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position. IL will be needed and adopted.
On the other hand, il it be too san
guine, or too hopeful, or too imprscti-
cal. am sure it will do no harm tnes
Ibaye expressed my wish for such sn
International Jubilee. &c etrauve
of the birth of our Emmanuel Ny
friends such a birthday celebration
at The close of one century and reach-
ing into q new century would Do some
thing in which heaven and earth could
join. 1t would not only be interns-
tioAal, but intefplans inter
stellar, intercons ellst on. If you re-
member what occurred on the hrst
Christmas night, you know that 1t 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 astronomers felt the
thrill. If there be anything true aoout
our religion it is that other worlds are
sympathetic with this world and in
com lnunication with it. The glorified
of heaven would join in such eeie-
bration. The gene rations that toiled
to have the world for Christ would
take part in such jubllation aud pro-
longed Assem- blage. The upper gal
leries 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 talk d with him.
and martyrs who died for him, wou d
take part in the scene, though to our
poor eyesight they might be invisible,
The old missionaries who died in the
malarial swamps of Africa, or were
STRUCK down with Egyptian typhus,
or were butchered at Lucknow. or
we re slain by Bornesian cannibals,
would come wn from their tn ones
to rejoice that at last Christ had been
heard of, and so speedily in all ma
tions At the first roll of the first
overture of the first day Of that meet
ing all heaven would cry: Hear!
Hear
Aye. Aye, l bethink myself such
vast procedure as that might hasten
our Lords coming, and that the ex-
pectation of many millions Of Chris
tiads, who believe in the second ad-
vent, might be realized then at that
COM junction of the nineteenth and
twentieth centuries. l do not say 1t
would be, yet who knows but that
our blessed and adored Master, pleased
with such plan Of worldwide observ-
ance, might say, concerning this
wandering and rebellious planet:
That world, at last, shows dispo-
sition 10 appreciate what / have done
for it, and with one wave of Inv
SCARED hand, l will bless aud
reclaim and save it." That
such q celebration Of our Lord 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 >tion. Oh. get
ready for the worlds greatest festiv-
ity! Tune your voices for the worlds
greatest anthem. Lit the arches for
the worlds mig htiest procession. Let
the advancing standard of the army
of years, which has inscribed on one
side of it $1,000 and on the other side
"l901," 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
hit between Dec 81. 1900, and
st of January, 1901, many of us
egone. Some of you will hear
ok strike l2 of one century and
after it hear 1t strike of an
entury, but many of you will
1t midnight hear either the
If the city clock, or of the old
e in the hallway of the home.
seven years cut wide swath
churches and communities
ions. But those who cross
Id to world before Old Time in
l crosses that midnight from
,canturv uill 20 H.