The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1889-04-12

porG, uno new OfIcans, nnd JucksOnville Of
tho last few decades. From Hurdwar, In.
votees congrcgate, the caravans brought
cholera, and thnt ono disease slew 5000 in
eighteen days in Bossorah. Twelve thou.
SAM IN one summer slain by it in India,
and %, 900 in Egypt. Disasters epidemic.
Some OF tho finest monuments in Greenwood
and Laurel Hill and Mount Auburn are 10
doctors who lost their life bnttlinc with
southern epidemic.
But now turn the leafi my subject and
! plant the white lilies and the palm trees
amid the night shade md the myrtle. This
age characterized by wonders Of disaster
than l,y wonders of blessing. Blessings o
longevity, the average of human life rapidly
increasing. Forty years now worth 100
years ontc. Now run travel from Mnni,o
bn TO New York in three days ami three
| nights. In other words. three days and
three nights now nrc worth three months o
other days Thcnvrrase of human Ii g prar
| tlrnily greatcr now than when Noah lived
050 years anl Mctlnlsalcl, lived his
800 yenrs. blessings of intclli-
gencc: Tho Salmon =. thascs an,
the Abraham l.incolns aud the Henry vii
sons of the coming time will not be required
to learn to read by pincknut lights, o,
seated IN shocmaEcr's bench. nor will the
Fergnsons have to study astronomy while
watching the cattle. knowledge rolls its
| tides along every poor man & door, anl his
| children may go down and bathe in them.
If the philosophers of the last century were
called up to rccite in II class with our boys
aud girls ut the Polytechnic or our girls i, t
the Packer, those old philosophers would bc
sent down to the foot Of the clnss 6scnuse AZ
they fnilcd to answer the questions! FREQ
libraries in all the important towns AMI
cities OF the land. Historical nIcoycs and
nOatio0l shelves ind magazine tables Tor all
that desire to walk through them or sit
ut them. Blessings of quick information.
Newspapers fnlling nil around us thick as
leaves in September rIuinoctial. News
the whole world twice dny-trruugh tho
newspaper, at the hrcak:,lst table, anil
through the newspaper Mt the ton table,
with I'M extra here and there between.
Hlessirg of gospel prorlimation: DO you
not Know that nearly all the missionary So
clcties have been born in this century, nnl
nea y all the billie sorirties and ne;irly nil
tho great rhllanthromc movements? 4 SEC
rrtary of one of the demonstrations said to
me the other day i'll Dakota: lyon were
wrong when you said our denomination
averaged a new church every day of he year;
they established nine in one week, so YOU nre
far within the truth" a clergyman of on,
own denomination said: ~ have Just been
out establishing five mission stntions" !
y
niidclity is dwindling into lmberill,y. While
inti'lrlity is thus dwinlling and dropping
down into imbrcity aud imlnency I he wheel
| of Christianity is making about II thousand
revolutions in u minute. All tho copies of
Shakespeare md Tcnnyson and Disraei nnl
OF any ten of the most popular writer's ofthr
.lny less in number than the copies of tho
NH" gong out from our printing presses.
| a low years ago. in six weeks more than
2,OoO 900 copies of the new test ament plr.
CHASED. not given AWAY. hut purchased be-
cause tho world will have it.
| More Christi ian men in high Official posi-.
tlon to day in Great Britain aud in the
United States than eyer lmforc. Stop that
ialseio0d going through the newspuprrs-I
have seen it in twcnty-that the judges nj
the Snprem" court of tho United Stntes are
tance know three of them to he ollfashon-
ed evangelical Christians. sitting at tho holy
sacrament of our Lord Jesus Christ, and /
suppose that the minority ot them are
htalicli believers in our Christian religion.
And then hear tho dying words of Judge
iinck, a man who had been attorney general
| of the United States uml who had been seq
mtary of the United Statcs-no stronger
lawyer of therntury than Judge Black-dy-
ing, his ngel wife knceiing by hissi, and he
utterlnE hat sublime and tender prayer: 20
Lord God, from whom derived my exist
ence and in whom hnvcalways trusted take
my spirit TO thysrlf and let thy richest bless
ing come down upon my Mary" The most
popular hook to,lay is the bible mud the
mlghtiest institution is the church, and the
greatest name nmoug the nations and more
honore,i than anyOt!er is tlrnamr ofJcsns
| wonders OF hcl'-sncriiirc: A clergyman
told me i'll the northwest that for six wears
he was II missionary at the extreme north.
