Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-02-19

more than twice as many Buddhists as Ro-
man Catholics. ProtestantS 1854 90 o;
Catholics, 10. 90, 00l; Buddhists, 400, 0O0,-
ooJ. There are l75 000 00J Mohammedans
and 22o,0)0,000 Brahmins. Meanwhile,
many OF the churches are only religious
club-hopses, where q few people 20 on Sun.
day morning, averaging one person 10 q
pew or one person TO a half dozen pews,
and leaving the minister at night to sweat
through sermon with hore and there a
lone traveller, unless, by Sunday eve
ming sacred concert he can get out an
audience of respectable size. The vast
majority of the church membership round
the world put forth no direct effort for the
salvation of men. Did 1 say there would
have to be changea l correct that and
say, There will be change II there be
fifteen million persons added every year
to the worlds population, then, there will
be thirty million added TO the church and
forty million and fifty million and sixty
million. How Will it be donei 1t will
be done when tho church will
meet Christ ON the plain. Gene
down out OF the mountain Of exclusive
ness. Come down out OF the mountain of
pride. Come down out Of the mountain of
Journalism. Come down cut Of the noun
tain OF freezing indifference. Old DIR.
Stephen II. Tying, great on earth and in
heaven, once said to me: II am in favor
OF a change. l do not know what is tho
best way Of doing things in the churches,
but know the way we are doing now is
not the best way, or the world would be
nearer its salvation than it seems to be."
So feel; so we all feel, that there needs
to be change The point at which wa
all come short is not presenting Christ on
the plain. Christ OH the level with all the
worlds woes and wants and necessities.
The full charge will have TO GENE from
the rising ministry. We now in the field
are too set in our ways. We are lum bered
up with technicalities Wohave toe many
coucordancss and dictionaries and ency-
clopedias and systems of theology on our
head to get down on the plain. Our vo-
cabulsry is too frosted. We are too much
under the domination OF customs regnant
for many centuries.
Come on, young men Of the ministry.
Take this pulpit, take all the pulpits, and
in the language OF the street and the mar
ket place, and the family circle preach
God on the plain. As soon as tue church
says by its attitude, not necessarily oy its
words, MY one mission is 10 help for this
life and help for tho life to come al the
people, ana it proves its earnostness
in the matter. people on foot and on horse
back aud in wagons and in carriages will
come to the churches in suca num-
bers that they will have to be
met at the door by ushers saying:
"You were here last Sunday;
you cannot come in to-day. Gentlem, n and
ladies, you must take your turn" Aud,
it will be, as in tho Johnstown freshes aud
disaster when government station was
opened for the supply of bread, and it took
tho officers of the law to keep the sufferers
in line, because OF the great rush for food.
When this famine-strucs world realizes
that tho Christ is a government station
set up by the Government of the Universe
to provide the Bread OF Eternal Life for
all the people, the rush viii be UMPIRE
cedented and unimaginablo.
Astronom RS have been busy measur-
ing words, and they have told us how
great is the circumference of this world
and how great is its diameter, yea, they
have kept on until they havs weighed
our planet and found its weight TO be six
sextillion tons. But by no science has
the weight Of this worlds trouble been
weighed. Now, Christ standing on the
level Of our humanity stands in sympathy
with every trouble. There are so many
aching heads His ached under the
thorns. There are so many weary feet:
His were worn w tn the long journey up
and down the land that received him not.
There are so many prosecuted souls:
Every hour of his life was under human
outrage. The earth had no better place to
receive him than a cattle pen, and its fare
well was slap on tue cheek and a spear In
his side. So intensely human was he that
there has not been in all our race a grief
or inhrmity or exhaustion or pang that did
not touch him now Tue lepers. the par
alytics, the imbecile, the maniac, the court
esan, the repentant brigand-whch one
did he turn of, which one did he not pity,
which one did he not helpl
o. join Him in the plain As long as ysu
stay up in the mountain of your pride ysu
will get no help. Taat is the reas on so
many never find the salvation OF the Cos
pei. They sit up in the Mont Blanc Of
their opiDionativeness and they have their
opinion about God, and their opinion about
the soul, and their opinion about etern ity.
Have you any idea that your opinion VIII
have any effect upon the two tremendous
facts, tHat you are sinner and Christ is
ready at your earnest prayer TO save yoni
In The final day OF accounts hsw mucn
will your opinion be WORTH Your opinion
will not be OF much importance before the
blast Of the Archangeps trumpet. When
the life OF this planet shall be threshed
out with the fail Of thunder bolts nobody
will ask about your opinions. Come down
out Of the mountain of opinionativeness, and
meet Christ on the plain, where you must
meet him or never meet him at all, except
as you meet him on the Judgement throne.
A Christ easy TO get att No armed sem
tinel to challenge you. No ruthless efiicer
to scrutinze tue papers you present In
mediate response Immediate forgive
ness. Immediate solace. Through what
struggle people must go to get pardon
from worldly authority BY what petit
ton, by what hindrance, by what nervous
strain Of anxiety, by what adroitness. A
count OF Italy was condemned to be put
to death at Milan. The countess,
hearing Of the sentence, fastened to
Vienna to seek his pardon. Tho
death warrant was already on its way.
The countess, arriving in Vienna in tho
night, FASTENED TO the palace gates. The
attendants forbad her entrance at all, and
especially at night. but she overcame