Milford chronicle., 1893-09-29
the world, let the world give itself to nm.
WHY AAlERICAP

!, on earth where all evangelical deuomin
~ lions stand on an even footing. and a
J. would have equal hearing in such an int
s national exposition, Why do I select tb
cluster Of seacoas5 citicss Answer-Bv tba
u tlme-Dec. -, 190o-these four cities OF Ne,
YORK, Brooklyn, Jersey City and Hoboker
+ By bridges and tunnels, will be practicalI
u one and with an aggregate population q
I. about 6,00000Q Consequently no otbe
4 part of America will have such immensit
g OF population.
Why do / now make this nomination O
thine and placer Answer-Because such
stupendous movemenJ cannot be extern
porlzed. 1t will take seven years To get
ready for such an Ovartowering celeI1ra
tion, and the work ought to begin speedil,
III churches, in colleges, in legislatures. in
congresses, in parliameuts, in all STYLES OF
national assemblages, and we have No
time to lose. 1t would take three wears Ia
make a programme worthy of such a com
ing together.
why do take it upon myself to make
such a nomination of time and place? An
swer-Because it so happens that in the
mysterious providence of God, born in a
farmhouse and of no royal or pripcelv de
scent, the doors Of communication are omen
TO me every week by the secular and relf-
glous printing presses and have been omen
TO me every week for many years, with all
the cities and towns and neighborhoods of
! Chrlstendom, and indeed in lands outside
OF Chrstendom, where printing presses
nave been established, and feel that if
onefe Is anything worthy in this PROPOSE
ton it will be needed and adopted.
On the other hand ifit be too sanguine
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sure IL VIII do no harm that l have ex-
pressed my wish for such an international
jubilee, celebrative of the birth of our I'M
manuel. My friends, such birthday cele-
bratlon at the close OF one century and
reaching into a new century wouid he
something in which heaven and earth
could join. 1t would not only be Snterna-
uonal' but interplanetary, interstellar. in /
terconstellati0n. If YOU remember what /
occurred on the first Christmas night. vou
know that it was not a joy confined to our
world.
The choir above Bethlehem was import-
ed from another world. and when the star
lett Its usual sphere to designate the BIRTH
place astronomy felt the thrill. Ifthere be
anything true about our religion, it is that
other worlds are sympathetic with this
world and in communication with il. The
glorhed of heaven woul3ss5 MN in such a cele-
bration. The generations tniA,toiled to have
lhe for Christ would " 9osaADart in such
IublStlon and prolonged asselb9lage The
lpper galleries of Gods universe would an
llaud the scene, whether we heard the clan
II their wings and the shout of their voices
lr did not hear them.
Prophets who predicted the Messiah, and
pOstles who talked with him, and martyrs
Who died for him would take part in the
Gene though to our poor eyesight tbev
night be invisible The old missionaries S
rho died in the malarial swamns of Al frica. '
rwere struck down by Egyptian typhus.
were butchered at Lucknow, or were I
lain by Bornesian cannibals, would come ?
own from their thrones to rejoice that at d
lst Christ had been heard of, and so speed- o
y in all nations. At the first roll of the
rst overture of the first day of that meet II
g all heaven would cry: Hear! HearPi p
MIGHT HASTEN TIE LORDS COMING. U
Ayel aye 1 bethink myself such a vast Il
'ocedure as that might hasten our Lords tJ
ming, and that the expectation of many
illions of Christians, who believe in the
cOnd advent. might realize then Mt that
Injunction of the nineteenth and Ia "a
-entieth centuries. I do not say il yvould II II
:, yet who knows but that our blessed VI
d adored Master, pleased with suob So
an of worldwide observance, might saw OF
ncerning this wandering and rebellious ou
lnet, THAT world at last shows a disDo- m an
ION to appreciate what l have done for Nu
and with one wave Of my SCARED hand [
Il bless and reclaim and save ft.U ne
That such celebration of our Lords al
ill., Kept up for days and months, would ] al. an
ase all the good Of the earth and might 40
speed on the gospel chariot and please q cs'l
the heavens, SANITY, cherubie, seraphic. i .ne
hangelic and divine, is beyond question the
get ready for the worlds greatest fes- l lle
tyl Tune your voices for the worlds ~. Du'
atest antheml Lift the arches for Che m lllu
Id s mightiest processiOnl Let the adj oI'1
cling standard OF the army of wears On
ch has inscribed on one side of it s'19OO'i 'y'-
on the other side 1901, have also in
bed on it the most charming name of
.he universe-the name Of Jesus. -
neither this suggestion of,a worlds "H
bration ofthe nativity be taken or not.
as allowed me an opportunity in a ~ a He
ewhat unusual way of expressing my ''e''
for the great central character of.all II
and all eternity He is the infinite sued
'such- Inc armies OF heaven drop on As
L1OuHUHl0le- lLIII
re overwhelmed audiences, has preached side
ana Milton IN immortal blank verse the
sung him, and Michael Angelo has
led the ceiling of the Vatican with
second coming, and martyrs while Pr
ed ana canopled with the flames of case
stake have with burning lips kissed It hi
lemory, and m the hundred and forty Will,
our Thousand" OF heaven, with feeton was
IF glass intershot with sunrise. have ing G
uplffted and down swung baton, and .caus,
ling cornets, and waving banners, and had ]
IN capturing dOxologies, celebrated when
the story of his lQvslness. and his if tn
{, and his beauty, and his grandeur, was S
is grace, and HIS intercession, and his IF
ice, and ofhis birth and his death, will Missi
n untold Be his name on our lips ton v
we live and when we die, after we sheriff
spoken farewell to father and mother died
life and child, let us speak that name ing il
is the lullaby Of earth and the trans fill tn
f heaven. ceedeC
're the crossineSG aesaae on the mid own
between Dec. 81, 1900, and the 1st cancy
uary, 1901, many Of nS.will be gone. nature
OF you will heEr tia clock strike his nj
one century, and na hour after it tion al
10 strike Of another century, but Mr.. j
OF you will not that midnight hear the pa
the stroke Of the city clock or Of the him to
nepiece in the hallway of the home "Tht
Seven years cut a wide swath read IL
ii churches and communities and said
s. $40
HEAVEN WILL WITNESS IT. ton If
those who cross from world to world Jon
Old Time in this world crosses that judges
,ht from century to century viii talk ises.
the thrones of the coming earthly "'Cel
, and on the river bank, and in the marked
II many mansions, until all heaven Now WI
low Of the coming Of that celebra- sirS'
lat will fill the earthly nations with we
help augment the nations Of heaven. to scrat
neither here or there, we viii take precede
the music and the banqueting if erably'
g made the Lord our portion. 1.-THE
ow 1 would like to stand at my went on
'or some morning or noon or night -
the sky part and the blessed Lord
in person, not as he will come in
ind crrl1artf nth ~,.,l