The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-09-25

. hNtl 10 many Janus. America Is the only
country on earth where all evangelical
and all would have equal hearing in such
an international exposition. Why do /
/ select this cluster of sea Coastciues, An
swer: BY that time Dec 25th 1900,
/ these four cities of New York, Brooklyn,
Jersey City and HOboken, by bridges and
tunnels, Will be practically one and with
/ an aggregate population of about 4,OOO,uO.
/ Consequently no other part of America
/ viii have such immensely Of population.
Why do ] now make this nomination OF
| time and place Answer. Because such
a stupendous movement cannot be extern
/ ported. 10 viii take seven years TO get
ready for such an overtOwering celebra-
I ton, and the work ought 70 begin speed
( lily in churches, in colleges, in legisla-
/ lures, in congresses, in parliaments, in
all styles of national aSscmblages, and
we have no time 10 lose 1t would take
three years TO make a programme worthy
/ OF such a coming together
Why do l take it upon myself to make
suCa a nomination of time and placer
Answer: Because il SO happens that, in
the mysterious providence of God, born
in farmhouse and of no royal or princely
descent, the doors Of communication are
| open to me every week by the secular and
/ religious printing presses, and have been
open to me every week for many years
with all the cities and towns and neigh
borhoods of Christendom, and indeed in
lands outside of Chrstendom, where
printing-presses have been established,
and l feel that if there is anything
worthy in this proposition, it will be
needed and adopted On the other hand
If 1t be too sanguine, or too hopeful, or
too impractical, | am sure it will do no
harm that ! have expressed my wish
for such an international jubilee, cele-
brativc of tho birth of our Emmanuel.
My friends, such a birthday celebration
AT the close Of one century and reaching
into a new century would be something
in which heaven and earth could Join. II
would not only be International, but inter
planetary, inter-stelar, inJer-constella-
tiOn. If you remember what occurred on
the first Christmas night you know that
IL was not JOY confined to our world The
choir above Bethlehem was imported
from another world, and when the Star
left its usual sphere to designate the
birthplace, all astronomy felt the thrill
II there be anything true about our re
ligiOn, it is that other worlds are sympa-
thetic with this world and in cOmmuni-
cation with it. The glorited of heaven
would join in such a celebration The
generations that toiled to have the world
for Christ would takcpart in such iubila-
ton and prolonged assemblage. 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
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 malarial swamps of AT
RIGA, or were struck down by Egyptian
typhus or were butchcred at Lucknow,
or were slain by BOrnesian cannibals
would come down from their thrones to
rejoice that at last Christ had been heard
of, and so speedily in all nations. A the
first roll of the first overture of the first
day of that meeting all heaven would cry:
Hear! Heart"
Aye! Aye! I bethink myself such
vast procedure as that might hasten our
Lords coming, and that the expectation
of many millions of Christians, who be
lieve in the Second Advent might be real
lied then at that conjunction of the nine
teenth and twentieth centuries do not
say it would be, yet who knows but that
our blessed and adored Master, pleased
with such plan of worldwide observ
ance, might say, concerning this wander
ing and rebellious planet: That world,
at last, shows disposition to appreciate
what have done for H. and with one
wave of my SCARED hand, | will bless
and reclaim and save it, That
such a celebration of our Lords birth,
kept up for days and months, would
please all the good of earth, and nightly
speed on the gospel chariot, and please
all the heavens, sanity, cherubic seraph-
ic, archangelic, and divine. is beyond
question. Oh, get ready for the worlds
greatest festivity Tune your voices for
the worlds greatest anthem. Lift the
arches for the worlds mightiest process
sim az tho nd q nd Of la
Army of Years. which has inscribed on
one side of it 1900 and on the other side
1901, - have also inscribed on il the most
charming name Of all the universe-the
name of Jesus.
Whether this suggestion of a worlds
celebration of the nativity be taken or
not il has allowed me an opportunity in
a somewhat unusual way of expressing
my love for the great central character
of all time and all eternity. He is the
infinite NOne-such. The armies of heaven
| drop on their knees before him. After
| Bourdaloue, before overwhelmed audi
| Cuces has preached him, and Milton in
| immortal blank-verse has sung him, and
| Michael Angelo has glorited the ceiling
of the Vatican with his second coming,
/ and martyrs while girded and canopied
/ with the flames of the stake have, with
! burning lips, kissed his memory, and IN
| the hundred and forty and four thous-
/ and of heaven with feet on seas of glass
! intershot with sunrise, have with uplifted
/ and dOwn-swung baton, and sounding cor
nets, 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 intercessiou, and his sacri-
/ flee, 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 mid
night of Dec. 81, 1900, and the first of
January, 1901, many of us will be gone.
Some of you will hear the clock strike -
of one century and an hour after il hear
IL strike ! of another century, but many
of you viii not that midnight hear either
the stroke of the city clock, or of the old
timcpiece in the hallway of the home
stead. Seven years cut a wide swath
Z through churches and communities and
nations. But those who cross from world
10 world before Old Time in this world
crosses that midnight from century to
century viii talk among the throu ofthe
coming earthly jubilee, 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 ill the earthly ma