Connecticut western news., 1889-10-09

l southern countries; but they were all moved by the mighty spectacle. Instead of the six teen or eighteen tribes of people reported at that Pentecost, all the chief nations of will be represented at our Worlds fair in 1892, and Pentecost here aud 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 8 Pentecost; we must have God. Well, you can have him. Has he not been graciously waiting? and nothing stands In the way but our own unbelief and incidence and sin. May God break down the barriers! The grandest opportunity 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 through out ChristendOm that that year, between May Christian advantages, the Alpine and Him. alayan height of opportunity overlapping all others for salvation. Instead of the slow process of having to send the gospel to other lands by our own American missionaries, who have difficult toll in acquiring the for eign language and then must contend with foreign prejudices, what a grand thing to have able and influential foreigners converted during their visit in America and then have them return to their native lands with the glOT1OuS IlulUpS! Ou, lOT dIl ONcIWuCuuAuS work of grace for the year 1892, that work beginning in the autumn of 1889.
 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 con- gress for all nations. The convention of rep resentatives from the governments of North and South America, now at Washington, is only a type of what we may have on vast and a world wide scale at the international exposition of 1892. By one stroke the gOr- gon of war might be slain and buried SO deep that neither trumpet of human dispute or of archangers blowing could resurrect 1t. When the last Napoleon called such con gress of nations many did not respond, and those that did respond gathered, wondering what trap that willy de stroyer of the French republic and the builder of a French monarchy might spring on them. But what if the most popular gov ernment on earth-1 mean the United States government-should practically say to all na- tions: On the American continent in 1892 we will hold worlds fair and all nations will send to it specimens of their products, their manufactures and their arts, and we in- yite all the governments of Europe, Asia and Africa to send representatives to peace con- vention that shall be held at the same time and place, and that shall establish an interna- tional arbitration commission, to whom shall be referred all controversies between nation and nation, their decision to be final, and so all nations would be relieved from the eX- pense of standing armies and naval equip ment, WAT having been made an everlasting impOssibility.
 All the nations of the earth worth con- sideration would come to it, mighty men of England and Germany and France and Russia and all the other great nationalties, 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 out of chalices made out of human skull and filled with blood. The United States whole world that could successfully call such congress. Suppose France should call it, Germany would not come; or Germany should call 1t, France would not come, or Russia should call it, Turkey would not come; or England should call it, nations long jealous of her overshadowing power in Europe would not come. America, in favor with all natiOnalities, standing out independ- ent 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 representatives, may it please the printing presses and the churches and the people who lift up and put down our American rulers!
 To them I make this timely and solemn and Christian appeal. Do you not think people die fast enough without this wholesale
 butchery of war? Do you not think that we | can trust to pneumonias and consumptions
 fexers @S and Asiatie ahoerss aa the Wor of killing them fast enough? Do you | not think that the greedy, wide open jaws of | the grave ought to be satisfied if filed by na- tural causes with hundreds of thousands of | corpses 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. eyeless? Do you
 not think that women might be appointed to | an easier place than the edge of a grave
 trench to wiring their pale hands and weep
 out their eyesight in widowhood and child
 Illness? Why, the last glory has gone out of | war.
 There was q time when it demanded that
 quality which we all admire-namely, cour- | age-for man had to stand at the hit of his
 sword when the point pierced the foe, and
 while he was staying another the other might | slay him; or it was bayonet charge. But now
 it is cool and deliberate murder, and clear
 out at sea bombshell can be hurled miles
 away into 8 city, or while thousands of pri-
 yate soldiers, who have no interest in the
 contest, for they were cOnscripted, are losing | their lives, their general may sit smoking one
 of the best Havana cigars after a dinner ' of quail on toast. It may be well enough | for graduating students of colleges on | commencement day to crate about the poetry
 of war, but do not talk about the poetry of | | armies who were at the front, or to some of
 us who, as members of the Christian com
 mission, saw the ghastly hospital at Antietam
 and Hagerstown. An! you may worship Peace, who brought again from the dead our
 Lord Jesus Christ, that great Shepherd of | the sheep."
 | War is an accursed monster and it was
 born in the lowest cavern of perditon, and | I pray that it may speedily descend to the | Dlace from which if it9 last sword and | shield and musket rattling on the bottom of | the red hot mari of hell. Let there be called | peace convention for 1892, with delegates
 sent by all the decent governments of
 Christendom, and while they are in session,
 if you should some night go out and look | into the sky above the exposition build-
 ings, you may find that the old gallery of | crystal, that was taken down after the Beth- | lehem anthem of eighteen centuries ago was | sung out, is rebuilt again ill the clouds, and | the same angelic singers are returned with l the same librettos of light to chant ''Glory to
 God in the highest, and on earth peace, good | will to men,"
 Again, suggest in regard to the Worlds | fair that, while appropriate places are pre- | pared for all foreign exhibits, we make no
 room for the importation of foreign vices. | America has enough of it's own, and we need
 no new installments of that kind. A worlds pie, good or bad. The good we must prepare | to welcome, the bad we must prepare to shuu. The attempt will again be made in 1892, as in 1879, to break up our American Sabbaths. That attempt was made at the Philadelphia Centennial, but defeated. The I American Sabbath is the best kept Sabbath on | earth. We do not want it broken down, and | substituted in the place thereof the Brussels Sabbath, the Vienna Sabbath, the St. Peters burg Sabbath or any of the foreign Sabbaths, which are no Sabbaths at all. think the Lord is more than generous in asking only l 52 days out of the 365 for his service. You | let the Sabbath go and with 1t will go your | Bible, and after that your liberties, and your