Omaha daily bee., 1896-08-24

sent out ten times more bibles than were In
existence from the opening of this century
back to the resurrection morning. Amer.
| lean slavery has gone down. The reports
of this convention 20 out through a paper
whose originator and editor first sent over
the wires Abraham IinColns proclamation
of emancipation. Woman has come into
God has sent thrill of life which has
stirred the hearts and quiCkcned the pulses
of our y,ooung people until the names of
come to many lives like watchwords for
Christian service.
The Christian people of this land are be-
ginning to awaken and TO gird on their
armor for the taking down of the flag of
our country as II waves over 100000 legal
lied saloons. Christian patriots are now
striving with Increasing energy to place
not only under every home and every
church, but as very corner stone of our
nation, that rock from Sinai the Fourth
Commandment.
Turn to the material world The hand of
SOD through the civilization Of the present
IS making for us new earth so silently,
so gently so continuously that we almost
cease to wonder and admire.
Hcarkcn to these things, We who would
serve God with an intelligent purpose. ye
who would watch the stately steppines of
our King. FIFTY years ago a convention
like this would have been an impossiblity
for then our fathers were making their
journey TO California in oX-carts. Thirty
five years ago, when the guns of sumter
were firing, Omaha, this magnificent city OF
10000 Inhabitants, was struggling viii
Looking at an edition of the Scientific
american, dated November 10. 1915, not
hfty-one years ago. read such statements
of information and interest as these: Eight
vessels engaged in commerce on Lake Supe-
rior; a telegraph line is being laid from
Is to be laid from New York to Baltimore;
Adams Express company will take goods
from New York to Philadelphia in perfect
order, In three days and a half Another
article describes a great work that is be-
ing done, the. grading of thirty miles of rail
sal undertaking would be completed during
the winter of '45 and '46; the eighteenth
annual fair would be held on October 6, and
the cattle show part of 1t would be held
out of town, on the present site of the
Firth avenue hotel, opposite Madison
Since then what in quick succession has
been found out and brought out? might
ahSwSr BessGmer steel Seienbisis have by
the teesraph % for e Morse or S had Si ony p5Ss just
"harnessed this. steed for the permanent
graph, the sewing machine, the Mccormick
REAPER, the binder, the, Suez canal, the
agara suspension bridge, the bfookiyn
bridge the St. Louis bridge, petroleum,
dynamite, electric light and photography by
thode rays, India rubber and It's vulcani-
the typewriter the bicycle, the trolley, send
ing the tired toiler to the green fields to
live. These are only n few of what would
require all evening to cnumerate.
What mean these disconnected sentences?
Have they a moral bearing and Significance?
Are they a part of Gods great plan for His
Kingdom. Long ages ago Isaiah saw the
meaning and gave the answer: Prepare ye
the desert a highway for our God Every
valley shall be exalted and every mountain
a and hill shall be made low; and the crooked
shall be made straight and the rough
places plain; and the glory of the Lord
shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it
God wants men for his service whose ears
are trained to hear in these events some
comfort and ease. He wants men Who can
hear in them and through them the march
of His kingdom, men to whom, they are a
shall be the Lords and when He shall be |
the governor among the nations.
CALLS FOR THE TRAINED EYE.
In this age of material comfort when
this, world is becoming so inviting and beau
tful and men are trying to, satisfy their |
souls with it. one of the elements in a
eyes be trained to behold the things which |
are not seen Would you, my brother, my |
sister, be fitted for effective work, you
must have clear conception and an un- |
conviction as to the reality of the |
Without this we will halt in the |
will gather but little grain in the field.
The seet tranef Mbef eye looks I upon the
CONTRADICTION do you Say?, The material
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behold its manifestations but the. power |
itself Is not seen. over these limitless |
grain. We may know the conditions iof
growth, we may analyZe the soil, but we
The msy
principle of life-has mortal eye ever Been
i? Yet Yet we have faith in it. We know
fall from the bough. We say, here is the
law of gravitation, holding us to the earth,
keeping the earth in its path, controlling
vision ever saw that law. No one ever
put his hand upon 1t and could say, Here it
IS, look, behold" But we believe in it, we
know it. The eye of the mind sees 1t. So
the eye that looks through the window of
the soul. the trained eye has a vision of the
unseen. From 1t the scales have fallen
and 1t can behold God, eternity, the judg-
ment, heaven, hell, immortality.
the bible Ny young friends, | want to
emphasize this truth, because unless you
see and know the bible to be in deed and
already shorn OF your strength.
The argument which the church of God
most needs today for the inerrancy of the
word. the argument which we will want
% pillow our heads upon in dying hour,
$ the argument which the soul gets, be-
cause the trained eye has seen and known
he invisible, because our vision has looked
lpon that which the natural eye hath not
1 rejoice that the United Presbyterian
'hurch has had this vision; has looked upon
ne. bible as the. church as viewed it for
900 years ] rejoice that the United Pres
)ytcrian church has the crOWning glory
hat throughout her broad communion, not
pulpit has been shaken, not a sermon has
,een weakened, not a word from a FRO
essor's chair has been changed by any
loubts as to the infallibiity of the bible.
The trained eye gives us also true
Jew of life 1t shows us what life really
s. our momcntous relations to the unseen
We often forget. When we do remember
hem. we only half believe them, spiritu--
lily we live as in dreamland. We do not
We need to realize what we do know. Have
-ou n clear conception my brother, that
he Savior is with you tonight, that you
AN speak to him, that you can tell him
our thoughts and desires as truly as you
an speak to your friend at your side?
Tomorrow, the Sabbath, with its spir-
tual joys and happy communings, we al
most see. The next days, with their home
gatherings, we almost feel, But can you |
ct the vision rise a little higher? Can
'ou look a little farther across n space,
,reater for some than for others. but so
hort for us all? Can you see the gates
vide open? Can you get a glimpse of the |
Fathers home? Inspired by the thousands
Who have gathered In this convention, do
on see something of the ,whlte-robed throng
here. God asks that we have the trained
ye to see 1t.
CALLS FOR TRAINED LIPS.
/ am not referring now to those who are
rained to speak from the pulpit or plat
orm. God is calling for something more. |
lie asks that every one who has felt the I
owe OF Christ be ready to say something
or Christ, He means that young woman
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