The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-10-17

shllu converted, as tne iniiilcl ithAtSNSh
hundreds of thousands will be converted.
You must remember that tho Pentecost
mentioned In the Bible occurred when there
was no printing-press no books, no Chris
tian pamphlets, no religious newspapers,
and yet the influence was tre-
mendous How many nationalities
were touchedY The account says:
"Parthians and Medes and Elamites,"
that is, people from the eastern countries;
"Phrygia and Pamphylia," that is, the west
ern countries; "Cyrene and strangers ct
Rome. Cretes and Arabians," that is, the
southern countries but they were all moved
by the mighty spectacle. Instead or the
sixteen or eighteen tribes of people reported
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 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 machinery for
gospelization the religious printing presses
and the churches but all that would not
make Pentecost; we must have God. Well,
you can have Him. Has He not been grH-
ciously waitings and nothing stands In the
sin. May God break down the barriers' The
yrandest opportunity for the evangel-
ization 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
aeld before that but let It be known through.
out Christeniom that that year, between
Nav aud November will be the mountain
OF Christian advantage, the Alpine and
Himalayan height of opportunity overtop-
ping all others for salvation. Instead OF the
slow process of having to send the
Gospel to other land by our own Ameri.
can missionaries. who have difficult
toll In acquiring the foreign language and
then must contend with foreign preiudices,
what grand thing to have able and infiu.
entail foreigners converted during their visit
in America and then have them return to
their native lands with the glorious tidings!
Oh, for an overwhelming work OF grace for
the year 1892, that work beginning in the
autumn of 1887
Another opportunity, il our public men
see it, and tits the duty OF pulpit and print
Ing press to help them to see it. viii be the
calling at that time and piece of legal
peace congress for all nations. The conven
ton of representatives from the Govern
ments of North and South America, now at
Washington, Is only type of what we may
have on vast and a world wide scale at
the international 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 arch-angelc
Napoleon called such a congress of nations
many did not respond. and those that did re-
spond gathered wondering what trap that
| willy destroyer of tho French Republic and
the builder of a French monarchy might
spring on them. But what If the most popu-
lar government on earth-I mean the United
States Government-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 specimens of
their products, their manufactures and their
arts, and we invite all the Governments of
Europe, Asia and Africa to send representa-
tives to peace convention that shall be held
at the same time and place, and that shall
establish an international arbitration commits.
zion to whom shall be referred all controver-
sizes between nation and nation their decision
to be final, and SO all nations would be re-
lieved from the expense of standing armies
and naval equipment war having been made
IN everlasting impossibility
AL the nations of the earth worth con-
sideration would come to it, mighty men of
| England and Germany and France and Rus
STA and all the other great nationalities,
Bismarck who worships 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 drink
ing ont of chalices made out Of human skulls
and filled with blood. The United States
Government is the only government in the
whole world that could successfully call such a
| Congress. Suppose France should call it,
Germany would not come; or Germany
should call it, France would not come: or
Russia should call it, Turkey would not come;
,r England should call it, Nations long jeal-
Gus OF her overshadowing power in Europe
would not come America, in favor with all
aationaities. standing out Independent and
| alone. Is the spot and 1892 will be the time.
| Nov rloaca fha Pracidopt NJ tho T1Y,itad
States, may it please the Secretary Of State,
may it please the Cabinet, may it please the
Senate ana House of Representatives, may it
please the prin6ing presses and the churches
and the people who lift up and put down our
| American rulers!
To them l make this timely and SOL
enln and Christian appeal. Do you
not think people die fast enough with
out this wholesale butchery Of war; Do
monias and consumptions and apoplexies
and palsies and yellow fevers and AsiaJic
| choleras the work of killing them fast
enough? Do you not think that the
greedy, wide open jaws Of the grave ought
to be satisfied if filled by natural causes
with hundreds of thousands of corpses a
| year, Do you not think we can do something
better with men than to dash their life
out against easements or blow them into
fragments by torpedoes or send them Out
into the world, where they need all their
faculties, footleSS, armless, eyelesss Do you
not think that women might be appointed to
an easier place than the edge Of a grave
treuch to wiring their pale hands and weeE
out their eyesight in widowhood and child
lessnesss Why, the last glory has gone out
of war.
There was time when it demanded thai
| quality which we all admire. cour
age--for a man had to stand at the hilt O
his sword when the point pierced the foe ant
while he was Staying another the oUhel
might slay him; or it was bayonet charge
| But now it is cool and deliberate murder
and clear out at SEA bombshell can b.
hurled miles away into city, or while thou
sands of private soldiers, who have no inter
est in the contest for they were con
scripted, are losing their lives, theil
General may sit smoking one of til,
best Havana cigars after dinner Of quai
on toast. 1t may be well enough for gradu
| ating students of colleges on commencement
day to crate about the poetry OF war, but dc
not talk about the poetry Of war to the men
Of the Federal or Confederate armies who
we're at the 'front.' or to some Of us who, as
members Of the Christian commission, saw
the CHASTITY hospitals at Antietam and Hagers
town. All! you may worship the Lord Of
Hosts, l worship the "God of Peace, who
| Drought again from the dead our Lord jesus
|
| Wa. is an accused monster and it was
born in the lowest cavern of perdition, and
(pray that it may speedily descend to tbs
place from which it arose, its last sword and
shield and musket rafting on the bottom Of
.he red hot mari of hell. Let there be called
peace convention for 1892, with delegates
sent by all the decent Governments Of
Chrisrendom, and while they are in session,
f you should some night go out and looh
INTO the sky above the exposition build
ngs, you may find that the old gallery Of
,rystal, that was taken down after the Beth
chem anthem of eighteen centuries ago wa!
sung out, is rebuilt again in the clouds, ant
the same angelic singers are returned witt
the same librettos of light to chant "Glory t.
God in the highest, and on earth peace, gooe
will to men,
Again, | suggest in regard to the Worldi
Fair that, while appropriate places are pre-
cared for all foreign exhibits we make ne
room for the importation of foreign vices
America has enough of its own, and we need
10 installments of that kind. A worlds fail
will bring all kinds of people, good and bad
rhe good we must prepare to welcome, til,
BAD we must prepare to shun. The attemp
will again be made in 1892, as in 1876