The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1896-03-12

ganize lents Of domestic, social and
polite Il
Ther the businesses Of inHdelity and
atheisi fraud and political corruption
and IN ,rm, hydra headed, million armed
abomi ms all over the land. While the
might gencies for righteousness on earth
| are and healthful newspapers, and
| good salthful books, aud our chief de-
pende for intelligence and Christian
achiey It is upon them, what word
amonf more than 100, 900 words iu our
vocab can describe the work Of that
archa Of mischief, a corrupt literature2
What attempting anything for God
and nifty, has escaped q stroke OF its
| filthy 2 What good cause has escaped
Its hii nent2 What other obstacle In all
| the In appalling2 But cannot name
more one-half the battlements, the bas-
tions, intrenchments, the redoubts, the
| fortin ms to be stormed and overcome IL
| this c, y Is ever taken for God. The sta
tistics 20 awful that II we had nothing
but Il duplication table and the arlth-
metic attempt to evangelize America
woult an ahsurdity higher than the tower
! OF Ba before 1t dropped on the plain OF
4 Shina Where are the drilled troops to
| marcl 1inst those Notifications as long as
the &C ,ent2 Who're are the batteries that
can unlimberod against these wallsp
| Wher . the guns OF large enough caliber
to ste these gates? Well, let US look
aroun nd see, the first OF all. who is our
| leade I'd will be our leader until the work
is dc Garibaldi, with 1000 Italians,
| could more than another commander
with Italians. General Sherman, on
one and Stonewall Jackson. on tho
other, b with 10000 troops, could do
moro some other generals with 10000
! troops he rough boat In which Washing
ton CT Vi the Icy Delaware with few
half TO-. troops was mlghtier than the ship
OF war dat during the American Revolu-
ton carb through the 'Narrows, n gun at
! each porhole, and sank In He'll Gate.
Our lClder, like most great leaders, was
born in an obscure place, and Il was an
| humble home, nbout five miles from
Jerusalon. 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 fr' o., door OF heaven
had been set open, and that the camels hoard
i1Irost 53y6ood thai M ever proud
| OF, and from twelve ~ tlir, y'yenrs OF age
was OF in India, IL traditions there are accu-
rate, and then returned 10 His native land.
and for three years had His pathway, sur
rounded by blind eyes that He illumined.
and epileptic patients to whom lie gave
rubicund health. and tongues that lie
loosed from silence into song, and those
whose funerals He stopped that He might
give back 10 bereavod mothers their only
boys, ard those whose fovered pulses He had
paralytlc limbs He had warmed into health
iul circulation-pastor at Capernaum, but
flaming evangelist everywhere. hushing
/ crying tempests ana turning rolling seas
into solid sapphire, and for the rescue OF n
race submitted to courtroom filed with
| bowling miscreants, and 10 p marlyrdom
| at tho sight (which the sun tainted and fell
back in the heavens, and then treading the
clouds 'OmewarI. like snowy mountain
peaGs, heaven took Him back again,
more orie than He had ever been: but,
coming aiu. He IS on earth now, and the
Nations ave gathering to His standard. Fol-
!9WFos, - were the Scotch covenanters,
mo -HSS7,J legion. the victims OF the
London ifayInarket, tho Pledmontese
sufferers, the Pilgrim fathers. the HUI
guenots' and uncounted muiHtudcs OF
.ne past lointd by about 400, 1000, 600 OF the
present, ana With the certainty that all Ma
lions shMl h0z2n ut His chariot wheel He
goe 'orth, the moon under His feet and the
stars ~ heaven for His tiara--the mioh,v
leade, He o. Drl .... and Bothyyel
, 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 tosave," and behind whom we fall
into line to-day and march in the campaign
that Is to take America for, God. Hosannah
llosannah! Wave all the palm branches! Al
His feet put down your silver ami your gold
, rs in heaven you will cast before Him youl
cOronets.
With such n leader. DO you not think We
can do III Say, do you thin, we can? Why.
: many rampGrts have already been taken.
, Where Is American slavery Gone, and tha
South, rs heartily rs the North, prays.
peace 10 its ashes" Whore Is b1-tial
, polyGpmN Gone by the hat OF the Unite
! States Government, urged on by Christian
sentiment, and Mormonism, having reireatei
IN lS3O IRON Fay2tte, y. y, 20 kirkland. o.,
: ana IN 1888 retrgatcd TO Missouri, aul I'm
, 1876 retreated 20 salt Lake Civ, now
divorced from its superluity OF wives, will
, soon retrea. into the Pacific, aud no basin
smaller than an ocean could wash out It's
; pol.utions. llliteracy going down under the
r WORK OF slater and Peabody funds and SAB.
bath schools OF all tho churches OF all demo-
minations Pugilism, now made unlawful by
] Congressional enactment, the brutal custom
} Knocked ont in the first round! COrrurtlon
at tho ballot box, by law OF registration and
other safeguards, made almost impossible
Churches twice as large rs the old on .s, the
enlarged supply 10 meet the ENLARGED de.
mnnd! Nihilism, getting stunning st-ol;e
: by the summary execution OF its exponent.
{ aitor they had murdered the policemen IN
Chicago, received its deathblow from the r.
cent treaty. which sends back to Russia the
, blatant criminals who had been rcgurgitated
on our American shore. Tao very thingl
|
are going 10 help its salvation. Great cities
; 50 often mentioned rs great obstaces-tht
center OF crime and the reservoirs of nj
! iniquities ARE to lead in the work o
gospeiization. Who give most TO home
missions, TO asyiums, TO religion, cdu.
tion. to all styles OF Humanitarian
and Christian institutions? Tho cities. From
what places did the most relief 20 at th,
time Ot JOhnstown food, aud Michigan fires
: and Charleston earthquake and Ohio
fresleisf From the cities. From what place
did Christ send out His twelve apostles tC
gospeliza the woridI From city. What
place will do more than any other place, by
Its contribution OF Christian men and womeu
aud means, In this work Of taking America
for God2 New York City. The way Paris
goes. goes France. The way Berlin goes
goes Germany. The way Edinburgh goes
, goes Scotland. The way London goes, goes
England Tao way New York and couplc
other cities 90, goes America. May the
Eternal God wake US up to the stupendous
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Another thing quoted pessimistlcally is the
vast and oyertopping fortune in this country