They think of ancestral glory, courtly glory, military
glory, political glory; they do not think about Christ and his glory.
But they shall, they shall fear his glory. The proudest kings in the
earth shall feel that the glory of Jesus Christ of Nazareth is to them
much as the sun is to that shadow I have spoken of upon the hill. Their
glory must pale and pass away. It is but a little time ago, only
nineteen centuries ago, since Christ had no kingdom in the earth, no
follower, no temple, no power. Now is there a monarch in the world will
come out and say, "I shall sweep the name, the law, the love, the power
of Christ out of the earth?" No, of all powers now acknowledged there is
none so deep, wide and mighty.

Every day adds to that power; every year opens to it new spheres, new
languages, new adherents, and on will it go and on till the whole earth
is subdued under the power of the Lord and his Christ. What is the
instrument of its progress? "He will regard the prayer of the destitute
and not despise their prayer." Not despise prayer! Why, do not the wise
men of the world despise prayer? Do not many talkers tell us that prayer
is a thing not to be looked upon as a force in the light of elevated
reason? You may despise it if you please and try to rear a kingdom over
human souls on a system that does. God will not despise it, Christ will
not despise it. There is a kingdom to be invoked by prayer, with its
throne and its crown and its sceptre. All the powers of that kingdom are
moved with the cry of a destitute heart. It is so, and you cannot alter
it. "This shall be written for the generation to come," how you go and
write down that prayer is of no effect, and we will write "He will not
despise their prayer," and let the "generation to come" judge. Your
predecessors, eighteen hundred years ago, wrote what you say--ours wrote
these words, and see the kingdom of Christ to-day! "This shall be
written for the generation to come: and the people." What people "shall
praise the Lord?" The people that are in Jerusalem? No. In Rome? in
Athens? No. What people? The people that are not anywhere; the people
that are neither in heaven nor in earth; "the people that shall be
created." "That shall be created"--existences now not existing, beings
now not being, offspring of God and members of the family of immortals
not yet born--they shall praise the Lord. Coming up out of the dark of
that great future they