The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-05-15
treasures Of food. When that shin I,

, and plants His triumphant foot O
: stormy waves to let nothing but goo
happen TO the ship till it anchors i
, Bengal or Arabian waters They VIII
help By contributions of money o
: breadstuffs toward filling that relic
; ship will flavor their own food for thei
} lifetime with appetizing qualities, an,
insure their own welfare through tn
promise of Him who said: blessed i
he that considereth the poor; the Lor,
will deliver him in time of trouble
And now L bethink myself of some
thing | never thought of before. haC
noticed that the circle is Gods favorit,
figure. and upon that subject / adj
dressed you some time ago, but it die
not occur to me until now that tn,
Gospel seems to DE moving in a circle
1t started in Asia, Bethlehem. an
Asiatic village; Jordan. an AsiatiC
river; Calvary, an Asiatic mountain
Then this Gospel moved on to Eu
rope; witness the chapels anc
churches and cathedrals and Chris.
tian universities of that continent.
| Then it crossed to America. II has
prayed and preached and sung Its way
across our continent. 1t has crossed to
Asia, taking the Sandwich islands in
its way. and now in all the great cities
on the coast of China people are sing
ing Rock of Ages" and There Is a
Fountain Filled with Blood" for YOU
must know that not only have the
Scriptures been translated into those
Asiatic tongues, but also the evangel
ical hymns. My missionary brother
John, translated some of them into
Chinese, and Mr.. Gladstone gave
me copy of the hymn. "Jesus
Lover of Ny Soul which he had him.
self translated into Cheek. The Chais,
who. IL seems, spent 10 or 1s years c!
His life in India, is there now in spirit
converting and saving the people by
the hundreds of thousands. and the
Gospel will move right on through
Asia until the glory of the Saviour's
birth will anew he made known in
Bethlehem and the story of Saviour's
sacrifice be told anew on and around
Mount Calvary, and the story of
Saviour's ascension be told anew
on the shoulder of Mount Olivet
And then do you not see the
circle will be complete? The
glorious circle, the circles of the earth
This old planet, gashed with earth
quake, and scorched with con1agra
ton. and torn with revolutions, will bs
girdled with churches, with schools
with universities, with millennial fes
tivities. How cheering and how in
mi ha . h., - a% 4.
err giving temporal or spiritual relief
working on the segment of such cir
Gle. And that the Christly mission
which started in Asia will keep on its
way until it goes clear around to
the place where it started. Then
the earth will have demonstrated that
for which ii was created. and as soon
as world has completed its mission il
dies. Part of the heavens is a GENE
terry of dead worlds. Our world built
to demonstrate to the worlds which
have been loyal to God the awful re.
suits of disloyalty, SO that none OF them
may ever attempt i'll say our world,
having finished its 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 ransomed human race at that
time on earth will start unhurt in
those chariots Of fire for the great me-
tropolis of the universe. the Heaven.
where the redeemed of the Lord shall
talk over the famines and the plaques
and the wars which the earth suffered
and against which we struggled and
prayed as long as there was any
breath in us. Glorious contamination.
May 10, 1869, was 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 west
ward. They were within arms reach Of
meeting, only one more piece OF the
rail track to put down. A great au-
dience assembled, mid-continent, to see
the last tie laid. The locomotives Of
ehS SuobIih anu hISICIh SlODu
painting on the tracks close by. Ora
ton 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; silver
spike, presented by Nevada, and an
iron spike, presented by Arizona.
When, all heads uncovered and all
hearts thrilling with emotion, the hsm-
mer struck the last spike into its place,
the cannon doomed it amid the re.
sounding mountain echoes, and the
telegraphic instruments clicked to all
nations 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 a re-
sounding occasion, what will it be
when the last tie of the track of
Gospel influences, reaching clear
around the world, shall be laid amid
the anthems OF all nations? The spikes
will be the golden and silver spikes
fashioned out of the Christian gener-
osity of the hemispheres. The last
hammer stroke that completes the