The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-01-01

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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 vehement,
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 evangelists 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 fort
! tress of righteousness and drilling the
Christian soldiery, and by marshaling
anthems and sermons and ordinances
on the right side, they are fighting the
forces of darkness hip and thigh. with
great slaughter" All success to theml
| The faster they gallop the better /
like it The keeuer the lances they
fling, the more l admire them. We
care not what conventiOnalIty they in
| tract if they only gain the victory.
| Moody, and Chapman, and Mills, and
| Jones, and Harrison, and Munhall, and
Maj. Cole, and Crittenden. and hun
dred others are now making the cav
airy charge, and they are this moment
taking New York and Philadelphia and
Cincinnati for God, and 1 wish they
might take our nations capital.
Hear the tremendous facts: There
are now in this country nearly 166, 900
church congregations, with nearly 81
100000 communicates and seating ca
pacity in church for more than 43,OOO,-
600 people; in other words, room in the
churches for three-fourths of the popu-
lation of this country. and about one
third of the population 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? As so many will bring
hundreds and thousands to God, most
of you have to bring only one soul to
God and the gospel campaign for this
continent will be ended. If you can
not bring one soul to God, or two souls,
or three souls, in three years, you
are no Christian, and deserve your
self to be shut out of Heaven.
The religious pessimists of this
country are all the time depicting
the obstacles as so great and our
forces as so small, that we half of the
time feel that we are attempting an
impossibility. Take out Of your
prayers aud preaching some of your
stufilng of groans and put in some
thing of reclamation and triumph. and
the United States will be gospelized.
and if tue United States be gospelized
America viii be gOspelized, and Amer
lea gospelized, we will take Asia from
the Pacific beach. and Europe from
the Atlantic beach. aud not far from
now the lost star we live on will take
its place among the consultations that
never fell. Let the more than q, 900, =
600 COMMITMENTS. as they lifs the
sacramento cup 10 their lips, take
oath shat thew will not rest until the
other 10000, 600 are saved. The opOOr-
tunities are all sadiled aud bridled
Where are the men and women TO
guide them? Il viii deliver the
1900 horses, If thou be able to set
riders upon them"
Get out of the way with your dOlor-
Gus forebodings, and cha nge your
dirges for what we have not done for
the grand march of what we may do
and will do. The women at Sedan, in
whose house Napoleon the Last was
waiting to make surrender of himself
and his army, said TO the Overthrowu
French emperor. Ky hat can do for
vou?" And the despairinE ex-mOnarch
replied. Nothing; but draw down the
blind 50 that l 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 morning sun of the coming
victory shine upon rs. What we want
in this camDa On for God is the self
abnegation and courage of the men Of
Sir Colin Campbell, who, as Lord
Bishop COwle, Of New Zealand. once
chaplain of his army, told me, said 70
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 monu-
ment? Monument of defeat But
from that bloody mount American in
started for its grandest
achievement, and all the defeats OF the
cause of God are incipent victory.
And now, standing as l do, IN this
national capital, let me say that what
we want in the senate and house of
and the supreme court
is Z penticostal blessing that will shake
the continent with divine mercy.
There recently came into nv hands
the records OF two congressional prayer
meetings, on the rolls of which were
the names of the most eminent sena-
tors and representatives who then con-
trolIed the destinies of this republic
the one congressional prayer meeting
was in 1857 and the other in 1866. The
record is in the handwriting OF the |
philanthropist, William Z Dodge. |
then member of congress. |
There are now more Christian men |
in the national legislature than ever
before. Why will they not band to- |