News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-04-25

Gent1Ies are not long going co allow them
selves to be eclipsed by Mr.. Hirsch, the Jew,
who has just given forty million dollars for
schools in France, Germany and Russia. re-
joice that so much OF the wealth OF tne world
is coming into the possession of Christian men
and women. And although the original
church was very poor, and its members were
fish dealers on the banks of Galilee, and had
only such stock ON hand as they could take in
| their own net TODAY in the hands of Chris
tian men and women there is enough money
to print Bibles and build churches and sup
port missionaries under God In ten years to
save the world.
Again. think that the worlds evangelical
ton can be achieved in the time SPECIFIED be-
| cause we have already the theological lnstl-
| buttons necessary for this work. we do not
have to build them; they are built and they
are filled with tens of thousands OF young men
and there will be three sets OF students
| who will graduate into the ministry
before the close of this century, and once have
! them understand that instead OF preaching
thirty or forty years and taking into the king
dom of God few hundred souls, right before
| them is the Sedan, is the Armageddon, and
| these Young men, instead of entering the
ministry timid and with apologize air, will
feel like David who came up Just as
the armies were set in array and
he left his carriage and shouted
| for the battle and cried: ''Who is this I'M
circumcised Philistine that he should defy the
armies of the living God| and with five
gravel stones sl1illfully flung sent sprawlmg
| the Dragging ten footer, his mouth into the
dust and his heels into the air.
| My friends, what but such O consInma-
ton could be a fit climax to this century?
| You notice a tendency i'll history and all
about us to climax The creation week ris-
ing from herbs to fish and from fish to bird
and from to bird to quadruped and frCm
| quadruped to immortal man. The New
Testament rising from quiet genealo-
| gical table in Matthew to apocalyptic
| doxoIogy in Revelation. Now, what can be
an appropriate climax to this century, which
has heard the puff of the first steamer and the
| throb of the first StethoScope and the click of
| the first telegraph and the chatter of the first
sewing machine and saw the flash of the first
electric light and the revolution of the first
! steam pillow, and the law of storms written,
and the American Bible society and American
! Tract society were born; and instead of an
I audience laughing down Dr. Carey for advo-
/ eating foreign missions, as was done at North
ampton in England in the last century, now
| all denominations wing with each other as to
| who shall go the fuIthereSt and the soonest
into the darkest of the New Hebrides;
and three hundred thousand souls have
been born to God in the South Sea
Islands, and Micronesia and Melanesia and
! Malayan Polynesia have been set in the
! crown of Christ, and David Livingstone has
unveiled Africa and the last bolted gate of
! barbaric nations has swung wide open to let
! the Gospel in. What, l ask, with thousand
Interrogation points uplifted, cen be fit, an
! appropriate and sufficient climax except it be
| a world redeemed?
Yes l believe it can be done if we get pre-
pared for it, because the whole air and the
whole heaven is full of willing help. Are
they not all miniStering spirits sent forthf'
! We make an awful mistake if we calculate
only on the forces we can see Inc
mightiest army is in the air. My breth-
ern, so much of sclfishness and pride
and rivalry and bad motives of all kinds get
into our work hero that we are hindered.
But the mighty souls that have gone up to
the flying armies of the sky have left all
imperfection behind; and these souls are
with us and without fault and with per-
| Iect natures are on our side GU cannot
mako me believe that after toiling
here for long years for the redemp-
ton of the world until from exhaustion some
of them fell into their graves they have ceased
their interest in the Stupendous conflict now
raging, or that they are going to decline their
help. IrenRus Prime Honored on earth,
but now giOritied in heaven, have you forgot
ten the work toward which you gave for more
than half q century your gracious life, your
loving voice and your matches pen? Mol
Then come down and help. Alexander Duff!
Have you forgotten the millions of India for
whose salvation you suffered in HindOo jun
gle and Numbered on missionary PLATFORM
mol Then come down and help. David Brain
ardi Have you forgotten the aborigineS to
whom you preached and for whom you
more, lying down delirious amid the miasmaS
of the swamp? MOI Then come down and
help. Moncrieff and Freeman and Campbell!
Have you forgotten Lucknow and Gavin
pore? mol Then come down and help. |
rub out of my eyes the stupidity and unbe-
lief and /, the servant of these great ElishaS
in the Gospel, see the mountains all round
about are full of horses of fire and chariots of
fire; and they head this way. lowered over
are we by great clouds OF witnesses ap1 help
(IOn6S anOStlnS
on by PAUL. Clouds of martyrs in the air led
on by Stephenl Clouds of prophets in the
air led on by ISAIAH Clouds of patriarchs in
the air led on by Abrahaml Clouds OF an
Gent warriors in the air led On by Joshua,
and that Bible warrior at whose prayers as
tronomy once halted over Ajalon and Gideon
seems now to lift one hand toward the descend
ing of this century, and the other hand
stand thou stin till the church OF God gets
/ the final victory"
! Then let us take what remains of this de-
cade to get ready for the final decade of the
| Nineteenth century. You and l may not
/ live to see that decade or may not livs to SEQ
| its close but that shall not hinder Inc from
! declaring the magnificent possibility. / con-
| fess that the mistake of my life has been, not
| that did not work hard-for | could not
| have worked harder and lived, as Go
| knows and my family bnow-but that have
not worked under the realization that the sal
walton of this world was nearby possibility.
! But whether see it, the beginning or the
closing of that decade, is of no Importance,
| if only that decade can get the coronation,
and then all decades shall kneel before
this enthroned decade, and even the
gray grown centuries will cast their
| crowns before it and it will be the most hon
ored decade between the time when the
morning stars sang together the hbretto
| of worlds was opened and the time when the
| mighty angel, robed in cloud and garlanded
in rainbow, shall, with one foot on the sea
and the other on the land swear by Him that
| liveth forever and ever, that time shall be no
| longer. AIleluial Amenl =---