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so on. But there "y. By and by, be is more to say," and the Hallelujab, 'tis de es not born to die ist st year of our cent reacher, and by the Asbury was orda pecame a great and I into the ranks the New York Cor

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before there was a mile of railway constructed in this The world
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along that first dispatch,
along that first dispatch, "What hath God wrought!" everlasting
The Methodist Church had 250,000 members-the in the measu
nucleus of a Methodism that now counts 4,000,000. The It has been
great Northwest and Southwest, and greater West, was ascended Sa
all a wilderness, where the wild beasts disputed occu- all the faller
pancy with the wilder tribes of savage men.

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The prophetic soul of Nathan Bangs saw the coming filled which

day.

"He heard the tread of Pioneers,

A nation yet to be;

The first low wash of waves,

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Standing in the wilds of Michigan, he said, "This is to be one of the gardens of the Lord." He saw, by faith, great cities rise as if by magic; he saw vast empires peopled by millions, lifting their arches toward the setting sun, and his great soul throbbed with the enthusiasm of an earnest resolve that the itinerant Methodist preacher should keep even pace with, if not be in advance of, the surging tides of civilization.

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He heard the Macedonian cry from over the seas, and his all-abounding love for all the fallen race of mantle often obs made him a missionary and a leader of missionaries.

On the good foundation built by Nathan Bangs and his associates, has under the blessing of God on his worthy successors, grown the structure, whence to the

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nary Society, whe ends of the earth have gone the messengers of peace and submission

evening. with him for month ief laymen of tks d eloquently, in th pal Church, then th

reconciliation. Beginning in this Jerusalem of the new
world, the area of its labors widened until the utter-
most parts of the earth have been blessed by its minis-
trations.

Its banners full high and advancing, are floating from

Speaking there outposts the wide world round, and by the blessing of in seeing a larg God, they will not droop or be furled until shall come anize this Socier that glad crisis in the world's history, when its king

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doms shall become the kingdoms of our Lord and his
Christ. That day of days need not be some far off divine
event, if the resources of a Church, rich in men and

anager, was alws means, quickened by the life force from Heaven, shall

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be speedily consecrated to God.

A year ago, we were closing that marvelous love feast

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nds to be blent into one tribute and cast at the feet our Master. Oh, that we might see grander work, bler heroism, and a fiery enthusiasm that should pos38 all our Church. Not such enthusiasm as they tell us me out of a certain keg of powder up in Vermont. In country store up in Yankeeland, while the loungers ere sitting around the stove at night, a farmer came in, d asked for powder. It was set down upon the counter. friend said, "Look here, Neighbor Jones, do you ink of buying some of that powder?" "Yes." "Well, is dangerous stuff to have in your house. I bought a g, and it got afire one night, and it took me half an ur to put it out."

Do not let us have any such powder. Follow the haplain's lead: he leads on to victory. Oh, for a misonary revival sweeping through all our Methodism, bsoiling our ability to work and to give. Oh, that od would give the whole Church a divine, spiritual ointing, descending in measure abundant, and overwing upon Bishops and Secretaries, and Pastors and eople; upon the missionary preaching Jesus and the esurrection in the regions beyond; upon the noble omen of Methodism who do such efficient work in the ospel; upon our Sunday schools that they may bring a generation of loyal, hearty, generous givers to this upreme Cause.

No Church can become a successful Missionary Church; o man can be a successful missionary until endowed ith power from on high, and made fit to be co-workers ith Him. The test of Christian Church and Christian maracter is the proclamation aggressively of the Gospel the entire world. While with profound gratitude e study the growth and success of our missions at Ome and abroad, and the first impulse is to say "well one," yet a review of the exhibit for two-thirds of a entury, and a glance outward upon the great world ith its imperative demands, and inward upon the vast sources of the Church, withheld from Him, whose right is to possess them, we are led to ask: How do they ppear as tests of Christian characters as illustrating ne measure of our love for God and our fellow men, nd as exhibits of the Church's loyalty to Christ? Are e willing to let the exhibit remain as our, permanent cord?

