The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-10-02

scientist dio his WoAAs -EtG nov" 4oE -s1e
] ars4 time since the world has been ere
ured OF and geographical the last
! hidden and unknown tract has been
/ mapped ont and now the work of evan
] aeIizatfou will be begun with an
/ earnestness and velocity as yet I'M
/ imagined The steamships are ready,
/ the lightning express trains are ready,
! the printing presses are ready the tel
egraph and telephone are ready, mill
I ions Of Christians are ready and now
see Christ marching on through the
| centuries. Marching on Marching
onl
/ One by one governments viii fall
/ into line and constitutions and litera-
lures will adore His name More
/ honored and wOrshiped is He in this
year of 1891 than at any time since the
! year l, and the day hastens when all
nations will join one procession fol
| lowing the Lamb whithersoever He
goeth." Marching on, marching on,
marching on.
This dear old world whose back has
been scourged, whose eyes have been
blinded, whose heart has been wrung,
will yet rival Heaven. This planets
torn robe of pain ana crime and
demeutia viii come of and the white
and spotIess and glittering robe Of holt
ness 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 repeutcd of his last crime and
our world that has been a struggle
among worlds, a lost star, a waye5ard
planet rebellious globe, a miacreaut
satellite, will hear the voice that
uttered childish plant in Bethlehem,
and agOnized prayer in Gathsemane
and dying grOans on GolgOtha, and a.
- r7afn
viii return from its wandering never
again to stray. Marching on, marching
ont
Then this worlds joy viii be so great
that other world beside Heaven may
| be glad to rejoice with us. by the aid
of powerful telescopes year by year
becoming more powerful, mountains in
other stars have been discovered and
chasms and volcanoes and the style of
atmosphere, and this viii go on, and
mightier and mightier telescopes will
be invented until should not wonder
if we will be able to exchange signals
with other planets And as 1 have no
doubt other worlds are Inhabited. for
God would not have built such mag
nificent world houses to have them
stand without tenants or occupants, in
the final Joy of earth's redemption all
astronomy ! think will take part, we
signalling other worlds and they
IN turn ZualALlG LL-FlE ALGltetE nelZn=
bcrs- .. what day in Heaven that
will be when this march OF Christ is
finished! I know that on the cross
Christ said, 1T is finished" but He
meant His sacriiciaI work was finished.
All earth and all Heaven knows that
eYangelizatiOn is not finished but there
will come a day in Heaven most raptu-
rOus. 1t may be after our world which
is thought to have about fifteen hum
dred million people shall have on its
decks twice its present population,
namely three thousand million souls
and all redeemed, and it will be after
this world shall be SO damaged by con-
hagration that no human foot can tread
its surface and no human being can
breath its air
But most certainly the day will come
when Heaven will be finished and the
last of the twelve gates of the eternal
city shall have changed shut, never to
open except for the admission OF some
celestial mbassage 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; 'All my
ransomed ones are gathered; the work
is done; I have finished my march
through the centuries"
When in 1913. after the battle of
Leipsic, which decided the fate Of the
the most tremendous battle ever
fought, the bridge down, the river in
carnadined, the street cholzed with the
wounded, the fields for miles around
| strewn with a dead soldiery from whom
all traces of humanity had been dashed
out, there met in the public square of
that city OF Leipsic the allied conquer
ors, and the kings who had gained the
victory-the king of Prussia, the en-
perOr of Russia, the crown prince of
Sweden-followed by the chiefs of their
armies. With drawn swords these
mOnarchs saluted each other and
cheered for the continental victory
they had together gained History has
made the scene memorable
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 Conquerers,
crying: Thine, o, Christ, is the king
dom; take the crown of victory, the
crown of dominion, the crown of grace,
the crown Of glory" ''On His head
were many crowns"