The Brookhaven leader., 1889-04-11


your names. Vile de Havre, the Schiller,
City Of Boston, the Melville, the Presi-
dent, the Cimbria. But why should 90
on calling the roll when none Of them an
swer, and the roll is as long as the white
scroll Of the Atlantic surf at Cape Hat
teras breakers? IL the oceanic cables
could report all the scattered life and all
the bleached bones that they rub against
in the depths Of the ocean, what a mes
sage Of pathos and tragedy for both
beaches! In one storm eighty fishermen
persisted of the coast OF New
foundland, and whole fleets of them
of the coast of England. God help
the poor fellows at sea, aud give high
seats in Heaven to the Grace Darlings and
the Ida Lewises and the lifeboat men
lowering around Goodwin's Sands and the
Skerries. The sea, owning three-fourths
Of the earth, proposes to capture the
other fourth, and is bombarding the land
all around the earth. The moving
Of our hotels at Brighton Beach
backward one hundred yards from
where they once stood, type Of
OF what is going on all around the world
and on every coast. The Dead Sea rolls
to day where ancient cities stood. Pill
lars of temples that stood on hills geolo-
gists now find three quart ers under the
water or altogether submerged. The sea,
having wrecked so many merchantmen
and flotillas, wants to wreck the eonu-
nents, and hence disasters oceanic.
Look at the disasters epidemic. Ispeak
not of the plague in the fourth century
that ravaged E urope, and in Moscow and
the Neapolitan Dominion AMI Marscilles
wrought such terrors in the eighteenth
century, bat 1 look at the yellow fevers,
and the choleras, and the diphtherias,
and the scarlet fevers, and the typhoid
of our own time. Hear the wailing Of
Memphis and Shreveport, and New Or
leans and Jacksonville Of the last few de-
cades. From Hurdwar, India, where
every twelfth year three million devOtees
congregate, the caravans brought the
cholera, and that one disease slew eight
cen thousand in eighteen days in Bosso-
rah. Twelve thousand in one summer
slain by it in India, and twenty five thou
sand in Egypt Disasters epidemic. Some
of the finest monuments in Greenwood and
Laurel Hill and Mount Auburn are to
doctors who lost their lives battling with
Southern epHemics.
Blessing Of Gospel proclamation: Do
you not know that nearly all the mission
airy societies have been born in this cent
ury? and nearly all the Bible societies,
and nearly all the great philanthrOpic
movements? A secretary OF one of the
denominations said to me the other day
in Dakota: You were wrong when you
said our denomination averaged a new
church every day OF the year; they estab-
lished nine in one week, so you are far
within the truth" A clergyman of our
own denomination said: II have just been
out establishing five mission stations"
tell you Christianity is on the march,
while infidelity is dwindling into imbecI-
ity. While inhdelity is thus dwindling
and dropping down into imbecility and
indecency, the wheel of Christianity is
making about a thousand revolutions in
minute. All the copies Of Shakespeare,
and Tennyson, and Disraeli, and Of any
ten of the most popular writer's OF the
day, less in number than the copies of the
Bible going out from our printing presses.
A few years ago, in six weeks, more than
two million copies Of the New Testament
purchased, not given away, but purchased
because the world will have it.
More Christian men in high official po-
sition to-day in Great Britain and in the
United States than ever before. Stop
that falsehood going through the news
papers-I have seen it i'll twenty-that the
Judges OF the Supreme Court of the
United States are all inflels except one.
By personal acquaintance l know three
of them to be old-fashioned Evangelical
Christian sitting at the holy sacrament
of our Lord Jesus Christ and l suppose
that the majority of them are staunch
believers in our Christian religion. And
then hear the dying words of Judge
WI hanD
General OF the United States. and who
had been Secretary Of the United States,,
no stronger lawyer Of the century than
Judge Black-dying, his aged wife kneel-
ing by his side, and he uttering
that sublime and tender prayer: 80 Lord
God, from whom derived my existence
and in whom have always trusted, take
my spirit to Thyself and let Thy richest
blessing come down upon my Mary"
The most popular book to-day is the
Bible, and the mightiest institution is the
church, and the greatest name among the
nations, and more honored than any
other, is the name Of Jesus. Wonders OF
self sacrifice: A clergyman told me in
the Northwest that for six years he was
missionary at the extreme North, living
four hundred miles from a post Office,
and sometimes he slept out doors in
winter, the thermometer sixty and sixty
five degrees below zero, wrapped in
rabbit skins woven together. l said: as
it possible? You do not mean sixty and
sixty-five degree below zero" He said:
II do, and was happy"
All for Christ. Where is there any
other being that will rally such enthusi-
asm? Mothers sewing their fingers off to
educate their boys for tie gospel minis
try. For nine years no luxury on the ia
BILE until the course through grammar
school and college and theological SEM
mary be completed. Poor widow putting
her suite into the Lords treasury, the
face of emperor or president impressed
upon the coin not so conspicuous as the
blood with which she earned it. Millions
of good men and women, but moro wom-
en- than men, to whom Christ is every
thing. Christ first and Christ last, and
Christ forever. Why, this age is not so
characterized by inventi on and scientific
exploration as it is by gospel proclama-
ton. You can get no idea of it unless
you can ring all the church be Is in one
chime, and sound all the organs in one
diapason, ard gather all the congrega
tiops of Christendom in one Gloria in
Excelsis.
Mighty camp meetin SIS. Mighty Ocean
Groves. Mighty Chautauduas. Mighty
conventions of Christian workers. Mighty
general assemblies Of the Presbyterian
church. Mighty conferences Of the Meth
odist church. Mighty associations of the
Baptist church. Mighty conventions of
the Episcopal church. think before long
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