Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1896-03-20

the land 50 app4llingf But l cannot name
more than one-hAlf the hattlements, the bas-
tons, the intrenchments, the redoubts, the
f0TtihcatiOns 10 Be stormed and Overcome u
this country Il ever taken for God. The Sta
tisiies are 20 awful that n We had nothing
but the multiplication table and the ariih-
metia the attempt 20 eyangeliZe America
would be an ahsurdity higher than the tower
OF Babel before II dropped on the plain OF
Shinar. Where arc the drilled troops to
march against those fortifcations as long as
the continentl Where are the batteries that
can b unlimbered against these wallst
Where ara the guns % large enough cAliher
to storm these gatesl Well, let US look
around and see. the ilrst OF all. who is our
leader and will DO our leader until the work
Is done. Garibaldi, with 1000 Italians.
could do more than another commander
with 10 900 Italians. General Sherman, on
one side. and StOnewall Jackson. on the
other, each with 10000 troops, could do
more than some other generals with 10000
troops. The rough boat in Shich Washing
ton crossed the icy Delaware with a few
half fozen troops was mightier than the ship
Of war that during the American Revolu-
ton came through the Narr0ws a gun at
each portfolio, and sank in Hell Gate.
Our leader, like most great leaders, was
born in an Obscure place, and Il was an
humble home, about five miles from
Jerusalem. Those who were out OF doors
that night said that there was stellar COM
motion, aud music that came out OF the
clouds, as though the front door Of heaven
had been set open. and that the camels heard
His flrstinfantile cry. Then He came to the
fairest boyhoOd that mother was ever proud
Of. and from twelve 20 thirty years OF age
was Of in India II traditions there are accu-
rate, and then returned 20 His native land,
and for three years had His pathway sur
rounded by blind eyes that He illumined,
and epileptic patients 10 whom He gave
rubicund health. and tongues that BE
loosed from silence into song, and those
whose funerals He stopped that He might
give back TO bereaved mothers their only
bows, and those whose feyered pulses He had
restored into rhythmic throb, and whose
paralytic limbs He had warmed into health
full circuation-pastor at Capernaum, but
flaming evangelist everywhere, hushing
crying tempests and turning rolling seas
into solid sapphire, and for the rescue Of a
race submitted to courtroom filed with
bowling miscreants, and TO a martyrdom
at the sight Of which the sun tainted and fell
back in the heavens, and then treading the
clouds homeward, like snowy mountain
peaks. till heaven took Him back again,
more a favorite than He had ever been; but,
coming again, He is on earth now, and the
Nations are gathering to His standard. Fol-
lowing Him were the Scotch covenanters,
the Thebian legion. the victims of the
London Haynarket, the Pledmontese
sufferers, the Pilgrim fathers, the HUI
guenots, and uncounted multitudes Of
the past, joined by about 400, 900, 900 Of the
present, and with the certainty that all Ma
tons shall huzza at His chariot wheel He
goes forth, the moon under His feet and the
stars Of heaven for His tiarR--the mighty
leader, He of Drumclog aud Boutwell,
Bridge and Bannockburn and the one who
whelmed Spanish Armada. Coming up from
Ed0m, with dyed garments from Bozrah,
travelling in the greatness of His strength.
mighty 10 save, and behind whom We fall
into line to-day and march in the campaign
that Is 10 take America for.God. Hossnnahl
Hosannah Wave all the palm branches! AT
His feet put down your silver and your gold
as in heaven you will cast before Him your
corOnets.
With such a leader, do you not think We
can do III Say, do you think we can? Why,
many ramparts have already been taken.
Where is American slavery Gone. and the
South, as heartily as the North, prays
peace 90 its ashes Where is bestial
polygamy? Gone by the fat Of the United
States Government, urged on by Christian
sentiment, and Mormonism, having rel reated
in 1880 from Fayette, n. Y, TO Kirkland o.
and in 1888 retreated 10 Missouri, aud In
1886 retreated to Salt Lake City, now
divorced from its superfuity OF wives, will
soon retrea: into the Pacific, and no basin
smaller than an ocean could wash out its
pollutions. Illiteracy going down under the
work Of Slater and Peabody funds and Sab
bath schools Of all the churches OF all demo-
limitations. Pugilism, now made unlawful by
Congressional enactment, the brutal custom
b knocked out in the first round! Corruption
at the ballot box. by law OF registration and
? other safeguards, made almost impossible!
Churches twice as large as the old ones, the
enlarged supply TO meet the enlarged de.
mand! Nihilism, getting stunning stroke
by the summary execution of its opponents
! after they had murdered the policemen in
Chicago, received its deathblow from the re-
cent treaty which sends back to Russia the
, blatant criminals who had been regurgitate ed
, on our American shore. Tle very things
that have been quoted as perils to this Nation
are going to help its salvation. Great cities
SO often mentioned as great obstacles-the
, center OF crime and the reservoirs Of al
r iniquties are to lead In the work o.
gospeiization. Who give most TO hons
4 missions, to asylums, TO religious edu'
4 ton, TO all styles OF humanitarian
D and Christian institutions? The cities. From
( what places did the most relief go at tn,
= time OF Johnstown food. and Michigan fires
1 and Charleston earthquake, and Ohic
r freshets2 From the cities. From what place
Y did Christ send out His twelve apostles C
t place will do more than any other place, by
\ its contribution Of Christian men and womeI
r and means. in this work of taking America
? for God2 New York City. The way Par
4 goes, goes France. The way Berlin goes
= goes Germany. The way Edinburgh goes
8 goes Scotland. The way London goes, goe
9 England. The way New York and coupl,
1 other cities go, goes America, May III,
n Eternal God wake US up to the stupendou
n ISSUE
Q Another thing quoted pessimistically is tn,
9 vast and overlapping fortune In this country
Il and they say it means concentrating wealth
= and righteousness and display and mora
ruin. 1t is my observation that 1t Is peopl
Y who have but limited resources who max
v the most splurges, and ask you, Who ar
Is endowing colleges and theological semi
d naries2 Did you ever hear OF Peter Coope
e and James Lenox, and sainted William Z
" Dodge, and the LawrenCes, Amos and Alb
= bolt, while | refrain from mentioning Twin
l. henefactOrs who, quite as generous an
E. Christian, are in this assembly at this mo
10 ment planning what they can do in thes
10 days, and in their last will and testament Fl
r. this campaign that proposes taking Americ
It for God? The Widows mite, honored c
m the Lord, is TO have its part In this cor
h tnental capture, but ~ must have nor
r than that, and more right away Many {
at the men that expect to get the blessing 70
~ bestowlng the widows mite will not get th
N blessing. In the first place, they are nc
Is widows, and in the next place they have n
" unite"
The time is coming-hasten it, Lord-an
II 1 think you and l will see 1t, when, rs il
in seph, the wealthy Arimath@an. gave for tn
I'd dead Christ costly mausoleum, the afftuer
c. men and women of this country will rise !
d; their strength and build for our Kint
y. one Jesus, the throne OF this American cont
IL nent.
he Another thing quoted for discouragemen
OF but which quote for encouragement, is 70
IN eign immigration. Now that from Cast
ne Garden we turn back by the first poor sh