The Monitor-register., 1896-03-13

often mentioned as great obstacies-tbe
center OF crime and the reservoirs of all
ln1quitles to lead in the work of
gospelization. Who give most to home
missions, to asylums, to religious edu-
cation, to all styles of humanitarian
and Christian institutions? Ehe cities
From what places did the most relief
60 az the time of Johnstown flood, and
Micnlgan fires, and Charleston earth
quake, and Ohio freshets? From the
cities. From what place did Christ send
out his Ii apostles to gospelize the worldq
From a city. What place will do more
IMAM any other place, by its contribution
OF christian men and women and means.
IN this work of taking America for Godf
New York city. The way Paris DOCS
goes France. The way Berlin goes, goes
Germany. The way Edinburgh goes,
goes Scotland. The way London goes.
goes England. The way New York and
a couple other cities go, goes America.
May b Eternal God wake us nm to the
stupendous issuel
Joy of Giving.
Another thing quoted pessimistically
Is the vast and overlapping fortunes in
this country, and they say it means
concentrating wealth and l-uxuriousness
and display and moral ruin. 1t is NV
observation that it is people who have
but limited resources who make the
most splurge and Task you, Who are en-
lowing colleges and theological semi
narles? Did you ever hear of Peter Coon
or and James Lenox, and sainted Will
liam u. Dodge, and the Lawrences,
Amos and Abbott, while I refrain from
mentioning living benefactors who,
quite as generous and Christian, are in
thls assembly at this moment planning
h they can do in these days, and in
their last will and testament in this
campaign that proposes taking America
Tor God? 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 first
place, they are not widows, and in the
next place, they have no might.
The time is coming-hasten it, Lord
and l think you and I will see it,
when, as Joseph, the wealthy Arima-
thean, gave for the dead Christ a costly
m~ausoleum, the aff1uent men and wom-
en- of this country will rise in their
strength and build for u King, one
Jesus, the throne of this American con-
tinent.
Another thing quoted for discourage
ment, but which I quote for encourage
ment, is foreign immigration. Now that
from Castle Garden we turn back by
the first poor ship the foreign vagabond-
ism, 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 for
eign ministers of the gospel, and the
foreign attorneys, and the foreign mer-
chants, and the foreign philanthropists,
what a robbery Of our pulpits, our court
rooms, our ~storehouses and our benefi-
cent institutions, and what a putting
back of every monetary, merciful, moral
and religious interest of the land This
eommingling here of all n%ationalities
under the blessing of God will produce
u 70 or 100 years the most magnificent
dyle of man and woman the world aver
saw. They will have the wit of one race,
the eloquence of another race, the kind
ness of another, the generosity of anoth-
| or, the aesthetic taste of another, the high
| moral character of another, and when
| that man and woman step forth, their
brain and nerve and muscle an inter-
| twining of the fbers of all n~ationalities,
nothing but the new electric photograph
| ic 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 one
eleventh of all our population, and why
all this fuss about foreign immigration?
Eighty-nine born Americans to II for
| eignersi If SO Of us New Jerseymen or
80 of us New Workers or 80 of us
Ohioans or 80 of us Georgians or 80 of
us Yankees are not equal to IL foreign
ers, then we are a starveling, lilliputian
group of humunculi that ought to be
wiped out of existence.
Weapons of the Lord.