the cculcIs OF crime
and political cOrFuptIoni Please ad-
nit lhe fact that they are cpntcrs OF
intelligence and generosity and the
mIguulest patrons Of architecture and
scuiI .3rc and painting aud music anu
r~cscryOir,Ol religious influence Tor all
the continent. It will BIZ we. for the
country districts 10 cease talking
against the cities. and il will be well
los the city ul one locality 10 stop
talking against the cities OF other ~.
calitieS. New York will not get the
Worlds fairly depreciutmg Chicago.
and Chicago viii not get the Worlds
fair by D~UubgrAing New York.
RELIGION SHOULD NOT GIVE WAY.
Another suggestion concerning the
coming exposition: let not TIE male
rialistic and monetary idea ovurpowur
the moral and religious. During that
exposition, the lirst time in all their
lives. there will BE- thousands OF
people from other lands who will see
a country withouta state religion. Let
us by an increased harmony mnOugull
denominations of religion, impress
other n1tlonalities, 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 Europe belong
TO the state religion, whatever il may
be. Although our last two presidents
have been Presbyterians, the previous
II was an Episcopalian; and the
two previous, McthOdists; and going
further back in that line of presidents,
we find Martin Van Buren, a Dutch
Reformed; and John Quincy Adams
a Unitarian; and a mans religion in
this country is neither hiudrauce nor
advantage in the matter Of political
elevation. All Europe needs that.
All the world needs that. Il mans
religion is something between him
self and his God, and il must not, di.
ectly or indirectly, be interfered with.
CIVILIZATION VS.. BAEBARIsM.
Furthermore, during that cxposi-
ton, Christian civilization will con
front barbarism. We shall as a ma
ton have a greater opportunity To
make an evangelizing impression
upon foreign nationalities, than would
otherwise be afforded US in a quar-
ter 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 a hap
tism Of the Holy Ghost. SO that the
SIX months Of that worlds fair shall
be fifty Pentecosts in one, and instead
Of three thousand converted, as in the
former Pcntecost, hundreds of thou
sands will be converted. You must
remember hat the Pentecost men.
toned in the Bible occurred when
there was no printing press, no books,
no Christian pamphlets, no religious
newspapers, and yet the influence was
tremendous. How many nationalities
were touchedi The account says:
"Parthians and Modes and Elamites,"
that is, people from the eastern coun-
tries; "Phrygia and Pamphylia, that
is, the western countries; "Cyrene and
strangers of Rome, Cretcs and Ara.
bians, that is, the southern countries;
but they were all moved by the
mighty spectacle. Instead Of the six.
teen or eighteen tribes Of people re.