living 400 miles from ~ pnstotiicr. and
sometimes he slept out Of doors in winter,
the hethcrmOmctcrli0an ani61 degrees helowzrro.
wrnppri n rahit skins woven together.
suitl: rs it possible? Yom do rot mean GO
md 81 degrees below zcro!' lie said: 81 do,
and was happy" All for Christ. Where
! is there another l,png that will rally such
| enthusiasm? Mothers sewing their fingers
of to educate their boys for the gospel of
mlnistry. For nine years no luxury on the
table until the course through grammar
school nnd college md Theological seminary
I've completed. Poor widow putting her
mite into the Lords treasury. the fnre Of
rmporer or president impressed upon thcroin
not so conspicuous as the blood with which
she earned il. Millions of good men and
women. but more women than men. to
whom Christ is everything. Christ first aud
Christ lust and Christ forever.
Whv, this ngc is not so characterized l,y
invention and scientific exploration as IL is
by gospel proclamation. iuu can get no
l,ich OF IL unless YOU ring nll the church bills
in one chime. md sound all tho organs in
one diapnSnn, nnd gather all the conrrrga-
tions Of Christen,lnm in one gloria in excel
SIS Mighty cniapm"rtings. Mighty o,"ai,
groves. Mighty tmitnuuuas. Mighty
conventions of Christian workers. Mighty
general assemblies ni the Presbyterian
church. Mighty conferences of the Metho-
dist church. Mighty associations of the
baptist church. Mighty conventions of he
Episcopal church. think leforc long til"
best investments will not lm in railroad
stock or Western Union. hut in trumpcis
and cymbals and fcstal decorations. for we
are on the eve Of victories wide and world
uplifting. There may be many years of
hard worn yet before the contamination,
but the signs are to me so encouraging hat
would not lie unbcirvng il | saw the wing
OF the apOcnlyptic angel spread for it's last
trinmplnl flight in this days sunset, or il
tomorrow morning the ocean cables should
thrill us with tho news that Christ the Lord
l,nd nlightod ON Mount Olivct or Mount
Cavalry to proclaim universal dominion
Oyon dead churches. wnke up! Throw
bnck the shutters of stif ecclesinst cism and
let the light of I he spring morning come in.
Morning for the land. Morning for the sea
Morning of emancipation. Morning of light
and love and pence. Morning os n day in
which there shall he no clnir,s to break, no
SORROWS to ass,Iagc, no drspotism tn sllnt-
ter. no woes to compassionate. % Christ
descend! Scarrc,l temple. take the crown!
Bruised hand, take the sr"ptrr! Wounded
foot step tho throne. "rhinc is the king
dom"
These things ! say because want you to
be alert | want you tn b. wntching all
these wonders unrolIing from the heavens
and the earth. God has classified them,
whether rnlnmitnus or pleasing. The divine
purposes are harncsscd in traces that can
not hicak and in girths that can MT slip
and in buckles that cannot loosen and nre
driven by rrilis they must answer. preach
no fntalism. swarthy engineer at one of
the dcpois in Dnknta said: when will you
get on the locomotive and take n ride with
u.s. "well,' said. nov. il that suits
yOn." So got on one side he locomotive
and n Methodist minister who WAS also in
vitrd. got, on the other side. and betwcr ils
aud tlir engineer w;is the stoker. The train
started. The engineer had his hand on lie
a"itatcd pulse of the engine. The siokrr
shoveIr'l in the coal and shut thcdonr with II
loud clang. vast plain slipped under us
and the hills swept by, aud that great mon
sicr on which W" rode trcmblcd and bounded
aud siorte1 and rn"cd as it hurled MS on.
said to the Methodist minister on ,hr Other
side of the locomotive: My brother, why
should Prcsbyt"rans md McthOlists quar-
rel about the ,lccir,s and free agency? You
see that track. that firm track. that iron
track. that is the decree. You see this en-
giurer's arm? That is free agency. How
bcautiiuly they work together. They are
going to take us through. We could not do
without The track and We could not do with
out the engineer" So rejoice day by day.
Work for ns all to do. and we may turn the
crank of the Christian machinery this way
or that. for we are free agents: but there is
the track laid 80 long ago no one remembers
it, laid by the hand ~ Almighty Godi SOCK