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DONE IN TEN YEARS.
A Pitting CliiKtt 'to One of the Urnmleit
Centur-lr In Dm History of tlm World.
Soul flHVliiB Hh flot In llo Dono nt
Short Hung.
liuooKLV.N, April 14. At tho Tabernacle
today, after uxpjuudlng passage descriptive
o( tho world in It si mil bo when gospcllred,
Sr Tntmngo gnvo out tbo tiyuint
Peoplo nml realms (It ercry tonguo
Dwell ou uts loro with s wrote: soug.
Text, tlovclntlon xlx. 4i "Anient Alio
lulu!"
Tbo Nineteenth century Is departing. After
It tins taken a fow moro steps, If each year
bo it step, It will bo gono Into tho otornitioa.
in n short tlmo wo shnll bo In tho
last deendo of this century, which fact
makes tho -solomnost book outsldo tho
Btblo, tho nhnmiaa, and tho most suggest lvo
1 and tho most'trcmondous ploco of machinery
In all tho earth, tho clock. Tho last docado
of this century upon which wo shall soon
xiter will bo tho grandest, mightiest and
most doclslvo docado in all tho chronologic
I am glad lt Is not to como Immediately, for
wo need by a now baptism of tho Holy
Ohost to prepare for it. That last ton
years of 'tho Nlnoteonth oontury, may wo all
llvo to 1100 them I Does any ono say that this
division of tlmo is arbitrary I Oh, no; in
other agos tho divisions of tlmo may havo
boon arbitrary, biit our yoar dato from
'Christ. Docs any ono say that tho grouping
of ton togothor is an arrnngumoiit nrbitraryf
Oh, no; next to tho flguro sovou, ton is with
God a favorito number. Abraham d wolt ton
years in Canaan. Ton righteous men would
bnvo naval Bodotu. In tho ancient tnberna
do wcro ton curtains, their pillars ton and
their sockets ton. In tho nnciont temple wcro
ton lavoni and ton candlesticks nnd ton ta
bles and a molten soa of ten cubits. And tho
commandments written ou tho grnnlto of
Mount Sinai wcro ton, and tho kingdom of
God was likenod to ton virgins, and ten mon
should lay hold of him that was a Jow, and
tho reward of tho greatly faithful is that they
shall reign over ton cities, and in tho effort
to 1 take tho census of tho Now Jerusalem tho
number ten swings around' the thousands,
crying "ton thousand aimai, ten thousand.!'
80 I como to look toward tho closing ten yean
of "tho' Nineteenth" century with on Intensity
of Interest 1 can hardly describe
I havo also noticed that tho favorito tlmo
In many of tho centuries for great events was
the closing fragmont of tbo century. Is
America to bo discovered, it must bo in the
last decado of tho Fifteenth century, namely
1492. Was frco constitutional government to
bo woll established in America, tho tost
years of tho Eighteenth century must achiovo
It. Wcro throo cities to bo submerged by ono
, pitch of scoria), Oerculanoum and Strabalaj
'and Pompeii in tho latter part of tho first
century must go under Tho Fourth century
closed with tho most agitating ecclesiastical
war of history, Urban tho Blxth against Clo
ment tho Bovonth. Alfred tbo Great closes
tho Ninth century and Edward Ironsides tho
Eleventh century with their resounding deeds.
The Sixteenth century closed with tho estab
lishment of religious indcixiiidenco in tho
United Netherlands. Ayo, almost ovcry ccn
tury has had its peroration of ovcrtowering
achievement. As tho closing years of tho
centuries soora a favorito tlmo for great scenes
of emancipation or disaster, and as tho num
ber ton scorns a favorito number in tho Scrip
tures written by divino direction, and as wo
are soon to enter upon tho last ten years of
tbo Nlnoteonth oontury, what does tho world
proposer What does tbo church of Christ
iproposof What do reformer proposer I
know. not; but now in tho presence of this
consecrated assembly I proposo that wo mako
ready, got all our batteries planted nnd all
our plans well, laid in what remains of this
docado, and then in tho last decado of tbo
.Nineteenth century march up and tako thin
iround .world, for God.
