The Progress., 1893-01-14

people believe il, feel there is a move
ment divine of the race, and that they
are being swept onward by that move
ment If you test it in Europe it is the
same: if YOU come TO America it is tho
same. The watChword of the people is
reform, organization, federation, with
tho consciousness that something by and
by is coming i'll the history of the world
and IL is coming.
Our nations are aTming themselves as
never before. What do you reckon is 90,
ing to be done with those big guns? Are
we just going TO keep them and let them
rust? Think you it is possible fO- this
world to go on building such suns as
those and nothing happen? That it is
possible for Europe to go on building
such navies nnd nothing happen? Posi-
ble for every nation on this earth to bG
/ changing its arms every five years and
! getting smokeless powder, learning tho
uses of electricity ard learning 10 navi,
/ gate the air, and nothing happen? The
possibility of war is being pushed each
| day, simply from the conscious fact tlIat
when two armies come together now
300, 600 men may be killed in one hour.
! 1t is coming, and when it does. q
! God, the results that may como 10 m,
| tions and kings that sit now with tIrOrcs
! so secure and the crowns on their heads!
! Wait, wait till this great, dark, rest
! less crowd feel the power of those guns.
and when dynamite is used instead Of
lead and powder. When those great.
o. locg e l.,.
I common people find out what can b0
done with those things the history OF the
world viii 'e made over again, and tho
face of the earth will be changed BY
and by some fool of king will throw a
match in powder magazine, and thcrG
VIII he an explosion that VIII shake this
world from center to circumference .
and hereafter the great masses will uso
their own guns and govern themselves
and make and unmake the history of the
world in the future. But look. watch.
That means a tremendous opportunity
of some sort for some one.
RATTLE OF DRY BONES.
Fourth-Then there is another thing .
of interest, and that is the tnrob of new .
life in the religious world. There is .
throughout the world today this grow
ing consciousness, becoming more and .
more intense, that something must ba /
done. II is new life divine throbbing
in the heart of tho church of Jesus
Christ. Books are being issued from the
press about religion with greater rapid
ity. The novels that succeed today are
those that have n religious theme. The
world today is thinking on theology, il
ransacking old principles to find out the
truth.
The press today must discuss religion.
The meanest newspaper in New York is
bound to write an editorial on religion.
because all the world that read news
papers are thus demanding that they
shall know the subject that most inter
ests the worlds heart and life The
church militant is moving on a greater
scale than ever before There is not
church in New York-the wickedest city
in the Union perhaps--in which there is
not movement divine of a newer and
divinor lfe in the church of Jesus Christ .
In practical life isthcrc this movement {
of divine life? You will find it in every
city. In the great dry goods establish ,
lishment of Jordan, Marsh & Co., in
Boston, where | used to live, they have ;
a new department of medicine and sur q
gerry. They see that their employees
have thus medical attention without any I
cost or expense to them, that they shall 7
not suffer because their wages are lin q
tied. So in their great dry goods store ,
there is a corps of three physicians-the ,
finest physicians in the great city of Bo5- :
ton. Thus is Christianity becoming more I,
and more crystalliZed and centralized in .
its practically in the world. reaching y
out thus with new throb of divine life. Il
SLEEPING ON A VOLCANO
1 find in every city of this great nation $
a new throb of life being felt in the 4
church Of Jesus Christ. WHAT does this !!
meanI 1t simply means that our civil- ,
zation is approaching rapidly an hour Of 2
supreme crisis. Oh, that means supreme :
for darkness or for light
for veal or woe. Shall il Ee cr0lufion rr
reUOlution-one or the othci? The work
of the Lord will be done with the quiet
ness of the dew or the fury Of the storm.
1t will be done with peace and sunlight
1r with Gods great engincry Of reform. .,
and through the souls and lives OF your N
civilization viii be drawn Gods great
saw and AK, and that which IS found
wanting viii be hewn down.
| have n letter here w:rt 20 read to n
-ou from a millionaire in distant city.
who gives every day of his income to the
"a lyafinr, Of H.. 4,
lad more such.
What are our business men of pro- D.
essed Christianity thinking about? They r
ire sleeping on volcano. We have al
'eady the mutterings of civil eruption,
md unless such prophetic voices as are
low heard are needed their riches will
'anish IN the convulsion that must III
vitably follow. Money freely given to Y.
'ring the Gospel to the workingman may .
ave us from disaster. no other aoancy- q