The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1896-02-21

forget everything but the foe to be w
come. Well, If you wait for such
foreign conflict, you will wait until al
this generation is dead. aud perhap.
wait forever. The war that will make
the sections forget past controversies /!
a wal against Gnrighteousness, such a!
a universal religious awakening woulG
declare. What we want is n battle fol
souls, in which about forty million
northerners and southerners shall be OF
the same side, and shoulder to shoulder
IN no other city on the continent can
such a war be declared SO appropri.
ately. for all the other great cities are
either northern or southern. This is
neither, or, rather. il is both.
Again, it would be especially advan-
tageous if a mighty work of grace
started here, because more representa-
tive men are in Washington than in
any other city between the oceans. or
course there are accidents in politics,
and occasionally there arc men who get
in to the senate and house of represen-
tatiyes and other important places who
are fitted for the position in neither
head nor heart; but this is exceptional
and more exceptional now than in other
days. There is not a drunkard in the
national legislature, although there
were times when Kentucky, Virginia,
Delaware, Illinois, New York and Mas
sachusetts had men in senate or house
Of representatives who went maudlin
and staggering drunk across those high
places. Never nobler group Of men sat
in senate or house of representatives
than sat there yesterday and will sit
there tomorrow, while the highest
judiciary, without exception, has now
upon its bench men beyond criticism
for good morals and mental endowment.
The soul Of a nan who can bring a
thousand or ten thousand other souls
into the kingdom Of God is worth a
thousand times or ten thousand times
more than the soul of q man who can
bring no one into the kingdom. a
great ~outpouring of the Holy Spirit in
this capital, reaching the chief men of
America, would be of more value to
earth and heaven than in any other part
of the nation, because it would reach all
the states, cities, towns, and neighbour
hoods of the continent. Oh, for the
outstretched right arm Of God Almighty
in the salvation of this capital.
Some of us remember 1857, when, at
the close Of the worst monetary dis
tress this country has ever felt, COM
last three years were a boom Of pros
perity, right On the heels Of that COM
plete prostration came an awakening
in which five hundred thousand people
were converted in different states OF the
Do you know where n Of its
chief powers was demonstrated? In
Washington. Do you know on what
This street. Do you know in
what church? This church. I picked
up an old book a few days ago, and was
startled, and thrilled, and enchanted to
read these words, written at that time
by the Washington correspondent of q
New York paper. He wrote: "Thc
First Presbyterian church can scarce
the people. Requests are daily
preferred for an interest in the prayers
and the reading OF these forms
one Of the tenderest and most effective
Of the meetings. Particular
pains are taken to disclaim ana exclude
like sectarian feeling. Gen
aral establishment is felt at the unex-
rapidity with which the work
to anticipate the necessity OF
opening another church." Why, my
hearers, not have that again, and more
han that? There are many thousands
nore ofinhabitants now than then. Be
ide that, since then the telephone, with
is semi-omnipresence, and the swift
able car, for assembling the people. I
,elieve that the mightiest revival of re-
igion that this city has yer seen is yet
o come, and the earth will tremble
rom Capitoline Hill to the boundaries
all sides with the footsteps Of God
IS he comes to awaken and pardon and
ave these great populations. People
# Washington, meet US next Thursday
light, at half past ven o'clock, to pray
or this coming of the Holy Ghost-not
or a ~pentecostal three thousand, that I
ave referred to, but thirty thousand.
a fire as that would kindle a light
hat would be seen from the siedges
punching through the SHOWS of Labra-
or to the Caribbean sea, where the
are born. Let our cry be
hat of Hebakkuk, the blank verse poet
f the Bible: 20 Lord, revive thy work
4 the midst Of the years, in the midst
f the years made known: in wrath re-
mercy" Let the battle-cry be.
Washington for Godi the United States
Or God! America for Cod, the world
God! We are all tired of slirmish-
lg. Let us bring On a general engage
1ent. We are tired of fishing with
ook and line. With one sweep Of the
net let US take in many thou
ands. This vast work must begin
omeWhere. Why not here? Some
must give the ralIying cry, why
lay not l, \ of the Lords servants?
y providential arrangement, I an
week in sermonic communication
'ltn every city, town, and neighbour
BOD OF this country, and now | give the