Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1901-04-13

vsvais. while the pews on one side
the altar DRY for mercy. the pol2its
on the other side OF the altar urse
cry for mercy. Ministers qrsrrelinx.
Ministers trying 20 pull each other
down Ministers struggling for eccie-
siastical place. Ministers. lethargio
with whole congregations dying ON
their hands. whas spectac.sf
During our civil war the president
of the United States made procla ma
ton for $4,000 troops. Some of you
remember the big stir. But the hing
of the universe to-day asks for
1.2O0.Ooo, 600 more troops than are en-
listed. AID wo want il done softly.
inperceptibly. no excitement. one by
che. You arc a cry goods merchant
O. a large scale. and am n merchant
on small scale. and l come 10 you
and want TO buy 1000 yards Oh cloth.
DO you say: Thank you. I'll ssll
you 1000 yards of cloth, but I'll sell
you 20 yards to-day and 20 tomorrow
and 90 the next day. and II e takes
me six months I'll sell you the whole
thousand yards. You will want ~
long as that 20 examine the goods.
and III want as long as that to exam
yards Of cloth Is too much TO seh all
st once?" No; you do not say that
You take me into the counting-room.
aud in ten minutes the whole transec-
ton il contaminated. The fact Is We
cannot afford 20 be fools in anything
but religion.
That very merchant who on Satur-
day afternoon sold me the thousand
4. - n. \
sabbath in church will stroke his
beard and wonder whether 10 would
not ne better for thousand souls to
come struggling along for ten years
instead of boiling in At one service.
II seems 20 me as II GOO is prcpa--
ing the world for some quick nnd
universal movement. A celebrated
electrician gave me telegraph chart
Of the world. On that chart the wires
crossing the continents and the cables
under the sea looked like veins red
with blood. On that chart 7 see that
the headquarters OF the lightnings are
In Great Britain and the United
| States. In London and New York
the lightnlngs arc stabbed. waiting
70 be harnessed for some quick dis
patch. That shows you that the tel
egraph il in the possession OF Chris
tianity.
IL is a significant fact that the man
who invented the telegraph was an
old-fashioned Christian. Prof. Morse.
and that the man who put the tele-
graph under the sea was an oidfRsh-
toned christian. Cyrus W. Field. and
that the president of the most IA
NOUS OF the telegraph companies. ot
this country was an oid-fs shiouso
Christian. William orion, going from
the communion table on earth
straight 70 his home in Heaven. What
does all that mean?
I do not suppose that the telegraph
was invented merely 20 let US know
whether Hour l. up or down OF which
horse won the race at the Derby or
which marksman beat at the latest
contest. 1 suppose the telegraph was
invented and built 20 call the world
20 God
In some OF the attributes OF the
Lord we seem 70 share on small
scale For instance. IN His love and
His kindness. But until of late fore
knowledge. omniscience. Omnipres
ence, omnipotence, seem 20 have beer
exclusively Gods possession. God, de-
string 10 make the race like Himself
gives us a species OF foreknowledg'
In the weather proba bilities. gives al
n species OF omniscience in telcgraphy
gives us species Of omnipresence in
the telephone. gives us a species o.
omnipotence in the steam power. Dis
coveries and inventions all arOun'
about us, people are asking what next
I will tell YOU what next. Next.
stupendous religious movement Next
the end of war. Next, the crash o
despotism. Next. the worlds eXpurga
tion. Next, the Christlike dominion
, Next. the Judgment. What become
. OF the world after that / care MOI
? II will have suffered and achieve
/, enough for one world. Lay IL up j
, the drydOcks OF eternity. like an oil
- man OF war gone out Of service. or 4
, IL up like a Constellation to carr
, bread OF relief 20 some other suffertn
I | planet OF let 10 he demolished FARE
. well. dear old world, that began wit
: paradise and ended with judgmeE
a confiagration.
, Last summer / stood on the Isle {
> Wight. and had pointed out To n
: the place where the Eurydice san
= with 200 or 800 young men who wei
. in training for the British navy. Nc
= remember when that training sh
:. went down there was a thrill of horr'
: oil over the world. Since then the
, was another training ship missin
\ The ATLANTA, gone do~R with all {
hoard nv order of her naiesfy's 20