The Penn's Grove record., 1899-06-09

pare them LOT usefulness aHu ueANeH
Tho difference between the genera
idea of the worlds evangelical
ton and some particularized field O
evange lization is the difference between
tho Improvement Of agriculture = mong al
nations and tho improvement OF seventy
five acres put under ones especial carr
and industry. By oil means let the gen
eral work go On. But here is the speciat
field for religious concentration and de
yelopfhent. This is not chimerical or i'm
practical. l read this morning that the
American Missionary Association Of the
Congregational Church has already begun
the work at San Juan, Utuado and Albo4'
Ito, and all denominations OF Christians In
six months will be In those islandy fields,
and we all need with our prayers and
contributions to cheer them on to take for
God and righteousness those regions
which our American navy has captured
from Spanish peridy.
1t has been estimated that this America
Spanish war cost us $500, 900, 900. 1t would
not cost half of that to proclaim and carry
on and consummate a holy war that will
rescue those archlpelagoes from satanic
domination. Who will volunteer? I beat
the drum of q recruiting station. Who will
enlist under the one spared, blood striped
banner of ~1mmanuel2 Cuba and Porto
Rico and the Philippines are stspping
stones for our American Christianity &c
cross over and take the round world fol-
God. We need a new evangelical alliance
organized for this one purpose. In all de.
nominations there are those with large
enough hearts and who have been thor
oughly enough converted to join IN
such an advanced movement men who
putting aside all the minor . arences oil
opinion, ''belIeve In God Father
Almighty, Maker OF heave earth
and In Jesus Christ His 5egotten
Son" and who would marc BOULDER to
shoulder in such a Gospel can paign. The
result would be that those Islands, after
such o scene Of gospelization, would assert
themselves into denominations to suit
themselves, and some would be sprl
in holy baptism and others would be
mersed in those warm rivers aud sot4e
would worship in religious ass<mblage
silent as the Quaker meeting house, and
others would have as many iubilant ejaeu.
lations as a baekwoods camp meeting, and
some OF those who preached would be
others would stand IN citizens apparel or
in their shirtsleeves preaching that Gospel
which is to save the world.
Mark you well that craftsmanship, how
ever grand it is, and wise men of the world,
however noble, cannot do this work. Mere
secular education does not morallze. Some
OF the most thoroughly educated men in
ull l1o MOIlu HuNC bcth thu nOAot ilObs
Quicken a mans intellect, while at the same
time you do not make his morals good, and
you only augment his power for evil. Geo.
graphy and mathematics and metaphysics
and philosophy will never qualify q people
to govern themselves. A"0rrIpt printing
press is worse than no p4.-.-ng press at
all, but let loose an open Bible upon those
islands and let the apocalyptic angel once
fly over them, and you will prepare them
to become either colonies OF the United
States Government, or, rs | hope will be
the case, independent republics.
God did not exhaust Himself when He
built this nation, The islands will yet have
their Thomos Jeffersons, qualified to write
for them declarations of Independence; anG
George W~ashingtons, capable OF achieving
their liberties; and Abraham Lincolns,
strong enough to emancipate their serf'
doms, and Longfellows and Bryants, cap.
able Of putting their hills and their rivers
and their landscapes into poems; and the
Bancrofts and Prescotts, to make their his
tories; and their Irvings, to write then
Sketch Books; and their Charles O'Conors
and Rufus Choates, to plead In their court
rooms; and their Daniel Websters and Johr
j. Crittendens, to move their Senates.
The day cometh-hear 1t all We who have
no hope for those islands of be-dwarfed
and diseased iliiterates-the day cometh
when those regions will have a Christian
civilization equal to that which this coun'
try now enjoys, while l hope by that time
this country will be as superior to what 1t
now Is as to-day Washington and New
York are better han Manila and Santiago
Dc you see in this process of gospelized
intelligence those ~archipelagoes will as
q nation be protected from the two woes
propheclsed in regard to this Countrywide
one woe propnecised by the expansionists
and the other woe prophecised by the
anti-expansionists? 1t is said by those who
would have us take all we can lay our
hands on as q nation that, unless we entel
the door now open for the enlargement OF
our national domain, we will decline the
mission which God In His providence has
assigned us. But surely no woe will
come upon us or upon them II 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. l i'm
plorc all political expansionists to aug
ment as 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, l iHplore all anti
e~Xpansionists to take O hand In the COS
pelization of Cuba, Porto Rico md 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 oil 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 irradlates the darkness OF the
mind and achieves the ransom Of the soul.
But on this platform the so called ex'
nopctNnIatc and =n oullah pti-aynanGinpisf
will yet stand side by side. Though I am
not a prophet or the son of a prophet,
within 1--WE years, IL this religio-educationai
work Is properly attended to, there will be
a Cuban republic, a Porto Rican republic
and a Philippine republic, one Of them CD
a large scale, but they will all have their
schools and printing presses and evangeli-
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 arc rapidly rolling
into His dominion, and why not these ISL
ands, which for the most part are only
fragments broken off 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 otlittle CONT
nents. II the continents are being SO
rapidly evangelical, why not the islands,
II America, why not Cuba and the BAHIA,
mas2 If Asia, why not the Philippines ant
the Moluccas? II Europe, why not the
Azores and the 0rkneys? If Africa, why
not Madagascar md St. Helena. The
same power that broke them of the main
land can lift them into evangelization.