The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-10-10

and Chicago, by Chicago and st.
Louis, by st. Paul and Mime
apolis, by Tacoma and Seattle, and all
through the states by almost every
two proximate cities. All cities, like
individuals, have their virtues and
their vices. All our American cities
should be our exultaticn. What
churchesl What public ibrariesl
What asylums of mercy What acade-
mics of musicl What mighty men in
law and medicine and art and scholar
shipl What schools and colleges and
universities What women radiant
and gracious and an improvement on
all the generations of women since
Eve! What philanthropists who do
not feel satisfiedswith their own chari-
ties until theyget into the hundreds
of thousands and the millions What
Gods acresv fpr the dead, gardens of
beauty and palaces of marble for those
who sleep the last sIeepl Now stop
your slander Of American cities. Do
you say they are the centers of crime
and political corruption2 Please ad-
init the fact that they are centers of
intelligence and generosity and the
mightiest patrons of architecture and
sculptnre and painting and music and
reservoirs OF religious influence 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 lo-
calities. New York will not get the
Worlds fair by depreciating Chicago,
and Chicago will not get the Worlds
fair by bombarding New York
RELIGION SHOULD NOT GIVE WAY.
Another suggestion concerning the
coming exposition: let not the mate
rialistic and monetary idea overpower
the moral and 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
denominations of religion, impress
other nationalities, 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 Presbyterians, the previous
one was an Episcopalian; and the
two previous, Methodists; and going
further back in that line of presidents,
we find Martin Van Buren, Dutch
Reformed; and John Quincy Adams
a Unitarian; and mans religion in
this country is neither hindrance nor
advantage in the matter of political
elevation. All Europe needs that.
All the world needs that. A mans
religion is something between him
self and his God, and it must not di-
ectly or indirectly, be interfered with.
CIVILIZATION VS.. BARBARIsM.
Furthermore, during that exposi-
ton, Christian civilization will con-
front barbarism. We shall as ma
ton have greater opportunity to
make an evangelizing impression
upon foreign nationalities, than would
otherwise be afforded us in a quar-
ter of 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 convocation, let us get bap-
tism of the Holy Ghost. so that the
six months of that worlds fair shall
be fifty Pentecosts in one, and instead
of three thousand converted, as in the
former Pentecost, hundreds of thou
sands will be converted. You must
remember that the Pentecost men
toned in the Bible occurred when
there was no printing press, no books,
no Christian pamphlets, no religious
newspapers, and yet the influence was
tremendous. How many nationalities
were touched2 The account says
"Parthians and Medes and Elamites, :"
that is, people from the eastern coun-
tries; "Phrygia and Pamphylia, " that
is, the western countries; ''Cyrene and
| strangers of Rome, Cretes and Ara
bians, that is, the southern countries /;
but they were all moved by the
mighty spectacle. Instead OF the six
, teen or eighteen tribes of people re-
ported at that Pentecost, all the chief
nations of Europe and Asia, North
! and South America, will be represent
! ed at our worlds fair in 1892, and a
Pentecost here nnd then would mean
the salvation OF the round world.
But, you say, we may have at that
fair the people of all lands and all the
machinery for gospelization, the relig-
ious printing presses and the churches,
j but all that would not make Pente-
cost; we must have God. Well, you
! can have him. Has he not been gra-
ciously waiting2 and nothing stands
in the way but our own unbelief and
Incidence and sin. May God break
down the barriersl The grandest OPP
portunity for the evangelization 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 Novem-
Der, will be the mountain of Christian
advantage, the Alpine and Himalayan
height of opportunity overtopping all
others for salvation. Instead of the
slow process of having to send the
gospel to other lands by our own Amer
lean missionaries. who have difficult
toll in acquiring the foreign language
and then must contend with foreign
prejudices, what grand thing to have
able and influential foreigners con-
verted during their visit in America
and thon have them return to their
native lands with the glorious tidings
Oh. for an overwhelming work OF
grace for the year 1892, that work be.
ginning in the autumn of 1SS9l
BIG PEACE MEETING.
Another opportunity, if our public
men see it, and it is the duty of pulpit
10 hof fr
it. will be the calling at that time and
place of sgreat peace congress for all
nations. The convention of represen
tatives from the governments of NORTH
and South America, now at Washing
ton, is only a type of what we may
have on vast and world wide seal,
at the international exposition of 1892
By one stroke the gorgon of war nigh
be slain and buried so deep that neither
J trumpet of human dispute or of arch
angels blowing could resurrect it
: When the last Napoleon called such I
congress of nations many did not re
spond, and those that did responC
gathered wondering what trap tina
, willy destroyer of the French republi
: and the builder of French monarch.
7 might spring on them. But what !
; the most popular government on cart
, Il mean the United States govern
, should practically say TO al
. nations: On the American continent
2 in 1892, we will hold worlds fan
: and all nations will send to it spec
! mems of their products, their manu
! features aud their arts, and we invit
all the governments of Europe, Asl
and Africa to send representatives TO
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