The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-04-04

gyman told me IN the northwest that
for six years he was a missionary at
the extreme north, living 400 miles
from a postoffice, and sometimes he
slept out of doors in winter, the ther-
mometer sixty and sixty-fve degrees
below zero, wrapped in rabbit skins
woven together said: lis it posi-
ble2 You do not mean sixty and sixty
five degrees below zero2" He said:
II do, and l was happy" All
for Christ Where is there any
other being that will rally such
enthusiastic 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 COM
pleted; 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. Mil
lions 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 isnot SO character
lied by invention and scientific explo-
ration 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 tho organs in
one diapason, and gather all the con-
gregations of Christendom in one
Gloria in Excelsis. Mighty camp
meetings. Mighty Ocean Groves.
Mighty Chautauquas. Mighty con-
ventions of Christian workers. Mighty
general assemblies of the Presby yterian
church. Mighty conferences of the
Methodist church. Mighty associa-
tons of the Baptist church. Mighty
conventions of the Episcopal church.
| khink 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. There may be many years
of hard work yet before the consum-
nation, but the signs are to me SO en-
j couraging that | would not be unbe
lieving if | saw the wing of the apoca-
lyptic angel spread for its last trium-
| phal flight in this days sunset; or if
Tomorrow morning the ocean cables
should thrill us with the news that
Christ the Lord had alighted on Mount
Olivet or Mount Calvary to proclaim
univeral dominion
0 you dead churches, wake upi
Throw back tho shutters of stiff eccle-
siasticism and let the light of the
spring morning come in. Morning
for the land. Morning for the sea-.
Morning of emancipation. Morning
of light and love and peace. Morning
of day in which there shall be no
chcins to break, no sorrows to assuage,
no despotism to shatter, no woes to
compassionate. O Christ, descend
Scared temple. take the crown
Bruised hand, take the scepter
Wounded foot, step the throne
Thine is the kingdom.
| THE GRAND CENTRAL DEPOT OF TIE
MILLENNIUM.
These things | say because / want
yOu to be alert. y want you to be
watching all these wonders unrolling
from the heavens and the earth God
has classified them, whether calami-
tous or pleasing The divine purposes
are harnessed in traces that cannot
break, and Ill girths that cannot slip,
and in buckles that cannot loosen, and
are driven by reins they must answer.
| preach no fatalism. A swarthy en-
ginecr at one of the depots in Dakota
said: when will you get on the loco
motive and take a ride with us2''
WELL" said, 'now if that suits
you?" So | got on one side the To-
comotive and Methodist minister,
who was also invited, got on the other
side, and between us were the engineer
and the stoker. The train started The
engineer had his hand on the agitated
pulse of the great engine. The stoker
shoveled in the coal and shut the door
with loud clang. A vast plain slip
ped under us and the hills swept by
and that great monster on which VIZ
rode trelnbled and bounded and snort
ed and ragged as it hurled Us on.
said to the Methodist minister on the
other side the Locomotives: my bro
ther, why should Prcsbyterians anc
Methodists quarrel about the DEGREES
and free agencya You see that track
that firm track, that iron track; that i
the decree. You see this engineer
arm2 That is free agency. How beauti
fully they work together. They arr
going to take us through. We coulc
not do without the track, and we coult
not do without the engineer. So l re
ioice day by day. Work for us all t.
do, and we may turn the crank of tn
Christian machinery this way or that
for we are free agents; but there is tn
track laid so long ago no one remem
bers it, laid by the hand of Almight.
God in sockets that no terrestrial o
satanic pressure can ever affect. AM
along that track the car of the world
redemption will roll and roll to tn
Grand Central depot of the millennium
| have no anxiety about the track.
am only afraid that for our indolenc
God will discharge us and get som
other stoker and some other engineer
The train is going through with us o
without us. $50, my brethren, watcI
all the events that are going by. |
things seem to turn out right, Civ
wings to your joy. If things seem t
turn out wrong, throw out the ancho
of faith and hold fast.
There is a house in London wher
: Peter the Great of Russia lived awhil
when ne was moving through the Ian
incognito and in workman's dress
that he might learn the wants OF tn
people. A stranger was visiting 9
!, that house recently, and saw in dar
attic an old box, and he said to tn
: owner of the house, What's in tha
! boxa' The owner said, II don't know
that box was there when | got th
. house and it was there when my fatl
! err got it. We haven't had any cur
: osity to look at it; | guess there
Q nothing in it." We'll" said III
n stranger, 'rll give you two pount
G for it, "Well, done" The tw
s pounds are paid, and recently the co,
Q tents of that box were sold to the czs
J. of Russia for fifty thousand dollar
Q In it the lathing maching of Peter II
Great, his private letters and doc
!, ments of value beyond all nonetai
Ii consideration. And here are the even
that seem very insignificant and u
II important, but they incase treasures
p divine providence and eternities
:. meaning which after while God vi
&c demonstrate before the ages as beir
y of stupendous value. As near as ci
s. tell from what sec, there must be
:, God somewhere about.
= When Titans play quoits they pitt
y y mountains; but who owns these {
- ,s gantic forces you have been readil
Z !; about the last two months2 Who
:. hand is on the throttle valve of t
= volcanoesa Whose foot sudden
: : planted on the footstool makes I
- continents, quiverf Godi Godl
- - looketh upon the mountains and tn
- tremble. He .oucheth the hills a
~ ~ they smoke. Godi Godl | must
- =, at peace with him. Through the Lo
- Jesus Christ this God is mine and
= is yours. | put the earthquake ii