The Penn's Grove record., 1895-01-25


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The Christ who came from the East viii
ret bring all the East with Him. OF cours:
there are high ohstaoics TO be overcome, and
srea; orieals must be passed throneh pe.ors
the consummation, as Armdniam
under the butchery Of the Turks May thai
throne on the banks Of the Boephorus soon
crumble! Tho time has already some when
the United States Government and dfeai
Britain and Germany ought TO tntome tne
indignation Of all civilized Nations. While
ii Is not requisite that nrms be sent there to
avenRe the wholesale massacre OF Armen-
ians, it is requisite that BY cable undo the
seas, and by protest that shall thrill the
wires from Washington and London and
berlin to Constantinopie. the Nations an.
alhematizs the diabolism for which the Sui
tan OF Turkey ID responsible Mohammedan,
Ism is a curss whether in Turkey or New
York. sT ley shall come from the East
And they will come at the call oil the love
lest and grandest and hest men and women
of ali time. I mean the missionaries. Dis
solute Americzns and Engiishmen who hau
gone to Calcutta and Bombay and Oentonte
make their fortunes dsfnme the missionaria
because the holy lives n the pure house
holds Of those missionaries ares constant re
buke 10 the American and English hbertinef
t~toppinr there. but the men n women OF
God there stationed go on glortously VIII
their work. People Just AZ good and sei
\ denying as was Missionary Moffst, VINO
| when asked TO write In an album, wrot
hess Yoriss
MY album Ia In savage breasts,
Where passion retgns and darkness rests
Without one ray Of light.
To write the name Of Jesus there,
To point to worlds both bright n fair,
And see the pagan bow In prayer,
Is all my souf's delight.
In all those regions are mon and women
With the conservation of Melville B. Cox
who. enbarking for the missionary work ID
Afrioa, said TO J fellow student, ST. die L
Africa, come and write my epttaph-" "Whai
shall 1 write for your epitsph?" said thu
student. "Write," said he, 'these words
.Lst a thousand fall before Africa be given
up
mr. text includes. tfrhey shall eomo from
the West That means America redeemed
Everything between Atlantic and Pacific
Oceans TO be brought within the circle OF
holiness and rapture. Will 1t be done b.
worldly reform or evangelism? Will It b.
law or gospea7 I an glad that q wave o.
reform has swept across this land, and al
the cities are feeling the advantage OF thu
on until the last municipal evil is en-
tfrpated. Abont fifteen years ago the dis
tfnguished editor OF o New York DALI
n~ewspapsr said to me In his editorial
room ! i'you ministers talk about eyils o.
which you know nothing. Why don't you
go with the officers OF the law aud explor'
for yourself. so that when you preach agains
ii yin you can speak from what you have seer
with your own eyes7'' / said, 81 will" ant
In company with . commissioner OF polio
and a CAPTAIN Of police and two elders of m,
church I explored the dens and hiding place
! of all styles OF crime in New York an
| preached q series OF sermons warning younl
u - an4ktnv fNefh fha uvNrk chat rnngf h
Zone lest tha Judgments of God whalm TIL
city with more awiul encouragement than tn
volcanic deluge that buried Herculaneur
J and PompeiL I received, as nearly IS / ca
] remember, several hundred columns OF nevi
I paper abuse for undertaking that explora
j lion. Editorials Of dsnunciation, doubl
\ loaded, and with captions in great prime
4 type, entitled s~rhe Fall Of Tslmage," o
isfaimage Makes the Mistake of His Lite,
4 or aDown With Talmage,n but / still nv
and am in full sympathy with all movement
\ Tor municipal publication.
