The Portland daily press., 1896-04-27

camel. " Like the voice OF one crying in
the wilderness the voice of Wesley began
70 De heard. Be it ever to the honor of
Methodism to the heroic self sacrificing
God inspired mon who gathered together
the lost pieces of humanity and formed
them into the living church of Christ;
| gathered them from the fords and
sleeps of Scandinavia; from the confeder-
| ate empire of Germany; from the vine
| clad hills and wales of sunny France;
from the mountain passes of SWitz srland
from where the Vatican throws her
shadows; from the Aoropolis of Athens;
from the land of min rets and mosques,
whose soil has drunk the blood of fana-
Glc's Victims from the death dealing
coasts of Western Africa; from where the
H1malaya rear their lofty peaks; from
the ancient land from which swarm IN
counted millions from Japan; from New
Zealand; from the islands of the seas
whose coral Whitoness gem the bosom of
the Paoiflc from every state in the
Union; from every province in Canada.
Humanity crowned with Immortality,
within the design of the church militant
and triumphant, superb and unique,
through which shines the sun of right
| eousness. showing in it's beauty and
grandeur the magnificent picture of a
| church Methodistio.
God has seen and recognized the work
of evangelical truth. Do we not recog-
nize the Apostolic spirit when in
obedience to one Supreme head we go out
into the highway and as many az we
lind lead to the marriage of the Lamb?
Credentials of churchhood are not to be
sought in the numbering of the Walden
slams, or the Hugenouts, not in church
councils or in the order of bishops They
are found in the lives of men and wonaer.
who cen say with the Apostle Paul:
What shall SEPARATE us from the love of
Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or
persecution, or famine, or nakedness or
the swordp Nay, in all these things we
are more than conquorers through Him
that loved us. For I am persuaded that
neither death nor life, nor municipalities
nor powers, nor things present. nor
thlngssto come, nor height nor depth,
nor any other creature shall be able to
separate us from the love of God which is
In Christ Jesus our Lord. P"
The one lnfallable guide teaches that
the unfalthfulness of man or church,
will cause the husbandman to cut them
OF as dead branches TINT His vineyard
may yield the more.
Ike appreciation of God upon any effort
to save the lost is sufficient to constitute n
claim to share of that Apostolic spirit
which has moved the world towards the
loving heart of God, and which spirit is
o.iAJ oluO OOuCopUlOA VI
catholicity.
What johnson the moralist, Hogarth
the caricaturist. Swift the satarist, Berkeley
the philosopher, or the men of lawn
sleeves could not do John Wesley accom-
plished, the reformation of his age. BY
the grace of God the message sent tn
heaven Jesus shall reign" The true
church Apostolic consists not in the con-
struction of platforms for an 'historic
episoopate," but by lifting I'D the fallen
to the life and liberty of Christ.
Standing on the heights of the Ale
ghanies, Henry Clay bent his head as if
to catch sound from affair, and to the
question, "What do you hear Senator?'
he replied, 81 hear the laundering tread
of the coming mil ions who are marching
over the mountains to possess these
prairie lands away and away to the
setting sum-"
And so l seem to hear the thunder of
the tread of the coming millions the re-
deemed of all ages from among the
nations, and of all den ominations
ascending the mountains of myth and
frank inscense to take possession of the
eternal heights of the city of our God.
"These are they which have come out
of great tribulation, and have washed
their robes, and made them white in the
blood of the lamb"