The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1889-10-30

q preacher Of righteousness to utter.
My first suggestion Is that 1t Is not wise,
and certainly it is not Christian, to continue
this wide and persistent attempt OF American
cities to belittle and depreciate other cities.
1t has been going ON for years, but now the
spirit seems to eliminate In this discussion
as to where the worlds fair shall be held,
style of discussion which has tendency to
injure the success Of the fair as q great
moral and patriotic enterprise, after the To-
cality has been decided upon. There is such
thing as healthful rivalry between cities,
but you will bear me out In saying that
there can be no good to come from the I'M
canny things said about each other by New
York and Chicago, by Chicago and st.
Louis, by st. Paul and Minneapolis, by Ia
coma 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 exultation. What churches
What public libraries! What asylums of
mercy! What academies of music! What
mighty men in law and medicine and art
and scholarship! 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 satisfied
with their own charities until they get into
the hundreds of thousands and the millions |
What Goods scres'' for the dead, gardens
of beauty, and palaces of marble for those
who sleep the last sleepl Now stop your
SANDER of American cities. Do you say
they are the centers Of crime and political
corruptionl Please admit the fact that they
are centers Of intelligence and generosity
and the mightiest patrons of architecture
and sculpture and painting and music and
reservoirs of religious influence for all the
continent. It will be we'll for the country
districts tO cease talking against the cities,
audit will be welllfor the city Of one local
ity TO stop talking against the cities Of other
localities. New York will not get the
worlds fair by depreciating Chicago, and
Chicago will not get the worlds fair by
depreciating New York.
Another, suggestion concerning the COM
ing exposition: let not the materialistic and
monetary idea overpower the moral and re-
hgious. During that exposition the first
time in all their lives, there will be thou
sands of people from other lands who will
Stt b COuutTy W1UuOuU d SUdGc IcllklUu. Lei
us by an increased harmony among all de-
nominations of religion impress other ma
tionslities, as they come here that year,
with the superior advantage Of having all
denominations equal in the sight of govern
ment. All the rulers and chief men OF
Europe belong to Interstate religion, what
ever Il may be-. Although our last two
Presidents have been tRrcsby terians, the
previous one was an Episoopalian; 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 q
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 himself and his God
and it must not, directly or indirectly, be
interfered with.
Furthermore, during that exposition
Christian civilization will confront barbar
ism. We shall as nation have greater op
portunity to make an evangelizing impress.
sion upon foreign nationalities than would
otherwise be afforded us in quarter of 9
! century. Let the churches of the city
where the exposition is to held be oper
| every day, and pray be offered and ser
mons preached and doxologies sung. In tn,
less than three years between this and tina
worlds convocation let us get baptism o
the Holy Ghost, SO that the six months O
that worlds fair shall be fifty Pentecosts il
one, and instead of three thousand con
verted as in the former Pentecost, hundred
| ~ dc will no I'D 10
remember that the Pentecost mentioned il
the Bible occurred when there was no print
ing press, no books, no Christian pamphlets
no religious newspapers, and yet the in
| fluence was tremendous. How many ma
| tionalties were touched9 The account says
"Parthians and Modes and Elamites," tina
is people from the eastern countries; "Phry
gia and Pamphvlia," that is the wester
countries "Cyrene and strangers of Rome
Cretes and Arabians," that is the southern
countries; but they were all moved by tn
mighty spectacle. Instead of the sixteen o
| eighteen tribes Of people reported at tina
Pentecost, all the chief nations of Europ
and Asia, North and South America, vii
be represented at our worlds fair in 1885,
and Pentecost here and then would mea
| tlC oulN dIlUu VI tuC IOuuu WOllu.
But, you say, we may have at that fair tn
people of all lands and all the machiner
for gospelization, the religious printin
presses and the churches, but all that woul
not make Pentecost; we must have Goo
Well, you can have Him. Has He not bee
graciously waitings and nothing stands /
the way but our own unbelief and indolenc
and sin. May God break down the barriers
The grandest opportunity for the evange
ization of all nations since Jesus Christ die
on the cross will be the worlds expositio
of 1892. God may take Us out of the harves
field before that, but let it be know
throughout Christendom that that year, b,
tween May aud November, will be tn
mountain of Christian advantage, the Alpin
and Himalayan height Of opportunity owe
topping all others for salvation. Instead (
the slow process Of having to send. the go
pei to other lands by our own America
missionaries, who have difficult toll in o.
quiring the foreign language and then mu
contend with foreign preiudices, what
grand thing to have able and influenti
foreigners converted during their visit
America and then haye them return to the
native lands with the glorious tidingsl {
for an overwhelming work Of grace for II
year 1892, that work beginning in the .,
; tumn of 1889! rfEfkF W
Another opportunity, II our public me
see it, and it is the duty Of pulpit and prin
ing press to help them to see it, will be Il
calling at that time and place OF gre,
peace congress forall nations. The CONVEX
ton of representatives from the goverl
ments Of North and South America, now
Washington, is only type of what we ma
: have on vast and world wide scale
J the International Expositioh in 1892. B
: one stroke the gorgon Of war might be slai
, and buried so deep that neither. trumpet ,