The morning news., 1896-12-28

thigh, with great slaughter" All success
TO them The faster they gallop, the better
1 like it. The keener the lances they fling.
the more ! admire them. We care not what
conVentionality they infract If they only
gain the victory. Moody, and Chapman,
and Mills and Jones, and Harrison, and
Munhall, and Major Cole, and Crittenden,
and hundred others are now max
ing the cavalry charge, and they are
this moment taking New ork and Phila-
delphia and Cincinnati for God, and |
wish they might take our nations capital
Hear the tremendous facts. There are
now in this country nearly one hundred
and siXty-siX thousand church congrega-
tions, with nearly twenty-one million COM
municantS and seating capacity in church
for more than forty-three million people :;
In other words, room in the churches for
three-fourths of the population of this
country, and about one-third of the popu-
lation of this country already Christian.
In other words we will have only to aver
age bringing two souls to God during the
next three years and our country is re-
deemed. Who can not, under the power
of the Holy Ghost bring two souls to God
in three years. As so many will bring
hundreds and thousands to God, most of
you nave to bring only one soul to God
and the gospel campaign for this conti-
nent will be ended. If you cannot bring
one soul to God or two souls, or three
souls, in three years. you are no Christ tian,
and deserve yourself to be shut out of
heaven. The religious pessimiSts of this
country are all the time depicting the OBJ
stacleS as so great and our forces as so
small. that we half of the time feel that
we are attempting an impOssibiitY Take
out of your prayers and preaching some of
your stufiing of groans and put in some
thing of acclamation and triumph, and the
United States will be gospelzed and If
the United States be gospeized America
Will be gOspeliZed, and America gospel
zed we will take Asia from the Pacific
beach and Europe from the Atlantic
beach, and not far from now the lost star
we hNe on VIII take its place among the
consultations that never fell Let the
more than twenty-one million commune
cants, as they lift the sacramental cup to
their lips take oath that they will not rest
until the other forty million are saved
The opportunities are all saddled and bri-
died. Where are the men and women to
guide them? Il will deliver thee two thou
sand horses, if thou be able to set riders
upon them" What two men can do for
good or evil is impressed upon me by the
fact that two Scotchmen, going to Califor-
mia, each took something that would re-
mind him of his native country. The one
took thistle the national emblem of
Scotland. The other took a hive of bees.
ears went by and the work of the two
Scotchmen is widely seen. The curse of
the Pacific slope is the thistle, and the
blessing of the Pacific slope is the honey
In your life are you responsible for honey
or thistles, and If one man can do so much
good, and another so much evil. how
much could be done for the ransom of
this country by twenty-one million Deople
all consecrated?
Get out of the way with your dolorous
lotSDOuliSs ana Cndn&G your UlrEeS Tor
what, we have not done for the grand
march OF what we may do and will do
The woman at Sedan, in whose house Ma
poleon the Last was waiting to make sur
render of himself and his army said to the
overthrow French emperor, what can
l do for your And the despairing ex-
monarch replied, nothing but draw down
the blind so that ! cannot be stared at"
In this gospel campaign we have plenty to
draw down the blinds. In Gods name l
say, pull up the blinds, and let the MORN
coming W1NfnrN : M
US. What we want in this campaign for
God Is the self-abnegation and courage OF
the men of Sir Colin Campbell who, as
Lord Bishop Cowie of New Zealand, once
chaplain of his army. told me, said to the
troops; Men, no retreat from this place.
Die right here" And they shouted: Yes
Sir Colin; we will do it." And they did.
Temporary defeats ought not to dis
hearten. What Is Bunker Hill monumentr
Monument of defeat. But from that
bloody mount American independence
started for its grandest achievement, and
all the defeats of the cause of God are in
cipient victory.
Shall conquer5 though they die.
They see the triumph from afar
And seize 1t with their eye.
And now, standing as l do in this Ma
tional capital, let me say that what we
want in the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatives and the supreme court is a pen
tecoStal blessing that will shake the conti-
nent with divine mercy There recently
came into my hands the records OF two
congressional prayer meetings, on the rolls
Ot which were the names of the most emil
nent senators and representatives who
then controlled the deStinies of this reDub-
lic-the one congressional prayer-meeting
In 1857, and the other in 1866. The record is
in the handwriting of the philanthropist.
William e. Dodge. then a member of con-
gress. There are now more Christian men
in the national legislature than ever be-
fore Why will they not band together i'm
religious movement which before the in
auguration of the next President, shall
enthrone Christ in the hearts of this ma
tion? They have the BRAIN they have the
eloquence, they have the influence. God
grant them the grace sufficient Who in
congressional circles will establish the can
itoline prayer-meeung in 1897? Let the
evening of the last decade of this century
be irradiated with such a religious splen-
dor. There are the opportunities for a ma
| tional and Internal tional charge, all bridled
| ana saddled, Where are the riders to
mount them?
| Here also are opportunities all ready
| God. Christ said that the kingdom OF
heaven was to be taken by violence BY
| one flash you may enter. Quicker thar
| any equestrian ever dashed through castle
| gate you may pass into the pardon anC
hope of the gospel AS quickly as you
can think "Yes5 or mo as quickly AZ
you can make choice, so quickly may
| you decide the question of eternal destiny
| No one was ever slowly converted He
I may have been thinking about IL forty
| years, but not one inch of progress did ht
| make until the moment of assent the very
| second in which he said, Il will" Thai
| instant decided all. Bring out the worst
| two thousand men in all the earth and
| here are two thousand opportunities OF
! immediate and eternal salvation Il will
| deliver thee two thousand horses, if thou
| be able to set riders upon them'
! The cavalry suggests speed. When
! once the reins are gathered into the hands
| of the soldierly horseman, and the spurs
are struck into the TANKS, you hear ths
rataplan of the hoofs. velocity" is tht
word that describes the movement-ac.
| celeration, momentum-and what we wan
in getting into the kingdom of God /.
| celerity. You see the years are so swift
and the weeks are so swift, and IN,
| days are so swift. and the hours are 50
swift, and the minutes are so swift W,
need TO be swift. For lack of this appro
pirate speed many do not get into HEAVIER
at all. Here we are in the last Sabbatl
of the year. Did you ever know a twelfth
month quicker 10 be gone? The colder
| rod OF one autumn speaks to the colder
rod of the next autumn, and the crucus o
one springtime 70 the crucus of another
springtime, and the snowbanks Of adjoin
ing years almost reach each other in un
broken curVei We are in too mucl
hurry about most things. Business mef
in too much hurry rush into specula ton
that ruin them and ruin others People
move from place TO place in too grea
haste and they wear out their nerves. am,
weaken the hearts action. But the onl,
thing In which they are afraid of being to,
! Is hQ m of no