Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1894-05-16
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IL you are really doing tina
Lords work. The bigger the lie told
about me, the bigger the demand to
see and hear what / really was doing.
From one stage of sermonic puolica-
ton to another the work has gone on.
until week by week, and for about
twenty-three years, l have had the
world for my audience, as no man ever
had, and to-day, more SO than at any
other time The syndicates inform me
that my sermons go now to about %
10000 of people in all lands 1 men
ton this not in vain boast, but as tes-
timony TO the fact that God answers
prayer Would TO God had better oc-
cupied tie field and been more conse-
crative TO the work! May God forgive mo
for lack of service in the past, and dou-
BILE, and quadruple, and quintuple my
work in future.
In this. my quarter century sermon,
record the fact that side by side with
the procession ak blessings has gone a
procession of disasters l am preach
ing to-day in the fourth church build
ing since 1 began in this city. My first
sermon was in the old church on Scher-
merhorn street to an audience chiefly
of empty seats. for the church was al
most extinguishcd. That church filed
and overlooking we built larger
church, which after two or three years
disappeared in flame Then we built
another church, which also in 4 line of
fiery succession disappeared in the
same way. Then we put up this build
ing, and may it stand for many years a
fortress of righteousness and a light
house for the storm-tossed, it's gates
crowded with vast assemblages long
after we have ceased to frequent theml
And now, having come up to the
twenty-fifth milestone in my pastorate.
wonder how many more miles / am
to travel? Your company has been
exceedingly pleasant, o my dear peo-
pie, and I would like TO march by your
side until the generation with whom
we are now marching abreast, and step
to step, shall have stacked arms after
the last battle. But the Lord knows
best. and we ought TO be willing to
stay or go.
Most of you are aware that / propose
at this time, between the close of my
twenty-tifth year of passionate and be-
fore the beginning OF my twenty-siXth
year to be absent for few months, in
order to take n 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 I
go? To make pastoral visitation among
people whom l have never seen, but to
whom / have been permitted long
while to administer. | want to see
them in their own cities, towns and
neigh borhoods / want to know what
are their properties, what their adj
versities and what their opportunities.
and so enlarge my work and get more
| adaptedness. Why do ! 90? For edu-
cational purposes. l want to freshen
my mind and heart by new scenes new
! faces, new manners and customs
want better to understand what are
the wrongs to be righted and the
waste places to be reclaimed. / will
! put all learn in sermons to be preach
! ed TO you when / return. / want to
see the Sandwich islands, not so much
in the light of modern politics as in
the light of the Gospel of Jesus Christ,
which has transformed them; and
Samoa, and those vast realms of New
! Zealand, and Australia, and Ceylon,
| and ln0ia- ] want to see what Chris.
tianity has accomplished / want tc
see how the missionaries have been
lied about as living in luxury and idle
ness. l want to know whether the
heather religions are really as tolerable
and commendable as they were repre-
sented by their adherents in the parlia.
ment of religion at Chicago. i want to
see whether Mohammedanism and
Buddhism would be good for trans
plantation in America, as it has again
and again been argued. / want to hear
the Brahmins pray. 1 want to test
whether the Pacific ocean treats its
| guests any better than does the At
lautic- i want to see the wondrous ar
chitecture of India, and the Delhi, the
Cawapore where Christ was crucified
in the massacre of his modem disciples,
and the disabled Juggernaut un.
wheeled by Christianity, and to see
II the TAI which the Emperor Shah
Jehan built, in honor of his empress,
really means any more than the plain
slab we put above our dear departed. /
want TO see the fields where Havelock
and Sir Colin Campbell won the dav
against the Sepoys. l want TO see the
world from all sides; how much of il is
] III udEhneSSf now UluCn OF IL is in light.
what the Bible means by the Ends OF
the earth" and get myself ready to an.
| preciate the extent of the present TO be
made to Christ as spoken of in the
Psalms: ASK Of Me, and shall give
thee the heather for thine inheritance.
and the uttermost parts of the earth
J for thy possession;" and so I shall be
ready 70 celebrate in Heaven the vic
tories of Christ in more rapturous song
| than could have rendered had never
seen the heather denominations before
they were conquered 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 25th anniversary ser.
mon propose IN do two things: First
20 put garland or the grave of the
generation that has just Oassed off. and
then 60 put palm brancl. m the hand
Of the generation just now joining on
the field Of action. For mL. text is
true: "One generation passeth away.
and another generation cometh.s Oh.
how many we revered, and honored.
and loved in the last generation that
quit the earth. Tears fell at the time
of their going. and dirges were sound