The national leader., 1889-04-20
that desire to walk through them, or

that desire to walk through them, or
sit down at them.
Blessings of quick attenuation: News.
papers falling all around us thioA as
leaves in a September equinoctial.
News three days old. rancid and stale.
We see the Whole world twice day
through the newspaper at the break
fast table, and through the newspaper
at the tea-table, with an extra" here
and there between.
Blessings of Gospel proclanldt,on: DO
you not know that nearly all the mis-
sionary societies have been born In this
centuryP and nearly ali the Bible So
cieties. and nearly all the great philan-
thropic movementsp A secretary of
one of the denominations said to me
the other day in Dakota: ''You were
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 denomination said:
81 have just been out establishing five
mission stations s.
CHRISTIANITY ON THE MARCH.
while Infdelity is dwindling into i'm
becility. While Infidelity is thus
dwindling and dropping down into i'm
becillty, and indecency. the wheel of
Christianity Is making about thOus-
and 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 purchashed because the world will
have it.
More Christian men in high official
position to-day in Great Britain and in
the United States than ever before. Stop
that falsehood going through the news
papers-l have seen it IN twenty-that
the judges of the Supreme Court of
the United States are all inhdels except
one. BY personal acquaintance l know
three of them to be Old-fashioned
evangelical Christians. sitting at the
holy sacrament of our Lord Jesus
Christ, and suppose that the majority
Of them are stanch believers in our
Christian religion. And then hear
TIE 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
kneeling by his side. and he uttering
that sublime and tender prayer: 80
Lord God. from whom I derived my
existence, and In whom l 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
mighLiest institution is the Church,
and the greatest name among the
nations, and more honored than any, is
the name of Jesus.
Wonders Of self sacrifice: A clergy
man told me in the Northwest that for
six years he was a missionary at the
extreme north, living 400 miles from a
post Office, and sometimes he slept out
of doors in winter, the thermometer
sixty and sixty-ive degrees below zero,
wrapped in rabbit skins woven togeth-
er. / said: "Is it possible? You do
not mean sixty and sixty-five degrees
below Zerop" He said, 81 do, and
was happy"
ALL FOR CHRIST!
Where is there any other being that
will rally such enthusiasm? Mothers
sewing their fingers off to educate their
boys for the gospel ministry. For nine
years no luxury on the table until the
course through grammar school and
college and theological seminary be
completed. Poor widow putting her
mite 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
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 it is by gospel proclamation. You
can get no idea of it unless you can
ring all the church bells in one chime,
and sound all the organs In one diapa-
son, and gather all the congregations
of Christendom In one Gloria In Ex.
celsis. Mighty camp meetingsl Mighty
Ocean Grovesl Mighty Chautauquasl
Mighty conventions of Christian work.
ersl Mighty general assemblies of the
Presbyterian Church! Mighty confer
ences of the Methodist Church.
Mighty associations of the Baptist
Church, Mighty conventions of the
Episcopal church, 1 think, before
long, the best investments will not be
In railroad stock or Western Union,
but In trumpets and cymbals and festal
decorations. for we are on the eve of
victories wide and world uplifting.
. you dead churches, wake upI
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