Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-10-09


up the mediatorial throne He mounted.
It was the greatest day heaven
had ever seen. They had Him back again
from tears, from wounds, from ills from
world that never appreciated Him to world
in which He was the chief delight. In all the
libretto of celestial music il was hard to find
an anthem enough coujubilant to celebrate
the joy sanity. seraphic, arch-angelic,
deif1c.
But still we follow our Chieftain in His
march through the centuries, for 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 hos
pitfalls, and reformatory institutions, and
houses of mercy that spring up along the
way. hear His tread in the sick room and
in the a6odes of bereavement He marches
on and the nations are gathering
around Him. The islands of the sea are
hearing His voice The continents are feel
ing His power America will be HisI Europe
will be Hist Asia will be His Africa will be
His! Australia will be His! New Zealand will
ize that until now it was impossible for the
world to be converted? Not until very re-
Gently has the world been fouad.
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 dis
covered, and not until row have the
''uttermost parts Of the world" been re-
vealed. 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 off and geogra-
phized, the lost, hidden and unknown
tract has been mapped out. and now the
work of evangelization will be begun with
an earnestness and velocity as yet unln-
imagined. The steamships are ready; the
lightning express trains are ready; the print
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telephone are ready, millions OF Christians
are ready and now see Christ marching on
through the centuries. Marching on! March
ing on!
One by one governments will fall into line
and constitutions and literatures will adore
His name. More 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 follow
ing the Lamb whittier soever He goeth."
Marching onl Marching on!
This dear old world whose back as 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 OFT and the
white and spotless and glittering robe of
holiness and happiness will come on. The
last wound will 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 lost
star. a waYward planet. a rebelllous globe, a
miscreant satellite, will hear the voice that
uttered childish plant in Bethlehem and
agOniZed PRAYER in Gethsamane and dying
groan on Golgotha, and this voice cries,
Come" our world will return from its wan
doring never again to stray. Marching on!
Marching on!
Then this worlds Joy will be so great that
other worlds besides heaven may be glad to
OiO with Ru fho aid of n0wnrfnl
telescopes, year by year becoming more
powerful, mountains in other stars have
been discovered and chasnls and volcanoes
and canals and the style OF atmosphere, and
this will go on, and mightier and mightier
telescopes will be invented until [ should
not wonder we will be able to exchange sig
mails with other planets. And as l
have no doubt other worlds are inhab-
tied, for Col 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
i think will take part, we signaling other
worlds and they in turn signaling their stel-
liar neighbors. Oh, what day in heaven
that will be when this march OF Christ Is
fnishedl know that on the cross Christ
said: sit is finished" but He meant His sac
rifcial work was finished.
All earth and all heaven knows that evan
gelization is not finished, but there will come
a day in heaven most rapturous. 1t may be
after our world which is thought to have
about fifteen hundred million people
shall have on its decks twice its present pop
uIation, namely three thousand million souls
and all redeemed, and it will be
after this world shall be so damaged by
conflagration that no human foot can
tread its surface and no human being can
breathe its air, but most certainly the day
will come when heaven will be finished
and the last of the twelve gates Of the eter-
nal 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 of the amethystine throne and say in
substance, Gan Ny ransomei o1es are gath
cred; the work is done; have finished My
march through the centuries"
When in 1873 after the battle of Laipsic
which decided the fate of the Nineteenth
century, in some respects the most trenend-
dous battle ever fought, the bridge down.
the river incarnadined the street chOked
with the wounded, the fields for miles around
strewn with dead soldiery from whom
all traces of humanity had been dashed
out, there met in the public square of
that city of Leipsc the allied con.
querors and kings who had gained the VIC
tory-the king OF Prussia, the emperor Of
Russia, the crown prince Of Sweden-fol-
lowed by the chiefs o. their armies. With
drawn swords these monarch saluted each
other and cneered Tor tue continental VIC
tory they had together gained. History has
made the scene menora ole.
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 struggles
by which they gained the triumph, and then
hand over their swords to Him who is the
chief of the conquerors, crying: Thine, oh,
Christ, is the kingdom. Take the crown of
victory, the crown of dominion, the crown
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