When. 1 say .wo,. I mean tho flvo hundred
'million Christians, now alivo. But, as many
of them will not havo enough heart for tbo
work, dot us copy Gideon, and as ho hod
thlrty.two.thousand men in his army to fight
tho Mldlanitos, but many of them wcro not
.made of tho right stuff, and ho promulgated
.a military order .saying '(whosoever is fear
ful and afraid dot ihlra return and depart
early, from ailcod," and.twonty-two thousand
were afraid of getting, hurt and went homo
jmd .only ton .thousand wcro loft, and God
tcldithem.thatovenithls. reduced number was
Ux largo a number, for they might think
they bod .triumphod independent of divino
help, and .tho number must bo still further
reduced and only .those should bo kept In the
Tanks who in passing tbo .rLver should bo to
In hast lor victory over .their enemies that,
though very thirsty, they would without
'topping a second Just-scoop up. tbo water in
the palm of their eight .hand and scoop
up the water in tho palm of their
left hand, and only .three hundred
taen did that, and those .three hundred men
with the battle suosvt, "Theswurdof.tho.Lord
and of aideon," scattered .the Midianitesdlko
leaves In on equinox, so out of tho Qvo ihun
dred million nominal Christians of .today dot
all unbelievers and cowards go home and get
out of tho way And suppose we havo only 1
our hundred million left, suppose only .two
hundred million left, suppose only .one hun
dred million loft, yea, suppose we only, have
iuiy mimon ioi i, wim luein vst u unoer
tako tho divino crusade, and each one Just
scooping up a palm full of the river of God's 1
mercy in one baud and a palm full of the
river of God's strength in tho other, Jet us
with tho cry, "Tbo sword of the Lord and of
Gideon," tho sword of tho Lord and of John
Knox, tho sword of the Lord and of Matthew
Simpson, tho sword of the Lord and of Disbop
Mcllvalno, tho sword of tbo Lord and of
Adonlram Jiidsou, tho sword of the Lord and
of Martin Luthor, go into tho lait decode of
tho Nlnoteonth century
nothing- tUrnAOTICADLEINTUBrnorOSmOX
Is it audacious for mo to propositi Oh,
no, a captlvo servant in tho kitchen of Noa
man told tho commander-in-chief wboro he
could get rid of tho blotches of his awful lip
rosy and his complexion bocaiuo fair m a
babe's. And didn't Christ in order t) tako
tho ophthalmia out of tho oyes of tho blind
man uso u mlxturo of spittle and dustf And
who showed Uluchur a short cut for his army
so that instead of taking tho regular road by
which ho would havo como up too late, bo
jcamoupin tlmo to savo Waterloo and Eu
rope Was It not an unknown lad who per
haps could not write his own name And so
L, "who am loss than tho least of all saint,1
propouo a short cut to victory, and am will
big to bo tbs expoctoratlou on sotno blind
eye ami tell sumo of the brigadier geuorals of
tho lonl of hosts how this leproslod world
may in tho llnal docado of tho Nineteenth
oontury havo its flesh como again as the flesh
of a little child.
Is there anything la prophecy to hinder
this speedy consummation? No. Some ono
begins to quote from Daniel about "tlmo,
tliutM uiui a half time," and takes from Rere
iattiin tho mvuii trumpets, blowing them all
at onco in my ear Hut with utmost reverence
I take up all tbo prophecies and hold them
towurd heaven and say God never has and
never will stop coiumoroted effort and holy
dotei initiation nnd magnificent resolve, nnd
that if tho church of God will rlwiliptolts
full work It can mako Daniel's tlmo twenty
years and bis halt tlmo ten jears. Neither
Isaiah, nor Kzeklel, nor Mlcnh, nor Malnchl,
nor Jeremiah, nor nny of tho major or minor
prophets w ill hinder us n second. Btippooo
tho lllblo had announced tho millennium to
begin tho year !IS8l, that would bo no hin
drance. InonokcnsoUod rover changes his
mind, being tho samo yesterday, today and
forever. Hut luatiothertionso ho docs change
his mind, mul times without number, ovcry
day, and that Is when his oplo pray.
Didn't ho chnngo his mind about Nine
veh I Hy God's command Jonah, nt tho
top of his voice, while standing on tho
steps of tho merchants' exchaugo and tho
palatial lesldcncos of that city, cried out,
"Yet forty days and Nlnoveh shall bo over
thrown." Was it overthrown In forty days!
