Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1899-06-14

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dred million Of heather in India, more than
three hundred million Of people in China
and m ore millions of heathens than can be
guessed outside Of those countries some-
times stagger and confound and defeat our
faith. But here In these Islands Of present
controversy we can farm out the work
among the churches and in five years, under
the blessing OF God, not only fit the peo-
pie for the right of suffrage, but pre-
pare them for usefulness and heaven.
The difference between the general
idea OF the worlds evangelical
evangelization is the difference between
the improvement OF agriculture a mong all
nations and the Improvement OF seventy
five acres put under ones especial care
and industry. By all means lst the gem
eral work go on. But here is the specific
field for religious concentration and de-
velopment. This Is not chimerical or i'm
practical. l read this morning that the
American Missionary Association Of the
Church has already begun
the work at San Juan, Utuado and Albon-
Ito, and all denominations OF Christians in
six months will be In those islandy fields,
and we all need with our prayers and
to cheer them on to take for
God and righteousness those regions
which our American navy has captured
from Spanish perfdy.
1t has been estimated that this America.
Spanish war cost us $500 900, 900. 1t would
not cost half of that to proclaim aud carry
on and consummate holy war that will
rescue those archipelagoes from satanic
Who will volunteer? I beat
the drum Of n recruiting station. Who will
enlist under the one spared, blood striped
banner of Immanuelp Cuba and Porto
Rico and the Philippines are stepping
stones for our American Christianity to
cross over and take the round world for
God. We need n new evangelical alliance
organized for this one purpose. In all de-
there are those with large
enough hearts and who have been thor
)ughly enough converted to join in
such an advanced movement men who,
putting aside all the minor differences of
opinion, "believe In God the Father
Almighty, Maker OF heaven and earth,
md in Jesus Christ His only begotten
son." and who would march shoulder to
shoulder in such Gospel campaign. The
result would be that those Islands, after
such a scene of gospelization, would assert
themselves into denominations to suit
and some would he sprinkled
n holy baptism and others would be I'M
nersed in those warm rivers aud some
would worship in religious assemblage
,ilent as the Quaker meeting house, and
others wou,1 have rs many iUbilant ejacu-
ations as a backwoods camp meeting, and
,ome of those who preached would be
yowned and surpliced for the work, and
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n their shirtsleeves preaching that Gospel
which is to save the world.
Mark you well that craftsmanship, how
,ver grand it is, and wise men OF the world,
however noble, cannot do this work. Mere
secular education does not moralize. Some
of the most thoroughly educated men in
all the world have been the worst men.
Quicken a mans intellect, w hile at the same
lime YOU do not make his morals good, and
you only augment his power for evil. Geo.
yraphy and mathematics and metaphysics
ind philosophy will never qualify a people
% govern themselves. A corrupt printing
press is worse than no printing press at
all, but let loose an open Bible upon those
Stands and let the apocllyptic angel once
iy over them, and you will prepare them
20 become either colonies OF the United
states G overnment, or, as I hope will be
The case, independent republics.
God did not exhaust Himself when He
,uilt this nation. The islands will yet have
heir Thomos Jeffersons, qualified to write
.or them declarations sofindependence; Of and
George Washingtons, capable of achieving
heir liberties; and Abraham Lacolns,
TO G ennu9h to emancipate their serf-
IONS, and Longfellows aud Bryants, cap
ible of putting their hills and their rivers.
and their landscapes Into poems; and the
Bancrofts and Prescotts, to make their his
:ories; and their Irvings, to write their
sketch Books; and their Charles O'Conors
and Rufus Choates. to plead in their court
rooms; and their Daniel Websters and John
]. Crittendens, to move their Senates.
The day cometh-hear it all ye who have
40 hope for those islands of be-dwarfed
and diseased iliiterates-the day cometh
when those regions will have a Christian
equal to that which this coun-
try now enjoys, while hope by that time
this country will be as superior to what 1t
now Is as to-day Washington and New
York are better than Manila and Santiago.
DO you see in this process of gospeized
those archipelagoes will as
4 nation be protected from the two woes
in regard to this countryside
one woe propnecised by the expansionists
and the other woe prophecised by the
1t is said by those who
would have US take all we can lay our
hands on as a nation that, unless we enter
the door now open for the enlargement Of
Dur national domain, we will decline the
mission which God in His providence has
assigned US. But surely no woe will
,ome upon US or upon them IL We
Christianize them as we now have the
opportunity OF doing. The political tech
nicalities are nothing as compared with
the Importance Of this movement. 1 i'm.
plore all political expansionists to aug
ment US in this work Of moral and relig-
Ious expansion, for unless those islands
are moralized and elevated in intelligence
and habits we do not want them, and their
annexation would be political damnation.
On the other hand, iDplore all anti
to take hand in the gos-
pelization of Cuba, Porto Rico and the
Philippine Islands. The only way to pre-
pare them to take care of themselves Is to
give them the Ten Commandments that
were published on Mount Sinai and let
them hear the groan of sacrifice that was
breathed out on the heights Of Golgotha.
What they most want is the Gospel, the
pure Gospel, the omnipotent Gospel, the
Gospel that helps heal the wounds OF the
body and irradiates the darkness Of the
mind and achieves the ransom of the soul.
But on this platform the so called ex-
and so called danti-expansionists
will yet stand side by side. Though I am
not prophet or the son Of IA prophet,
within five years, IL this religio- educational
work is properly attended to, there will be
a Cuban republic, Porto Rican republic
and Philippine republic, one Of them on
q large scale, but they will all have their
schools and printing presses and evangelf-
cal churches their Presidents, their Senates
and House OF Representatives. their Mayors
and their constabularies, and as good or
der will be observed In their cities as now
reigns on Pennsylvania avenue, Washing
ton. or Broadway, New York.
Christ has started for the conquest OF the
nations, and nothing on earth or in hell can
stop 1t. The continents are rapidly rolling
into His dominion, and why not these ISL
ands, which for the most part are only
fragments broken of from continents, the
interval lands having been sunk by earth
quakes, allowing the ocean to take mas
terry over them. Each mother continent
has around 1t a whole family oflittle conti-
nents. II the continents are being so
rapidly evangelized, why not the islands?
II America, why not Cuba and the Bahia
mas? II Asia. why not the Philippines and
the Moluccasl. II Europe, why not the
Azores and the Orkneys? II Africa, why
not Madagascar and st. Helena. The
same power that broke them off the main
land can lift them into evangelization.
Age is not to be feared. The older
n good and healthy person grows the
greater becomes his CAPACITY to enjoy