The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-12-20

exposition 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 get pap
tism of the Holy Ghost, so that the SIX
months OF that worlds fair shall be ftty
Pentecosts in one, and instead OF three thou-
sand 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 y. Chris
tan pamphlets, no rehslous he1vspapels'
and vet the influence was ire
mendons. How many nationalities
were toucbedy The account says:
..Parthians and Modes and Elamites,'
that is. people from the eastern countries;
sPhrygia and Psmphylia,n that Is, the west
ern countries; "Cyrene and strangers OF
Rome. Crstes and Arabians,n that Is, the
southern countries. but they were all moved
by the mighty spectacle. Instead OF ths
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 a 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
sospelization. the religious printing presses
md the churches, but all that would not
rlakea Pentecost; we must have God. Wen,
~, can have Him. Has He not been gra-
eiorslv waitings and nothing stands IN the
vvay hut our own unbelief ard iudolence anu
,in- Nav God break down the barriersi The
grandest opportunity for the eYangei-
cation of all nations since Jesus
christ died on the cross VIII
"a the worlds exposition Of
1892. God may take us out of the harvest
] deld before that, but let it be known through
mt Christendom tht.t that year, between
Nav aud November, will be the mountain
Of Christian advantage, the Alpine ard
ffIiu1afayan- height oil opportunity oyertop-
rine ali Others for salvation. Instead OF the
( slow process of having to send the
Gospel TO other land by our own Amerl-
can missionaries, who have dIincul9
toll in acquiring the foreign language anu
then must contend with foreign preludlces,
What a grand thing TO have able and lntlu-
entail foreigners converted during their visit
| in America and then have them return TO
their native lands with the glorious ndings
/ Oh. for an overwhelming work OF grace Tor
the year 1892, that work beginning IN the
autumn of 1897
Another opportunity. If our pubhc men
! sac If and it IS the duty of pulpit and print
mo n,ess to nelp them to see it, viii be the
| eailfng at that tine and place Of legal
/ peace congress for all nations. The conVen
| fion of representatives from the Govern
ments of North and South America, now al
| Washington, is only type of what we may
| have on a vast and a world VIDE scale a
the international exposition OF 1917
Nv one stroke the gOrgon Of war NIGH
he slair and buried SO deep that neither
<-umpeu OF human dispute or OF arcn-angei;
glowing could resJrrect 1t. When the lasl
Napoleon called such a congress OF natlon'
many did not respond. and those that did re
spond gathered wondering what trap tina
willy destroyer Of the French Republic ani
the builder of French monarchy mlgn
n spring on them. But what If the most popu
Tar government on earth-I mean the Unite'
States Governmeut-shOuld practically sal
to all nations: On the American continent
1 in 1892. we will hold a worlds far
and all nations will send TO it specimens o
their products. their manufactures and tnel
arts. and we invite all the Governments o
Europe, Asia and Africa to send represents
: tives to peace convention that small be mel
at the same time and place, and that snal
I establish an international arbitration comml'
sion to whom shall be referred all cnntroyel
sies between nation and nation, their declsio
l TO be final, and so all nations would be r.
{ lieved from the expense Of standing arinlt
! and naval equipment war having been mao
7 an everlasting impossibility.
An the nations of the earth worth col
l sideration would come to it. mighty men
: | ENGLAND and Germany and France and hui
;. ia and all the other great nationelitlei
I Bismarck who worships the Lord of Host
( ind Gladstone who worships the God {
, Peace. and Boulanger who worshlps hlmseL
u The fact IS that the nations are sick OF drlnl
mo ont of chalices made out of human skull
e and filled with blood The United Stat,
) Government is the only government IN q
U whole world that could successfully call sucn
n congress. Suppose France should call 1
n liermanv would not come; or German
i should cal it. France would not come;
h Russia should call it, Turkey would not com
e or England should call it, nations long Jel
/ - OF her overshadowing power in Euro
~ ce-le America, in favor with
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