The Penn's Grove record., 1896-02-14
hey. IR. IALUgGE.
The Eminent Divine's Sunday
Sermon
subject; "rh r1.es TO Bssia.-


long the Joy Of the whote earth. That city
coroneted with temples and palaces an
radiant, whether Looked up at from the val
ley OF Jehoshaphat OF gazed at from adloir
Ing hills, was the capital Of q great NATION
Clouds ofincense had hoyered over 1t. Chal
lots OF kings had rolled through II. Batter
ing rams Of enemies had Numbered agains
1t. There Isaiah prophesied, n Jerernia
lamented, and David ~reigned, and Pau
preached, and Christ was mnrtyred. Mos
interesting city ever built since masonr
rung its first trowel or plumb line measures
Its first wall or royalty swung its mrs
ecepter. What Jerusalem was to the Jewisl
kingdom Washington Is to our countr,
the capital, the place to which all tn
tribes come up, the great National near
whose throb sends life or death through thu
body polite, clear out to the geographical
extremities,
What the resurrected Christ said in m.
lextto His disciples when He ordered themt'
start on the work OF gosplization, ssbegin
ming at Jerusalem, p" 1t seems to me God say
now in His providence to tens OF thousand
Of Christians in this city. Start for thi
evangelization Of America. "~beginning al
Washington" America is going to be takei
for God. If you do not believe II, take You
hat now and leave and give room to SOM
mar or woman who does believe 1t. A
surely as God lives and He Is able to do as H
81 1OyE AAO WAAA tui1 tpuuhAJ " ~ NthAo0ASO
from the mouth OF the Potomac to tn,
mouth of the Oregon, from the Highlands 0
Navesink to the Golden Horn, from. Baflnl
Bay to the Gulf Of Mexico, and Christ wi
walk every lake, whether bestormSd o
placid, and be transfigured on every noun
tain, and the night skies, whether theThovel
over groves Of magnolia or over Alaskan
glacier, shall be filled with the angrs over
ture OF 'glory to God and good6kAll Il
men,"
Again and again does the old book an
nounce that all the earth shAlt SEE the saliva,
ton Of God, and as the greater includes the
lesser that takes America g~lortously In. Ca
you not see that il tmeriea is not taken fol
God by His consepratad people it will be
both sides are ! kAaendous that il cannoi
be a drawn battle. Il Is coming, the Anna
geddon. Either thn american Sabbath will
perish and this Nstgon be handed over &c
Herods and Hildf hands and Diocletian,
and Neros Of balefsfli power, and Alcoholism
will reign, seated Upon piled up throne d
beer barrels, his mouth foaming with do
nestle and National eGrse, and crime vii
lift its unhindered knife OF assassination
and rattle keys of worst burglary and wave
torch Of widest confederation, and oul
cities be turned into Sodoms, waiting fol
mighty tempest of Are n birthstone
and one tidal wave Of abomination
will surge across the continent, or oui
sabbaths will take on more sancti-
~, and the newspapers will become appeal,
yptic wings OF benediction. and penitentiaries
will be abandoned for lack Of occupants. and
holiness and happiness, twin son and daugh.
ter Of heaven, shall walk through the land
and Christ reign over this Nation either In
person or by agency so glorious that the
whole country will be one clear. resoundiag
echo OF heaven. 1t will be n or the Other.
| n. - "a -. Ia.r.4l. . "a
ever l declare it will be the latter. If the
Lord will help me, as He always doeg-
blessed be His glorious name--I will show
you how a mighty work Of grace begun at
Washington would have q tendency to bring
the whole continent to God, and before this
century closes.
