Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-09-29

conjunction of the nineteenth and
twentieth centuries. l do not say it
would be, yet who knows but that
our blessed and adored Master, pleased
with such plan Of world wide observ-
ance, might Say, OonOS-nng this
wandering and rebellious planet:
That world, at last, shows dispo-
sition to appreciate what l have done
for it, and with one wave of my
Scared hand, / will bless and
reclaim and save it," That
sue a celebration of our Lord S birth.
kept up for days and months, would
please all the good of earth, and
nightly speed on the gospel chariot,
and p ease all the heavens, sanity,
cherubic, seraphic, archangelic, and
Divine, is beyond que ton. Oh, get
ready for the worlds greatest festiv-
ity! Tune your voices for the worlds
greatest anthem. Ii the arches for
the worlds mig procession. Let
the advancing standard of the army
of years which has inscribed on one
side of it 1880" and on the other side
IDOL" have also inscribed on it the
most charming name of all the uni
verse-the name of Jesus.
Before the crossing of time on the
midnight between Zee 81, 1900, aud
the first of January, 1901, many of us
will be gone. Some of you will hear
the clock strike II of one century and
an hour after it hear 1T strike l of an
other 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 home
stead. Seven years cut wide swath
through 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 jubi-
lee, and on the river bank and in the
House of Many Mansions. until all
heaven will know of the coming of
that celebration, that will fill the
earthly nations with JOY and help
augment the nations of heaven. But,
whether here or thee, we Will take
part in the music and 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
b essed Lord descend in person, not as
he will come in the last judgment,
with fire and hail and earth
quake, 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 bondage, and harmonic
all discords. Some think ne will thus
come, but a out hat coming l make
no prophe V, for | am not enough
learned in the scriptures, as some of
my friends are, to announce very
positive opinion. But this / do know,
that it would be well for us to have an
international and an interworld cele-
bration of the anniversary of his birth
day about the time of the birth of the
new century, and that it will be wise
beyond all other wisdom for us 10
take hin as our present and everlast-
ing coadjutor, and if that darling of
earth and heaven will on y accept you
and me, after all our lifetime of un-
worthiness and sin. we an never pay
him what we owe, though, through
all the eternity TO come, we had every
hour a new song and every moment
new ascription of homage and praise.
For you see we were far out among
the lost sheep that the gospel hymn SO
pathetically describes:
Out in the desert he heard its crv,
Sick and helpless and ready to die;
But all through the mountoins, thunder
riven,
And up from the rocky steep,
There rises a cry TO the gate of heaven
"Rejoice, | have found my sheep"
Ard the angels echo round the throne
Rejoice, for ths Lord brings back his