The Penn's Grove record., 1896-03-13

" - ~ U-TTVTIIWT WFWSUHUFTS, HnT
good aud healthful books, and our chief de-
pendence for intelligence and Christian
achievement is upon chem, what word
among the more than 100,O 600 words in oul
vocabulary can describe the work of thai
archangel of mischief, a corrupt literature,
what man, attempting anything for God
and humanity, has escaped q stroke Of III
hlthy wingH What good cause has escaped
lis Indictment? What other obstacle In all
the land so appalling? But 1 cannot name
more than one-half the battlements, the has.
lions, the intrsnchment5, the redoubts, thu
Qualifications to be stOrmed and overcome II
This country is ever taken for God. The sta.
ttstics are so awful that If we had nothina
but the multiplication table and the arith.
metic the attempt to evangelize America
would be an absurdity higher than the tower
OF Babel before 1t dropped on the plain OF
ehinar. Where are the drilled troops to
march against those Notifications as long as
the continent Where are the batteries that
can be unlimbered against these walls7
Where are the guns of large enough calibel
to storm these gates2 Well, let us look
around and see, the first Of all, who IL u
leader and will be our leader until the work
Is done. Garibaldi, with 1000 Italians,
sould do more than another commander
with 1000 Italians. General sherman. on
one side, and Stonewall jackson, on the
other, each with 10000 troops, could do
more than some other generals with 90, 0O1
.roops. The rough boat In which Washing
ton crossed the icy Delaware with a few
half fozen troops was mightier than the ship
of war that during the American Revolu-
hon came through the Narrows. q gun at
zach portfolio, and sank In He'll Gate.
0ur leader, like most great leaders, waA
,orn in an obscure place, and 1t was an
humble home, about five miles from
Jerusalem. Those who were out of doors
that night said that there was stellar COM
notion, and music that came out OF the
clouds, as though the front door Of heaven
lad been set open, and that the camels heard
His;nrstinfantile cry. Then He came to the
ARREST boyhood that mother was ever proud
81, and from twelve to thirty years OF &
was of in India, II traditions there are accu-
rate, and then returned to His native land,
and for three years had His pathway sur
rounded by blind eyes that He illumined,
and epfleptic patients to whom He CAV
subicund health, and tongues that He
ioosed from silence into song, and those
whose funerals He stopped that He might
give back to bereaved mothers their only
Boys, II those whose feyered pulses He had
restored into rhythmic throb, and whose
paralytic limbs He had warmed into health
'ul ctrculatiou-pastor at Capernaum, bur
banning evangelist everywhere, hushing
nying 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
1t the sight OF which the sun tainted and fell
back In the heavens, and then treading the
.louds homewRrd, like snowy mountain
peaks, till heaven took Him back again,
more a favorite than He had ever been; butt
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 Haymarket, the Pledmontese
sufferers, the Pilgrim fathers, the Hu,
guenots, and amounted m%uititudes OF
the past, Joined by about 400, zoo, 900 OF the
present, and with the certainty that all Ma.
lions shall huzza at His chariot wheel He
goes forth, the moon under His feet and the
,tars of heaven for His tiara-the might.
leader, He Of Drumclog and Boutwell,
Bridge and Bannockburn and the one who
whelmed Spanish Armada. Coming up from
Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah,
travelling in the greatness of His strength,
mighty tosave," and behind whom we fall
INTO line to-day and march in the campaign
hat is to take America forsGod. Hosannahi
Hosannah! Wave all the palm b~ranchesl AT
His feet put down your silver n your gold,
IS in heaven you will cast before Him your
,oronets.
With such a leader, do you not think we
.an do i'll Say, do you think we CAM Why,
many ramparts have already been taken.
Where is American slavery Gone, and the
South, as heartily as the North, prays,
peace to its ashes" Where y bestial
p~olygamy? Tone by the fiat OF the United
States Government, urged on by Christian
lentiment, and MOrmOnism, having RET a
n 1880 from Fayette, N. Y, to Kirkland, O.,
md in 1888 retreated to Missouri, aud IN
1916 retreated to Salt Lake City, now
divorced from Its superiority OF wives, will
loon retrea: into the Pacific, and no basin
smaller than M 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
Knocked out in the first round! Corruption
1t the ballot box, by law Of registration and
other safeguards, made almost tmpossiblei
Churches twice as large az the old onss, the
enlarged supply to meet the enlarged de-
nand! Nihilism. getting a stunning stroke
by the summary execution OF Its exponents
after they had murdered the policemen In
chicago, received its deathblow from the re-
gent treaty which sends back to Russia the
blatant criminals who had been regurgitated
on our American shore. The very things
That have been quoted as perils to this Nation
ire going to help its salvation. Great cities,
70 often mentioned as great obstacles-the
benter OF crime and the reservoirs of all
iniauities are to lead In the work OF
sospeiization. Who give most to ZONE
missions, to asylums, to religious edu-
ton, to all styles OF humanitarian
and Christian institutions The cities. From
what places did the most relief go at the
time Of Johnstown food, and Michigan fires,
and Charleston earthquake, and Ohio
iresliets2 From the cities. From what place
did Christ send out His twelve apostles to
gospelizs the world? From a city. What
place will do more than any other place, by
It's contribution OF Christian men and women
and means. in this work OF taking America
!or God? New York City. The way Paris
goes. goes France. The way Berlin goes,
soes Germany. The way Edinburgh goes,
roes Scotland. The way London goes, goes
England. The way New York aud q couple
other cities go, goes America. May the
Eternal God wake Us up to the s~tupendous
ssue!
Another thing quoted pessimistically Is the
sast and overlapping fortune in this country,
and they say it means concentrating wealth
and lu~xuriousness and display and moral
ruin. Ii is my observation that II Is people
who nave but limited resources who max
the most splurges, and l ask you. Who are
sndowing colleges and theological semi
aaries2 Did you ever hear OF Peter Cooper
kQd James IenOA4 anu sHiuIt1 NktlIhIu e.
Dodge, and the Lawrences, Amos and Abb
oott, while 1 refrain from mentioning living
h~enefactors who, quite as generous and
Christian, are in this assembly at this mo-
ment planning what they can do in these
days, and IN their last will and testament in
this campaign that proposes taking America
FOR God2 The Widows mite, honored OF
the Lord, is 70 have its part In this con-
tinental capture, but we must have moro
thar that, and more right away. Many oil
the men that expect to get the blessing for
bestowing the widows mite will not get the
In the first place, they are not
widows, and In the next place they have no
Hmite."
The time is coming-hasten 1t, Lord-and
{ think you and l will see 1t. when, rs Jo.
seph, the wealthy ArlmsthRan, gave for ths
dead Christ a costly mausoleum, the affiuent
men and women OF this country will rise in
their strength aud build for our King.
Jesus, the throne OF this American conti'
nent.
Another thing quoted for disbursement,
but which | quote FOR announcement, IS for
eign immigration. Now that from Castle
we turn back by the first poor ship
foreign vagabondism, we are getting
people, the vast majority of whom come to
make an honest living. among them some OF
the bravest and the best. II you should turn
back from this land to Europe the foreign
Of the gospel, and the foreign at