Daily Yellowstone journal., 1889-04-07

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philosophers would be sent down TO
the foot Of the class because they
failed TO answer the questionsl Free
libraries in all the important towns and
cities Of the land. Historical alcoyes and
poetical shelves and magazine tables
for all that desire 10 walk through
them or sit down at them. Blessings
of quick information: Newspapers
falling all around US thick as leaves in
a September equinoctial. News three
days old, rancid and stale. We see
the whole world twice a day-through
the newspaper at the breakfast table,
and through the newspaper at the tea
table, with an extra here and there
between.
CHRISTIANITY is N FLoURIsHING CON-
DITIoN.
Blessing of Gospel proclamation:
Do you not know hat nearly all the
missionary societies have been born in
this century, and nearly all the Bible
societies, and nearly all the great phil
anthropic movementsl A secretary OF
one of the denominations said to me
the other day in Dakota: You were
wrong when you said u denomina'
ton averaged a new church every day
of the year; they established nine in
n week, s you are far within the
truth" a clergyman of our " de-
nomination said: Il have just been
out establishing five mission stations"
/ tell you Christianity is on the march,
while Inidelity is dwindling into i'm
becility. While lnfidelity is thus
dwindling and dropping down into
imbecility and indecency, the wheel Of
Christianity is making about a thou.
sand revolutions in a minute. All the
copies of Shakespeare and TennySon
and Disraeli and OF any ten of the
most popular writers of the day, less
in number than the copies Of the Bible
going out from our printing presses.
A few years ago, in six weeks, more
than two million copies Of the New
Testament purchased, not given away,
but purchased because the world will
have il.
More Christian men in high official
position today in Great Britain and in
the United States than ever before.
Stop hat falsehood going through the
newspapers-I have seer il in twenty
that the judges Of the supreme court
of the United States r all intidels ex-
cept one. BY personal acquaintance ]
know three OF them 10 be old fashioned
evangelical Christians, sitting al the
holy sacrament of our Lord Jesus
Christ, and / suppose that the MAORI
~ of them are stanch believers in our
Christian religion. And then hear
the dying words of Judge Black. a man
who had been attorney general of the
United States, and who had been
secretary of the United States, nc
stronger lawyer of the century than
Judge Black-dying, his aged wife
kneeling by his side, and he uttering
that sublime and tender prayer: 20
Lord God, from whom l derived my
existence and in whom | have always
trusted, take my spirit ~ thyself and
let thy richest blessing come down
upon my Mary" The most popular
book today is the Bible, and the
mightiest institution is the church,
and the greatest name among the ma
tions, and mde honored than any
other, is the name of Jesus.
THINGS THAT OUGHT TO MAKE PEssI-
MsTs oPTMIsTs.
Wonders of self sacrifice: A cler-
gyman told me in the northwest that
for six years he was a missionary at
the extreme north, living 400 miles
from a postoiiice, and sometimes he
slept out Of doors in winter, the Their
mometer sixty and sixty-fve degrees
below zero, wrapped in rabbit skins
woven together. | said: us il posi-
blef You do not sixty and sixty
five degrees below zerol" He said:
Il do, and | was happy" All
for Christ. Where is there any
other being that will rally such
enthusiasm Mothers sewing their
fingers off TO educate their boys for
the Gospel ministry. For nine years
no luxury on the table until the course
through grammar school and college
and theological seminary be com
pleted. Poor widow putting her mite
into the Lords treasury, the face of
emperor or president impressed upon
the coin not SO conspicuous as the
blood with which she earned it. Mil
lions Of good men and women, but
more women than men, 10 whom
Christ is everything. Christ first and
Christ last, and Christ forever.
Why, this age Is not So character
lied by invocation and scientific cxplo-
ration rs II is by Gospel proclamation.
You can get no idea Of il unless YOU
can ring all the church bells IN one
chime, and sound all the organs in
Va dlapGsOn, and gather all the con
~gregatiOns Of Christendon in n
Gloria ia Eycclsis. Mighty camp
meetings. Mighty Ocean Groves.
Mighty C%hautauquas. Mighty con-
ventiOns of Christian workers. Mighty
general assemblies Of the Presbyterian
church. Mighty conferences Of the
Methodist church. Mighty associa-
tons of the Baptist church, Mighty
conventions Of the Episcopal church.
Think before longthe best investments
viii not be in railroad stock or Western
Onion, but in trUmpets and cymbals
and iestal decorations, for we m On
the eve Of victories wide and world
uplifting, There may be many years
Of hard work yet before the consum-
nation, but tic signs are 10 me so en-
couraging that | would not be unbe-
lieving If | saw the wing Of the apoca-
lyptIc angel spread for its last trium-
phal flight in this days sunset; or if
tomorrow morning the ocean cables