The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-04-01

lions, the intrenchmentS, the redoubts, the
Notifications to be stormed and overcome II
| this country is ever taken for God. The sta-
tistios are SO awful that If We had nothing
| but the multiplication table and the arith-
metic the attempt to evangelize America
would be an absurdity higher than the tower
OF Babel before 1t dropped on the plain Of
Shinar. Where are the drilled troops to
march against those Notifications as long as
the continent2 Where are the batteries that
can be unlimbered against these walls?
! Where are the guns Of large enough caliber
| to storm these gates? Well, let US look
around and see, the first Of all. who Is our
leader and will be our leader until the work
is done. Garibaldi, with 1000 Italians,
could do more than another commander
with 10, 900 Italians. General Sherman, on
one side, and Stonewall Jackson. on the
other, each with 10000 troops, could do
more than some other generals with 2O,ooo
troops. The rough boat in which Washlng-
ton crossed the Icy Delaware with q ieW
half fozen troops was mtgheier than the snip
Of war that during the American Re7olu.
ton came through the 'Narrows, q gun ae
each portfolio, and sank IN Hell date.
born in an obscure place, and 1t was an
humble home, about five miles from
Jerusalem. Those who were out OF doors
that night said that there was stellar COM
motion, and music that came out OF the
clouds. az though the front door OF heaven
had been set open, and that the camels heard
His'frst infantile cry. Then He came to the
fairest boyhood that mother was ever proud
of, and from twelve to thirty years OF age
rate, and then returned to His native land,
and for three years had His pathway sur
rounded by blind eyes that he illumined,
and epileptic patients to whom He gave
rubicund health, and tongues that BE
loosed from silence into song, and those
whose funerals He stopped that He might
give back to bereaved mothers their only
boys, and those whose fevered pulses He had
restored into rhythmic throb, and whose
paralytic limbs He had warmed into health
full circulation-pastor at Capernaum, but
flaming evangelist everywhere. hushing
crying tempests and turning rolling seas
into solid sapphire, and for the rescue Of a
race submitted to courtroom filled with
howlipg miscreants, and to martyrdom
at the sight ofwhich tho sun tainted and fell
back in the heavens, and then treading the
clouds homeward. like snowy mountain
peaks, till heaven took Him back again,
more favorite than He had ever been; but,
coming again, He is on earth now, and the
Nations are gathering to His standard. Fol-
lowing Him were the Scotch covenanters,
tue 1ueUlSu lSSlOu. LILO N2Setn1o VA sAS
London Haymarket, the Piedmontese
sufferers, the Pilgrim fathers, the Hu.
guenots. and uncounted multitudes of
the past, joined by about 400, 900, 600 OF the
present, and with the certainty that all Ma
lions shall huzza at His chariot wheel He
goes forth, the moon under His feet and the
stars of heaven for His tiara-the mighty
leader, He OF Drumclog and Boutwell,
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!
Hosannah! Wave all the palm branches! At
His feet put down your silver and your gold,
as In heaven you will cast before Him your
coronets.
The time Is coming-hasten It, Lord-and
I think you and will see it, when, as Jo-
seph, the wealthy Arimathean, gave tor the
dead Christ costly mausoleum, the afhuent
men and women of this country will rise in
their strength and build for our King,
one Jesus, the throne of this American conti-
nent.
Another thing quoted for Encouragement,
but which quote for encouragement, Is for
eign Immigration. Now that from Castle
Garden we turn back by the first poor ship
the foreign vagebondism, We are getting
people, the vast majority OF whom come to
make an honest living. among them some OF
the bravest and the best. II you should turn
back from this land to Europe the foreign
ministers Of the gospel, and the foreign at
torneys, and the foreign merchants, and the
foreign philanthropists. what robbery OF
our pulpits. our courtrooms, our store.
houses and our benehcent institutions, and
what a putting back Of every monetary,
merciful, moral and religious interest OF the
land This commingling here OF all Ma.
tionalities under the blessing OF God will
produce in seventy-hve or LOO years
the most magnificent style OF man
and woman the world ever saw.
the eloquence Of another race, the kindness
of another, the generosity OF another, the
aesthetic taste Of another, the high moral
character OF another, and when that man
and woman step forth, their brain and nerve
and muscle an INTERVENING OF the dbers OF
all Nationalities, nothing but the new elec-
trio Photographic apparatus, that can see
clear through body, mind and soul can take
OF them an adequate picture. But the
foreign population of America is less than
one-eleventh OF all our population, and why
all this fuss about foreign 1mmlgretionf
Eishty-nine born Americans to eleven for
eiSners! II elghty-nine Of US New jersey
men or eighty-nire Of us New Workers OF
eighty-nine of US Ohioans or eighty-nine OF
us Georgians or e!2hty-nine Of US Yankees
arc not equal 70 eleven foreigners, then we
are starveling, lilliputian group ofhumun-
Gull that ought to be wiped out OF existence.
But now what are the weapons by which.
under our omnipotent leaoer, the real
obstacles in the way Of our countrys
eyangel;zation, the 10000 mile Sevastopols,
ArSf oolrDnhtQ6
range enough to sweep from eternity to
eternity, Is the Bible, millions OF its copies
going out, millions on milIions-this, the
monarch of books, that has made all the
difference between China and the united
States, between Africa and America; book
declaring in every style Of phraseolo6y that
all Nations are to be converted, and does
not that include our Nation? Ii the
Apocalyptic angel Is to fly across the con-
tinents, will he not fly across TINS con-
tinent? The worst insult I could offer you
would be to doubt your veracity. and shall
we doubt Gods promise2 Then there are all
the gospel batteries, manned by 10000
pastors and home missionaries, over the
head of each one Of whom is the shield OF
divine protection. and in the right hand
of each the cleaning. two-edged sword
of the Infinite Spirit! Hundreds OF
thousands o. private soldiers for Christ,
marching under tire one starred, piooo
striped flag Of Emanuel! They are marching
on. Eplscopacy, with the sublime roll OF its
liturgies; Methodism, with its battle cry
Of THE sword of the Lord and john
Wesley" the Baptist church. with
| its glorious navy sailing up our
| Oresons and Sacramentos and Mississippi,
and Presbytarianism; moving on with the
battle cry Of "The sword OF the Lord and
John Knox" And then. after awhile will
come the great tides ofrevival sweeping over
the land. the 100000 conversions in 1887
ecipsed by the salvation of millions ina day.