Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1896-03-12

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 charlottesville
center of crimes and the reservoirs of
all iniquities-are to lead in the work
of Gospclization. Who give most to
home missions, to asylums, to rcli-
gious education, TO all styles of human
itarinn and Christian institutions?
The cities. From what places did the
most rciicf go at the time of Johnstown
flood, and Michigan fires, and Charles
ton earthquake, and Ohio freshets?
From the cities. From what place did
Christ send out his IL apostles to gos-
pclizc the world? 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 God? 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. Tho way New York
and a couple other cities go, goes Amer
lea. May the Eternal God wake MS up
to the stupcndous issue!
Another thing quoted pessimistically
is the vast and overlapping fortunes in
this country, and they say it means
concentrated wealth and luxurious
ness and display aud moral ruin. 1t is
my observation that it is people who
have but limited resources who make
the most splurgc, and l ask you, Who
are cndowing colleges and theological
Summaries? Did You ever hear of Peter
Cooper and James Lenox and sainted
Vim. T.. Dodge and the Lawrcnces,
Amos and Abbott, while refrain from
mentioning living bcncfactors who,
quite rs generous and Christian, are
ut 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 its part in the continental
capture, but we must have more than
that, and more right away. Many of
the men that expect to get the blessing
for bcstowing the widows mite 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, Lordi
and 1 think you and | will see it,
when. us Joseph, the wealthy Arim-
athcan, gave for the dead Christ a cost
ly mausoleum, the afiluent men and
women of this country will rise in their
strength and build for our King, ono
Jesus, the throne of this American con-
tinent.
Another thing quoted for discourage
ment, but which quote for encourage
nent, is foreign immigration-now that
from Castle Garden we turn back by
the first poor ship the foreign vaga-
bondism-we are getting people, the
vast majority Of whom come to make
an honest living; among them some of
the bravcst and best. IL you should
turn back from this land to Europe the
foreign ministers of the Gospel, and the
foreign attorneys, and the foreign mcr-
chants, and the foreign philanthropists,
what n robbery of our pulpits, our
courtrooms, our store houses, and
out beneficent institutions, and what
n putting back of every monetary, mer-
ciful, moral and religious interest of
the land, This commingling here of all
nationalities under the blessing of God
will produce in IS or 100 years the most
magnificent style of man and woman
the world ever saw. They will have
the wit of one race, the eloquence of
another race, the kindness of another,
| the generosity Of another, the aesthetic
| taste of another, the high moral char
acter, another. and when that ma Z "a
woman step forth, their brain and nerve
and muscle an INTERVIEWING of the fl
bers of all nationalities, noting but the
new electric Photographic 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 eleven per cent. of
all our population, and why all this
fuss about foreign immigration?
Eighty-ninc born Americans to IL fer
eigners, If 50 of us New Jerseymen,
or 50 of us New Workers, or 50 of us
Ohioans or 50 of ms Georgians, or SO
of us Yankees are not equal to IL for
eigners, then we are starveling. lil-
iputian group of humunculi that ought
to be wiped out of existence.