The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1889-10-18


satisfied with their own charities until
they get into the hundreds of thousands
and the millions What Goods acresD
for the dead, gardens of beauty and pal
aces of marble for those who sleep the
last sleepl Now stop your Islander of
American cities. DO you say they are
the centers of crime and political COR
ruption? Please admit the fact that they
are centers of intelligence and generosi-
ty, and the mightiest patrons of archi-
lecture and sculpture and painting and
music, and reservoirs of religious influ-
ence for all the continent. 1t will be well
for the country districts to cease talking
against the cities, and it will be well for
the city Of one locality to stop talking
against the cities of other localities.
New Y ork will not get the Worlds Fair
by depreciating Chicago, and Chicago
will not get the Worlds Fair by bonn
harding New York.
Another sugges ton concerning the
coming exposition: Let not the mate
REALISTIC and monetary idea overpower
the moral and religious. During that
exposition, the first time in all their
lives, there will be thOusa nds of people
from other lands who will see a country
without a State religion. Let US by an
increased harmony among all denOmina-
tions of religion impress other rationale
ties, as they come here that year,
with the superior advantage of
having all denominations equal in
the sight of government. All the
rulers and chief men of Europe 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 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 nation have q
| greater opportunity to make an evangel-
| izing impression upon foreign national
tiles than would otherwise be afforded US
| in a 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
| dOxoIOgies 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 be con-
verted. You must remember tbAt the
| PentecOst mentioned in the Bible Oe-
| 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 natioualities were touched? The
| account says: "Parthians and Modes
nd Elamites," that is, people from the
Eas 'ern countries; ''Phrygia and Pam
IbI,Iia I" that is, the Western countries;
ssCtyJrope : I'D strangers of home, Cretes
~ Hrobia,s that is, the S Outhern
Countries bnt RI, were all moved by
the MIGHTY spectao.e. Instead of the
sixteen or eighteen triD>o S o1 , peopIo re .
ported at that Pentecost, an the cnloI
| nations of Europe and Asia, ''i u %nt
South America, viii be represeh. az
| our Worlds Fair in 1892, and a Pen,
cost here and 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 tn g
machinery for gospeization, the re-
| ligious printing presses and the churches,
/ but all that would not make a Pente cost;
| we must have God. Well, you can have
| Him. Has He not been graciously watt
| ing? and nothing stands in the way but
| our own unbelief and Incidence and sin.
! May God break down the barriersl 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 throughout 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 the 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 Oh, for an overwhelming work of
! grace for the year 1892, that work begin
ming in the autumn of 1891
| An other opportunity, if our public men
see it, and 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-
| what we may have on vast and world
| wide scale at the International EXPOSE
| ton of 1892. By one stroke the gorgan
| of war might be slain and buried so deep
| that neither trumpet of human dispute
| nor of archangePs blowing could resur-
/ rect it. When the last Napoleon called
| such a congress Of nations many did not
respond, and those that did respond
| gathered wondering what trap that willy
1 destroyer of the French Republic and the
| builder of a 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 a 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 representatives to a peace con-
| vention that shall be held at the same
time and place, and that shall establish
| an international arbitration commission,
! to. whom shall be referred ali contro-
| versies between nation and nation, their
decision to be final, and so all nations
| would be relieved from the expense of
| standing armies and naval equipment,
war having been made an everlasting i'm
| possibility.
b kt