Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1889-10-24

coming exposition; let not the mate
realistic ard monetary idea overpowe
the moral and religious. During tina
exposition. the first time in all thel
lives, there will be thousands of people
from other lands who will see coun.
try without state religion. Let us BY
an increased harmony among all de-
nominations of religion, impress othel
nationalities, as they come here tina,
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 Pres
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 q Unitarian; and q mans
religion in this country is neither hind
rance nor advantage in the matter OF
political elevation. All Europe needs
that. All the world needs that. A mans
religion ID something between himself
and his God, and it must not, directly
or indirectly, be interfered with.
Furthermore, during that exposition,
Christian civilization will confront
barbarism. We shall as q nation have q
greater opportunity to make an evan
gelizing impression upon foreign ma
tionalities, than would otherwise be at
forded us in q quarter of a century. Let
the churches of the city where the e1--
position 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 geta baptism
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 thousands will
be converted. You must remember that
the Pentecost mentioned in the Bible
occurred when there was no printing
press, no books, no Christian pamph-
let's, ne religious newspapers, and yet
the influence was tremendous. How
mano nationalities were touched? The
account says: "Parthians and Modes
and Elamites, that is, people from the
eastern countries;r Phrygia andIP amply
liza" that is, the western countries;
"Cyene and strangers of Rome, Cretes
and Arabians," that is, the southern
countries; but they were all moved by
the mighty spectacle. Instead of the
sixteen or eighteen tribes of people re-
ported at that Pentecost, all the chief
nations of Europe and Asia, North and
South America, will be represented at
our worlds fair in 1892, and q Pentecost
here and 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 ma
chinery for gospelization, the religious
printing presses and the churches, but
all that would not make q Pentecost; We
must have God, Well, you can have
him. Has he not been Rraciously wait
ing? and nothing stands in the way but
our own unbelief and Incidence and sin.
May God break down the barriers! The
grandest opportunity fer the evangeli-
cation of all nations since Jesus Christ
died on the cross will be the Worlds ex-
position of 1892. God may take us out
of the harvest field before that, but let
it be known throughout Christendom
that this year between May and Novem-
Der, will be the mountain of Christian
advantage, the Alpine Himalayan
height of opportunity overlapping all
others for salvation. Instead of the
slow process of having to send the gos-
pei to other lands by our own American
missionaries, who have difficult toll in
| acquiring the foreign language and then
must content with foreign prejudices.
what a grand thing to have able and in
tiential foreigners converted during their
visit in America and then have them re-
turn to their native lands with the
glorious tidings! Oh, for an overwhelm-
ing work of grace for the year 1892, that
work beginning in the autumn of 1881
Another 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 convention of represen-
tatives from the governments of North
and South America, now at Washington,
is only type of what We may have on a
vast and a world wide scale at the inter-
national exposition of 1892. By one
stroke the gOrgon of war might be slain
| and buried SO deep that neither trumpet
of human dispute or of archangers
blowing could resurrect it. When the
last Napoleon called such a congress of
matt ions 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.
ment on earth-I mean the United
States government-should practically
say to all nations: On the American
continent, in 1892, We will hold worlds
fair, and all nations will sendto it spec-
linens of their products, their manufac-
lures andtheir arts, and We invite all the
governments of Europe, Asia and Africa
to send representatives to a peace cou
vention that shall be held at the same
time and place, and that shall establish
an international arbitration commission
to whom shall be referred all 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
impossibility.
All the nations of the earth worth
consideration would come to it, mighty
men of England and Germany and
France and Russia and all the other
great nationalities. Bismarck who wor-
ships the Lord of Hosts, and Gladstone
who worships the God of Peace, and
Boulanger who worships himself. The
fact is that the nations are sick of
drinking out of chalices made out of
human skulls and filed with blood.
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only government in the whole world
that could successfully call such a con-
gress. Suppose France should call it,
Germany would not come; or Germany
should call it, France would not come;
or Russia should call il, Turkey would
not come; or England should call it,
nations long jealous of her overshadow-
ing power in Europe would not come.
America in favor with all nationalities,
standing out independent and alone. is
the spot and 1892 will be the time. May
it please the President of the United
States, may it please the Secretary of
State. may it please the Cabinet, may it
please the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatives, may it please the printing
presses and the churches and the peo-
pie who lift up and put down our Amer
lean rulers!
Again, I suggest in regard to the
Worlds fair that, while appropriate
places are prepared for all foreign ex-
hibits, We make no room for the impor-
tation of foreign vices. America has
an IN oh of ifc 0wn and wo uood M nov