Connecticut western news., 1899-01-12

At half past I2 a man entered, and oth-
 CTS came until there were six worship
 CTS present. The meeting on the follow
 ing monday numbered 20, and the next day 40. Then the meeting became too large for the room, and it was taken
 into the main auditorium, and for fl years that service has been the religious center uf Cbristendom. Requests for
 prayer from all parts of the earth have
 come there, and the prayers offered been
 answered sometimes with resound
 that was heard throughout Christen- dom. Hundreds of thousands of souls
 have stepped into that Bethesda and
 been healed. That meeting started the great revival of 1858, in which it is es.
 timated 800, 900 souls were converted When Monday morning, Dec. 26, his soul ascended, think he was met at the gate of heaven by welcoming
 throng as mighty as that which has
 greeted any admitted soul for five cen turies Humble and without any pre-
 tension and without anything brilliant
 in his make up, through faith in God
 and concentrated prayer he shook the
 earth and enraptured the heavens. He
 was worth 10, 900, yea 100, 900, ordinary Christian workers. Dear old friend
 Lanphier, how loved youl
 Worth Ten Thousand.
 When the consul general came in his
 official rowboat to take us off our great steamer i'll the harbor of Constantinople,
 there were many things 1 wanted to see
 in that city of multiform entertainments, but most of all l was anxious to see that
 architectural charm of the ages, the
 St. Sophia-once a church, but now
 mosque. l do not wonder that when Lamartine saw it he thanked God, and Pouqueville felt himself lifted into some other world. What pillars of porphyry,
 and walls of malachite, and lowering arches, and galleries which seemed to have alighted from heaven instead of
 being built up from earth Mosaics and
 mother of Eearl, and seraphim with wings bediamonded, and dome which
 scoops the sky and staggers with its ] height and circumference all those who gaze into it until they can look no more, but each succeeding time you
 look it seems higher and wider and grander and more supernatural. All the then known world taxed to furnish the splendor of the mosque, and many of the great blocks of stone brought from l Alexandria, from Athens, from Thebes, 1 from Baalbec. Marbles veined and star red and striped and interlaced, and the
 whole building adorned with depths of blue, and whiteness of snow, and glow op oII Of are a depreciation, and years after your most extravagant dreams struggle to re-
 build it. But, after all, I cannot forget
 that it is destroyed church, and that ] one day that building, which had been dedicated to God, was transferred to that religion which has &ohammed for
 it's prophet One day, centuries ago,
 100, 900 paopie had fled between its walls from the devastating war of the Turk, but II in vain, for Mohammed
 II, on horp back and followed by in- furiate mel i rode into that church, tho hoofs clatts2ing the sacred floors, while the conquar or shouted the victory of superstiticg. and invoked Allah, the god
 of Arabs a d Turks, to accept the stu.
 pendous Eae in dedication. What deseoratioss and what worldwide de-
 spairl Bu3 that which the nations now
 most need sl hero, a leader, cham
 pion, an incanated God, to turn all the
 mosques e superstition and all the basilicAs ci G1n into temples of right eousness, aDd to rededicate this world,
 2o long sia iD uY to wickedness and sin,
 to the GoG ul in the beginning pro-
 Dounced l. ya'y good. Such hero, such a leader, gnst. champion, such an in- carnatea I.iI VG have. He comes riding ill upon tliu y hise borse of eternal vic
 tory, and 'rt .En, iu plore exalted sense than that Hi5 ih tho roldiers of David
 felt, cry uIt. "Thol art worth 10, 900 If us
 CnaiS Beror of Worlds.
 The RJs;5 AIs had other conquerors, yet they gL 5lii iud only nation or a con- linent, hus ig.re is one who Is to be a
 conquUxot Css .umiHpheres. Other physi-
 clans Esya cL3Gd sufferings, o1t here is ! DoGtoK who gayo sight to those who were borI baagd md without surgery straiRhtG1es she crooked back and changed szs flumbaess of paralysis into
 
 l tirpate all iae ailments of the world,
 until the fnsa Try Of the worlds distress shall chanEs into a song of convales- cence Otbe2 kings have ruled wide
 realms, but here is King that will yet reign in eil Che earth as he now reigns in heaven There have been other his. torians who told the story of nations, but here iD cne who tells us of things that occurred before the world was | There hFvs been other generals who commanded men, hut here was a Gener
 al who commanded seas and hurricanes. | There have been ether prophets, but
 here is uue ouSof vlhose life and career Moses nrd Iavid and Jeremiah and
 Eznkiel und hicaIa and Malachi and
 Zopharinh dipped their inspiration. Thnre hlYe blnn ether merciful hearts all up hal down through the ages, but hers is one W ho loves us with an ever
 lMsting love Hllsl whose mercy antedates the birth of thu 'Srst mountain, and the
 wash of tte fir tm sea. and the radiance oe the first aurtrA, and the chant of the
 morning stars As the creation and will | continue after iln last rock has melted in tbs final coiii 'fgration, and Atlantic
 and Pacific ooa ns have rolled out of their beds, and sru last night shall have
 folded up its sAldow. and our Lord
 shall have cried olt in the same words
 that sounded tqrough the night of
 Johns banishIn Ut on Patmos, "I am | Alpha ard Omell, the beginning and the end, the iiIs und the last. '" Then
 all the mighties, of heaven will gather
 around the incR mated God of whom l
 preach, each onr saying it for himse f,
 but all together uttersnR it in mighty | chorus, "Thor Son of David, thou Son
 of Mary, thou Son of God, thou art
 worth 10, OG0 of us.
 But l must not uiose withost con-
 mending to you this wonderful Christ