Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-07-27

nIii tie simple tact that the chgrei8es
u Jeeus Cbrist IN this day do not reach
the great nisees. There are fifty tbO1
sasid people IN Rdinburgf whO never
hear tie GoepeL There are one MD
Ion people fn LONDON who never hear
Z the GOepei There are az least three
hundred thousand souls 10 the city d
I Brooklyn who come not under the i'm
mediate minisfFafiOns Of Christ's truth:
and the Church of God 10 this day, 70.
stead Of being a place full Of living
/ eyisties. read and knOwn Of al men. Il
more like a dead IetteTr poetOfiice
But. say the people. the world Il
going 20 be converted. yOu must Be-
patient. the kingdoms of this world
are 70 become the kingdoms Of Christ.
/ Never, unless the church u Jesus Christ
puts On more speed and energy. In
stead Of tie church converting tie
world, the world - converting the
church. Here Il great fortress. How
shall Il be takenl An army comes and
sits around about IL. cuts Of the sup
plies, and says. Now We will just wait
until from exhaustion and starvation
they will have 10 give up"
Weeks and months. and perhaps a
1 year. pas along. and finally the fortress
mrrenders through that starvation and
exhaustion Bot my friends. the for
tFesses Of sin are never 10 be taken iD
that way II they are taken for God II
will be by storm You will have 20
bring up the great siege guns Of the
gospeI tO the very wall and wheel the
flying artillery into line. and when the
armed infantry Of heaven shall con
front the battlernents you will have %
give the quick command, Forward
Chargel"
EVERY PLACE MAY BIZ PULPIT.
All. my friends. there IL work for you
70 do and for me 10 do in order 10 achieve
this grand accomplishment Here Is a
pulpit. and clergyman breaches in f.
Your pulpit Is the bank Your pulpit
Is the store. Your pulpit Is the edi-
torial chair. Your pulpit Is the anvil
Your pulpit Is the house scafolding.
Your pulpit Is the mechanics shop. ]
may stand in this place, and through
cowardice or through self seeking may
keep back the word / ought TO utter;
while you, with sleeve rolled up and
brow besweated with toll, may utter
the word that will far the foundation
Of heaven with the shout Of great vic
tory. Oh. that today this whole audi
ence might feel that the Lord Almighty
is putting upon them the hands Of or
dination Every one. go forth and
preach this Gospel You have as
much right 20 preach as have, or a.
any man has Only find out the pull
pit where God will have you preach,
and there preach
Hedley Wears was "a wicked man IN
the English army. The grace Of God
came TO him. lie became an earnest
and eminent Christian. They scoffed
at him, and said: you are a hypo-
crite You ARE as bad as ever you
we're" Still he kept his faith in Christ,
and after awhile, finding that they
could not turn him aside by calling him
a hypocrite. they said TO him, "Oh,
you are nothing but a fanatic" That
did not disturb him. lie went on per
forming his Christian duty until he had
formed all his troop into Bible class,
and the whole encamprnent WAS shaken
with the presence Of God.
so HaVelOck went into the heather
temple In India while the English army
was there, and put a candle into the
hand Of each Of the heather gods that
stood around Ia the heather temple,
and by the light Of those candles, held
up by the idols, General Hayelock
preached Righteousness, temperance and
| Judgment 90 come. And who will say,
on earth or IN heaven, that Hayelock
had not tho right 20 preachi
Ia the minister's house where pre-
pared for college there was a man who
worked, by the name Of Peter Croy
lie could neither read nor write, but lac
was n man of God. Often theologians
would stop Ia the house-graye theo-
logians-- aud at family prayers Peter
Croy would be called upon 90 lead, and
ali those wise men sat around, wonder
struck at his religious efficiency. When
he prayed he reached up and seemed
20 take hold Of the very throne Of the
Almighty and he talked with God
until the very heavens were bowed
down into the sitting room.
Oh, II were dying ! would rather
have plain Peter Croy kneel by my
bedside and commend my immortal
| spirit 10 God than some heartless pccle.
siastlo arrayed Ia costly oanonieals. Go
preaeh this Gospel. You say you are
not licensed. la the name Of tho
Lord Almighty this morning | license
you Go preach this Gospel preach
Il Ia the Sabbath schools, la the prayer
uiosilngs, la the highways, Ia the
hedges. woe be unto you II you preach
L not.
FAiTH AKc cksaARl no Effkcrr WORK.
remark again, that Ia order 10 bo
qualified 10 meet your duty la this par.
tlcnlaF ago you want unbounded faith
la tho triumph II the truth and the
overthrow Of wickodneas. How dare
the Christian church ever get diseour
agedi Have Ne not the Lord Almighty
oa our sldef How long did ID take God
~ slay tlle hosis " Honpaoherb ~ burn
sodom or shake dosn larlohgi iiow
long Wlll Il take God, when he onoo
aFlaes ln his sinangth, % oFerihIps a.
the forces u lniauliyl
between ths tinlo aud thai there
MAJ ~ i0na sOasons ~ darkness the