We may not be among those who on earth shall be ermitted to shout "Hallelujah, the Lord God Omniotent reigneth," in that rejoicing day when He, who or the salvation of a lost world, stooped to the unutter. ole sacrifice of Bethlehem and Calvary, shall have the

mountain barrier shall be ov shall be spanned for the unin King's highway of holiness, an shall flow together, as in th mountain of the Lord's house everywhere extinguished, and shall be everywhere enkindled ished, until every father becor own household, offering the d praise, and every mother shall to lisp the name of Jesus, unt filed shall conserve all peopl soul, until there shall be but o shall lisp, one memory that ev one name that shall be above

That glad day is coming. feeble sense, but steadily con yonder surging tide, whose fringed billow washes further

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The cross shall surely conquer in this our glorious day.—Cho.

The whole wide world for Jesus, the marching order sound,
Go ye and preach the Gospel, wherever man is found.
The whole wide world for Jesus, our banner is unfurled,
We battle now for Jesus, and faith demands the world.-Cho.

The whole wide world for Jesus, in the Father's home above
Are many wondrous mansions, mansions of light and love.
The whole wide world for Jesus, ride forth, O conquering king,
Through all the mighty nations, the world to glory bring.-Cho.

Bishop Harris then introduced Dr. Buckley, Editor of the Christian Advocate, who was greeted with applause.

Dr. Buckley.-Ladies and Gentlemen: I have spoken in this building on five different occasions, in connection with the commencement of various institutions of this city, and in a public meeting, in behalf of a great philanthropy.

On these occasions, I looked upon vast assemblies consisting almost entirely of strangers to me personally. Oa the first occasion, there were but two persons in the house whose names I knew, but on this occasion, I see more than a thousand whom I could call by name, without a slip from first to last, and I see a thousand more st whose names I could guess with a fair degree of hope. "Behold how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity."

When I was in Switzerland in 1863-everybody has been to Europe since, and therefore it is not ostentatious for me to refer to it-I fell in with a gentleman, who said to me that he was from the United States. I was glad to meet him, for nearly every person I had met who spoke English had something to say against our country. When I said to this man, "From what part of the United States are you?" he replied, "From the State of New Jersey." That did not give me any clear

view of his opinions on the existing trouble. But I was conscious of considerable pleasure from the response

because I could say to him, "that is my native State." I was much better pleased to meet him than I would have been to meet an Englishman or a Scotchman or an Irishman, though they all speak substantially the same language. About an hour afterward, I found he was a Caristian, and that was a great pleasure to me also. After a few minutes further conversation, I discovered that he was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the city of Newark.

It was pleasing to meet a man who spoke English, but I was conscious of an increased pleasure, when I found that be came from my native State; so in the second instance, I

Though you may not believe

The thing he is not is this: H There are a great many person ference between diffidence and got over his diffidence in Libb is so genuine that I shall have in what I am about to say. I their eyes upon him rather tha

and I will determine by the ap whether I have gone too far common sentiment of the Chu thusiasm which he has succeed

I am very glad that he sel Million is a very popular word Sprague stood up in the Unite what had more power and a and the common language o going to pay is, "There are M have learned this from the stree I fear, not having the Discipl them, did not so learn it.

The million is the American not the symbol in any other unit is five times as large as million is not the expression nor yet in France, though it proverb in France as applied England as applied to pounds plied to francs, it only mean means when we apply it to d

From the early ages men number which was a symbol the Jews the number 7 was a 7 spirits before the throne o so far that the child that Eli times. The general number symbolism.

Nineteen years ago, I came seen such an assembly of Met years in these two cities. I meeting, so many ministers tions, from up the Hud delphia, Washington and B the Mississippi.

And this great meeting held such an enormous su audiences, this great meeting Chaplain McCabe ; Like St. sel with flesh and blood. He ed to speak here. I understa

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ometimes with the arm of the flesh, I admit, but often ith the arm of the Spirit of God, destroyed Paganism on the continent of Europe. Six hundred ears after Paul died, the eruption of Mohammednism snatched from Christianity a part of its nost prolific fields; but still Europe remains Chrisian, with the exception of Mohammedan Turkey, ind a strip of territory along the line that separates Russia from Asia and a small region within the Artic Zone. Missionary effort has made Europe what it is.

Methodism was a mission to commence with. John Wesley was a missionary. Thomas Coke was a missionary, and they gave up everything they had to be missionaries; the hope of preferment, in the Church, and in the world; they gave up income and social standing, and they were missionaries as really as Augustine was when he sought the islands afar and the land from which we trace our origin.

I beg now to state that in the year 1786, the Methodists, weak and feeble as they were, began to establish missions under the superintendency of Thomas Coke. They sent them out into various foreign colonies. On one voy age Thomas Coke found it impossible to make a landing anywhere in North America.

