Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-12-31

who, with bold dash and holy reckless
| ness and spurred on energies, are to take
| the world for God. To this army of
| Christian service belong the evangelists.
| 1t ought to be the business of the regular
churches to multiply them, to support
| them, to cheer them. to clear the way for
| them. Some of them you like; some of
| them you do not like. You say some are
| too sensational. and some of them are not
| enough learned, and some of them are
erratic. and some of them are too vehe-
ment, and some of them pray too loud.
| Oh, fold up your criticism and let them do
| that which we. the pastors, can never do.
| l like all the eyangelists | have ever
seen or heard. They are busy now; they
are busy every day of the week. While
we. the pastors. serve God by holding
the fortress of righteousness and drilling
the Christian soldiery and by marshal
ing anthems and sermons and ordinances
on the right side, they are out fighting the
forces of darkness hip and thigh, with
great slaughter" All success to them!
The faster they gallop the better l like
it. The keener the lances they fling the
more l admire them. We care not what
conyentionality 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 making the
cavalry charge. and they are this mo-
ment taking New York and Philadelphia
and Cincinnati for God. and | wish they
| might take our nations capital. Hear
the tremendous facts: There are now
in this country nearly 100000 church
congregations, with nearly 81 100000
communicates and seating capacity in
church for more than 100000 people
in other words, room in the churches for
three-fourths of the population of this
country and about third of the popu-
lation of this country already Christian.
In other words, we will have only to
average bringing two souls to God during
the next three years and our country is
redeemed. Who cannot. under the power
Of the Holy Ghost bring two souls to
God in three years?
Take out of your prayers and preach
ing some of your stuting of groans and
put i'll something of acclamation and
triumph, and the United States will be
gospelized, and if the United States be
gospelized America will be gospelized,
and, America gospelized, we will take
Asia from the Pacific beach and Europe
from the Atlantic beach, and not far
from now the lost star we live on will
take its place among the consultations
that never fell. Let the more than 81
100000 communicates, as they lift the
sacramental cup to their lips take oath
that they will not rest until the other
100000 are saved. The opportunities
are all saddled and bridled sWhere arc
the men and women to guide them?
Pull UP the Blinds.
Get out of the way with your dolorous
foreboding and change your dirges for
what we have not done for the grand
march of what we may do and will do.
The woman at Sedan, in whose house
Napoleon the last was waiting to mako
surrender of himself and his army, said
to the overthrown French emperor,
what can do for YOU" And the de-
spairing ex-monarch replied, Nothing
but draw down the blind so that can
not be stared at" III this gospel cam
paign we have plenty to draw down the
blinds. In Gods name, | say, pull up
the blinds and let the morning sun of
the coming victory shine upon us. What
we want in this campaign for God is the
self-abnegration and courage of the men
of Sir Colin Campbell. who, as Lord
Bishop Cowie of New Zealand, one chap
lain of his army, told me, said to the
troops: MEN, no retreat from this place.
Die right here" And they shouted
Eyes, Sir Colin. We will do it, And
they did!
Temporary defeats ought not to dis
hearten. What is Bunker Hill monu-
ment? Monument Of defeat. But from
that bloody mount American independ-
ence started for it's grandest achieve
! mcnt, and all the defeats Of the cause of
God are incipient victory.
Thy saints in all this glorious war
Shall conquer, though they die
They see the triumph from affair
And seize it with their eye.
And now, standing as do in this ma
tional capital, let me say that what we
want in the Senate and House of Rep
resentatives and the Supreme Court is IL
pentecostal blessing that will shake the
continent with divine mercy. There re-
Gently came into my hands the records
of two Congressional prayer meetings, on
the rolls of which were the names of the
most eminent Senators and Representa-
tiyes who then controlled the destinies of
this republic--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 member OF Congress. There are
now more Christian men in the National
Legislature than ever before. Why will
they not band together in a religious
movement which before the Inauguration
OF the next President shall enthrone
Christ in the hearts of this nation? They
have the brain, they have the cloquence,
they have the influence. God grant them
the grace sufficient! Who in Congress
sional circles will establish the capitoline
prayer meeting III 1897? Let the evening
of the last decade of this century be
irradiated with such !; religious splendor.
There are the opportunities for Il ma
tional and international charge. all bri-
died and saddled. Where arc the riders
to mount them?
A Quick Fight.
The cavalry suggests speed. When
once the reins are gathered into the
hands of the soldierly horseman, and the
spurs arc struck into the TANKS, you hear
the rataplan of the hoofs. Velocity" is
the word that describes the movement
acceleration, momentum, and what we