Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-09-07

and who loved us well enough to
and did actually die for us, for
you and me, once told, yes more
than a thousand of years ago, told
us as he taught beside the beauti-
full sea of Gallilee OF a sower who
went forth to SOW, and how the
seed fell. Oh, how wonderful, and
they are still falling that way to-
day. Yes, even this evening as We
SOW. Some of the seed is falling
on good ground, some on stony
ground and some OF the hard-beat-
en- paths which the devil has tramp
ed down hard. oh, thatthespirit which
came down, dove-lik:e, from Heaven
as he came from his watery baptism
may so incline your hearts thatthey
may never become hard and stony
to the wonderful words of loving in
vitation he uses to WOO and to win
you to the beautiful bright home in
the four square city OF the New Jeru-
salem. Oh! how bright it will be;
oh! how beautiful to behold.
Yesterday was Missouri Day at
that wonderful, indoscribable show
in the city of Chicago. Missouri
Day. Hen agricultural, mechanical,
educational and mineral resources
were exhibited to the world. Thous-
ands upon thousands of brilliant
lights shone cut upon the crowded
streets of the beautiful White City
on the clear lake last night. Oh, how
wonderful the exhibit. How crown.
ed heads, dukes, mobiles, and
grandees of all Europe lauded the
fame and wonderful resources of oul
loved Missouri but listen, children
the rank, ugly, poisonous seed OF
total dissertation of the American
Sunday, the Lords Day, Sunday
has like the blackness of Egyptian
darkness when that land was curseC
with lice, frogs and blood, hoverec
over that whole grandexhibltion ant
like a pail of death covered it will
shame, tor it disregarded the law
of our land and our Lord and ha:
sown seed that will wither ant
blight, corrode and corrupt thu
hearts Of the coming youths of GU
country and the whole world, wit
saw it to our shame for generations
America, the Missionary Nation 0
the world, with our national sho1
wide open on Sunday. Oh, mydea
children, may your innocence protec
you from this national degradation
But, listen children: tonight in ST
Louis, the city of Sunday Schools
) the whole world by its representa-
tives is sending up hallelujahs c
} praise to Almighty God, and the yer
, arches of Heaven are ringing wit
| glad Hosannahs and peans of prais
1 to him who promises each one Of L
D an eternal everlasting home. All,
/ is Missouri's day in st. Louis. TIL
prayers Of her mothers, the songs
, her maidens, the eloquence of ht
great men, the voice of her peopl
S as the voice ofone man to-day prais
| God from whom all blessings flow
: 1t is the Worlds Sunday Schot
t Convention. "From Africa's sum
t fountains and India's coral strand,
t from the islands of the sea, a
around the world come glad song
. and happy hearts, and are in OF
beautiful city of St. Louis to SOW tt
d seeds for an harvest to be garnere
e in the treasure houses of HEAVIER
| Oh! Chicago,y you have the world Il
e flesh and the devil with youf a
e sowing seeds of discori and anarch
S for another Haymarkst harvest, b.
we of Missouri, thank God, have
e Sunday School Convention, whic
e will leave footprints upon the sanG
d of time on our shores that will lea
e our boys and girls into paths
pleasantness and peace, virtue an
S purity, and finally into the streets
that golden city, which needeth r
light. Oh! what a wonderful wor
e the Sunday School is doing. tits t.
day sowing seeds hal make happ
e hearts, happy mothers, happy homes
e and if our nation will but listen
the voice of divinity rs told by tt
innocent prattle Of her millions
i Sunday School children it will max
/ a happy nation. To-day the Sunda
t School children of the world hay
S forced together the warning element
of ecclesiastical creeds and at tn:
very moment are harmonious
planning and sowing seeds for tt
s conquest Of the world by the prie
8 of peace. blessed he the tie tn;
Y binds our hearts in Christian love
= is the sweet sentiment that permt
r ates the hearts of men and wome
r who, twenty years ago, were warrin
: with bitter words and angry threats
l Thank God for the Sunday School
t and the International Sunday Schot
: lessons of to-day. From pole
pole, and sea to sea, we read an
study the same wonderful words {
: love" the wide world over. 1t i
r seed that is bound to grow an
tn crown our lives With immorta