The winds beat against them day after day and week after week, until finally he gave it up, and let the winds carry the ship to the West Indies, and this was the ori gin of the Wesleyan missions to the West Indies.

The Baptist Missionary Society of England was founded in 1792, four years after the Wesleyan body let Thomas Coke take out Missionaries to the British Colonies. In 1795 the London Missionary Society was established. In 1796 the Edinburgh and Glasgow Mis. sionary Societies were established, and the first year of the present century, the great Church Missionary Society was established.

Of course, as long as Thomas Coke lived, it was unnecessary to establish a Missionary Society, technically so called. The Conference was such a Society, asking its questions about Missions; but when Thomas Coke died, and even before, it was seen that it must be made a sep

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shopping in this city, for C an early interest in mis sions and long life.

After listening to these miles home, stopped at a m English midnight supper. vigor, she is able to come day in shopping in New Y meeting.

The learning and eloquen derful power of Watson in autocratic but marvellously ment of Bunting will not even Bunting himself did n hearing General Fisk!

But what of American M dism was a missionary move too weak when it was born over a cry to John Wesle Taylor, in one respect, that continents, next to John W sent over a preacher, he wr letter to that man that the v ter, which I read in an ancie erty of Bishop Harris, the o and which I tried to r could not, the Bishop h letter from Mr. Wesley, works reads as follows, n missionary: "I turn you loc North America. Publish y of the sun!"

Can I ask you to imagine that. John Wesley neve pounds in his life, a small n Isaac Watts, cast out and d world, before ocean steame was a telegraph, or daily pa try; turning a man loosenent, and telling him to pu face of the sun!

Did ever country grow: ever country such a territor the former condition of Ne time referred to a man i acres of land, and the boys and stole his apples, and he his money in a farm at Ne dants are now there. The

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fore the money was raised to pay for it. He turned his missionary loose, and the country grew, and wherever the country went, Methodists were found.

The tale goes that a forest recluse in the far West one day met a man and asked him, "What is your business?" "I am a Methodist Preacher." 'Well, I came here to get rid of people, you are the second man of that stripe I have seen, and I am going to dig a cave, and crawl in and die."

It has been so all the way. Methodism was a mission to begin with. Here is Trinity Corporation that inherited a vast endowment, and now possesses an immense income, and here is that great Collegiate Dutch Church that dates before Trinity, to the time when the Dutch had control of Manhattan Island. Where was Methodism then? In the "alms house," and in the "rigging loft." That is where it was; and it has gone on until today it is able to build, and has built structures that are worthy to be compared with any of those that have been erected by individual or by government endow

ment.

Even New England Methodism had to support the State Church. The father of the Rev. Seth Schofield, would not pay the state tax, and they took from him Thomas Scott's commentaries and sold them at auction, in order to get the money to pay that Methodist's tax. Bishop Walden has a genius for figures. I published some of his figures not long ago. He spent a while last Thanksgiving day in further investigation and gives me the result. This is the money we have raised for missions since the time that Nathan Bangs and Joshua Soule, who were the committee, agreed that this Missionary Society ought to be under the control of the General Conference:

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the Freedman's Aid Society ha Where is the man who u Methodism having been stingy done without hereditary aristo persons who, up to a few years Methodists in most parts of the I may be permitted to annou we are disappointed with re therefore, Bishop Hurst (whon here, knowing that he has just saddest of bereavments, tha father,) and I will divide th have been divided between Hurst and myself, but I shall this great cause been disparage culiar and sophistical comparis and the Home work. A man our converts in Japan will cost country, in the Church to whic current expenses and the inte the debt, etc., I find it costs us

Now, look at that for a m should happen to have a family dren, and suppose in the course be an addition of twins! Wh be for him to put the whole co ily during that year on these logic would that be?-and d say $5,000 apiece.

The fact is, the Church at h were not for the means of grac of the cost of making converts verts to the number of member expenses by this figure. Besid the whole educational, literary United States; and thus this g aged by a sophistical mode of p favor.

On the other side it is invidious contrast. I heard of a great college and of a g within four weeks, as I sat liste I happened to be on that Sabba do not know about keeping $3 wonder when that is done that inclined not to give anything t turn aside to William Taylor's Foreign Missionary Society." Didn't he know that it is as parts of Nebraska, and in Utah

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