Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-15

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tracts and those printing religious books. And
thousands of printing presses now in the
service of the devil could be brought and set to
work in the service of God. Why was the
printing press invented? To turn out billheads
! and circulars of patent medicines and tell the
| news which in three weeks will be of no 1ln-
Z portance? From the old time Franklin printing
press on up to the Lord Stanhope's press and
the Washington press and the Victory press to
| Hoes perfeeting printing press that machine
! has been improving for its best work and its
final work namely, the publication of the glad
tdings of great joy which shall be to all people.
| We have the presses, or can have them before
the 1st of January when the new decade is to
| begin, to put Bible in the hand of every son
! and daughter of Adam and Eve now living,
and if such person cannot read we can have
| colporteur, an evangelist or missionary to READ
| it to him or her.
| But this brings me TO the adjoining thought,
namely we have the money to do the work. L
mean the so OOO,O 600 of Christians have it. Aye,
the 2754,000 Christians have it; and the dam
| which Is beginning to leak will soon break, and
there will be rushing floods of hundreds and
ana millions and billions of dollars in holy con-
| tr1bution when you persuade the wealthy
men of the kingdom of God tnat the speedy
that Isaiah and Ezekiel and Daniel and st.
John will not stand in the way of it, but help
it on. have no sympathy with this
BoMBARDMENT OF RICH MEN.
We would each one be worth IS, 100000 if we
could and by hard persuasion might perhaps
be induced to take Sl5,O00000. Almost every
paper take up tells of some wealthy man who
has endowed college or built a church or
hospital or free library, and that thing is 60
ing to multiply until the treasury of all our de-
| nominations and reformatory organizations
will be overwhelmed with munifcence if we
| can persuade our men of wealth that the
worlds evangellzation is possible and that they
| may live to see it with their own eyes. l have
always cherished the idea that when the world
| is converted we would be allowed to come out
| on the battlements of heaven and see the BAN
nered procession and the bonfires of victory
| But would like to see the procession closer by
| and Just be permitted myself to throw on
! fagot for bigger bonfire. And If you per-
suade our men of wealth that there is a possi-
bility for them to join on earth in the universal
! glee of a redeemed planet instead of laborlous
beseeching for funds and arguing and natterlng
| in order to get contribution for Christian ob-
jects our men of wealth will stand in line as at
postoffice window or a railroad ticket once,
but in this case waiting for their turn to make
charitable deposit.
The Gentiles are not long going to allow
| themselves to be eclipsed by Mr.. Hirsch, the
Hebrew who has just given $40 OO0 goo for schools
in France, Germany and Russia. rejoice that
SO much of the wealth of the world is coming
into the possession of Christian men and
women. And although the original church
was very poor, and its members were nsh
dealers on the banks of Galilee, and had only
such stock on hand as they could take in their
own net, to-day in the hands OF Christian men
Bibles and build churches and support mis-
sionaries under God in ten years to
SAVE THE WORLD.
Again, I think that the worlds evangelization
can be achieved in the time specified because
we have already the theological institutions
necessary for this work. We do not have to
build them; they are built and they are filled
with tens of thousands of young men and there
will be three sets of students who will graduate
into the ministry before the close of this CEN
tury, and once have them understand that in
stead of preaching so or 40 years and taking
to the kiDgd ON of God few hundred souls,
right before them is the Sedan, is the Arma-
geddon, and these young men, instead of en-
tering the ministry tlmid and with apologetic
air, will feel like David who came up Just as
the armies were set in array and he left his car
riage and shouted for tie battle and cried:
''Who is this uncircumcised Philistine that
he should defy the armies of the living GodY'
and with five gravel stones sklfully flung sent
sprawling the Dragging ten-fOoter, his mouth
into the dust and his heels into the air.
Ny friends, what but such consummation
| could be fit climax to this century? You no.
| tice tendency in history and all about us to
climax. The creation week rising from herbs
! to fish and from fish to bird and from bird to
| quadruped and from quadruped to immortal
man. The New Testament rising from quiet
| genealogical table Matthew to apocalyptic
doxology IN Revelation. Now, what can be an
| appropriate climax to this century, which has
| heard the DUN oil the QrSL steamer anu the
| throb of the first stethoscope and the click of
| the first telegraph and the clatter of the nrst
sewing machine, and saw the flash Of the nrst
electric light and the revolution of the first
steam plow, 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 Dr. Carey for advocating foreign mis-
| sions, as was done at Northampton in En-
gland in the last century, now all denomina-
tions vieing with each other as to who shall go
the furtherest and the soonest into the darkest
of the New Hebrides; and 100000 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,
ask, with thousand interrogation points up
| lifted, can be a fit, an appropriate and suf-
| ficient climax except it be world redeemed?
Yea believe it can be done if we get pre-
pared for it, because the whole air and the
whole heaven is full of willing help. "Are
they not all ministering spirits sent foIth?'
We make an awful mistake if we calculate
| only on the forces we can see The mightiest
army is in the air. My brethren, so much of
selfshness and pride and rivalry and bad mo-
tives of all kinds get into our work here that
we are hindered. But the mighty souls that
have gone up to the flying armies of the sky
have left all imperfection behind; and these
| souls are with US and without fault and with
perfect natures are on our side You cannot
| make me believe that after toiliDg here Tor long
! years for the redemption of the world until
| from exhaustion some of them fell into their
| graves they have ceased their interest in the
| stupendous conflict now raging, or that they
are gong to decline their help. Ire
! nRus Primel Honored On earth but now
| glorified in heaven, have you forgotten the
work toward which you gave for more than
half century your gracious life, your loving
voice and your matchless pen? No! Then
come down and help. Alexander Duff! Have
you forgotten the millions of India for whose
salvation you suffered in Hindoo jungle and
thundered on missionary platform? MOI Then
come down and help David Brainard! Have
you forgotten the aborigines to whom you
! preached and for whom you prayed until you
| could preach and pray no more, lying down
| delirious amid the miasmas of the swamp? No!
THEN COME DOWN AND HELP.
Moncrieff and Freeman and Campbell! Have
| you forgotten Lucknow and Cawnpore? No!
| Then come down and help. 1 rub out of my
! ewes the stupidity and unbelief, and l. the
! servant of these great Elishas in the Gospel,
| see the mountains all round about are full of
horses of fire and cbariots of fire; and they
head this way Hovered over are we by great
clouds of witnesses and helpers! Clouds of
| apostles in the air led on by PAUL. Clouds of
| martyrs in the air led on by StephenI Clouds
| of prophets in the air led on by Isaiah! Clouds
| of patriarchs in the air led on by Abrahaml
| Clouds of ancient warriors in the air led on by
| Joshua, and that Bible warrior at whose prayer
astronomy once halted over Ajalon and Gibeon
| seems now to lift one hand toward the descend
ing sun of this century and the other hand
toward the moon of the last decade, saying:
STAND thou still till the church of God gets the
I final victoryr'