Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-10-18

country IS neither nLuufdlce nor advantage
in the matter of political elevation. All
A mans religion is something between him.
self and his God and it must not directly or
indirectly be interfered with.
Furthermore, during that exposition,
Christian civilization will confront bars
barism We shall as a nation have q
greater opportunity 10 make an evange
izing impression upon foreign nation
llities, than would otherwise be afforded
as in a quarter of a 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. in the
less than three years between this and
that worlds convocatiou, let us get bap-
tism of the Holy Ghost, so that the six
months of that worlds fair snail he fifty
Pentecosts in one, and instead of three thou
sand converted, as in the former Penteccst,
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 no Chris
tian pamphlets, no religious newspapers,
and yet the influence was tire
mendous. How many nationalities
were touched? The account says
"Parthians and Modes aud Elamites
that is, people from the eastern countries;
ern countries; "Cyrene and strangers Of
Rome. Cretes and Arabians" that is, the
southern countries; but they were all moved
by the mighty spectacle. Instead of 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 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
gospelization, the religious printing presses
and the churches, but all that would not
make Pentecost; we must have God. Well,
Tou can have Him. Has He not been gra-
ciously 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 evangel-
cation of all nations since Jesus
Christ died o on the .vno GT4ss will III
1892. God may take us out of the harvest
ield before that, but let it be known through
May and 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-
IAN missionaries, who have difficult
toll in acquiring the foreign language and
chen must contend with foreign preiudices
what a grand thing to have able and intiu-
initial foreigners converted during their visit
in America and then have them return to
5heir native lands with the glorious tidings!
Oh, for an overwhelming work of grace for
The year 1892, that work beginning in the
autumn of 1889
Another opportunity, if our public men
see it, and tbs the duty of pulpit and print
ing press to help them to see it, will be the
FALLING at that time and place of a legal
peace congress for all nations. The conven
lion of representatives from the Govern
nents of North and South America, now at
Washington, is only type of what we may
nave on a vast and world wide scale at
;he international exposition of 1892.
By one stroke the gorgon of war might
De slain and buried so deep that neither
trumpet of human dispute or of arch-angers
blowing could resurrect it. When the last
Napoleon called such a congress of nations
many did not respond, and those that did re-
pond gathered wondering what trap that
willy destroyer of the French Republic and
ihe builder of French monarchy might
pring on them. But what if the most popu-
ar government on earth-I mean the United
States Government-should practically say
10 all nations: On the American continent
N 1892, we will hold a worlds fair
Ind all nations will send to it specimens of
heir products, their manufactures and their
lrts, and we invite all the Governments of
europe, Asia and Africa to send representa-
ives to peace convention that shall be held
it the same time and place, and that shall
stablish an international arbitration commits.
ion to whom shall be referred all controver-
les between nation and nation, their decision
o be final and so all nations would be re
ieved from the expense of standing armies
md naval equipment, war having been made
N everlasting impossibility.
All the nations of the earth worth con-
Iteration would come to it, mighty men Of
England and Germany and France and Rus
ia and all the other great nationalities,
Bismarck who worships the Lord of Hosts,
md Gladstone who worships the God of
Peace. and Boulanger who worships himself.
Che fact is that the nations are sick of drink
ng out of chalces made out of human skulls
md filed 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
hould call it, France would not Gomez or
Russia should call it. Turkey would not come;
| n England should call it, nations long jeal-
,us of her overshadowing power in Europe
| would not come. America in favor with all
lationalitieS standing out independent and
! llone. is the spot and 1892 will be the time.
day it please the President of the United
States, may it please the Secretary of State,
Gay it please the Cabinet, may it please Tlhe
Senate and House of Representatives, may il
lease the printing presses and tho churches
| md the people who lift up and put down ouI
! American rulers
To them ] make this timely and sol
smn and Christian appeal. Do you
lot think people die fast enough with.
nut this wholesale butchery of war? Dc
Tou not think that we can trust to pneu
nonias and consumptions and apoplexie'
ind palsies and yellow fevers and Asiatit
:holeras the work of killing them fast
mough? Do you not think that thu
greedy, wide open jaws of the grave ought
70 be satisfied if filled by natural 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 intt
fragments by torpedoes or send them ou
INTO the world, where they need all theil
faculties, footless, armless eyeless? Do yol
not think that women might be appointed tx
an easier place than the edge of a grav'
trench to wiring their pale bandsaand weel
3at their eyesight in widowhood and child
essness2 Why, the last glory has gone on
| of war.
There was time when it demanded tina
quality which we all admire--namely, cour
sge--for a man had to stand at the hilt .
his sword when the point pierced the foe ant
while he was Staying another the othe
might slay him; or it was bayonet charge
But now it is cool and deliberate murder
aad clear out at sea a bombshell can b
hurled miles away into a 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, thei
General may sit smoking one of tn
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 4
not talk about the poetry of war to the mel
of the Federal or Confederate armies VIII
were at the front or TO some of us who, a
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