The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1889-10-09


cities to beittle and depreciate othencities.
1t has been going on for years, but now the
spirit seems to culminate IN this discussion |
as TO where the worlds fair shall be held,
style of discussion which has tendency to |
injure the success OF the fair as great
moral and patriotic enterprise after the To- |
cality has been decided upon. There is such |
q thing as healthful rivalry between cities, |
but you will bear me out in saying that
there can be no good to come from the un-
canny things said about each other by New
York and Chicago, by Chicago and st.
Louis, by st. Paul and Minneapolis, by Ia
coma and Seattle, and all through the States
by almost every two proximate cities. All
cities, like individuals, have their virtues
and their vices. All our American cities
should be our exultation. What churches
What public libraries What asylums Of
mercy What academies Of music! What
mighty men in law and medicine and art
and scholarship What schools and colleges
and universities What women radiant and
gracious and an Improvement on all the
generations Of women since Evel What
philanthropists who do not feel satisfied
with their own charities until they get into
the hundreds Of thousands and the millions
What Goods acres" for the dead, gardens
Of beauty, and palaces Of marble for those
who sleep the last sleepl Now stop your
SANDER Of American cities. Do you say
they are the centers OF crime and political
corruptionl Please admit the fact that they
are centers Of intelligence and generosity
and the mightiest patrons Of architecture
and sculpture and painting and music and
reservoirs Of religious influence for all the
continent. II will be well for the country
districts TO cease talking against the cities,
and will be we'll for the city of one local
ity to stop talking against the cities Of other
localities New York will not get the
worlds fair by depreciating Chicago, and
| Chicago will not get the worlds fair by
depreciating New York.
Another suggestion concerning the com
ing exposition: let not the materialistic and
monetary idea overpower the moral and re-
ligious. During that exposition, the first
time in all.their lives, there will be thou
! sands Of people from other lands who will
see country without a state religion. Let
us by an increased harmony among AZ de-
nominations OF religion impress other ma
tionalities, as they come here that year,
with the superior advantage Of having all
denominations equal in the sight Of govern
ment. All the rulers and chief men OF
Europe belong to the state religion, what
ever 1t may be. Although our last two
Presidents have been Presbyterians, the
previous one was an Episcopalian; and the
two previous, Methodists; and going further
back in that line OF Presidents, we find
Martin Van Buren Dutch Reformed; and
John Quincy Adams a Unitarian; and a
| Ia, hta Ia har
hindrance nor advantage in the matter Of
political elevation. All Europe needs that.
All the world needs that. A mans religion
is something between himself and his God,
and 1t must not, directly or indirectly, be
interfered with.
Furthermore, during that exposition
Christian civilization viii confront barbar-
ism. We shall as nation have greater OPP
portunity TO mako an evangelizing impress
sion upon foreign nationalities than would
otherwise be afforded US In quarter Of a
century. Let the churches OF the city
where the exposition is to held be open
every day, and prayers be offered and SER
mons preached and doXologies sung. In the
less than three years between this and that
worlds convocation let us get a baptism OF
the Holy Ghost, so that the six months OF
that worlds fair shall be fifty Pentecosts in
one, and instead Of three thousand con-
, verted, as In the former Pentecost, hundreds
OF thousands will be converted. You must
: remember that the Pentecost mentioned In
the Bible occurred when there was no print
, ing press, no books, no Christian pamphlets
no religious newspapers, and yet the In
.fiuence was tremendous. How many ma
tionalties were touchedl The account says
"Parthians and Medes and Elamites,n that
is people from the eastern countries; "Phry-
| gia and Pamphvlla," that is the western
! countries; "Cyrene and strangers Of Rome
, Cretes and Arabians,n that Is the southern
/ countries; but they were all moved by the
, mighty spectacle. Instead Of the sixteen ol
eighteen tribes Of. people reported at that
Pentecost, all the chief nations Of Europe
, and Asia, North and South America, will
r be represented at our worlds fair in 1892
and Pentecost here and then would near
the salvation Of the round world.
But, you say, we may have at that fair the
people Of all lands and all the machinery
J for gospelization, the religious printing
presses and the churches, but all that would
not make Pentecost; we must have God
| Well, you can have Him. Has He not been
|
) the way but our own unbelief and indolenc,
} and sin. May God break down the barriers
. The grandest opportunity for the evangel
j.. iEation Of all nations since Jesus Christ die
, on the cross will be the worlds exposition
Of 1892. God may take US out Of the harves
D neld before that, but let II be knew
a throughout Christendom that that year, be
= tween May and November, will be tn,
mountain Of Christian advantage, the Alpin
: and Himalayan height Of opportunity over
I topping all others for salvation. Instead o
the slow process Of having TO send the gos
s pei TO other lands by our own America
I missionaries, who have difficult toll In &C
s quiring the foreign language and then mus
/ contend with foreign preiudices, what
: grand thing 10 have able and inauentla
8 foreigners converted during their visit 4
0 America and then have them return 10 thei
J. native lands with the glorious tldings Q
= for an overwhelming work Of grace for tn
0 year 1892, that work beginning In tho au
r tumn Of 1887
: Another opportunity, II our public me-
i see II, and II Is the duty OF pulpit and print
y ing press 10 help them 10 see II, will DO tn
> calling at that time and place OF grea
!. peace congress for all nations. The conven
l. ton Of representatives from the govern
L ments OF North and South America, now a
a Washington, Is only q type Of what we ma,
r have on vast and world wide scale a
8 the International Exposition In 1892. b,
v one stroke the gorgon Of war might be slail
q and buried so deep that neither trumpet o
o human dispute or Of archangeps blowing
q could resurrect L. When the last Napoleon
4 called such congress Of nations many di,