William the Conqueror ordered the eurfew,
the custom of ringing tho bell at midnight,
1t which all the fires on the hearths were to
be banked, and all the lights extinguished.
and all the people retire to their pillows. I
pray God that the curfew Of this century
may not be sounded, and the fires be banked,
and the lights extinguished as the clock
strikes the midnight hour that divides the
nineteenth century from the twentieth CEN
fury until this beloved land, which was 10
most Of us a cradle and whichSwfil be to q ost
Of us a grave, shall come into the full bos-
session Of Him who is SO glorious that WIN
lam the C~onqueror could not be compared II
Him. even the One who rideth forth "coh
suering and to conquer"
Why should 1t be especially a~dvantageonA
u a mighty work OF grace started here, ..ye-
ginning at Washington" First. because this
ityts on the border between the North and
ern. 1t commingles the two climates. IT
brings together the two styles Of population.
II Is not only right, but beautiful that PEG.
+ pie should have especial love for the latitude
where they were born and brought mp. With
what loving accentaation the Aiabamian
speaks Of his orange grovesl And the man
from Mass6.Zsetts Is sure to let you know
samuel and John and John Quincy. Did
you ever know a Virginianrr Ohioan whose
Iface did not brighten when he announced
himself from the {Southern or Northern
State OF Presidents2 \ If man does not like
his native cline, it Z because while he lived
there he did not behave well. This capital
| stands where, by its locality and its political
i the North and the other toward the South,
and a mighty work OF grace starting hsre
would probably be a National awakening.
lGeorgia would clasp the hand O NeW Hamp.
shire. and Maine the hand of Louisiana, and
ICatfornia the hand of New York, and say,
lhCome, let us go up and worship the God
|of Nations, the Christ OF Golgotha, the Holy
Il l1HQA vi tuO = ~ las
often been said that the only way the
North and the South will be brought Into
| somplete accord is to have . war with
pome foreign Nation in which both sections,
| marching side by side, would forget every
Thing but the foe to be overcome. Well, II
you wait for such a foreign conflict, you
| will wait until all this generation IA dead
will make the sections forget past contro-
| yersies Il a war against nnrighteousness,
such as a universal religious awakening
would declare. What we want ia a battle
| for souls in which about AZ, 900 900 Northern
srs and Southerners shall be on the same
| side and shoulder to shoulder. In no other
| city on the continent can such q war be de-
Iclared SO appropriately, for all the other
great cities are either Northern or Southern,
lThisi "a neither, or rather 1t is both.
Again. il wclld be especially advAntaeeous
4 A mighty work OF grace started here, he.
cause more representative men are in Wash
Iington than in any other city between the
oceans. OF course there are accidents in
~nolitics. and occasionally there are men who
pet into the Senate and House of Represen-
fatiyes and other important places who are
fitted for the positions in neither head nor
heart. hut this Is exceptional Aid more ex-
c~entional now than in otAsr days. There is
not a drunkard in the National Legislature,
althouvh there were times when Kentucky,
| Virginia, AlluOiqt Now 1Ofk afl1
Massachusetts had men In the Senate OF
House Of Representatives who were maudlin
and staggering drunk across those higf
places. { Never nobler group OF mer sat II
Senate or House of Representatives than sal
there Yesterday and will sit there to-morrow
while the highest Judiciary. without ex
~esption. has now upcnt its bench men be
vond criticism Tor good morals and mentn.
Endowment. SO in all departments Of Oh
eial position, with here aud there an exeso
zion are to-day the brainiest men and mos
honorable men OF America. Now, suppos,
ira HOLY Ghost power should fall upon thi
,dtv. and these men nom all parts OF Amer
ica should suddenly become pronounced 10
Christ. Do you say the effect would be cleo
trical2 More than ,hn,i 1t would be ON,
ntpotent. Do You say at such learned ant
ootent men aret aot wroskht upon by relic,
ous innuenc,f ThatNfhowa you have no
observed what has been goingou
Commodore Foote. representing the nav
General Grant and RdRsrt q Lee. rsotesent
Ine the Northern and Fthefn armies; chic
Justice Chase. r&lrN tntips tbs 8aprsml
Court: the F~reEnshuA lsnA 4heodofs an
\ Frederick, repreeenttf the Unit Gkafs
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