The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-04-15


the armies we're set in array, and he left
his carriage and shouted for the battle aud
cried: "Who is this uncircumcised Phili>-
tine that he should defy the armi s of the
living Godf" and with five gravel stones
skilfully flung sent sprawling the Dragging
ten-footer, his mouth into the dust and his
heels into the air.
Nv friends, what but such a consumma-
ton could be fit climax to this century.
You notice a tendency in history and all
about us to climax. The creation week
rising from herbs to fish and from fish )
bird and from bird TO quadruped and from
quadruped to immortal mau. The New
Testament rising from quiet genealogical
table in Matthew to apocalyptic doxologY
in revelation. Now, what can be an ap-
propriate climax to this century, which
has heard the puff Of the first
steamer and the throb of the
first stethoscope and the click OF the
first telegraph aud the clatter of the first
sewing machine, and saw the fash Of the
first electric light and the revolution Of the
first steam pillow, and the law of storms was
written, and the American Bible Society
and American Tract Society were born, and
instead of an audience laughing down DR..
Carey for advocating foreign missions, as
was done as Northampton in England in the
last century, now all denominations vie
ing with each other as to who shall 60 the
furtherest and the soonest into the darkest
of the New Hebrides and three hundred
thousand souls have been born to God in
the the South sea islands, and Micronesia
and Melanesia and Malayan Polynesia have
been set in the crown of Christ, and David
Livingstone has unveiled Africa, and the
last bolted gate of barbaric natl ms has
swung wide open to let the gospel in. What,
| ask with thousand Interrogation points
upiiftcd, can be a fit, an appropriate and
sufficient climax except it be world re-
deemeds
Yea, believe it can be done if we get
prepared for it, because the whole air and
the whole heaven Is full Of willing help.
''Are they not all ministering spirits sent
forthg We make an awful mistake if we
calculate only on the forces we can see.
The mightiest army is in the air. My breth-
rem, SO much of selfshness and pride and
rivalry and bad motives 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 i'm
perfection behind and these souls are with us
and without fault and with perfect ma
lures 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 intsre I
in the stupendous conflict now raging, or
that they are going 60 decline their help.
IrenR is Prime! Honored on earth but no W
gloriied in heaven, have you forgotten the
work toward which you gave for more
than half century your gracious life, your
loving voice and your matchlesi penl
mol Then come down aud help. AL
exander Duff "a HaveA you forgotten
the millions of India for whose salvation
you suffered in Hindoo jungle and thuu-
dered on missionary Dlatforma No! Then
come down and help. David Brainard
Have you forgotten the aborlgines 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 swamp? No! Then come down and
help. Moncrieff and Freeman and Camp
belll Have you forgotten Lucknow and
Cawnpore9 mol Then come down and
help. | rub out of my eyes the stupidity
and unbelef, and l, the servant of these
great Elshas in the gospel, see the noun
tains 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 Stephen
Clouds Of prophets in the air led on by
Isaiah! Clouds of patriarchS in the air led
on by Abraham Clouds of ancient war
riors in the air led on by Joshua, aud that
iOlblo WdlIltl az WLOSb prayer etSbIOuOLuN
once halted over Ajalon, and Gideon 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"
Then let us take what remains of this de-
cade 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.
] confess that the mistake of my life has
been, not that l did not work hard-for l
could not have worked harder and lived, as
God knows aud my family know-but that
/ have not worked under the realiza-
ton that the salvation of this world
was nearby 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,
aud then all decades shall kneel before this
enthroned decade, and even the gray grown
centuries will cast their crowns before it
and it will be the most honored decade be-
tween the time when the morning stars
sang together 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 liveth
forever and ever that time shall be no
longer. All eluia Amenl