The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-10-17

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 millionsl What Goods acres"
for the dead, gardens OF beauty and pal
aces of marble for those who sleep the
last sleep! Now stop your Islander OF
American cities. DO you say they are
the centers OF crime and political cor
ruptioni Please admit the fact that they
are centers of Intelligence and generosi-
ty and the miglriest patrons OF archl-
lecture and sculpture and painting anu
music, and reservoirs OF religious lnnn-
ence for all the continent Ii will be wen
for the country districts - cease taking
against the cities, and 1T will be well Tor
the city of one locality TO stop taking
against the cities of otGler localities.
New York will not get the WORLDS Fair
by depreciating Chicago, am Chlcago
will not get the Worlds Fair by bonn
harding New York.
Another suggestion concerning lhe
coming exposition: Let not the ma te'
REALISTIC and monetary idea overpower
the moral aud religious. During that
exposition, the first time in all their
lives, there will be thousands of people
from other lands who will see a country
without State religion. Let us by an
increased harmony among all denomina-
tons Of religion impress other rationale
ties, as they come hero that year,
with the superior advantage or
having all denominations equal In
the sight of government. All the
rulers and chief mon of L rope belong
to the State religion, whatever it may be.
| Although our last two Presidents have
been Presbyterlans, the previous one
| was an Episcopalian, and the two previ-
Gus Methodists; and going further back
| in that line of Presidents, we find Martin
Van Buren, a Dutch Reformed, and john
Quincy Adams a Unitarian. and mans
religion in this country is neither him
derance 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 it must not, directly
or indirectly, be interfered with.
Furthermore, during that exposition,
Christian civilization will confront bar
barism. We shall as a nation have a
greater opportunity to make an evaIgel-
izing impression upon foreign national
tiles than would otherwise be afforded us
in quarter of a century. Let the
churches of the city where the exposition
is held be open every day, and prayers
be offered and sermons preached and
dOxologieS sung. In the less than three
years between this and that worlds con-
vocation, let US get a baptism OF the
Holy Ghost, so that the six months of
that Worlds Fair shall be fifty Pente-
costs in one, and instead of three thou
sand converted as in the former Pente-
cost hundreds of thousands will BIO con-
verted. You must remember that the
Pentecost mentioned in the Bible oc-
Cured when there was no print
ing press, no books, no Christian pam
phlets, no religious newspapers, and yet
the influence was tremendous. How
many natiOnalities were touched? The
account says: "Parthians and Modes
and Eamites, that is, people from the
Eastern countries; "Phrygia aud Pam
phylia." that Is the Western countries;
"Cyrene and strangers of home, Cretes
and Arabians," that is, tho S outhern
countries; but they were all moved by
the mighty spectacle. Instead OF the
sixteen or eighteen tribes f'people re-
ported at that Pentecost, all the chief
nations of Europe and Asia, North and
South America will he represented at
| our Worlds Fair in 1892. and a Pente-
cost here aud then would mean the SAL
walton of the world.
But, you say. we may have at that
fair the people of all lands and all the
machinery for gospelizatiOn, the re-
| ligious printing presses and the churches,
| but all that would not make a PentecOst;
we must have God. Well, you can have
Him. Has He not been graciously wait
ing? aud nothing stands in the way but
our own unbelief and indolence and sin.
May God break down the barriers! The
graudest opportunity for the evangelical
ton of all nations since jesus Christ
died on the cross will be the Worlds
Exposition of 1892. God may take us out
of the harvest field before that, but let it
be known throu ghout Christendom that
that year, between May and November,
will be the mountain Of Christian advan-
tage, the Alpine and Himalayan height
of opportunity overlapping all others
for salvation. Instead of tine slow process
| of having to send the Gospel to other
! lands by our own American mission
aries, who have difficult toll in acquiring
the foreign language, and then must con-
tend with foreign prejudices. what
grand thing to have able and influential
foreigners converted during their visit in
America and then have them return to
their native lands with the glorious til
dingsl On, for an overwhelming work of
grace for the year 1892, that work begin-
ming in the autumn OF 1889!
An other opportunity, if our public men
see it, aud it is the duty of pulpit and
printing press to help them to see it, will
be the calling at that time and place of
great peace congress for all nations. The
congress of representatives from the
governments of North and South Ameri-
ca, now at Washington, is only type of
| what we may have on vast and world
wide scale at the International EXPOSE
| ton of 1892. By one stroke tie gorgan
| of war might b3 slain and buried 50 deep
| that neither trumpet of human dispute
| nor of archangel's blowing could resur-
rect it. When the last Napoleon called
such congress of nations many did not
respond, and those that did respond
gathered wondering what trap that willy
destroyer of the French Republic and the
builder of q French monarchy might
spring on them. But what if the
most popular government on earth
i mean the United States Gov
eminent should practically say
to all nations: On the American
continent in 1892, we will hold q Worlds
Fair, and all nations will send to it speci-
mems of their products, their manufact-
ures and their arts, and we invite all the
governments of Europe, Asia and Africa
to send repres entatives to peace con-
vention that shall be held at the same
time and place, and that shall establish
a. III ton DF1,ie eli