The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-03-14

upon Jn6T1, WudJ WOTu aiming III
more than 100, 900 words in our vocab-
ulary can describe the work of that
archangel of mischief, a corrupt litera-
ture? What man, attempting anything
for God and humanity, has escaped a
stroke of its filthy wing? What good
cause has escaped it's hinderment?
What other obstacle in all the land 50
appalling? But | cannot name more
than one-half the battlements, the
bastions, the in~trenchments, the re-
doubts, the Notifications to be stormed
and overcome if this country is ever
taken for Sod. The statistics 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
it dropped on the plain of Shinar.
Our Leader, like most great leaders,
was born in an obscure place, n it
was an humble home, about five miles,
from Jerusalem. Those who were out
of doors that night said that there was
stellar commotion, and music that
came out of the clouds, as though the
front door of Heaven had been set
open, and that the camels heard His
first in fantile cry. Then He came to
the fairest boyhoods that mother was
ever proud of, and from IL to 80 years
of age was off in India, if traditions
there are accurate, and then returned
to His native land, and for three years
had His pathway surrounded by blind
eyes that He illumined, and epileptic
patients to whom He gave rubicund
health, and tongues that He loosed
from silence into song, and those
whose funerals He stopped that He
might give "a to bereaved mothers
their only boys, and those whose
fevered pulses he Had restored into
rhythmic throb, and whose para1ytic
limbs He had warmed into healthful
circulation-pastor at Capernaum, but
flaming evangelist everywhere, hush
ing crying tempests and turning.
rolling seas into solid sapphire,
and for the rescue of a race
submitted to court room filed with
bowling m~iscreants, and to a martyr.
dom at the sight of which the sun
tainted and fell back in the heavens,
and then treading the clouds home,
ward, like snowy mountain peaks, till
Heaven took Him back again, more a
favorite than He had ever been; but,
coming again, He is on earth now, and
the nations are gathering TO His stand
ard. Follow Him where the Scotch
Covenanters, the Theban legion, the
victims of the London Haymarket, the
Piedmontese sufferers, the Pilgrim
fathers, the Huguenots and uncounted
multitudes of the past, Joined by about
400, 000, 900 of the present, and with the
certainty that all nations shall huzzah
at His chariot wheel, He goes forth,
the moor under His feet and the stars
of heaven for His tiara-tbe mighty
Leader, he of Drumclog, and Boutwell,
Bridge, and Bannockburn, and the One
who overwhelmed Spanish Armada,
coming up from Edom, with dyed
garments from Bozrah, travelling in
the greatness of His sire myth, mighty
to save" and behind whom we fall into
line to-day and march in the campaign
that is to take America for God. Ho-
sannal Hosannai Wave all the palm
branchesl At His feet put down your
P~silver n your gold, as in Heaven you
will cast before Him your coronets
With such a Leader do you think we
can do it? Say, don't you think we
can? Why, many ramparts have al
ready been taken. Where is American
slavery? Gone, and h south, as
heartily as the north, prays Peace to
its ashes" Where is bestial polygamy?
Gone, by the fiat of the United States
government, urged on by Christian
sentiment, and Mormonism, having re-
treated in 1880 from Fayette, N. Y, to
Kirkland, O., and in 1888 retreated to
Missouri, and in 1876 retreated to Salt
Lake City, now divorced from its su-
perfuity of wives, will soon retreat
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than an ocean could wash out its pol
lutions Illiteracy going down under
the work of Slater end Peabody funds,
and Sabbath schools of all the churches
of all denominations Pugilism now
made unlawful by congressional en-
actment, the brutal custom knocked
out in the first roundI Corruption at
the ballot-box, by law of registration
and other safeguards. made almost i'm
p~ossibleI Churches twice as large as
the old ones, the enlarged supply to-
meet the enlarged demand! Nihilism,
getting a stunning stroke by the uTn-
mary execution of its opponents
after they had murdered the po-
licemen in Chicago, received its
death.blow from the recent treaty
which sends back to Russia the
blatant criminals who had been
regurgitated on our American shore.
The very things hat have been quoted
as perils to this nation are going to
help its salvation. Great cities, SO
often mentioned as great obstacles
the center of crime and the reservoirs
of all iniquities-are to lead in the
work of g~ospelization.
Another thing quoted pessimistically
is the vast and overlapping fortunes in
this country, and they say it means
concentrated wealth, and luxurious
ness, and display, and moral ruin. 1t
is my observation that it is people who
have but limited who make
the most splurge, and ! ask you who
are endowiug colleges and theological
seminaries: Did you ever here of.
Peter Cooper, and James Lenox, and
sainted William T. Dodge, and the
Lawrences, Amos and Abbott, while
refrain from mentioning living bene-
factors, who, quite as generous and
Christian, are in this assembly, at this
moment planning what they can do in
these days, and in their last will and
testament in this campaign that pro-
poses taking America for God? The
widows mite, honored of the Lord, is
to nave its part in this continental cap
ture; but we must have more than that,
and more right away. Many of the
men that expect to get the blessing
for bestowing the widows mite will
not get the blessing. In the first place,
they are not widows, and in the next
place, they have no might"
The time is coming-hasten it, Lordl
and l think you and 1 will see it,
when as Joseph, the wealthy Arima-
thean, gave for the dead Christ a
costly ~mausoleum, the afiuent men
and women of this country will rise in
their strength and build for our King.
one Jesus, the throne of this American
continent.
Another thing quoted for discourage
ment, but which / quote for encour.
agement, is foreign immigration-now
hat from Castle Garden we turn back
by the first poor ship the foreign vag.
abondism-we are getting people. the
vast majority of whom come to make
an honest living; among them some of
the bravest and best 1fyou should turn