No. Tho woplo gnvo up thoir sins and cried
for mercy, nnd though Jonah got mad bo
causo his wholo courso of sermons had been
polled and went Into a disgraceful pouting,
wo havo tho record so sublime, 1 cannot read
It without feeling a nervous chill running
through me. "God saw thoir works that
thoy turned from their ovlt way, and God re
pented of tho ovll that ho had said ho would
do unto them, nnd ho did it not." God is a
father, and somo of us know what that means,
and sotno tlmo when wo havo promised chas
tisement nnd tho child deserved It, tho llttfo
darling has put her amis around our neck
and expressed such sorrow and Mich prom
ises of doing better that her tears
landed on tho ll9 of our kiss, and we
held her a half hour nftcr on our kneo nnd
would as soon think of slapping an angel in
tho face as of oven striking bcr with the
weight of our llttlo finger, God is a father,
and whllo ho has promised this world scourg
Ings, though thoy woro to ho for a thousand
years or flvo thousand years lib would, If tho
world rc)cntod, substitute benediction nnd
divino caress. God changed his mind about
Sodom six times. Ho had determined on Its
destruction. Abraham asked him if ho would
not sjiaro It if fifty righteous peoplo wcro
found there; nnd, narrowing dowu tbo num
ber, If forty-flvo peoplo woro found there; If
forty peoplo; if thirty people; if twenty peo
plo; if ten peoplo wcro found there. And
each of tbo six times tbo Lord answered, Yes.
Oh, why didn't Abraham goon Just two steps
further and ay If flvo bo found thcro nnd if
ono bo found there, for then for tho sako of
Lot,1 its, one goodcitizen, 1 think Sodom
would, havo been spared. Eight .times does
the Dibte say that' God repented when ho hud
promised 'punishments and' withheld the
stroke. Was It a slip of Paul's pen when ho
epoko of God's cutting short tho work in
rightoousnossr No, Paul's pen nevor slipped.
There Is notbipg In the way of prophecy to
blndor tho crusado I have proposed for tho
last decado of , tbo Nlnoteonth ceutury.
PROCRASTINATION IS TlIE THIEF OK TIME.
The wholo trouble is' that wo put off tho
completion of tho world's redemption to such
long and Indefinite distances. Tho old pro
verb that "what is everybody's business is
nobody's business," might bo changed a llttlo
and bo mado truthfully to bay what Is tho
Gospel business of all the age Is tho Gosjiel
business of no ago. Wo are so constituted wo
cannot get up much enthusiasm about some
thing five hundred years from now or a thou
sand years from now. We are fighting at
too long a range. That gun called tho
"Swamp Angel" wns a nuisance. It shot six
miles, but it hardly crer hit anything. It did
its chief destructive work when it burst .and
killed thoso who woro sotting it off. 8hort
rango is tho effectivo kind of work, whother
it bo for worldly or religious purpose, Somo
man with his eyes half shut drones oat to mo
tho Ulblo quotation: "A thousand years ore
as ono day;" that is, tea centuries aro not
long for tbo Lord. Out why do you not quote
tho previous scntenco which says that ono day
is with tho Lord as a thousand yearsr That
is, he could do tho work of ten centuries in
twenty-four hours. Tho mightiest obstacle
to Christian work Is tho impression that the
world's evangelization is away off. And wo
tako the telcscopo and look on and on
through centuries until we see two
objects near each other, and we strain
our vision and guess what they arc,
and wo call groat conventions to guess
what thoy are, and wo get down our heaviest
theological works and balanco our telesoope
on tho lid and look and look and finally -con-cludo
that thoy aro two beasts that wojioo
and tho ono has hair and the other has wool,
and wo guess it must bo tho lion and tut
lamb lying down together. In that great
cradlo of postponement and somuolouo wo
rock tho church as though it woro an impa
tient child and say, "Hush, my dear, don't
be impatient! Don't get excited by revivals 1
Don't cry I Your Father's coming I Don't
get uneasy I Ho will be hero in two or three
or ten or twenty thousand years." And we
act as though wo thought that when Ma
caulay's famous New Zcalandcrin tho far
distant is seated on a broken arch of London
bridge sketching tho ruins of St. Paul's his
grandchild might break in and Jolt his pencil
asking him if ho thought tho millennium ever
would appear. Men and women of tho eter
nal God I Sons and daughters of the Lord
Almlghtyl Wo may havo it start iu tho de
cado that is soon to commence, and it will bo
dono If wo can persuade the people between
now and then to got ready for tho work.
