Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-09-25

churches, Tor aSylums, Tor Schools lor
colleges, all Of which asylums were
born in the heart of Christ. On that
day and in that season when Christ
gave himself to the world, let the world
give itself to him.
Why do l propose America as the
country for this conVocation? Because
most other lands have State religion,
and while all forms Of religion may De
tolerated in many lands, America is the
only country on earth where all eVangel-
ica denominations stand on an even
footing and all would have equal hear
ing IN such an international exposition.
Why do select this cluster OF seacoast
citiesP Answer: BY that time Deem
Der s5th, 1900. these four cities OF New
York, Brooklyn, Jersey City and Hobo
ken, by bridges and tunnels, will be
practically one, and with an aggregate
population of about four millions. Con-
seQuently no other part of America Will
have UGH
INTENSITY OF POPULATION.
WHY do now make this nomination
of time and place? Answer: Because
such a stupendous movement cannot be
extemporized. II will take seven years
to get ready for such an overtoWerlng
celebration, and the work ought TO be-
gin speedily in churches, in colleges, In
legislatures, in congresses, In parlla-
ments, IN all styles Of national assem-
blages, and we have no time TO lose
1t would take three years to make
programme worthy OF such coming
together.
Why do take ii upon myself to make
such a nomination OF time and place?
Answer: Because it so happens that, In
the mysterious providence OF God, born
in a farm house and Of no royal or
pripcely descent, the doors Of commu'
uication are open to me every week oy
the secular and religious printing
presses, and have been open to me
every week for many years, with all
the cities and towns and nelghoor-
hoods of ChristeDdom, and Indeed In
lands outside of Christendom, where
printing presses have been established,
and feel il there is anything worthy
in this proposition, 1t will be needed
and adopted. On the other hand, II IT
be too sanguine, or too hopeful, or too
impractical, | am sure 1t will do no
harm that | have expressed my wish
for such an international jubilee, cele-
brative OF the birth Of our Emmanuel.
Whether this suggestion Of worlds
celebration of the Nativity be taken or
not, it has allowed me an opportunity
in a somewhat unusual way of express
ing my love for the great
CENTRAL CHARACTER
of all time and eternity. He is the
Infinite None-such. The armies OF
heaven drop on their knees before him.
After Burdaloue. before overwhelming
audiences has preached him, and Milton
in immortal blank verse has sung him,
and Michael Angelo has gloriied the
ceiling OF the Vatican with his Second
Coming, and martyrs while girdled and
canopied with the flames Of the stake
have with burning lips, kissed his
memory, and in the hundred and forty
and four thousand" Of heaven with feet
on seas Of glass intershot with sunrise,
have with upliited and down-swnng
baton, and sounding concerts, and WaV-
ing banners, and heaVen-capturing
DoxoogieS 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 re-
maiu 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, lot US
speak that name which is the IN llaby OF
earth and the transport of hea ven.