The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1894-05-18
year, 70 hc absent for a few month. in

year, % Re absent for q few months IN
order to take a journey around the
world. expect to sail from San Fran
cisco in the steamer Alameda, May 81.
My place here on Sabbaths will be
fully occupied, while on Mondays and
every Monday, will continue to speak
through the printing press in this and
other lands as heretofore. Why do
go? To make pastoral visitation
among people whom l have never
seen. but to whom l have been
permitted long while to admin
lister. l want to see them in their
own cities towns and neighborhoods.
l want to know what are their prosper
tiles, what their universities and what
their opportunities. and so enlarge my
work, and get more adaptedness- Why
do go? For educational purposes l
want to freshen my mind and heart by
new scenes, new faces new manners,
/ and customs. l want better to under
stand what are the wrongs to be righted
and the waste places to be reclaimed
l will put all learn into sermons to be
preach q you when l return ! want
to see the Sandwich Islands. not 80
much in the light of moiern pol
itics as in the light of the gospel
of Jesus Christ which has trans
formed them; and Samoa and those
vast realms of New Zealand, and
| Australia, and Ceylon, and India. l
want to see what Christianity has ac-
complished l want to see how the
missionaries have been lied about as
living in luxury and idleness want
to know whether the heather religions
are really as tolera BILE and as COM
mendable as they were represented by
their adherents in the parliament Of
religions at Chicago l want to see
| whether Northumberland or Buddhism
would be good things for transplanta-
ton in America, as it has again and
again been argued. l want to hear the
Brahmins pray. And so / hope to come
back refreshed. REINFORCED and better
equipped, and to do in ten years more
| effectual work than have done in the
last twenty-five.
| And now in this twenty-ffth ami
versary sermon l propose to do two
things: First, to put garland on the
grave of the generation that has just
passed off. and then to put a palm
branch in the hand of the generation
| just now coming on the field of action.
For my text is true: ''One generation
passeth away. and another generation
cometh." Oh. how many we revered,
and honored. and loved in the last gen.
| Grafton that quit the earth. Tears fell
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were sounded, and siCnais of mourn
ing were put on: but neither tears,
nor dirge. nor somber veil
told the half we felt Their going left
a vacancy in our souls that has never
been filled up. We never get used to
their absence. Thefe are time when
the sight of something with which
they We're associated-a picture, or a
book or a garment, or staff. breaks
us down with emotion, but we bear it
simply because we have to bear it.
Oh, how snowy white their hair got,
and how the wrinkles multiplied, and
the sight grew more dim, and the hear
ing less alert. and the step more frail,
and one day they were gone out of the
chair by the freside, and from the
plate at the meal and from the end of
the church pew, where they worshiped
with us Oh, my soul, how we miss
them. But let us console each other
with the thought that we shall meet
and reunion.
And now ]. twist garland for that
departed generation. 1t need not be
costly, perhaps just a handful of clover
blossoms from the field through which
they used to W Tx. or as many violets
as you could hold between the thumb
and the forefinger, plucked out of the
garden where they used to walk in the
cool of the day. Put these old-fash-
toned flowers right down over the heart
that never again will ache, and the
arm that has forever ceased to toll
Peace. father. Peace. mother. Ever
lasting peace! All that for the genera
ton gone.
But what shall we do with the palm
branch? That we will put in the hand
of the generation coming on. Yours is
to be the generation for victories. The
last and the present have been perfect
ing the steam power. and the electric
light and the electric forces. To these
will be added transportation. 1t will
be Your mission 10 use all these forces
Everything is ready now for you to
march right up and take this world for
God and Heaven. Get your heart right
by repentance and the pardoning grace
of the Lord Jesus and your mind right
by elevating books and pictures, and
your body right by gymnasium and
field exercise and plenty of ozone, and
by looking as often as you can upon
the face of mountain and of sea- Then
start. In Gods name. start. And here
is the palm branch From conquest to
conquest, move right on and right up
You will soon have the whole field for
yourself. Before another twenty five
years have gone we will be out of the
puipits. and the offices and the fact
cries. and the benevolent institutions,
and you vii! be at the front Forward
into the battle. If God be for you,