The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1897-05-07

more, we will ask Hin VINO holds the
winds in his fist and plants his trium-
phant foot on stormy waves to let moth
ing but good happen to the ship till 1t
anchors in Bengal or Arabian waters.
They who help by contributions OF
money or breadstuffs toward filling
that relief ship will flavor their own
food for their lifetime with appetizing
qualities, and insure their own welfare
through the promise of him who said.
Blessed is he that considereth the
poor; the Lord will deliver him in time
of trouble"
And now l bethink myself OF some
thing never thought of before. l had
noticed that the circle is Gods favor
lite figure, and upon that subject l ad-
dressed you some time ago, but it did
not occur to me until now that the Cos
pei seems to be moving in circle 1t
started in Asia, Bethlehem, an Asiatic
village; Jordan. an Asiatic river; CAL
vary, an Asiatic mountain. Then this
Gospel moved on to Europe; witness
the chapels and churches and cathed-
rails and Christian universities of that
continent. Then it crossed to Amer
lea. 1t has prayed and preached and
sung its way across our continent. 1t
has crossed to Asia, taking the Sand
wich Islands in it's way, and now in all
the great cities on the coast of China
people are singing Rock of Ages" and
q tot h
Blood;' for you must know that not
only have the Scriptures been trans
lated into these Asiatic tongues. but
also the evangelical hymns. My mis-
sionary brother, John, translated some
of them into Chinese, and Mr.. Glad
stone gave me a copy of the hymn,
Jesus. Lover of My Soul' which he
himself had translated into Greek. The
Christ who it seems spent sixteen or
eighteen years of his life in India is
there now in spirit, converting and
saving the people by hundreds 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 in Bethlehem, and the story of
Savlour's sacrifice be told anew on and
around Calvary, and the story of Saw
iour's Ascension be told anew on the
shoulder of Mt. Olivet And then do
you not see the circle will be complete?
The glorious circle, the circle of the
earth? This old planet. gashed with
earthquake and scorched with confia-
grafton and torn with revolutions, will
be girdled with churches, with schools,
with universities, with millennial fes-
tlvities. How cheering and how inspir-
ing the thought that we are, whether
giving temporal or spiritual relief,
working on the segment of such a
circle. And that the Christly mission
which started in Asia will keep on it's
way until it goes clear around to the
place where it started! Then the earth
will have demonstrated that for which
1t was created, and as soon as world
has completed its mission it dies. Part
of the heavens is a cemetery of dead
worlds. Our world built to demon
strate to the worlds which have been
loyal to God the awful results of dis
loyalty, so that none of them may ever
attempt it say our world, having
finished its mission, may them 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.
May the 10th, 1868, was a memorable
day, for then was laid the last tie
which connected 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 one more piece
of the rail track to put down. A great
audience assembled, mid-continent. 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 silver bands, and three
spikes were used-a gold spike.
presented by California; sill
yer spike, presented by Nevada, and
an iron spike, presented by Arizona.
When, all heads uncovered and all
hearts thrilling with emotion, the ham,
mer struck the last spike into it's place.
the cannon doomed it amid the re-
sounding mountain echoes and the tele-
graphic instruments clicked to all ma
tions that the deed was done. NV
friends, if the laying of the last tie that
bound the East and the West of one
continent together was such resound-
ing occasion, what will it be when the
last tie of the track of Gospel influ-
ences. reaching clear around the world
shall be laid amid the anthems of all
nations? The spikes will be the gold
en- and silver spikes fashioned out of
the Christian generosity of the hemis-
pheres. The last hammer stroke that
completes the work will be heard by all
the raptured and piled-up galleries of
the universe, and the mountains of
earth will shout to the thrones of hea-