The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-02-11
CHAPLAIN DID NOT COME
Mas Showed in Along the Jersey Coast
and Could Not Reach Here.
REV. DIR. PEARCE PREACHED
God Has Accorded TO His Relieving Child.
rem OF Today the Supreme Oprortun.
ity of the Eyaugcii2ation of the
Woril-Earncst Effort Needed


Chaplain McCabe disappointed a
large congregation at Elm Park church
yesterday morning. Rev. w. IL. Pearce
received the following dispatch ON Sat
urday night: Showed in on Jersey
coast; cannot reach Scranton; do what
you can"
DIR. Pearcc explained that they would
endeavor to make arrangements for a
visit from Chaplain McCabe in the near
future. The reverend gentleman
preached an excellent sermon from
Esther, iy., IA, during which he re-
marked:
Let me lead at once to the subject
by saying that God in His providence
has accorded to his believing children
OF today the supreme opportunity or
chance for the evangeiZation of the
whole world. out of the soil of the
troubled centuries no other such aug
Justly opportune period has come aud,
If seized upon by the New Testament
standard of liberty with consecrated
zeal, the eVangeliZation of the world s
continents. with their enslaved and be-
realized fact, and the long dirge of the
worlds lamentations end i'm the trl-
umphal songs of redeemed empires
The old potter of Antwerp had toiled
through the long years and at great
expense and sacrifice to produce a GER
tain gloss upon his wares. Several
times he had approached very near to
it, but failed, and in these approaches
he had spent all of the earnings of his
life and had reduced himself again and
again to extreme poverty. He thought
that he would make one more trial, for
we'll he knew that if he succeeded he
would be enriched with abundance and
greatly hOnored. For this last trial
the ware was more carefully prepared
and the kiln heated, but just at the
moment when he thought that the long
desired gloss was about to come upon
the ware, the fuel for the kiln gave out.
1t was all that he had, but feeling that
the opportune moment of his life had
come, he seized upon his tables, chairs
| and bedsteads and made fuel of these.
The gloss came upon the pottery
smooth as ivory and with the luster of
pearl and from that hour he was en-
riched and his fame assured.
The Time Has Come.
Beloved, from out of the weary,
waiting ages, the opportune time has
surely come for the evangelization of
| the whole world-every barrier down
and every door wide open. Since
| this century began, a golden network
| glistening with heavenly dews has been
| extending from the great centers of
| Chrlstendom with lines radating in
| every direction and cross lines connect
ing until this great globe itself is gir-
! died and enclosed and the most distant
lands brought within easy and speedy
reach of Gods word.
"If the disciples of the Lord Jesus
Christ in this auspicious period will
| only awake and bestir themselves; il
| they will only intensity the forces now
| at work; if they will only push with q
! holieE enthusiasm, with an enlarged
| faith and personal conservation. along
| all the lines that are now Frightening
| toward the millennium, and, if they, lik.
| the Antwerp potter, will only feed al
| whatever loss of treasure or service
the flames of the churches already kin
died, until they glow with white heat
| then the early tomorrow would brighter
into the splendor of a world brough
back to God, and everywhere over eartl
and sea and along the paths of mer
would be heard sounding like the full
toned thunders of heaven and singing
in grand and universal harmony 'Tht
| Kingdoms of this earth have become tn,
Kingdoms of our Lord and His Christ
"From the way some ministers ant
people talk about missionary move
ments and achievements you woulC
think that the evenagelization and con
version of the world Is going on so rap
idly that we might expect at any mo
ment to hear the glad shouts of III
utter disenthralment from the darkness
and power of sin.
But we need to penetrate this decep
tive halo of this mere enthusiasm anC
look at the great bald facts, that likt
the crags of q rugged, lonely mountain
left their forms far above and cas-
their deep shadows on the shining
plains below.