The free press., 1896-03-26

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a What man, attem2d ID cause has escaped
u u and humanity haM other obstaels In all
!. filthy wing7 WDg? But 1 cannot name
Z its underneath the battlementsj the bas-
~ the land safenchments; the redoubts, the
a. ~ more tons to be stormed and overcome IL
u tioountry is ever taken for God. The sta
"a Lies are so awful that If we had nothing
'but the multiplication table and the arlth-
metic the attempt to evangeize America
would be an absurdity higher than the tower
OF Babel before it dropped on the plain OF
Shinar. 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 walls?
Where are the guns OF large enough callber
TO storm these gates? Well, let us look
around and see, the first of all. who is our
leader and will be our leader until the work
is done. Garibaldi, with 1000 Italians,
could do more than another commander
with 10 900 Italians. General Sherman, on
TaoI nm, fbp
other, each with 10000 troops, could do
more than some other generals with 10000
troops The rough boat in which Washing
ton crossed the icy Delaware with few
half fozen troops was mightier than the ship
of war that during the American Revolu-
tion came through the Narrows, gun at
each portfolio, and sank in He'll Gate.
Our leader. like most great leaders, was
born ia au obscure place, and it was an
humble home, abou. five miles from
Jerusalem. Those who were out Of doors
that night said that there was stellar COM
motion, and music that came out OF the
clouds. as though the front door OF heaven
had been set open. and that the camels heard
His.frstinfantile cry. Then He came to the
fairest boyhood that mother was ever proud
of. and from twelve to thirty years OF age
was off 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 epileptic patients to whom He gave
rubicund health. and tongues that He
loosed from silence into song, aud those
whose funerals He stopped that He might
give back to bereaved mothers their only
boys, and those whose fevered pulses He had
restored into rhythmic throb, and whose
paralytic limbs He had warmed into health
ful circulation--pastor at Capernaum, but
flaming evangelist everywhere, hushing
crying tempests and turning rolling seas
into solid sapphire, and for the rescue Of q
race submitted to courtroom filed with
bowling miscreants, and to martyrdom
at the sight of which the sun tainted and fell
back in the heavens, and then treadng the
clouds homcward, like snowy mountain
peaks, Til heaven took Him back again,
moro 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 Piedmontese
sufferers, the Pilgrim fathers, the Hu-
guenots, and uncounted multitudes OF
the past, Joined by about 400 900, 900 of the
present, and with the certainty that all Ma
tions shall huzza at His chariot wheel He
goes forth, the moon under His feet and the
stars of heaven for His tiara-the mighty
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 to save" and behind whom we fall
into line to-day and march in the campaign
that is to take America for God. Hosannah!
Hosannah Wave all the palm branches! AT
His feet put down your silver and your gold,
as in heaven you will cast before Hin your
coronets.
With such leader do you not think we
can do it? 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 to its ashes" Where is bestial
polygamy? Gone by the fiat of the United
States Government. urged on by Christian
sentiment, and Mormonism, having retreated
in 1880 from Fayette, N. Y, to Kirkland, o.,
and in 1888 retreated to Missouri, aud lin
1916 retreated to Salt Lake City, now
divorced from its superhuity of wives, will
soon retrea. into the Pacific, and no basin
smaller than an ocean could wash out its
pollutions. 1lliteracy 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
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 exponents
after they had murdered the policemen ir
Chicago, received its deathblow from the re-
cent 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
are going to help its salvation. Great cities
so often mentioned us great obstacles-tht
center Of crime and the reservoirs OF al
iniquities-are to lead in the work o
gospeization. Who give most to home
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 flood. and Michigan fires
and Charleston earthquake, and Ohio
freshets? From the cities. From what place
did Christ send out His twelve apostles tc
gospelize the world? From CITY. Whai
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