The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-05-25

family: that within few days this millionaire
would be In our streets; that his coming would
make vital changes in all our commerce. Would
tnero be child in our streets that would not
know ali about this event7 Would not this be
the theme Of all classes?
but there is q fact to put by the side OF this
one One who knows how to build palaces has
been fitting up homes. There comes q time
when an heir 10 to enter. Heaven bends its
nigh arches, and soul 10 saved. The event is
90 great that heaven rings with joyful acclaim.
But the people here among whom this takes
place are unmoved: they do not know what has
been done; they have no Joy to express. You
go down there to the city bulletin and
write upon IL that the greatest event
OF all the world has Just taken plsee-that an
event is about to be chronicled the influence
OF which will last TIL the latest hours of eter-
nifty. Tell them this is the regeneration of
soul. The puzzled looks OF the crowd who
would read this plainly show that the people did
not know what you were trying TO tell them.
lhey could hardly see any point 70 1t. They
would be inclined to take 1t as a kind OF joke
you were getting of
write just below this that there has been q
pr1zehght, and that some brute has pounded
some other brute before the eyes of a motley
crew, and there will need TO be two or three
extra editions OF the raper to satisfy
the intense interest OF the populace.
more interest in the question as TO who beat in
the last baseball game, or what horse came out
little ahead on the race track, than there is in
the momentous question whether or not Gods
law shall prevail IN our land7 They are asleep
to these great moral questions for which they
should give their deepest concern
81 have no doubt In my mind as to the ques-
tion which was OF most interest to the people
twenty years before the food. foot race was
oil far more interest to them than the question
as to why the ark was rising In their midst.
They would sit for hours before the shade OF
their trees and talk enthusiastically about the
one who came out ahead The hero among
them was not the man of God who was working
away at the voice of heaven TO do his duty, but
the one who could beatanybody else running.
IA wrestling match In the streets OF sodom
was OF far more Importance to those people than
anything that the angel had 10 say to them. II
on one street there had been builetined the fact
that there was coming company OF angels to
talk to them about their safety, and on another
street there had been put an account of con-
test OF muscle, we need not be in the dark as to
which bulletin would have drawn the crowd.
When new world lighted the coming of the
Son OF God and heavenly voices announced the
event, the masses OF the people were far more
interested In the tiger fights In Herod's amphi-
theater than they were in the angelic songs
which the shepherds heard"
The speaker stated that the world Yves wide
awake enough in matters of physical progress
and advantage. He urged the church to exhibit
moro life, and called for more open declara-
ton of fellowship with Christ, followed by
cheerful, willing service.