Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-27

they deride any form of religious discussion
| which goes down walking among everyday
men rather than that which makes an eX-
cursion on rhetorical stills. Oh, that the
Church of God would wake up to an adapta-
bility of work. We must admit the simple
| fact that the churches of Jesus Christ in this
| day do not reach the great masses. There
| are $1,000 people in Edinburgh who never
hear the Gospel. There are LOCO COO people
| in London who never hear the Gospel There
are at least 500 coo souls in the city of Brook
lyn who come not under the immediate min
| istrations of Christ's truth; and the Church
of God in this day, instead of being place
| full of living epistles, read and known of all
! men, is more like dead letter" postof1ioe.
| But" say the people, the world is going
TO be converted: you must be patient; the
| Kingdoms of this world are to become the
Kingdoms of Christ" Never, unless the
Church of Jesus Christ puts on more speed
and energy Instead of the Church convert
| ing the world, the world is converting the
| Church. Here is n great fortress. How shall
| IT be taken? An army comes and Sits around
about about 1t, cut cuts on the snpPihe@s i @ and SAYS;
tion and starvation they will have to give
up" Weeks and months and perhaps year
pass along. and finally the fortress sur
renders through that starvation and exhaus-
tion. But my friends, the fortresses of sin
are never to be taken in that way. If they
are taken for God it win be by storm; you
the gospel to the very wall and wheel the
flying artillery into line and when the
armed infantry of heaven shall confront the
battlements you will have to give the quick
command, forward Charge.
THERE is WORK TO BE DONE.
All, my friends, there is work for you to do
and for me to do in order to gain this grand
accomplishment! Here is a pulpit, and a
clergyman breaches in it. Your pulpit is
the bank. Your pulpit is the store. Your
pulpit is the editorial chair. Your pulpit is
the anvil. Your pulpit is the house scaffold-
ing. Your pulpit is the mechanics shop. 1
may stand in this place and, through
cowardIce or through self-keeping. may
keep back the word 1 ought to utter; while
you, with sleeve rolled up and brow be-
sweated with toll, may utter the word that
will jar the foundation of heaven with the
shout Of a great victory Oh. that to-day
Almighty is putting upon them the hands
of ordination. Every one, go forth and
preach the Gospel! You have as much
right to preach rs 1 have, or as any man
has. Only find out the pulpit where God
Will have you preach, ana there preach.
Hedley NicRrs was wicked man in the
English army The grace of God came to
him. He became an earnest and eminent
Christian. They scoffed at him, and said:
You nre hypocrite; you are as bad as
ever you We're" stillEhe kept HIS faith in
Chr ST. and after awhile, finding that they
could not turn him aside by calling him a
hypocrite, they said to him: "0h, you are
nothing but a fanatic" That did not dis
turb him. He went on performing his Chris
tian duty until he had formed all his troop
into Bible class, and the whole encamp-
ment was shaken with the presence of God.
So Havelock went into the heather temple
in India while the English army was there,
and put candle into the hand of each Of
the heather gods that stood around in the
heather temple, and by the light of those
candles, held up by tho idols. General Have
lock preached righteousness, temperance,
and judgment TO come. And who will say,
on earth or in heaven, that Havelock had
not the right to preach?
SEEMED TO REACH THE THRONE.
In the minister's house where 1 prepared
for college there was man who worked by
the name of Peter Croy. He could neither
read nor write, but he was a man of God.
Often theologians would stop in the house
grave theologians-and at family prayers
Peter Croy would be called upon to lead,
and all those wise men sat around, wonder
struck at his religious efficiency. When he
prayed he reached up and seemed to 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. if l were dying would rather
and command my immortal spirit to God
than some heartless ecclesiastic arrayed in
costly canonicals. Go preach this gospel.
You say You are not licensed. In the name
of the Lord Almighty, this morning,
license you. Go preach this gospel-preach
il in the sabbath schools, in the prayer meet
ings. in the highways, in the hedges. Woe
be unto you if you preach it not.
l remark, again, that in order to be quail
fed to meet your duty in this particular age,
you want unbounded faith in the triumph OF
How dare the Christian Church ever get dis
Have We not the Lord Almighty
on our side? How long did it take God to
slay the hosts of .Sennacherib, or burn |
Shl down ,JRTichO2 long
will it take God, when he once arises in his |
strength, to overthrow all the forces of |
niquity2 Between this time and that there |
may be long seasons of darkness - the |
of Gods Gospel may seem to |
drag heavily, but here is the promise, and |
yonder is the throne; and when 0mniscience |
has lost its eyesight, and Omnipotence falls |
back inpotent, and Jehovah is driven from |
his throne then be respondent, but never |
until then. Despots may plan and armies |
may march, and the congresses of the na- |
tions may seem to think they are adjusting |
all the affairs of the world, but the mighty |
men of the earth are only the dust of the |
of Gods providence.
THE LAST TYRANNY MAY FALL.
think that before the sun of this century |
hall set the last tyranny may fall; and with |
splendor of demonstration that shall be |
he astonishment of the universe. God will |
et forth the brightness and pomp and glory |
md perpetuity of his eternal government. |
Insignia of this world God will make a path |
or his own triumph, and, returning from |
Universal conquest, he will sit down, the |
,randest, strongest, highest throne of earth |
lis footstool
Then shall all nations song ascend
To Thee, our Ruler, Father, Friend,
TIL heavens high arch resOunds again
With Peace on earth, good will to men,
preach this sermon because l want to
all Christian workers in every
possible department. Hosts of the living |
Iod, march on! march on! His Spirit will |
bless You. HIS shield will defend you. His
sword will strike for you. March on! march
IN! The last despotism will fall,
md paganism will burn its idols,
Ind Mohamme'lanism will give up
is false prophet, and the great walls of
will come down in thunder and
wreck at the long, loud blast of the Gospel
trumpet March on! march on! The be-
segment will soon be ended. Only few
more steps on a long way; only few more
sturdy blows: only few more bnttle cries,
hen God will put the laurel upon your brow,
md from the living fountains of heaven will
lust of the conflict. March on! march on!
passed, and amid the outflashings of the |
angels, and the upheavfng of
orld OF graves, and the Eosanna of the
aved and the groaning of the lost, we shall
,e rewarded for our faithfuness or punished
or our stupidity. Blessed be the Lord God
II Israel from everlasting to everlasting, |
md let the whole earth be hlled with His
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