The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1901-12-12

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 a 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 fotiTIas, wants to wreck
the continents, and hence disasters
oceanic Alas for Galveston and other
cities almost drowned.
But now I turn the leaf in my sub
Jeet, and 1 plant the 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 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
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
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 infdelity is dwindling the
/ wheel of Christianity is making about
| a thousand revolutions in a minute. A
| few years ago in six weeks more than
| 100000 copies of the New Testament
| purchased-not given away, but pur-
chaSed-becauSet 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
| Christi Where is there any other be-
| ing that viii 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 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 meetingsi Mighty
| Ocean Groves! Mighty Chautauquas!
Mighty conventions of Christian work
ers! Mighty general assent lies of the
Presbyterian church! Mighty confer
| ences of the Methodist church, Mighty
associations of the Baptist church,
| Mighty conventions of the EpiS-
| he
years of hard work yet before the con-
sum mation, but the signs are to me sc
encouraging that would not be unbe-
| 1eving if 1 saw the wing of the apoca-
| lyptic angel spread for it's last tri-
umphal flight in this days sunset il
tomorrow morning the ocean cables
should thrill with the news thai
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! Morni ms
of a day in which there shall be nc
chains to break, SORROWS to as
suage, despotism to shatter, Nc
woes to compassionate.
These things 1 say because 1 wan
you to be alert. 1 want you to b,
watching all these wonders unroIlin,
from the heavens ana the earth Coz
has classified them, wheth er caIamitou
or pleasing The divine purposes ar,
harnessed in traces that cannot breal
and in girthS that cannot slip and il
buckles that cannot loosen and ar,
driven by reins they must answer.
So I rejoice day by day Work TO
t all to do, and we may turn the cranl
t of the Christian machinery this way o.
| that. for are free agents. But Their
/ is the tracks laid so long ago on
: remem bers it-laid by the hand of tn.
: Almighty God in sockets that no ter
restria1 or satanic pressure eve
1 affect And along the track the car o
Y the worlds redemption will roll an,
: roll to the Grand Central depot of tn
e | millennium. / have no anxiety abou
: the track I only afraid that TO
2 our Incidence and unfaithfu1neSs Go,
will discharge us and get some Othe
| Stoker and some other engineer Tn
| train is going through with us with
: out u.s. So, my brethren, watch all tn
r events that are going by If thing