The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-06-14

age no more characterized by wonders of dis
aster than by wonders of blessing. Blessing
of longevity; the average of human life rap
idly increasing. Forty years now worth four
hundred years once. Now l can travel from
Manitoba TO New York in three days and
three nights In other times it would have
taken three months. In other words, three
days and three nights now are worth three
months Of other days. The average of human
1te practically greater now than when Noah
lived his $50 years and Methusaleh lived his
300 years Blessings of intelligence: The
Salmon P. Chases and the Abraham Lincolns
and the Henry Wilson's of the coming time
viii not be required to learn to read by pine
knot lights, or seated on shoemaker
bench nor will the Fergusons have
to study astronomy while watching the cat
tie. knowledge rolls its tides along every
poor mans door, and his children may go
down and battle in them. If the philosophers
of the last century were called up TO reclte
in a class with our BOYS at the Polytechnic,
or our girls at the Packer, those old philoso-
pliers would be sent down to the foot of the
class because they failed to answer the ques-
tionsl Free libraries in all the important
towns and cities of the land. Historical alcoyes
and poetical shelves and magazine tables forall
that desire TO walk through them or sit down
at them. Blessings of quick information
Newspapers falling all around US thick as
three days old, rancid and stale. We see the
whole world twice day-through the news
paper at the breakfast table, and through
the newspaper at the tea table, with an lex
tra' here and there between.
Blessing of Gospel proclamation; DO you
not know that nearly all the missionary
societies have been born in this century,
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 We're wrong when you said our
denomination averaged new church every
day of the year; they established nine In
one week, so you are far within the truth.
A clergyman of our own denomination said:
4 have Just been out establishing five mis-
sion stations I tell You Christianity is on
the march while infidelity is dv22d 6asi into
imbecilieY. While infidelity - s-lsls
ding and dropping down into i'm
becility and indecency, the wheel of
Christianity is making about a thou
sand revolutions in a minute. All the
copies Of Shakespeare and Tennyson and Dis
raeh and OF any ten Of the most popular writ
ers 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 Tesla
ment purchased, not given away, but pur-
chased because the world viii have it.
More Christian men in high official posi-
ton to-day in Great Britain and IN the United
States than ever before. Stop that falsehood
going through the newspapers-I have seen it
in twentv-that the judges of the Supreme
Court Of the United States are all infidels ex-
cept one. By personal acquaintance
know three of them to be old-fashioned
evangelical Christians, sitting at the
Holy Sacrament of our Lord Jesus
Christ, and I suppose that the majority of
them are stanch believers in our Christian
religion. And then hear the dying words of
Judge Black, man who had been Attorney
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,
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 400 miles from a postOffice, and some
times he slept out Of doors in the winter, the
sixty and sixty-five degrees
below zero. wrapped in rabbit skins |
woven together I said: is it posi- |
ble2 You do not mean sixty and sixty-fye |
degrees below zeroT he said; y do. and l /
was happy All for Christ Where is there |
any other being that will rally such enthus- |
iAsIny Mothers sewing their fingers OFF TO |
educate their boys for the Gospel ministry. |
For nine years no luxury on the table until |
lege and theological seminary be com |
pleted- Poor widow putting her mite into |
the Lords treasury, the face of Emperor or
President impressed upon the coin not so con-
spicuOus as the blood with which she earned |
it. Millions Of good men and women, but |
more women than men, to whom Christ is
everything. Christ first and Christ last and |
Christ forever.
Why, this age is not so characterized by |
invention and scientific exploration as # |
is by Gospel proclamation. You can get
no idea of 1t unless you can ring all /
the church bells in one chime, and |
sound all the organs in one diapason, and |
gather all the congregations Of Christen- |
ioIn in one Gloria in Excelsis. |
Mighty camp meetingE. Might Ocean
Groves. Mighty Chautauquas. Mighty con-
Of Christian works Mighty gem
sral assemblies of the Presbyterian church. |
Mighty conferences Of the Methodist church /
Mighty associations of the Baptist church. |
Mighty conventions of the Episcopal church. |
think before long the best Investments will |
lot be In railroad stock or Western Union.
)ut In Tumpets and cymbals and
estal decorations, for we are on
he eve of victories wide and world |
Uplifting. There may De many years
II hard work yet before the cOnsuhlmation,
Iut the signs are to me SO encouraging that
would NOT be unbelieving if l saw the wing
II the ape -alyptic angel spread for its last
riumphal fight in this days sunset; or if
O-lnorrOw morning the ocean cables should
brill us with the news that Christ the Lord
lad alighted on Mount Olivetor Mount Cal
AIRY to proclaim universal dominion
Oh, you dead churches, wake upl Throw
ack the shutters Of stiff ecclesiasticisn and
ct the light Of the spring morning come in
lorning for the land Morning for the sea.
forming Of emancipation. Morning of light
nd love and peace. Morning of a day in
Thich there shall be no chains to break. no
orrows to assuage, 40 despOtism to shatter,
% woes to compassionate. o Christ, descend
CARED temple, take the crowni Bruised
and take the scepterl Wounded foot. step
be throne Chime is the kingdom"
These things l say because I want you to
e alert. l want you to be watching all these
7onders unIolling from the heavens and the
arth. God has classified them, whether
alamitous or pleasing. The divine purposes
re harnessed IN traces that cannot
reak, and in girths that cannot slip,
nd in buckles that cannot loosen, and
re driven by reins they must answer.
reach no fatalism. A swarthy engineer at
ne of the depots in Dakota said: 'sWhen viii
on get on the locomotive and take a ride
nth uss'' ''Well,n 1 said, now, if that
lits youT So 1 got on one side the loco
lotiVe and a Methodist minister
mo was also invited, got on the other side,
nd between US were the engineer and the
toker The train started The engineer had
is hand on the agitated pulse of the great
1gine. The stoker shoveled in the coal and
nut the door with a loud clang. A vast plain
tipped under US and the hills swept by,
nd that great monster on which we
ode trembled and bounded and snorted
nd ragged as it hurled US on.
nd to the Methodist minister on the other
de the locomotive: my brother, why
iould Presbyterians and Methodists quarrel
bout the DEGREES and free agencEz-Yon see
nat track, that firm track, that iron track;
lat is the decree. You see this engineers
-m2 That is free agency. How beautifully
ley work together They are go
g TO take US through. We could
Ot 90 without the track, and we could not ,
} without the engineer. So rejoice day by
~. Work for us all to do, and we may turn
lie crank OF the Christian machinery this way
: that, for we are free agents; but there Is
f1-pelr laid 1or,rr No DerS