The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-03-09

les From what pace did Christ send
out his twelve apostles to gospelize the
world? From a city. What place will do
more than any other place. by its contr-
button of Christian men and women and
means, in this work of taking America
Tor GOdY New York city. The way Paris
goes, goes France. The way Berlin goes,
goes Germany. The way Edinburg goes,
goes Scotland. The way London goes,
goes England. The way New York, and
a couple other cities go, goes America.
| May the Eternal God wake us up TO this
stupendOus issue.
Another thing quoted pessimistically is
the vast and overlapping fortunes in this
country, and they say IL means a concen-
| trated wealth, and righteousness and dis
play, and moral ruin 1t is my obserVa-
ton that IL is people who have but limited
resources who make the most splurge, and
| ask you: Who are endowing cob
leges and theological seminaries2 Did you
ever hear of Peter Cooper, and James
LenOX, and santed William e. Dodge. and
the Lawrences Amos and Abbott, while
] refrain from mentioning living benefac-
| tors who, quite as generous and Christian,
are in this assembly, at this moment plan
ming 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 to have its part in this con-
| tinental capture; but we must have more
| than that and more right away. Many of
the men that expect to get the blessing
for bestowing the widows mite. will not
get the blessing. In the nrst place they
are not widows, and in the next place,
| they have no might"
The time is cOming-haSten il, Lord!
/ and / think you and l will see il, when,
/ as Joseph. the wealthy Arimathean, gave
/ for the dead Christ a costly mausoleum,
| the afluent men and women of this coun-
| try will rise in their strength and build
/ for our King, one Jesus, the throne of this
American continent.
Another thing quoted for discourage
ment. but which | quote for encourage
/ ment, is foreign immigration-now that
| from Castle Garden we turn back by the
| first poor ship the 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. If you should turn back from this
| land to Europe the foreign ministers of
/ the Gospel. and the foreign attorneys, and
/ the foreign merchants, and the foreign
| phlanthropists. what robbery OF our
| pulpits, our court rooms, our store houses,
and our beneficent Institutions, and what
| a putting back of every monetary, merci-
/ full, moral and religious interest of the
! land! This commingling here of all ma
| tionalties under the blessing of God will
| produce in SeVenty-fiVe or one hundred
/ years the most magnificent style of man
| and woman the world ever saw. They
| VIII have the wit of one race, the elo-
! quence of another race, the kindness of
/ another, the generosity of another, the
| aesthetic taste of another she high moral
! character of afOther, and when that man
| and woman step forth, their brain and
| nerve and muscle an INTERVIEWING of the
| hbres of all nationalities, nothing 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 II per cent. of all our population,
and why all this fuss about foreign immi-
| grafton? Eighty-nine born Americans to
| eleven foreigners If eighty-nine of us
! New Jerseymen, or eighty-nine of us New
Workers, or eighty-nine of us Ohioans, or
cighty-nine of us Georg1ans, or eighty
| nine of us yankees are not equal to eleven
foreigners, then we are a starVeling lilli-
putiah group of humunculi that ought to
be wiped out of existence.
| But now what are the weapons by which
| under our omnipotent leader, the real OBJ
stacles in the way of our countrys evan
| gelization, the ten thousand mile Sebas-
| topols are to be leVeled2 The first colum-
| bad, with range enough to sweep from
| eternity to eternity, is the Bible millions
of its copies going out, millions on mil
| lions-this, the monarch of books that
has made all the difference between China
| and the United States, between Africa and
America; book declaring in every style
of phraseology that all nations are to be
converted, and does not that include our
| nation2 If the Apocalyptic angel is to flv
across the continents, will he not fly across
this continent? The worst insult I could
offer you would be to doubt your verac-
ity, and shall we doubt Gods promise ?
Then there are all the Gospel batteries
manned by seventy thousand pastors and
home missionaries, over the head of each
one of whom is the shield of Divine pro-
lection, and i'm the right hand of each one
the cleaning, two-edged sword of the In
finite Spirit! Hundreds of thousands of
~ Il
der the one-stared, blood-striped flag of
Emanuel! On our side, the great and
might theologians of the land. the heavy
artillery, and the hundreds of thousands
OF Christian children, the infantry They
| are marching on! Episcopacy, with the sli-
blme roll of its liturgies; MethOdsm with
it's battle-cry of The sword of the Lord
and John Wesley" the Baptist church
with its glorious navy sailing up our Ore
CONS and Sacramentos and Mississippis.
and Presbyterlanism, moving on with the
battle-cry of THE Sword of the Lord and
John Knox" And then, after awhile will
come the great tides of revival, sweeping
over the land. the five hundred thousand
conversions in 1857 eclpSed by the saliva
tion of millions in day, and the four
American armies of the Lords host march
ing toward each other, the eastern army
marching west, the western army march,
ing east, the northern army marching
south, the southern army marching north :
shoulder to shoulder! Trampl Tramp
Tramp Until they meet mid-continent.
having taken America for God
The thunder of the bombardment is al
ready i'm the air. and when the last bridge
of opposition is taken, and the last mort
cullis of satan is lifted, and the last gun
spiked, and the last tower dismantled
and the last charger of iniquity shall have
been hurled back upon its launches what
a time of rejoicingi We will see it. not
with these eyes which before that will
be closed in blessed sleep, but with strong
and better vision, when the Lord once
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