The Progress., 1897-01-02

4 w N Silo L IDl.GQS!p1la ana Cincinnati for
God, and I wish they might take our ma
tion's capital
Reason For Courage
Hear the tremendous facts: There are
now IN this country nearly 166, 900 church
congregations, with nearly II 900. 900 com,
municants aud seating capacity in church
Tor more than 43, 600, 900 people-in other
words, room in the churches Tor three
1o1rths OF the population of this country
and about cne-third of the population of
this country already Christian In other
words, we will have only to average bring
ing two souls TO God during the next three
years and our country is redeemed Who
cannot, under the power Of the Holy Ghost
brlng TWO souls 20 God in three Years? As
so many Will bring hundreds and thou
sands to Cod most OF you have to bring
only one soul to God and the gospel cam
palgn for this continent will be ended. II
you cannot bring one soul to God or two
souls, or three souls, in three Years. Won
are no Christian and deserve yourself to be
shut out of heaven.
lhe religious pessl1nists of this country
are all the time depicting the obstacles as
so great and our forces as SO small that wa
half OF the time feel that we are attempt-
Ing an impossbiliry Take out of vour
prayers and preaching some of your stuff
Ing of groans and put in something of ac-
States VIII be gospelized, and if the United
States be gospelized America will be Cos
pelized, and, America gospelized, we will
take "A sia from the Pacific beach and En-
rope from the Atlantic beach, and not far
from now tho lost star we live on will take
1es place among the constitutions that
never fell. Let the more than e1.O0O.-
600 communicants, as they lift the
sacramentul cup to their lips, take oath
that they will not rest until the other 40
oOo,OOO are saved. The opportunities are
all saddled and bridled. Where are the
men and women to guide themp II will
deliver thee 1000 horses 1t thou be able
to set riders upon them." What two
men can do for good or evil Is i'm
pressed upon me by the fact that, two
ScotohInen going to California, each took
something that would remind him of his
naeive country. The one took u thistle,
the national emblem of Scotland. The
other took u hive of bees. Years went bv
and the work of the two Scotchmen ia
widely seen. The curse of the Pacific slope
Is the thistle and the blessing of the Pacific
slope is the honey found everywhere in
woods and fields In your life are you re-
sponsible for honey or thistles and, if ono
man can do so much good and another so
much evil, how much could be done for
the ransom Of this country by q, 900, 900
people all consecrated?
Let In the Light
Get out of the way with your dolorous
foreboding and change your dirgcs 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 Ma |
poleon the Last was waiting to make sur
render of himself and his army, snid To the |
oSerthrown French emperor, What can |
DO for you?' And the despairing ex-mon- |
arch replied, Nothing but draw down tho |
blind SO that cannot be stared at" In |
this gospel campaign 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 il |
the self abnegation and courage of tho !
men Of Sir Colin Campbell, who, as Lord |
Bishop Cowie of New Zealand, once chap
lain of his army, told me, said to the |
troops: Men, no retreat from this place |
Die right here" And thcy shouted, s.Yes,
Sir Colin, we will do itt' And they did |
Temporary defeats ought not to disheart-
en-. What is Bunker Hill monument
Monument of uafent Rut frp,x, b,t blood,