Morning journal and courier., 1890-04-25

wrote to "Israel" rather than to "Judah," the Lord says of those who shall have de- scenied from them in these latter days ''but unto you that fear my name shall the son of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth and grow the stall" And ye shall tread down the wicked, for they shall be as ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that shall do this, saith the Lord of hosts."
 Remember ye the laws of Moses, my ser- want, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel. Behold Twill send you Elijah, the prophet, before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord, and he shall turn the hearts of the children to their fathers;" @. to the ancestral rock whence they are hewnl
 That such a prophet is yet to arise in the land of the Angli, I, among millions of An glo-Saxons, firmly believe; and that we may earnestly inquire into some of the genealogi. cal matters, which concerns us all in view of such possibility-now the very opposite of remote-is why am gladly here tonight at your request.
 Have we not all one father, says this host of all the clan prophets4
 Hath not one God created usa Why do we deal treacherously, every man against his brother. by profaning the covenant of our fathersa
 But as Malachi continues: "Even from the days of your fathers ye have gone astray from mine ordinances and have not kept them. Return unto you, saith the Lord of hosts. Bring ye all tithes into this house, that there may be meat in mine house. and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if will not open you the windows of heaven, and prove you out blessing such that there shall not be room enough to re- ceive it. And all nations shall call you blessed.
 These words, my friends, are spoken unto you, this night; in their full significance. Ye have your "tything men," So far so good. Give unto God, for the truth sake one "tythe" of your attention and prove him, 1. G., come with me into the outlines nf the transcendant topic we are here to discuss and will guarantee to you before you have begun a light which will illuminate the whole Bible, from Genesis to Revelation, and which no place of modern doubt or criti- cism can ever hereafter, in the least degree, extinguish.
 The lieutenant then briefly reviewed the arguments, which he has presented at great- CT length in his recent work, and held the audience spell-bound for about an hour and a half. Towards the end he said:
 Nevertheless some will say to what pur- pose is this new thing preached, and to what end or good is 1t, be we of Israel, or not3
 
 ancient one.
 "Thou fool" who darest to arraign "ths God of Abraham, of Isaac and of Jacob for his methods of human redemption. Thou "slow of heart" to see that If almighty God hath reserved this revelation till these latter days and has blinded us of Israel till now, twas for some purpose grander than what- ever may have gone before.
 Seven-eighths of the entire Bible, rightly read and fully understood, look towards and culminate in this one theme, and shall that be which God himself declares to "bs of him"--a matter of but small concern to us who, wonderful to relate, in spite of all our national iniquity, are still his "chosen peo- ple."
 Finally returning to the simile with which the discourse opened, the lecturer concluded as follows:
 But it is to no further purpose. to expand this text.
 If you slfall have been with me into the spirit of this gospel which I preach, and caught one tithe of what it imparts to this generation I am content, for that indeed will make you "tithing men" of Israel.
 There is work to be done, and you, person ally, all of you who have now heard these words tonight, are as individually responsi- ble for your own share in 1t as those who stood on Mars hill centuries ago. I preach to you the resurrection of @ race and cannot do better than close with the description of what occurred after Pauls lecture at Athens: "Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead some mocked and others eaid: We will hear thee again of this matter. So Paul departed from among them. Howbeit, cer- tain men clave unto him and believed, among which Was Dionysius, the Arcopagite, and 8 woman named Damaris, and others with themn