The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-03-13


possible! Churches twice as large as
the old ones. the enlarged supply 10
meet the enlarged demand! Nihilism,
getting a stunning stroke by the sum-
mary execution of it's opponents
after they had murdered the Po-
licemen in Chicago, received its
death-blow from the recent treaty
which sends lack 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 going to
help its 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 gospelization.
Another thing quoted pessimistically
is the vast and overlapping fortunes in
this country, and they say it means
concentrated wealth, and luxurious
ness, and display, and moral ruin. 1t
is my observation that it is people who
have but limited resources who make
the most splurge, and l ask you who
are endowing colleges and theological
seminaries: Did you ever here of
Peter Cooper and James LcnOx, and
sainted William Z. Dodge, and the
Lawrences, Amos and Abbott, while
refrain from mentioning living bene-
factors, who, quite as generous and
Christian, are in this assembly. at this
moment planning what they can do in
these days, and in their last will and
testament in this campaign that pro-
poses taking America for God? The
widows mite, honored of the Lord, is
to have its part in this continental cap
ture; 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 / Will see it,
when as Joseph, the wealthy Arima-
thean, gave for the dead Christ a
costly mausoleum, the affiuent men
and women of this country 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 l quote for encour-
agement, is foreign immigration-nOw
that from Castle Garden we turn back
by the first poor ship the foreign vag-
abondism-we are getting people, the
vast majority of whom come to make
an honest living; among them some of
the bravest and best If you should turn
back from this land to Europe the for
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foreign attorneys, and the foreign mer-
chants, and the foreign philanthrO-
pists, what a robbery of our pulpits,
our court rooms, our storehouses and
our benefcent institutions, and what a
putting back of every monetary, mercf-
full, moral and religious interest of the
land! This commingling here of all the
nationalities under the blessing of God
will produce in IS or 100 years the
most magnificent style of man and
woman the world ever saw. They will
have the wit of one race, the elogueHee
of another race, the kindness OF an
other, the generosity of another, the
high moral character of anotheE
But now what are the weapons by
which, under our Omnipotent Leader,
country's evangelization, the 1900
mile Sebastopols, are to be leveled?
The first eolum bad, with range enough
to sweep from eternity to eternity, is
the Bible, millions of it's copies going
out, millions on millions-this, the
monarch of books, that has made all
the difference between China and the
United States, between Africa and
America; a book declaring in every
style of phraseology that all nations
are to be converted, and does not
that include our nation? If the
Apocalyptic angel is to fly across
the continent, will he not fly across
this continent? The worst insult !
could offer you would be to doubt your
veracity, and shall we doubt Gods
promise? Then there are the gospel
batteries, manned by 20, 900 pastors and
home missionaries, over the head of
each one of whom is the shield of Di-
vine protection, and in the right hand
of each one the cleaning. two-edged
sword of the Infinite Spirit Hundreds
of thousands of private soldiers for
Christ, marching under the one-star-ed,
blood-striped flag of Emanuel. They
are marching on! Episcopacy. with
the ublime roll of its liturgies; Meth
odism, with its battle cry of The
sword of the Lord and John Wesley
the Baptist church, with its glo-
rious navy sailing up our Oregons
and Sacramentos and Mississippis;
and Presbyterianism, 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
500, 900 conversions in 1857 eclipsed bv
the salvation of millions in a day, and
the four American armies of the Lords
host marching toward each other, the
eastern army marching west, the west
ern army marching east, the northern
army marching south, the southern
army marching north; shoulder to
shoulder! Tramp. Tramp! Trampt
Until they meet mid-continent, having
taken America for God!