The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1889-10-17

gracious ana 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 acres"
for the dead, gardens of beauty and pail
aces of marble for those who sleep the
last sleep! Now stop your slander Of
American cities. DO you say they are
the centers OF crime and political COR
raptionS Please admit the fact that they
are centers OF intelligence and generosi-
ty, and the mightiest patrons of arcli-
lecture and sculpture and painting and
music, and reservoirs OF religious influ-
ence for all tho continent. 1t will be we'll
for the country districts to cease talking
against the cities, and II will be we'll for
the city of one locality 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 tho Worlds Fair by bonn
harding New York.
Another suggestion concerning the
coming exposition. Let not the mate.
rialistic and monetary idea overpower
the moral aud religious. During that
exposition, the first time in all their
lives, there will be thousands of people
from other lands who will see country
without State religion. Let US by an
increased harmony among all denomina- :
tions of religion impress other nationali-
ties. as they come here that year,
with the superior advantage of
having all y 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 Presbyterlans, the previous one
was an Episcopalian, and the two previ :
Gus Methodists; and going further back
in that line of Presidents, we find Martin
Van Buren, Dutch Reformed, and John
Quincy Adams Unitarian, and mans
religion in this country is neither him
derance 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, duril & that exposition,
Christian civilization will confront bar
barism. We shall as a nation have a
greater opportunity to make an evangel-
izing impression upon foreign national :
tiles than would otherwise be afforded us
in quarter of century. Let the
churches of the city where the exposition
is held be open every day, and prayers
be offered and sermons preached and
doxologies sung. Ia the less than three
years between this aad that worlds con-
vocation, let sus get baptism of the
Holy Ghost, so that the six mouths of
that Worlds Fair shall be fifty Pente :
costs in one, and instead of three thou-
sand converted as in the former Pente-
cost, hundreds of thousands will be con-
verted. You must remember that the
Pentecost mentioned in the Bible oc-
cured when there was no print
ing press, no books, no Christian PAM
phlets, no religious newspapers, and yet
the influence was tremendous. How
many nationalities were touched? The
account says: "Parthians and Medes
and Elamites," that is, people from tho
Eastern countries; "Phrygia aud Pam
phylia," that is, the Western countries;
"Cyrene and strangers of home. Cretes
and Arabians," that is, the s outhern
countries; but they were all moved by
the mighty spectacle. Iastead 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 he represented at
our Worlds Fair in 1892, and Pente-
cost here and then would mean the sal :
walton of the world.
But, you say. we may have at that
fair the people of all lands and all tn G
machinery for gospelization, the re-
ligious printing presses aud the churches,
but all that would not mske a Pentecost;
we must have God. Well you can have
Him. Has He not been graciously watt
ing? and nothing stands in the way but
our own unbelief aud Incidence and sin.
May God break down the barriers! The
graadest opportunity for the evangelical
ton 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 throughout Christendom that
that year, between May aud November,
will be the mountain of Christian adyan-
tage, the Alpine and Himalayan height
of opportunity overtopping all others
for salvation. Instead Of the slow process
of having to send the Gospel to other
lands by our own American mission
aries, who have difficult toll in acquiring
viz lOANAS &th tNANti hAA'N Npt
tend 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 glorious IT,
dingsI Oh, for an overwhelming work of
grace for the year 1892, that work begin
ming in the autumn of 1889
An other opportunity, if our public men
. LII n
printing press to help them to see it. will
be the calling at that time and place of a
great peace congress for all nations. The
congress of representatives from the
governments of North and South Ameri-
ca, now at Washington, is only type Of
what we may have on vast aud world
wide scale at the International Exposi-
tion of 1892 By one stroke the gorgan
of war might bo slain and buried so deep
that neither trumpet of human dispute
nor Of archangeps blowing could resur-
rect it. When the last Napoleon called
such congress Of nations many did not
respond, and those that did respond
gathered wondering what trap that willy
destroyer of the French Republic and the
builder of a French monarchy might
spring on them. But what if the
most popular government on earth
Il mean the United States Gov
ernment should practically say
to all nations: On the American
continent, in 1892, we will hold a Worlds
Fair, and all nations will send to 1t speci-
mems of their products, their manufact-
ures and their arts, and we invite all the
governments of Europe, Asia and Africa
to send representatives to peace con-
yention 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 i'm
possibility.
All the nations of the earth worth con-
slderation would come 10 it--mighty men
OF England, and Germany, and France,
and Russia, aud all the other great ma
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