The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1891-09-30

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1t took our party in 1889 only fifteen
minutes to climb TO the top of the hill
and reach that limestone rock In yonder
hall, which I rolled down from the
apex to Mount Calvary. But think
our Chieftain must have taken q long
time for the ascent for he had oil earth.
and all Heaven and all hell on his back
as he climbed from base TO summit. and
there endured what William Cowpcr,i
and John Milton, and Charles Wesley,
and Isaac Watts, and James Mont
gomery, and all the other sacred poets
have attempted to put in verse; and
Angelo, and Raphael and Titan, and
Leonardo da Vinci and all the great
Italian, and German, and Spanish, and
French artists have attempted to paint;
and Bossuet, and Massillon, and George
Whitefeld and Thomas Chalmers have
attempted to preach. Something Of
its overwhelming awtulness you may
estimate from the fact that the sun
which shines In the heavens could not
endure IL; the sun which unfiinchingly
looked upon the deluge that drowned
the world, which without blinking
looked upon the ruins of earthquakes
which swallowed Lisbon and Caracas,
and has looked unblushed on the battle
fields Of Arhela, Blenheim, Megiddo
and Esdraelon, and all the scenes Of
carnage that have ever scalded and
drenched the earth with human gore
that sun could not look upon the scene.
The sun dropped over its face veil Of
cloud. It withdrew It hid itself 1t
said to the midnight: 81 resign to thee
this spectacle upon which / have no
strength to gaze; thou art blind, O,
midnight and for that reason commit
to thee this tragedy~ Then the night
hawk and the bat few by, and the
jaclsal howled in the ravines.
Now we follow our Chieftain as they
carry His limp and lacerated form amid
the flowers and trees Of garden, the
gladioluses, the oleanders, the lilies, the
geraniums, the mandrakes, down FIVE
or six steps to an aisle Of granite where
He sleeps But only little while He
sleeps there, for there is an earthquake
In all that region, leaving the rocks to
this day In their aslant and ruptured
state declarative Of the fact that some
thing extraordinary there happened.
And we see our Chieftain arouse from
His brief slumber and wrestle down
the rufiian Death who would keep Him
imprisoned In that cavern and put both
heels on the monster, and coming forth
with cry that will not cease to be
echoed until on the great resurrection
day the door Of the last sepulcher shall
be unhinged and flung changing into
the debris Of demolished cemeteries.
Now we follow our Chieftain to the
shoulder of Mount Olivet, and without
wings He rises, the disciples clutching
for His robes too late TO reach
them, and across the great CULTS Of
space with one bound He gains that
world which for thirty-three years had
been denied His companionship, and all
Heaven lifted shout Of welcome az
He entered, and OF coronation as up the
mediatorial throne He mounted. II
was the greatest day Heaven had evei
seen They had Him back again from
tears, from wounds. from ills, from q
world that never appreciated Him, to 8
1 world in which He was the chief de
light In all the libretto Of celestial
music, 1t was hard 10 find an anthem
enough conjubilant to celebrate the Joy
sanity seraphic, arch-angelic, deifc.
But still we follow our Chieftain in
His march through the centuries, foi
invisibly He still walks the earth, and
by the eye of faith we still follow Him.
You can tell where He walks by the
churches and hospitals and reformatory
institutions and houses OF mercy that
spring up along the way. hear His
tread in the sick room and in the abodei
Of bereavement lie marches and the
nations arc gathering around Him. The
islands OF the sea are hearing His voice,
The continents are feeling His power.
America will be His Europe will
be His Asia will be His Africa
will be Hist Australia will be His
New Zealand will be His AL
the earth will be his Do you realize
that until now II was impossible for the
world TO be converted? Not until very
recently has the world been found. The
Bible talks about '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
has been created has the world
been known, measured of, and geog-
raphized, the last hidden and unknown
tract has been mapped out and now
the work Of evangelization will begin
with an earnestness and velocity as yet
uDimagined The steamships are ready;
the lightning express trains are ready;
the printing presses are ready; the tele-
graph and telephone are ready; millions
of Christians are ready, and now see
Christ marching on through the CEN
turies Marching onl Marching onll
One by one governments win fall into
line and constitutions and literatuses
will adore His name. Moro honored
and worshiped is He in this year of 1891
than at any time since the year one, and
the day hastens when all nations will
join one procession following the
Lamb whithersoeyer He goeth. ~ March
ing on, marching onlI
The dear old world whose back has
been scourged, whose eyes have been