Connecticut western news., 1896-03-12

lue Ieccht hehiy wuluA scuus pdck lo Russia the blatant criminals who had been regurgitated on our American shore. The very things that have been quoted as perils to this nation are going to help its salvation. Great cities, so often mentioned as great obstac les-the center of crime and the reservoirs of all iniquities-are to lead in the work of gospelization. Who give most to home missions, to asylums, to religious edu- cation. to all styles of Humanitarian aud Christian institutions? The cities. From what places did the most relief go at the time of Johnstown flood, and Michigan fires, and Charleston earth quake, and Ohio freshets? From the cities. From what place did Christ send out his 1 ? apostles to gospelize the worldf From city. What place will do more than any other place, by its contribution of Christian men and women and means, in this work of taking America for Godi New York city. The way Paris goes, goes France. The way Berlin goes, goes Germany. The way Edinburgh goes. goes Scotland. The way London goes, goes England. The way New York and a couple other cities go, goes America. May the Eternal God wake us up to the stupendous issuel
 Joy of Giving.
 Another thing quoted pessimistically is the vast and overlapping fortunes in this country, and they say it means concentrating wealth and luxuriousness and display and moral ruin. It is my observation that it is people who have but limited resources who make the most splurge and ask you, Who are en- dowing colleges and theological semi naries? Did you ever hear of Peter Coop CT and James Lenox, and sainted Will liam E. Dodge, and the Lswrences, Amos and Abbott, while refrain from mentioning living benefaotors who, quite as generous and Christian, are in this assembly at this moment planning what they can do in these days, and in their last will and testament in this campaign that proposes taking America for God? The widows mite, honored of the Lord, is to have it's part in this con- tinental capture, but we must have more than that, and more right away. Many of the men that expect to get the  will not get the blessing. In the first place, they are not widows, and in the next place, they have no "might.
 The time is coming-hasten it, Lord and I think you and will see it, when, as Joseph, the wealthy Arima- thean, gave for the dead Christ a costly mausoleum, the affluent men and wom- en of this country will rise in their strength and build for our King, one Jesus, the throne of this American con- tinent.
 Another thing quoted for discourage ment. but which quote for encourage ment. is foreign immigration. Now that from Castle Garden we turn back by the first poor ship the foreign vagabond- ism, we are getting people, the vast majority of whom come to make an honest living, among them some of the bravest and the best. If you should turn back from this land to Europe the for eign ministers of the gospel, and the foreign attorneys, and the foreign mer- chants, and the foreign philanthropists, what robbery of our pulpits, our court rooms, our storehouses and our benefi- cent institutions, and what a putting back of sverymonetary, merciful, moral and religious interest of the land This oomminu1ing here of all nationalities under ths blessing of God will produce in 70 or 100 years the most magnificent style of man and woman the world ever saw. They will have the wit of one race, the eloquencs of another race, the kind ness of another, the generosity of anoth- CT, the aesthetic taste of another, the high moral character of another, and when that man and woman step forth, their brain and nerve and muscle an inter twining of the fibers of all nationalities, nothing but the new electric photograph ic apparatus, that can see clear through body, mind and soul, can take of them an adequate picture. But the foreign | population of America is less than one- | eleventh of all our population, and why all this fuss about foreign immigration? Eighty-ni born Americans to II for eignersi If 89 of ns New Jerseymen or | S9 of us New Workers or S9 of us Ohioans or 89 of us Georgians or 89 of | us Yankees are not equal to Il foreign | CTS, then we are starveling, hlliputian | group of humunculi that ought to be | wiped out of existence
 Weapons of the Lord.
 But now what are the weapons by l which, under our omnipotent leader, | the real obstacles in the way of our | conntry's evangelization, the 10000 | mile Sevastopols, are to be leveled? The | first columbiad, with range enough to | sweep from eternity to eternity, is the Bible, millions of its copies going out, millions on millions-this, the monarch | of books, that has made all the differ | ence between China and the United States, between Africa and America; 6 hook declaring in every style of phrase
 ology that all nations are to be convert | ed, and does not that include our na
 tion? If the Apocalyptic angel is to fly
 across the continents, will he not t1y
 across this continent? The worst insult
 I could offer you would be to doubt youl
 veracity, and shall we doubt God'l
 promise2 Then there are all tine gospe
 batteries, manned by 70, GOO pastors ant
 home missionaries, over the head o
 each one of whom is the shield of di
 vine protection, and in the right hanC
 of each the gleaming, two edged sword
 of the Infinite Spirit Hundreds O
 thousands of private soldiers for Christ
 marching under the one starred, blood
 striped flag of Emanuell They ar,
 marching oni Episcopacy, with the su
 blime roll of its liturgies; Methodism
 with its battlecry of "The sword of tn,
 Lord and John Wesley" the Baptis
 church, with its glorious navy sailin, I up our Oregons and Sacramentos an,
 Mississippi, and Presbyterianism, nov
 ing on with the battlecry of "Th
 sword of the Lord and John Knox.
 And then, after awhile will come tn
 great tides of revival, sweeping ove
 the land, the 500, 900 conversions il
 1857 eclpsed by the salvation of mil
 lions in day, and the four Americal |