Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1895-02-06

Tho Christ who came from the East win
let bring all the East with Him. or courst
there arc high obstacles to be overcome, and
great or!eals must he passad through bafors
rne eonsummatton, ~ witness the Armeniana
under the butshsry Of the TURKS. May that
orumbiel Tho time has already come when
the United States Government and Great
britain and Germany ought to intome ths
indignation OF all civilized Nations. While
II u not requisite that arms bo sent there "a
avenSe the Wholesale massacre OF Armen.
ians, 1t y requisite that by cable under the
seas, and by protest that shall thrill the
wires from Washington and Lon Ion and
Berlin to Constantinople. the Nations an.
afhemafixs the diabolsn for which the Sui.
tan OF Turkey u responsible. Mohammedan.
ism II . cane Hhethee In TuEkev or N0u
York. '.They shall como from the East =
And they will como at the Gail OF the love
lies; and grandest and hest men and onel
OF all time. I mean tha missionaries. Dis.
bOiute Americans and En3iishmen who hnv,
gons to Calcutta and Bombay and Canton te
mako their fortunes defame the missionarie.
because the holy lives and the pure hou q
holds OF those missionaries are constant ra
buke 10 the American and English libertine>
stopping there, but the men and women OF
God there stationed go on gloriously with
their work. People Just as good aui sell
denying as was Missionary MofYat, who.
when asked TO write in an album. wrop
hese voris:
MY album il In savage breasts.
Wnere passion reiSns and darkness rests
Without one ruy Of Night.
To write the name OF esus thera.
To point to worlds both bright and fair,
And see the pagan bow in prayer,
Is all my souls delight.
In all those regions ara men and women
with the conservation of Melville B, Coz
who, onbarkIng for the missionary work tr
Africa, said TO fellow student, "If die IL
A.ries, come and write my ep:taph." "Whai
shall l write for your epitaph?" said the
Hu lent. "Write," said he, ''these words,
''Let a thousand fall before Africa be given
up."
There 1, another point OF the compass tha
my text inciu les. "They shall come from
the West" Tuat means Amsr,c. redeemed,
Everything between Atlantic and Pacific
Oceans TO bs brought within the circle OF
holiness and rapture. Will 1t be done b,
worldly reform or evangelism? Will IT b<
law or gospei2 I an glad that a wave o
reform has swept across this Land. and al
the cities arc feeling the a aivantage Of tha
mighty movement. Let the good work &c
on until the last municipal evil IL e1
tirpaied. About fifteen years ago tho dis
tinguished editor of New York daili
newspaper said to me in his editorial
room: "You ministers talk about evils o,
which you know nothing. Why don't you
90 with the officers of the law aud explore
for yourself, SO that when you preach agatns,
sin you can speak from what you have soc q
with your own eyes?" said, "I will," and
in company with commissioner OF polica
and a captain ofpollce and two elders Of my
church explored the dcns and hiding placea
Of all styles OF crime in New York and
preached q series o. sermons warning young
men and seting forth the work that must bs
done lest tho Judgments of God wh-lm this
city with more awful su enlargement than the
4 II.
and PompeiL received, as nearly a. can
r member, several hundred columns OF news.
paper ahuss for undertaking that expIora.
tion. Eiito'isls OF denunciation, double
le-d-a snh with .-T..sT, EreN primer
''Talmage Makes the Mistake Of His Lfe,'
or "DoHn With Talmage," but l still live
snd am in full sympathy with all movement
tor municipal purid,irion.
But a movement which ends with crime
exposed and law executed stops half way.
Nay, 1t stops long befor, It gets half way.
The law never YET saved any body, never ys,
changed anybody. Break up all the houses
Of iniquiry in this city, and you only send
the occupants 10 other cities. Break dowl
al the policemen in New York, and while d
shanges their worldly fortunes It does moi
shAnge their heart or life. Ths greatesi
want in Isw York today Is tho transform.
