Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-01

America will be his! Europe will be his
Asia will be his! Africa will be his Aus
tralia will be mis- ! New Zealand will be his
All the earth will be his Do you realize
that until now it was impossible for the
world to be converted2 Not until very
recently has the world been found. The
Bible talks about 1.-The ends OF the earth
and the ''uttermost parts of the world as
being saved, but not until now have the
lends of the earth been discovered and
not until now have the ''uttermost parts of
the world been revealed. The navigator
did his work, the explorer did his work,
the scientist did his work, and now
for the first time since the world
was created has the world been known,
measured off, and geographical, the lost,
hidden, and unknown tract has oeen
mapped out and now the work of evangeli-
cation will be begun with an earneStness
and velocity as yet unimagined. The
steamships are ready; the lightning ex-
press trains are ready; the printing presses
are ready; the telegraph and telephone
are ready; millions of Christians are ready
and now see Christ marching on through
the centuries. Marching on! Marching
onli
One by one governments will fall into
line and constitutions and literatures will
adore his name. More honored and wor-
SHIPPED is he in this year of 1891 than ut any
time since the year one. and the day hastens
when all nations will join one procession
following the Lamb WhitherSoever he
goeth.'
MATCHING on. MARCHING oN!l
This dear old world whose back has been
scourged. whose eyes have been blinded,
whose heart has been wrung, will yet rival
heaven. This planets torn robe of pain and
crime and dementia will come OFF and the
white and spotlcss and glittering robe of
holiness and happiness will come on. The
last wound viii have stung for the last
time the last grief will have wiped its last
tear: the last criminal will have repented
of his last crime, and our world that has
been a straggler among worlds, a lost star,
a maynard planet, a rebeIlious globe, a mis-
creaut satellite, will hear the voice that ut
tered childish plant in Bethlehem, and
agonized prayer in Gethsemane and dying
groan on Golgotha. ana as this voice cries
Come our world will return from its
wandering never again to stray. Marching
on, marching On!l
Then this worlds joywili be so great that
other worlds beside heaven may be glad to
rejoice with US. BY the aid of powerful
telescopes, year by year becoming more
powerful, mountains in other stars have
been discovered and chasms and volcanoes
and canals, and the style of atmosphere and
this will 30 on, and mightier and miehtier
telescopes will be invented until / should
not wonder if we will be able to exchange
signals with other planets. And as have
no doubt other worlds are inhabited, for
God would not have built such magnificent
wOrld-houses to have them stand without
tenants or occupants, in the final JOY Of
earth'S redemption all astronomy | think
will take part, we signaling other worlds
and they in turn signaling their stellar
neighbCrS. Oh, what Il day in heaven that
will be when this march of Christ is finish
ed. | know that on the cross Christ said.
1T is finished" but he meant his Sacrifical
work was finished.
ALL EARTH AND ALL HEAVEN
knows that evangeliZation is not finished,
but there will come day in heaven most
rapturous. 1t may be after our world,
which is thought to have ABOUT fifteen nun
drcd miilior people, shall have on its decks
twice its present population, namely. three
thousand million souls, and all redeemed,
and it will be after this world shall be SO
damaged by contiagratiOn that no human
foot can tread its surface and no human be-
ing can breathe its air, but most certainly
the day will come when heaven will be fin
ished and the last of the twelve gates of the
Eternal City shall have changed shut, never
to open except for the admission of some
celestial embassage returning from some
other world, and Christ may strike his
SCARED but healed hand in emphasis on the
arm oil the amelnNStlne throne ana say III
substance: ''All my ransomed ones are
gathered; the work is done: have finished
my march through the centuries"
When in 1873 after the battle of Leipsic,
which decided the fate of the Nineteenth
century, in some respects the most trenen-
dous battle ever fought, the bridge down,
thes river incarnadined. the street choked
with the wounded, the fields for miles
around Strewn with q dead SOldicry from
whom all traces of humanity had been
dashed out. there met in the public square
of that city Of Leipsic the allied conquerors
and kings who had gained the victory-the
king of Prussia, the emperor of Russia, the
crown prince of Sweden followed by the
chiefs of their armies. With drawn swords
these monarchs saluted each other and
cheered for the continental victory they had
together gained. History Lls made the
scene memorable.
Greater and more thrilling will be the
spectacle when the world is all conquered
for the truth and in front of the palace of
heaven the kings and conquerors of all the
allied powers of Christian usefulness shall
salute each other. and recount the Strug-
giles by which they gained the triumph,
and then hand over their swords to him
who is the chief of the conquerors, crying:
Thine. oh, Crist, is the kingdom: take the
crown of victory; the crown of dominion;
the crown of grace; the crown of glory"
"On his head were many crowns"