The Yale expositor., 1896-03-13

tongues that he loosed from silence into
song, and those whose funerals he
stopped that he might give back to be-
reaved mothers their only boys, and
whose fevered pulses he had restored
to rhythmic throb, and whose paralytio
limbs he had warmed into healthful
irculation-pastor at Capernaum, but
flaming evangelist everywhere, hush
ing crying tempests and turning roll
ing seas into solid sapphire, and for
the rescue of race submitted to court
room filled with bowling miscreants,
and to martyrdom at the sight of
which the sun tainted and fell back in
the heavens, and then treading the
clouds homeward, like snowy noun
tain-peaks, till heaven took him back
again, more favorite than he had ever
been; but, coming again, he is on earth
now, and the nations are gathering to
his standard. Following him were the
Scotch covenanters,A the Theban legion,
the victims of the London Haymarket,
the Piedmontese sufferers, the Pilgrim
Fathers, the Huguenots, and uncounted
multitudes of the past, joined by about
four hundred millions of the present,
and with the certainty that all nations
shall huzzah 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 Ar
mada, 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
lire to-day and march in the campaign
that is to take America for God. Ho-
sauna Hosanna Wave all the PALM
branches! At his feet put down your
silver and your gold, as in heaven you
will cast before him your coronets.
With such a Leader do you not think
we can do it? Say, do you think we
can? Why, many ramparts have al
ready 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 SEN
timent, and Mormonism, having re-
treated in 1880 from Fayette. New
York, to Kirkland, Ohio, and in 1888
retreated to Missouri, and in 1916 re-
treated to Salt Lake City, now divorced
from its superfluity of wives, will soon
retreat into the Pacific, and no basin
smaller than the ocean could wash out
its pollutions. llliteracy going down
under the work of Slater and Peabody
funds, and Sabbath schools of all the
churches Of all denominations! Pugil-
ism now made unlawful by congress
sional enactment, the brutal custom
knocked out in the first round! Cor
ruption at the ballot box. by law Of
registration and other safeguards, made
almost impossible! Churches twice as
large as the old ones, the enlarged sup
ply to meet the enlarged demand! Mill
ism getting stunning stroke by the
summary execution OF its opponents
after they had murdered the policemen
the recent 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 60
ing to help it's salvation. Great cities,
so often mentioned as great obstacles
the center of crime and the reservoirs
Of all iniquities-are to lead in the work
Of gospelizatlon. Who give most to
home missions, to asylum, to religious
education, to all styles of humanitarian
and Christian institutions? The cit
les. From what place 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 to gospel
izo the world? From q 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 Scot"
land. The way London goes, goes En-
gland. The way New York and cou-
pie other cities go, goes America. May
the eternal God wake up to the stupen-
dous issue!