Ing power OF the gospel OF Jesus Christ Il
change tbs heart and the lie and uplift tn,
tone Of moral sentiment and make msn d,
right not because they ars afraid OF LUDLOW
Street Jail or Sing Sing. but because the!
Fove God and hate unrighteousness. hav'
nerer heard, nor have you heard, OF any
thing except the gospel that proposes to ra
generate the heart. and by the influence q
that ressaersFsd heart reetify the life. Ex
scute the law most eortafnly. tut preach TN
gospel BY all means IN churches, in theatres
In homes, In prisons, on the land and on th
seh The gospel is the only power that cal
revo}ut1ontxs society and save thu worli. Al
ese 10 half and half work and will not last
police bribery thetf Thousands and tens o
thousands and perhaps hundreds OF thou
sands Of dollars to go scot free, while som
Who were merely the cats paw and agents O
br1bsgy are struck with the lightnings Of thl
law. 1t reminds me Of Q scene in Philadel
phis when was living there. A poor wd
man had been arrested and tried and i'm.
prisOned for selling molasses candy on Sum
day. Other ls1breakers had been allowed
10 so undisturbed, and the groSshops were
open on tho Lords Day, and the law, with
It's hands behind its back, walksi up and
down the streets declining TO molest many
OF the OF n 'ers, but We all rose up in our
righteous in1i ynstion, and calling upou all
powers, visib;s and invisible, to help US, We
declared that though the heavens fell no wo.
man should be allowed to sell molasse
eaniy on Sunday.
A few weeks ago, after had preached In
one OF the churches in this city, a man
staggered mp on tho pulpit stairs, maudlin
drunk. saying, 'I am one OF the reformers
that were elected to high ONCE at tho last
election" got rid OF that ''great reiormer"
as soon a. could, but did not get rid OF
the impression that a man Ike that would
cure the abominations OF New York about as
soon as smallpox would cure typhoid fever
or buzzsaw render Haydn's "Creation."
Politics in all our cities has become SO cor
&E-S ~, A.
Republican and Democratic parties Is that
each 10 worse than the other. But what
nothing else in the universe can do tho gos.
pei can and will accomplish. "They ehal
come from the West" and for that purpose
the evangelistio batteries are planted all
along the Pacific coast, as they are planted
all along the Atlantic coast. All the pratt
ries all the mountains, all the valleys, all
the cities are under more or less gospel in
duence, and when We get enough faith anC
consecretion for the WORK this whole Ameri
can continent will cry out for God. "The,
shall come from the West"
The work is not SO difficulty as many sup
pose. You say, "There are the foreign pop
ulations." Yes, but many Of them are Hot
landers, and they were brought up to love
and worship God, and it will take but little
to persuade the HolIanders to adopt the re-
ligton OF their forefathers. Then there ART
among these foreigners SO many OF tn,
Scotch. They or their ancestors heart
Thomas Chalmers thunder anil Robert Nc
Eheyne pray. The breath or God so often
swept through the heather OF the highlands,
and the voice of God has so often sounded
through the Trossachs. and they all know
how to sing Dundee, 50 that they will MOI
have often to be invited to accept the God q
Tohn Knox and Boutwell, Bridge.
Then there arc among these foreigners 50
| many of the English. They inherited the
same language as We inherted-the English
In which Shakespeare dramatized, and Mil
ton chimed his cantos, AMI Henry Melville
| gospelized, and Oliver Cromwell prorogued
| parliament, and Wellington commanded his
| eager hosts. Among these foreigners are
the Swiss, and they were rocked In cradle
under the shadow of the Alps, that cathedral
Of the Almighty in which all the elements.
| snow and bail and tempest and hurricane,
/, worship. Among these foreigners are a vast
host OF Germans, and they feel centuries
afterward the power OF that unparalleled
spirit who shook the earth when he troi II.
and the heavens when he prayed-Martin