The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1899-04-14
afar off, the thunder of the captains
and the shouting"

and the shouting"
| think it is the cavalry of the Chris
tian hosts, the grand men and women
who, with bold dash and holy reckless
ness and spurred on energies, are to
| take the world for God. To this army
of Christian service belong the evange-
lists. 1t ought to be the business of the
regular churches to multiply them, to
support them, to cheer them, to clear
the way for them. Some of them you
like; some of them you do not like. You
say some of them are too sensational
and some of them are not enough
learned, and some of them are cratic
and some of them are too vehement
and some of them pray too loud Oh
fold up your criticisms and let them do
that which we, the pastors, can never
do.
like all the evangelists l have ever
seen or heard. They are busy now;
they are busy every day of the week.
While we, the pastors, serve God by
holding the fortress of righteousness
and drilling the Christian sOldiery and
by marshaling anthems and sermons
and ordinances on the right side, they
are out fighting the forces of darkness
chip and thigh, with great slaughter"
All success to them. The faster they
gallop the better like it. The keener
the lances they fling the more 1 admire
them. We care not what convention
atty they infract if they only gain the
victory. Moody and Chapman and
Mills and Jones and Harrison and Mum
hall and Major Cole and Crittenden
and hundred others are now making
the cavalry charge, and they are this
moment taking New York and Phila-
delphia and Cincinnati for God, and ]
wish they might take our Nations CAPT
tai. Hear the tremendous facts: There
are now in this country nearly 100000
church congregations with nearly 81
100000 communicates and seating ca
pacity in church for more than 49,
100000 peOple-in other words, room in
the churches for three-fourthS of the
population of this country, and about
one-third of the population of this
country already Christian. In other
words, we will have only to average
bringing two souls to God during the
next three years and our country is re-
deemed. Who cannot, under the power
of the Holy Ghost, bring two souls to
God in three years? And so many will
bring hundreds and thousands to God
most of you have to bring only one soul
to God and the Gospel campaign for
this continent will be ended. If you
cannot bring one soul to God, or two
souls, or three souls, in three years,
you are no Christian and deserve your
self to be shut out of heaven. The re-
ligiOus pessimists of this country are
all the time depicting the obstacles as
so great and our forces as so small
that we half of the time feel that we
are attempting an impossibility.
Take out of your prayers and preach
ing some of your stuffing of groans and
put in something of reclamation and
triumph, and the United States will be
gospelized, and if the United States be
gospelized America will be gospelized.
and, America gospelized, we will take
Asia from the Pacific beach and Eu-
rope from the Atlantic beach, and not
far from now the lost star we live on
will take its place among the constella-
tons that never fell. Let the more
than 21,OO0,O0O communicates. as they
lift the sacramento cup to their lips |
take oath they will not rest until the
other 4O,OO0OO0 are saved. The Oppor-
tunitieS are all saddled and bridled. |
Where are the men and women to
guide them? II will deliver thee 1000 |
horses if thou be able to set riders upon |
them" What two men can do for good |
or evil is impressed upon me by the
fact that, two Scotchmen going to Cali
fornia, each took something that
would remind him of his native coun-
try. The one took a thistle, the ma.
tional emblem of Scotland. The other
took hive of bees. Years went by,
and the work of the two Scotchmen is
widely seen. The curse of the Pacific
Slope is the thistle, and the blessing of
the Pacific Slope is the honey found
everywhere in woods and fields. In your
life you are responsible for honey or
thistles, and if one man can do so much
good and another so much evil, how
much could be done for the ransom of
this country by 21,OOOOOO people all
Get out of the way with your dolorous
and change your dirges for
what we have not done for the grand
march of what we may and will do.
The woman at Sedan, in whose house
Napoleon the last was waiting to make
surrender of himself and his army. said
to the overthrown French emperor,
What can l do for your and the de-
spairing monarch replied, Nothing but
draw down the blind so that l cannot
be stared at" In this Gospel cam
paign we have plenty to draw down the
blinds. In Gods name say, pull I'D
the blinds and let the morning sun of
the coming victory shine upon US.
What we want in this campaign for
God is the self abnegation and courage
Of the men of Sir Colin Campbell, who.
rs Lord Bishop Cowle of New Zealand.