The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1893-10-12

, norninatinn of time and placer Answer
Because it so happened that IN the lnyse9na
Gus providence of God, born IN iaInii ,.9
and of no royal or princely descent, 1he uoo oi
of communication are open TO me every W.
nv the secular and religious printing presses
and have been open to me every week loi
many years with all the cities ana lo"!L5 ''nI i
NEIGH borhooJs Of Christendom, anu lhQeeu
in lands outside of Christendom, "her9
printing presses have been established, ana
feel that if there is anything worthy III thi9
nronosition it will be needed and adopted.
IN the other hand. if it be too saDGuine, or
TOO hopeful. or too impractical, a'1 sure II
will do no harm that / have expressed my
wish for such an international Jubllee, ceio-
brative of the birth of our lmmanuei.
Nv friends, such birthday celebration at
the close 81 one century and reaching ihto .
new century would be somethlIs III Tiiion
heaven and earth could join. 1t would not
only be international, but interplanetaryj
interstellar. interconstelation. II you re-
member what occurred on the first CHRIST
mas night. YOU know that it was not Joy
confined to our world. The cholr anOFe
Pethlehem was imported from announcer
world and when the star left its usual
snhere TO designate the birthplace all
astronomy felt tho thrill. II there be any
thing trrle about our religion, it is that other
worlds are sympathetic with this world ana
in communication with it. Jhe gioriheo Oh
heaven would Join in such eelebratloh'
The generations that toiled to have the
world for Christ would take part ~ such
iublation and prolonged assemblhSe, -.
The upper galleries OF Gods universe
would applaud the scene, whether we heard
the clap of their wings and the shout OF their
voices or did not hear them. Prophets VINO
predicted the Messiah, and apostles VINO
talked with Him, and martyrs who dlea ior
Him would take part in the scene, tnou5n ~
our poor evesight they might be 1nYiSlpie;
The old missionaries who died in the maiariai
swamps Of Africa. or were struck Gown py
Et,vptian tvphus or were butchered at Luck
now. or we're slain by Bornesian cannlbas
would come down from their thrones 10 re-
ioice that at last Christ had been heard OF,
and so speedily in all nations. At the hfsc
roll of the first overture Of the hrst Gay ot
that meeting all heaven would cry; hear!
Hearr
Ave! Ave! I think myself such vast pro-
cedure as that might hasten our Lords COM
inc. and that the expectation OF many mill
lions of Christians who believe in the second
advent might be realized then at that con-
junction of the Nineteenth and Twentieth
Centuries. | do not say it would be, yet who
knows but that our blessed and adored Mas
ter. pleased with such plan of worldwide
observance. might say concerning this wan
dering and rebelious planet THAT world at
last shows disposition to appreciate what l
have done for it, and with one wave of my
Scared hand l will bless and reclaim and
save it,
That such a celebration OF our Iorls birth,
kept up for days and months, would please
all the goo OF earth and nightly speed on
the gospel chariot and please all the heavens,
sanity. cherubc, seraphic. archangelc and
divine, is beyond question. Oh, get ready
for the worlds greatest fcstiritvi Time Your
voices for the worlds greatest anthem. Int
the arches for tho worlds mightiest process
sion. Let the advancing standard OF the
army of years. which has inscribed on one
side OF it 1900 and on the other side 1901,
have also Inscribed on it the most charming
name of all the univer5e--the name OF Jesus.
Whether this su question ola worlds cele-
bration of the nativity be taken or not, 1t
has allowed me an opportunity IN Il some
what unusual way OF expressing my rove Ior
the great central character OF all time ana
all eternity. He is the infinite nonesuch.
The armies of heaven drop on their knees
before him. After Bourdaloue, before over
whelmed audiences, has preached Hin, and
Milton in immortal blank verse has sung
Him, and Michael Angelo has gioriHed the
ceiling of the Vatican with His second COM
ing, and martyrs while girdied and cano-
pied with the flames of the stake
have With burning lips kissed his mem
ory. and in the ''hundred and forty and four
thousand. of heaven with feet on seas OF
glass intershot with sunrise, have with up
lifted and downsWunS baton, and sounding
comets, and waving banners. and heaven
capturing doxologies celebrated Him, the
story OF His loneliness, and His might and HIS
beauty. and His grandeur, and His grace, and
His intercession, and His sacrifice, and OF HIS
birth, and His death will remain untold. Be
His name on our lips while we live, and when
We die after we have spoken farewell to father
and mother and wife, and child let us speak
that name which is the lullaby OF earth and
the transport OF heaven.
Before the crossing OF time on the MD
night between December 81, 1900, and the
LIST of January, 1901, many OF us will be
gone. Some of you will hear the clock strike
twelve of one century and an hour after it
hear it strike one of another century. but
many of YOU will not that midnight hear
either tho stroke OF Old the city clock or OF
the old timepiece in the hallway Of the home
stead. Seven years cut wide swdth through
the churches and communities and Nations
But those who cross from world TO world
before Old Time in this world crosses that
midnight from century to century will talk
among the thrones OF the coming earthly
Jubilee, and on the river bank ard in the
house of many mansions, until all heaven
will know of the coming of that celebration,
that will I'LL the earthly Nations with JOY and
help augment the Nations OF heaven. But
whether here or there we will take 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 will come in the last judg-
ment 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 hunger, and right all wrongs,
and illumine all darkness, and break all