Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-10-05

make Sucn u nomlnatlon OF time ana
place? Answer: Because Il SO bannauu
that, in the mysterious providence rs
God, born in a farm house and 81 "
royal pr princely descent, the doon'
of communication are open to me evorS
week by the secular and reli,io,,.
printing presses, and have been onos
to me every week for many years, WITH
all the cities and towns and neiehhn
hoods of Christendom. and indeed =
lands outside Of Christendom. whora
printing presses have been establisIaS
and / feel that il there is anvth;n,,
worthy in this proposition, It will he
Needed and adopted. On the other hand
if 1t be too sanguine or two hopefnI
or too impractical, / am sure if Will
do no harm that / have expressed INV
wish for such an international iub;lao
celebrative Of the birth Of our imman
uel. My friends, such a birthday cello.
bration at the close Of .One centur. ana
reaching into n new century would no
something in which heaven and earth
could join. 1t would not only be inter.
national, but interplanetary, interstellar
interconstellation. If you Remember
what occurred on the first Christmos
night, you know that 1t was not a low
confined to our world. The choir abova
Bethlehem was imported from another
world. and when the star left its usnal
sphere to designate the birthplace. MI
astronomy felt the thrill. If there no
anything true about our religion. II
is that other worlds are sympathetic
with this world and in communication
with it. The glorified of heaven would
join in such a celebration. The genera.
tons that toiled to have the world
for Christ would take part In such iubi.
lation and prolonged assemblagc. The
upper galleries of Gods universe would
applaud the scene, whether we heard
the clap of thir wings and the shout
of their voices or did not hear them.
Prophets who predicted the Messiah
and apostles who talked with him and
martyrs who died for him would take
part in the scene, though to our poor
eyesight they might be invisible. The
old missionaries who died in the malar-
ial swamps of Africa, or were struck
down by Egyptian typhus, or were
butchered at Lucknow. or We're slain by
Bornesian C%annibals, would come down
from their throne to rejoice at last
Christ had been heard of. and so speed
ily in all nations. At the first roll Of
the first overture of the first day Of
that meeting all heaven would cry
Hear! Heart
Aye! Aye! 1 bethink myself such a
vast procedure as that might hasten
our Lords coming, and that the cxpec-
tation of many millions of Christians.
who believe in the Second Advent,
might be realized hen at the C~Orjunc-
ton of the nineteenth and twentieth
centuries. i do not say it would be,
yet who knows but that our blessed
and adored Master, pleased with such
a plan of worldwide observance, might
say, concerning this wandering and re-
belliOuS planet: THAT world, at least.
shows n disposition to appreciate what
l have done for ii, and with one wave
OF my sacred hand, L will bless and re-
claim and save it." That such a cele-
bration of our Lords birth. kept UP for
days and months, would please all the
good of earth, and nightly speed ON
he gospel chariot, and please all the
heavens sanity. cherubic, seraphic,
archangelic, and divine, is beyond ques-
ton. Oh, get ready for the worlds
greatest festivity. Tune your voices
for he worlds greatest anthem. Lift
tic dlNAltS " llC NbIlu - IulSlllltsl .
procession. Let the advancing stand.
ard of the army of years, which has in
scribed o one side Of it 1900" and on
he other side 1901" have also in
scribed On it the most charming name
of all the univcrse-thc name of Jesus.
Before the crossing Of time on the
midnight between Dec. 81, 1900, and
the LIST of Jan, 1901, many of us viii
be gone. Some of you will hear the
clock strike II of one century and an
hour after it hear it strike l of another
century, but many of you will not that
midnight hear either the stroke Of the
city clock or Of the old timepiece in the
hallway of the homestead. Seven years
cut n wide swath through churches ana
communities ind nations. But those
who cross from world to world before
Old Time in this world crosses that
midnight from century to century, VIII
talk among the thrones of the coming
earthly jubilee, and on the river bank
and in the house of many mansions,
until all heaven will know of the com
ing Of that celebration, that will MI
the earthly nations. with joy and help
augment the nations Of heaven. But
"hS'htI htIt VI tntlt, We VIII
part in the music and the banqueting,
If we have made the Lord our portion
Oh, how / would like to stand at my
front door some morning or noon or
night and see the sky part and the
blessed Lord descend in person, not as
he viii come in the last Judgment, with
fire and hail and earthquake, but in
sweet tenderness, to pardon all sin.
and heal all wounds, and wipe away all
tears, and feed all hungry. and right
all wrongs, and iilumine ali darkness,
and break all bondage, and harmonic
all discords. Some think he will thus
come, but about that coming | make
no prophecy, for / am not enough
learned in the Scriptures as some OF
my friends are to o a very posi-
tv opinion. But this L do know, that
1t would be well for us to have an In
ternational and an inter-world celebra-
ITO of the anniversary of his birthday
about the time of the birth of the new
century. and that 1t will be wise De
yond all others wisdom for us to take
him as our present and everlasting co
adjutor, and If that Darling of eartn
and heaven will only accept you ana
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