Milford chronicle., 1889-04-19

century, which has heard the puff Of the
first steamer and the throb Of the first stetho-
scope and the click Of the first telegraph and
the clatter Of the first sewing machine, and
saw the lash Of the first electric light and
the revolution Of the first steam plow; and
the law of storms was written; and the Ameri-
can Bible society and American Tract society
were born; and instead of an audience laugh
ing down.D Carey for advocating foreign
missions, as was done at Northampton in Eng
land in the last century, now all denomina-
tions vying with each other as to who shall
go the furtherest and the soonest into the
darkest Of the New Hebrides; and three hun
dred thousand souls have been born to God in
the South Sea islands, and Micronesia and
Melanesha and Malayan Polynesia have been
set in the crown Of Christ, and David Living
stone has unveiled Africa and the last bolted
gate of barbaric nations has swung wide open
to let the Gospel in. What, / ask, with a
thousand interrogation points uplifted, can
be fit, an appropriate and sufficient climax
except it be a world redeemedl
Yea, believe it can be done if we get pre-
pared for it, because the whole air and the
whole heaven is full Of willing help. "Are
they not all ministering spirits sent forthln
We make an awful mistake if we calculate
only ON the forces we can see. The mightiest
army is in the air. My brethren, 50 much of
selfishness and pride and rivalry and bad mo-
tives Of all kinds get into our work here that
we are hindered But the mighty souls that
have gone up to the flying armies of the sky
have left all imperfection behind; and these
souls are with us and without a fault and
with perfect natures are on our side. You
cannot make me believe that after toiling
here for long years for the redemption Of the
world, until from exhaustion some of them
fell into their graves, they have ceased
their interest In the stupendous con-
dict now raging, or that they are going
to decline their help. Ireneus Primel
Honored on earth but now glorified in
heaven, have yJu forgotten the work
toward which yod gave for more than half
century your gracious life, your loving voice
and your matchless penl mol Then come
down and help Alexander Duff Have you
forgotten the millions of India for whose sal
vation you suffered in Hindoo Jungle and
thundered on missionary platformq mol
Then come down and help David Brainardl
Have you forgotten the aborigines to whom
you preached and for whom you prayed until
you could preach and pray no more, lying
down delirious amid the miasmas Of the
swampl mol Then come down and help.
Moncrieff and Freeman and Campbelll Have
you forgotten Lucknow and Cawnporel Mol
Then come down and help. rub out Of my
eyes the stupidity and unbelief, and l. the
servant of these great Elishas in the Gospel,
see the mountains all round about are full Of
horses of fire and chariots Of fire, and they
head this way. lowered over are we by
great clouds Of witnesses and helpersl
Clouds Of apostles in the air led on by PAUL.
Clouds of martyrs in the air led on by
Stephenl Clouds of prophets in the air led
on by Isaiahl Clouds Of patriarchs In the air
led on by Abrahaml Clouds of ancient war
riors in the air led on by Joshua, and that
Bible warrior at whose prayer Astronomy
once halted over Ajalon and Gibeon seems
now to lift one hand toward the descending
sun of this century and the other hand
toward the moon of the last decade saying:
"Stand thou still till the church of God gets
the final victory"
THE WORLD IS BOUND TO BIZ SAVED.
Then let us take what remains Of this
decade to get ready for the final decade of
the Nineteenth century You and may not
live to see that decade or may not live to see
its close, but that shall not hinder me from
declaring the magnificent possibility. l con
fess that the mistake of my life has been, not
that did not work hard-for / could not
have worked harder and lived, as God knows
and my family know-but that l have not
worked under the realization that the saliva
tion of this world was a near by possibility
But whether we see it, the beginning or the
closing of that decade is of no Importance,
if only that decade can get the coronation and
then all decades shall kneel before this en-
throned decade and even the gray grown
centuries will cast their crowns before it and
it will be the most honored decade between
the time when the morning stars sang to-
gether as the libretto of worlds was opened
and the time when the mighty angel, robed
in cloud and garlanded in rainbow, shall with
one foot on the sea and the other foot on the
land swear by him that hveth forever and
ever that time shall be no longer. ALE
uial Amenl