J But q movement which ends with erin
' sxposed and law executed stops half wa,
nay, Il stops long before it gets half wa,
The law never yet saved anybody. never y
changed anybody. Break up all the houst
q Of fniruify in this city, ind you only sen
the occupants to other cities. Break dow
4 al the policemen in New York, and while
= changes their worldly fortunes II does nj
\ l DnQ0R0 tu6tf u5aIt UT llic 4h6 HE0bko
y want In New York to-day Is the Transform
y ing power Of the gospel OF Jesus Christ
n change the heart and the lie and upllft Il
3 tone Of moral sentiment and make men {
Il d9bt mot because they are afraid OF Ludlo
!, Btrset jail or Sips, Sing, but because thu
=. lovs God and hatt unrigilsousasss. ha'
y nsyer hoard, nor lave you heard, of an
|. eenernte the heart, and by the influence
that resenersred heart rectify the life. z
4 scuts the lsY most eertstnly, but preach Il
= gospel by all means In churches, In theatre
- Ia homes, In prisons, on the land and on 4
4 bsa. Tbs gospel y the only power that G.
else 10 half and half work and will not La
= In Ne1 York It has allowed men who got
u police hrihery their thousands and tens
= thousands and perhaps hundreds Of tho
= lands OF dollars TO 60 scot free. while soi
y rho wore merely the oats paw and agents
Y br1bsry are struek with the beginnings Of I
- Law, 1t rsmtnds me Of . scene in Philad
= man had bean arrested and tried and 1
= prfsonsd for selling molssses candy on Sr
DAY. Other tawpreakers had been allow
10 go undisturbed, and the grogshops W
X open on the Lords Day, and the law, W
~ is hands behind its back, walked up a
" down the streets declining TO modest ma
:. Of the Offenders, but we all rose up in
- righteous Indignation, and calling upon
poYsry, visible and invisible, TO help rs,
- deeiarsd that though the heavens fell no '
n man should be allowed to sell molas
pandy ON Sunday.
" A few weeks ago, after l had preached
- ons OF the ehurahes in this city, q n
81 staggered mp on the pulpit stairs. maud
drunk. saying. At am one OF the reform
- that were elected 10 high ofiee at tho
II election" I got rid OF that great reform
n as soon a. I could, but I did not get rid
~ the impression tina q man like that wo
~ cure the abomtnations OF New York abou'
y soon as smallpox would cure typhoid fe
- or a buzzsaw rende Haydn's "Creatio
~ Politics In all our cities has become 50 {
~ rupt that the only difference between
Republican and Democratic parties Ia I
" each is worse than the other. But W
~ nothing else In the universe can do the {
pel can and will accomplish. "They 9
y come from the West,y' n for that purp
the ~eyangelistic batteries are planted
along the Pacific coast, as they are plar
all along thel Atlantic coast. All the p
IN ries, all the mountains, all the valleys,
the cities are under more or less gospel
luence, and when we get enough faith
consecretion for the work this whole Am
~ eau continent will cry out for God. 81
an shall come from the West"
The work Is not so difficulty as many 8
~ pose. You say, ''There are thaforeign 1
!, y ulations." Yss, but many Of them are
landers, and they were brought up to
'n' and worship God, and 1t will take but !
10 persuade the Hollanders to adopt tn,
ligfon oftheir forefathers. Then there
among these foreigners so many OF
Scotch. They or their ancestors h
Thomas Chalmers thunder and Robert
, Cheyne pray. Tho breath OF God SO o
~ swept through the heather of the highla
~ and the voice of God has 50 often SOM
- through the Trossachs, and they ell !
,old how to sing Dundee, SO that they will
acre have oitento be invited to acsept the &c
ions John Knox and Boutwell, Bridge.
We Then there are among these foreigner
that many Of the English. They Inherited
re- Dame language as we inherited-the En-
more In which Shakespeare dramatized. and
,ide. ION chimed his cuntos, and Henry Mel
lied eospelised, and oliver Cromwell proroI
sui parliament, and Wellington commanded
eager hosts. Among these foreigners
n to the Swiss, aud they were rocked In a CT
be. under the shadow of the Alps, that cath'
70 an OF 1.-THE Almighty in which all the elem
i his snow and hail and tempest and hurri'
worshlp. Among these foreigners are q
Cai. host OF Germans, and they feel cent
n fne afterward tho power Of that unpara'
,ss9Is spirit who shook the earth when he trc
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