The Monitor-register., 1897-05-07

chapels and churches and cathedrals
and Christian universities of that con-
tlnent. Then il crossed to America. If
has prayed and preached and sung it's
way across cur continent. 1t has cross
ed to Asia, taking the Sandwich Islands
In its way, and now in all the great
cities on the coast Of China people are
singing Rock Of Ages" and "'There Is
a fountain tiiled With Blood" for
you must know that not only have the
Scriptures been translated into those
Aslatlc tongues, but also the evangelical
hymns. My missionary brother, John.
translated some of them into Chinese
II MI. Gladstone gave me a copy of
the hymn, Jesus, Lover of My Soul. -
which he had himself translated into
Greek. The Christ who it seems spent
IL or IS years of his life i'll India is
there now Ill spirit, converting and saw
ing the people by the hundeds of thou
sands, and the gospel will move right
ON through Asia until the story of the
Saviour's birth will anew be made
known i'll Bethlehem, and the story of
a Saviour's sacrifice be told anew on
and around Mount Calvary, and the
story OF a Saviour's ascension be told
anew Oh h shoulder of Mount Oliyet.
And then do you not see the circle will
be complete? The glorious circle, the
tircle of the earth!
This old planet, gashed with earth
quake and scorched with confederation
and torn with revolutions, will be cir
died with churches, with schools, with
universities, with m%illennial festivities.
How cheering and how inspiring the
thought hat we are, whether giving
temporal or spiritual relief, working on
the segment Of such a circle! And that
the Chrlstly mission which started in
Asia Will keep On its way until it goes
clear around to the place where it
startedl Then the earth will have dem
pnstrated that for which it was created,
and an soon as a world has completed
its mission it dies. Part of the heavens
is a cemetery of dead worlds. Our world.
Quilt to demonstrate to the worlds which
have been loyal to God the awful re-
| suits of d~isloyalty, so that none of them
may ever attempt it say our world,
having finished it's mission, may then
| go out of existence. The central fires of
the world which are burning out rapidly
toward the crust may have reached the
surface by that time, and the Bible
prophecy be fulfilled which declares
that the earth and all things that are
therein shall be burned up. The ram
somed human race at that time ON earth
will start unhurt in those chariots of
fire for the great metropolis of the uni
verse, the heaven, where the redeemed
of the Lord shall talk over the famines
and the plaques and the wars which this
earth suffered and against which we
struggled and prayed as long as there
was any breath in us. Glorious consum-
nation!
The East and the West,
May 10, 1869, was q memorable day,
for then was laid the last tie that con-
nected the two rail tracks which united
the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. The
Central Pacific railroad was built from
California eastward. The Union Pacific
railroad was built westward. They
were within arms reach of meeting,
only II more piece of the rail track tC
put down. A great audience assembled
midcontinent to see the last tie laid.
The locomotives of the eastern and
western trains stood painting on the
tracks close by. Grafton explained the
occasion, and prayer solemnized it, and
music enchanted it. The tie was made
of polished laurel wood, bound with sill.
yer bands, and three spikes were used
a gold spike, presented by California; &
silver spike, presented by Nevada, an6
an iron spike, presented by Arizona.
When, all heads uncovered and all
hearts thrilling with emotion, the ham.
mel struck the last spike into its place,
the cannon doomed it amid the resound.
ing mountain echoes and the telegraphit
instruments clicked to all nations that
the deed was done. My friends, if the
laying of the last tie that bound the east
and the west of one continent together
was such a resounding occasion, what
will it be when the last tie of the tracl
of gospel influences, reaching cleal
around the world, shall be laid amid
VIC aHuAeLls VI d14 udlloHS! IHe Splkei
will be the golden and silver spike.
fashioned out of the Christian generos
ity of the hemispheres. The last ham
mer stroke that completes the work viii
be heard by all the raptured and piled
up galleries of the universe, and the
mountains of earth will shout to the
thrones of heaven: "Halleluiah, for the
Lord God Omnipotent reigneth! Halle
luiah, for the kingdoms of this world
have become the kingdoms of our Lore
Jesus Christi"