The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-12-12

sands and the Skerries! The sea, own
Ing three-fourths of the earth; proposes
to capture the other fourth and is bonn
harding the land all around the earth.
The moving of the hotels at Brighton
Beach backward 100 yards from where
they once stood type OF what is go
ing on all around the world and on
every coast. The Dead sea rolls today
where ancient cities stood. Pillars OF
temples that stood on hills biologists
now find three-quarters under the
water or altogether submerged. The
sea, having wrecked so many mer-
chantmen and fiotillas, wants to wreck
the continents, and hence disasters
oceanic. Alas for Galveston and other
cities almost drowned!
But now l turn the leaf in my sub
ject. and l plant tho white lilies and
the palm tree amid the night shades
and the myrtle. This age no more
characterized by wonders of disaster
than by wonders of Distinguishing
OF longevity; the average of human life
rapidly Increasing. The average Of hui
man life practically greater now than
when Noah lived, with his $50 years,
and Methusaleh lived his 969 years.
Blessings of intelligence! If the phil
osophers OF a hundred years ago We're
called up to recite in class with our
boys and girls. those old philosophers
would be sent down to the foot Of the
class because they failed to answer the
questions! Free libraries in all the
important towns and circles of the
land. Historical alcoves and poetical
shelves and magazine tables for all
who desire to walk through them or
sit down at them.
Blessings of quick information!
Newspapers falling all around us thick
as leaves in a September equinoctial.
We see the whole world twice a day
through the newspaper at the break
fast table and through the newspaper
at the tea table.
Blessings of gospel proclamation!
While infidelity is dwindling the
wheel of Christianity is maxim; about
thousand revolutions in minute. A
~SV SoAo ooO IA OLA WCShS lllOlC JudH
100000 copies of the New Testament
purchased-not given away, but pur-
chased-because the world will have it.
The most popular book today is the
Bible, and the mightiest institution is
the church, and the greatest name
among the nations and more honored
than any is the name of Jesus.
Wonders of self-sacrifice! All for
Christ! Where is there any other be-
ing that will rally such enthusiasm?
Millions of good men and women, but
more women than men, to whom
Christ is everything. Christ first and
Christ last and Christ forever.
Why, this age Is not so characterized
by invention and scientific exploration
as it is by gospel proclamation. You
can get no idea of it unless you can
ring all the church bells in one chime
and sound all the organs in one diapa-
son and gather all the congregations of
Christendom in one GLORIA In Excel
SIS" Mighty camp meetings.! Mighty
Ocean Groves! Mighty Chautauquas.
Mighty conventions of Christian work
ers! Mighty general assemblies of the
Presbyterian church! Mighty confer
ences of the Methodist church! Mighty
associations of the Baptist church!
Mighty conventions of the Epis-
copal church! There may be many
years of hard work yet before the con-
but the signs are to me so
encouraging that would not be unbe-
lieving if l saw the wing of the apoca-
lyptic angel spread for it's last tri-
umphal flight in this days sunset or if
tomorrow morning the ocean cables
should thrill us with the news that
Christ the Lord had alighted on Mount
Olivet to proclaim universal dominion.
All dead churches. wake up! Throw
back the shutters of stiff ecclesiasti-
cism and let the light of the spring
morning come in! Morning for the
land! Morning for the sea! Morning
of light and love and peace! Morning
of day in which there shall be no
chains to break, no sorrows to as
suage, no despotism to shatter. no
woes to compassionate.
These things say because want
you to be alert. want you to be
watching all these wonders unrolling
from the heavens and the earth. God
has classified them, whether ca1amitous
or pleasing. The divine purposes are
harnessed in traces that cannot break
and in girths that cannot slip and in
buckles that cannot loosen and are
Ariven by reins they must answer.
So rejoice day by day. Work for
I'll to do, and we may turn the crank
If the Christian machinery this way or
that, for we are free agents. But there
is the tracks laid so long ago no one
remembers it-laid by the hand of the
Almighty God In sockets that no ter
restrial or satanic pressure can ever
affect. And along the track the car of
the worlds redemption will roll and
roll to the Grand Central depot of the
millennium. have no anxiety about
the track. am only afraid that for
our Incidence and unfaithfulness God