Daily Yellowstone journal., 1889-04-21

and he left his carriage and shouted
for the battle and cried: "Who is this
uncircumcisedPhilisti that he should
defy the armies of the living God"
and with five gravel stones skilfully
flung sem sprawllng the Dragging ten
%footer, his mouth into the dustand his
heels into the air.
WHAT NoBLER CLOSE TO A GREAT
CENTURY,
Ny friends, what but such n con-
summation could be n fit climax to
this century, You notice a tendency
in history and all about usto aclimaN.
The creation week rising from herbs
TO fish and from fish TO bird and from
bird TO quadruped and from Quadru-
ped to immortal man. The New
Testament rising from quiet ~genealo-
gical table in Matthew TO apoealyptic
doxology in Revelation. Now, what
can be an appropriate climax to this
century, which has heard the puff Of
the first steamer and the throb of the
first stethoscope and the click of the
first telegraph and the clatter OF the
first sewing machine, and saw the
flash of the first electric light and the
revolution of the first steam pillow,
and the law of storms was written,
and the American Bible society
and American Tract society were
born; and instead of an audience
laughing down DIR. Carey for advo-
eating foreign missions, as vas done
at Northampton in England in the last
century, now all denominations Wy
inc with each other as to who shall 20
the furthercst and the soonest into
the darkest of the New Hebrides; and
three hundred thousand souls have
been born to God in the South Sea
islands, and Micronesia and Melanesia
and Malayan Polynesia have been set
in the crown of Christ, and David
Livingstone has unveiled Africa and
the last bolted gate of barbaric nations
has swung wide open TO let the gospel
in. What, l ask, with a thousand in
terrogation points uplifted, can be a
fit, All appropriate and sufficient eli
max except il be a world redeemedl
Yea, | believe il can be done if we
get prepared for il, because the whole
air and the whole heaven is full of
willing help. Are they not all min
istering spirits sent forth2' We make
a awful mistake if we calculate only
on the forces we can see. The might.
est army is in the air. My breth-
ern, so much of selishness and pride
and rivalry and bad motives of all
kinds get into u work here that we
are hindered. But the mighty souls
that have zone up 10 the flying armies
of the sky have left all imperfection
behind; and these souls are with us
and without a fault and with perfect
natures are on our side. You cannot
make me believe that after toiling
here for long years for the redemp
ton of the world until from cxhaus
ton some of them fell into their grave;
they have ceased their interest in tho
~stupendous conflict TOY raging. OF
that they are going TO decline theil
help. lrenaus Prime! Honoret
on earth but now gloriied il
heaven, have you forgotten the worl
toward which You gave for more than
half a century your gracious life, you
loving voice and your matchless pen
mol Then come down and help
Alexander Duff! Have You forgotten
the millions of India for whose saliva
ton you suffered in Hindoo iungl
and Numbered on missionary plat
forml mol Then come down an,
help. David Brainard! Have YOU for
gotten the a%borigines TO whom yol
preached and for whom you praye,
until you could preach and pray n,
more, lying down delirious amid tn,
miasmas of the swamp MOI Thel
come down and help. Moucrieff an,
Freeman and CAMPBELL Have yol
forgotten Lucknow and Cawnpore
mol Then come down and help
rubout of my the stupidity and un
belief, and i, the servant of these grea
Elishas in the Gospel, see the noun
tains all round about are full of horse
of fire and chariots of lire: and the,
head this way. lowered over are W
by great clouds of witnesses and helT
ersl Clouds of apostles in the sir LEI
on by PAUL. Clouds Of martyrs in th
air led on by Stephenl Clouds o
prophets in the air led ON by Isaiah
Clouds Of patriarchs in the air led Of
by Abrahaml Clouds Of ancient wal
riors in the air led Oh by Joshua, an,
that Bible warrior at whose prayer as
tronomy once halted over Ajalon an
Gideon seems now 10 lift n han,
toward the descending sun of thi
country and the other hand towar
the moon Of the last decade saying
''Stand thou still till the church o
God gets the final victoryr
THE WORLD is BOUND TO BE SAVED.
Then let us take what remains O
this decade TO get ready for Oh
final decade Of the Nineteenth cen
fury. You and | may not live TO Sc
that decade or may not live 20 see il
close, but that shall not hinder m
from declaring the magnificent posi-
bility. | confess that the mistake O
my life has been. not that | did nc
work hard-for l could not hav,
worked harder and lived, as Go,
knows and my family know-but tina
/ have not worked under the realize
ton that the salvation Of this worl,
was a nearby possibility. But whethe
we see il, the beginning or In
closing Of that decade, is o
no importance, II only that de
cade can get the coronation, an,
then all decades shall kneel befor
this enthronod decade, and even In
gray grown centuries will cast thei