Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1896-03-18

Atheism and fraud and political corruptioi
and multifOrm, hydra headed million arme{
denominations all over the land. While tn,
mightiest agencies for righteousness IN eartl
are good and healthful newspapers. and
good and heaithful books, and our chief de-
pendencs for intelligence and Christain
achievement Is upon them, what word
among the more than 100, 900 words in ouI
vocabulary can describe the work of thai
archangel of mischief, corrupt iteraturel
What man, attempting anything for God
filthy wing? What good cause has escaped
It's Underwent! What other obstacle In III
the land SO appalling? But I cannot nams
more than one-half the battiements. the bss.
ttons, the intrenchments, the redoubts. the
fortifications to be stormed and overcome Il
inis country is ever taken for God. Tho sta.
tfstics are SO awful that II we had nothina
but the multiplication table and the arith.
metfo the attempt to evangelise America
would be an ahsurdfty higher than the tower
Of Babel before It dropped ON the plain OF
shinar. Where are the drilled troops to
march against those Notifications - long q
the continent? Where are the batteries thai
san be unlinbered against these vallsi
Where are the guns Of large enough calibei
to storm these gates2 Well, let ~ look
Around and see, the first Of all, who n our
leader and will be our leader until the WORK
ls done. Garibaldi, with 1000 Italians,
sould do more than another commands
With 10, GOO Italians. General Sherman, on
one side, and stonewall Jackson. ON the
other, each with 10000 troops, could do
more than some other generals with 20. .OOQ
troops. The rough boat in which Washing.
ton crossed the icy Delaware with q few
half fozen troops was mightier than the ship
of war that during the American Revolu-
Hon came through the Narrows, q gun a.
nagh nnrfhnla nd an nj In oil
Our leader, like most great leaders. vaA
,orn In an obacure place, and 1t was an
humble home, about i've miles from
Jerusalem. Those who wore out OF doom
hat night said that there was stellar com-
motion, and music that came out Of the
nouds, as though the front door Of heaven
sad been set open, and that the camels heard
is.hrstfnfantile cry. Then He cams to the
IAirest boyhood that mother was ever proud
of, and from twelve to thirty years Of a9e
vas on In India, II traditions there are acou.
sate, and then returned to His native land.
md for three years had His pathway sur.
rounded by blind eyes that He illumined.
and epileptic patients to whom He gave
.ubicund health, and tongues that He
oosed from silence into song, and those
whose funerals He stopped that He might
give back to bereaved mothers their onlv
boys, and those whose fevered pulses He had
restored into rhythmic throb, and whose
poiuiy hnuo A4O Wdlucu INTO nedltl.
iul clrculation-pastOr at Capernaum, but
aaming evangelist everywhere, hushing
HyinS tempests and turning rolling seas
into solid sapphire, and for the rescue of a
race submitted to courtroom filled with
howiipg miscreants, and to a martyrdom
1t the sight OF which the sun tainted and fell
back in the heavens, and then treading the
slouds homeward, like snowy mountain
peaks, till heaven took Him back again.
more 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
tufferers, the Pilgrim fathers, the Hu.
guenois, and uncounted muititudes OF
the past, joined by about 400. .OO0, GOO 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
ieaIer, 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 Amerias, fer. God. uusairnaiIi
Hosannah! Wave all the palm branches! AT
His ieet put down your silver and your gold,
Is in heaven you will cast before Him your
.oronets.
With such a leader. do you not think we
:an do it? Say, do you think we CAM Why,
many ramparts have already been taken.
Where Is American slavery Gone, and the
South, as heartily As the North, prays,
polygamy2 Gone by the fiat Of the United
States Government. urged on by Christian
sentiment, and Mormonism, having retreated
m 1880 from Fayette. N. Y, to Kirkland O..
and In 1888 retreated to Missouri, aud in
1916 retreated to Salt Lake City, now
divorced from its superfuity OF wives, will
loon retreat into the Pacific, and no basin
mailer than an ocean could wash out its
poiiutions. Iiiteracy going down under the
work of Slater and Peabody funds and Sab
bath schools Of all the churches of all demo-
ninations. Pugilism, now made unlawful by
enactment, the brutal custom
Knocked out in the first round! Corruption
1t the ballot box. by law Of registration and
,ther safeguards, made almost impossiblel
twice as large as the old on g, the
enlarged supply to meet the enlarged de-
nRnd! Nihilism. getting q stunning stroke
~ the summary execution OF its eXponents
Ifter they had murdered the policemen in
Jhicago, received its deathblow from the re-
'ent treaty which sends back to Russia the
'latant criminals who had been regurgitatsd
n our American shore. Tie very things
hat have been quoted as perils to this Nation
re going to help its salvation. Great cities,
o often mentioned as great obstacles-the
entsr OF crime and the reservoirs of all
to lead in the work of
Missions. to asylums, to religious edu-
Ion. to all styles Of humanitarian
nd Christian instttutions2 The cities. From
THAT places did the most relief go at the |
ime of Johnstown flood. and Michigan fires,
nd Charleston earthquake, and Ohio |
resl,ets2 From the cities. From what place
i'd Christ send out His twelve apostles to
ospslize the worid2 From a city. What
lace will do more than any other place, by
IS contribution Of Christian men and women
nd means. in this work OF taking America
Or God? New York City. The wav Paris
Oes. goes France. The way Berlin goes,
oes Germany. The way Edinburgh goes,
oes Scotland. The way London goes, goes
'ngIand. The way New York and a couple
ther cities go, goes America. May the
'ternal God wake us up to the stupendous
sue!
Another thing quoted pessimistically Is the
asst and overtopptng fortune In this country,
nd they say it means concentrating wealth
nd luxuriousness and display and moral
uin. 1t Is my observation that it ts people
rho have but limited resources who make
he most spurges, and 1 ask you. Who are
colleges and theological semi
aries? Did you ever hear of Peter Cooper
nd James Lenox, and sainted William E.
lodge, and the Lawrences, Amos and Alb
oft, while refrain from mentioning living
enefactors who, quite as generous and
are in this assembly at this mo-
lent planning what they can do in these
ays, and in their last will and testament in
his campaign that proposes taking America
Or God? The widows mite, honored OF
he Lord, is to have its part in this con-
mental capture, but We must have more
Ah4A -1z.Lk
he men that expect to get the blessing for
the widows mite will not get the
lessing. In the first place, they are not
Widows, and In the next place they have nc
mite"
The time is coming-hasten 1t, Lord-and
think you and 1 will see it, when, rs 10.
eph, the wealthy ArimathRan, gave for the
lead Christ a costly mausoleum, the affiuent
men and women of this country will rise in
heir strength and build for our King.
one Jesus, the throne or this American eontl.
nent.