St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-12-01
ALL BASED ON HOPE.
The Intuitive Desire That
Founded the Present Mes
Sianic Craze.
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Rev. Vail Points q Sermon
With Interesting Current :,
Events. %
A Swell Wedding Yesterday
in High-Up Hebraie Z
Circles.
S. j. Ahern Gives Some Point
ed Views on the Parnell
Question.

hSN. w. .. v oil, III HIS GIdlu opera
house sermon yesterday morning, called
attention to the words of the woman at
the well in the valley of Sychar, and
said that in her expression, II know
that Messiahs cOmeth," there was
world of retrospection and hope. 1t
carried one back to the lonely march of
patriarch across the desert. 1t had in
it the sound of Miriam's timbrel, as
with her maiden band she sang the song
of deliverance on the banks of the Red
sea. 1t seemed to revive the glory OF
Solomon, the stately worship of priest
and Levite in the temple of marble,
cedar and gold: in it was the voice OF
Isaiah, sitting under the terebinth tree
and appealing to the remnant. The
voice OF the lSraelIte warrior, the trum-
pet that stirred battle blood, the sound
OF lowing kline and bleating fiockS. the
songs of the corn reaperS, the laugh of
The grape gathererS coming from the
hills and shaking the waving mass of
the ripening harley-all this was bound
up with that hope of the Messiah, the
deliverer of Israel from the hand OF an
alien.
And the expression is brought fresh to
our minds by the news we get from the
far West Of an Indian uprising, motived
by the belief that to the scattered rem
nants OF once numerous people there
IS coming to-day Messiah. who will
relieve them and restore their tradi-
ti0nal glory. Looked at from our stand.
point, the Indian is lazy, savage and
treacherouS. Looked at from the phil
anthrOpist's standpoint, he is the foun-
dation of brave, enduring. manly man.
CT It1ni inf In
sees prosperity i'll a prairie studded
with buffalo; streams glad with the
playful frOlicS of salmon and trout;
forests reS0unding with the call of the
turkey, the chatter of the squirrel, the
drumming of the partridge, and glad
denng the hunter with the track of the
lynx, the panther, the sight OF the beau
tiful wild deer. The excitement of the
chase, the occasional foray on an enemy,
the wild battle with the gamy salmon in
the rapids-theSe make up the happi-
ness OF the Indian. In lieu of these he
will content himself with bad tobacco,
worse whisky and an occasional brawl.
And this is the man who is looking to-
day for Messiah. =
Of himself and his hopes a few words
may be safely said. as they are general
and not of particular Applicant on, for,
starting with him. we find valuable
| lesson which has wide application. He
Illustrates Emotional Convictions.
He shows each particular phase of it
| as completely as it can he shown, and
| only his limitations are to be cOnSid-
| cred, for, while he furnishes the start
| ing point, he does not carry us to the
| conclusion. And in the following dis
| course | want to show how the innate
| hope for better conditions, common to
| all men and found III all circles of de-
velopment, is seen here, how the i'm
| pulse of enthusiasm fills the imagina-
| ton with visions and prompts the use
| of the sword and makes the shedding
| of blood as easy as the spilling of water,
| is also seen here; and then l want to
| show that here, as in many other eases,
| the one thing necessary is knowledge TO
| direct the enthusiasm. to correct wrong
| interpretations, and to give us the ra-
| tiODal point of view.
| 1t must be re membered that the In
| dian is like every other man and has
| that which is the promise of all develop
ment and hope, an innate belief in some
| thing better than his present condition.
| When we speak of this what visions it
| brings. A prophet in the darkest hour
| of a nations history naming the deliy-
| erer that God will surely send. An agi-
| tator with every door closed against
him taking the hunted slave to his
home, and in the public hall, without
! the slightest show of success, declaring
| the future when the whip of the slave
| driver shall silently rest beside the rust
| ing manacle. A man laughed at by the
majority coming Overa few years ago
to tell us what will certainly come to
| pass, that the word cooperation must
| be the foundation of the social life of
a n tI,n fin
| coming to this nation on ShipWrecked
| vessel to stand up and declare that the
horrors OF the average Christian SER
mon. degrading God to the level of a
Russian ear, and making man sin
cursed worm, doomed in nearly all cases
to an Ell dless life in literal fire, must
| pass away and give room for the ideas
! we see in the near future for all
| churches. In the Indian this hope takes
| the most fantastic form in the
Watch for Messiah
| to deliver the tribes. In the crusader it
| took the form of vision that yielded a
| view of marble palaces, in shady val
| leys, supported by rareSt fruits. musical
with the songs of birds and the voice of
! the fair wife who was to be his help
meet. And he was SO physically earnest
/. that he forgot the heat: burning sun
| gotten, the wasting form was kept
| strong by inner excitement, he fell
| often. and died with the dreams of pal
ace and hall in the holy land when it
| should be rescued from the Saracen.
! Therefore You are prepared to hear
| me say that the taliSmanic word for the
| man of this century is hope. Diff
| culties present themselves to Edison
and Westinghouse, and he who reads
| the story of Cyrus Field will find that
many times the man who was the prime
mover of the Atlantic cable was at the
| end OF his resources; but the inventor
OF the century has gained his place in
| our hearts because he is invincibie in
| his chosen sphere. If the men who are
| preaching the peSSimiSm of the time
were to control our business interests,
| it would be sad day indeed for US.
| and ruin would soon walk the land,
but hope IN our unbounded resources,
hope in the honesty and enterprise of
the people, wins the day and makes a
| strong business movement possible
| even at the present hour. Ii the scholar
| sits down and says. we know all we can
on all tile important subjects, then, in
| deed. we Stagnate; but the nineteenth
century scholar is not willing to do this,
and we so on charging our knowledge.
| Hope is your word in the sphere of the
inner world. When sorrow holds your
| life in siege as the English army was
| held at Lucknow, then nope is to you
the sound of distant pibroch, heard
as they heard the one played at the
| head of the MacGregor clan, to tell you
relief is at hand. 1t you are pursued
by difficulties you look like the hunted
| animal for some chance occurrence to
help you. If you have embraced cause
ana are defeated, you say, with truth.
| the cause will still live. And if you
are dying still the mild angel beckOns
you on to the great unknown. In activ-
| ity or in paSSlveneSS, in JOY or in
| pain. in doubt or in hours of faith, may
| we still be inspired by hope.
IN HEBREW HIGH LIFE.
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