What makes mo think it can bo do no I
First, because God is ready. Ho needs tio
long persuasion to do bis work, for if bo Is
not willing that any should perish, ho is not
willing that any of the peoplo of tho next
decade shall perish; and tho wholo lllblo is n
.chltno of bells ringing out "Come, come.
como, ami jou ueea not go round tuo earth
.to find. out how much bo wants the world to
como.ibut Just to walk around ono stripped
andibaro.and leafless treo with two branches
not jtrched but horizontal. Hut ho In wait
ing, ASilioKaid bo would, for thoco-oieratioii
of .the.church. When wo aro ready God is
readjr And ho certainly has all the weap
onry ready to capture this world for tho
truth, All .tho . capon of kindness ordovns
.tatlnu. Ou .the one band, tho Uosjiel mid sun
sHuo and jiowor to orcbardizo nnd gnrdcnlzo
the earth and .fountains swinging in rainbow
and CbaUtvortbian vcrduro and aromas
poured out of Alio .vials of heaven, wbilo on
the other hand ho .has the weaponry of do
variation, thunderbolt and conflugrntloii nnd
forces planetary, olar, lunar, stellar or me
teoric, that wit luoho rein thrown on tho
nock for a second miauld lea vo constellations
and galaxies so many split ami shivered
wheels on tho Louluvards of heaven. And
that God U on our Ido, all ou our sido.
Blessed bo his glorious iwniol Blessed was
tho hour when through Jeai Christ my sin
ful soul made peace with him I
THK HE W KOTIIISO lUriUCTICAIlLE ABOUT IT.
If you continue to ask me why I think that
tbo world ran bo saved Iu the final decado o
tho Nineteenth century, 1 reply, because it is
not a great undertaking, considering tho
number of workers that will go at It, if onco
persuaded It can be dona. Wo havo slfte I
tho five hundred million of workers down to
four hundred million imd throo hundred mil
lion and two hundred million nnd ono hun
dred million and to fifty million. I went to
work to cipher out how many soul that num
ber could bring to God Iu ton years, If each
ono brought it soul every year, and 1 each
soul so brought should brln another each
succeeding year. 1 found out, aided by a
profemor in mathematics, that wo did not
tuJ ajijrtbjn;; like such a numbjr of workers
CAPITAL CITY COURIER,
enlisted. You seo it is simply n question ot
mathematics nnd In geometrical progression.
Then I gnvo to tho learned professor tills
problem t How many person would it re
quire to start with, If each ono brought a
soul Into tho kingdom each year for ten
years, and each ono brought another each
succeeding year, In onler to havo fourteen
hundred million people saved, or tho Hiptihi
Hon nt tho earth nt present I UN answer wns
two million Foveu hundred and lltty-four
thousand three hundred and miveiity-fivo
workers. Ho you see that when I sifted tho
llvo hundred million nominal ChrlMliuis of
tho earth dou to fifty million and Mopped
there, I retained for thlsuork forty-soven
million people too many. There it U In
glorious mathematics, quod crnt demon
strandum. Do you tell mo that God does not
euro for mathematlcst Then you havo never
seen tho Giants' Causeway, uhero God shows
his regard for tho hoxngonat iu wholo ranges
of rocky columns with six side and six
angles. Then you havo not studied tho
geometry of a hoo's honeycomb with' six
sides and six angle. Then you havo
not noticed what regard God has, for
tho squnro, tho altar of tho ancient
tabernacle four squnro, tho breast plat o
foursquare, tho court of tho temple In Ezo
klol's vision four square, tho Now Jerusalem
laid out four square. Or you havo not no
ticed his regard for tho clrclo by making it
hi throuo, "sitting on tho clrclo of tho
earth," and fashioning sun nnd moon nnd
stars iu a clrclo nnd sending our planetary
system around other systems iu a circle aud
tho wholo iinlvcrso sweeping nround tho
throno of God In n clrclo. And ns to hi re
gard for mathematical uumliers, he makes
tho fourth book In his lllblo the Hook of
Numbers, and numliers tho hosts of Israel
and numbers tho troon of Sennacherib aud
uumbors Solomon's bowers in tho forest unil
numbers the siearinen and nuuilters the foot
men nnd numbers the convert nt Pentecost
ami uumliers tho chariots of God rolling
dowu tho steps of heaven. So 1 havo a right
to enlist mathematics for tho demonstration
of tho easy possibility of bringing tho wholo
world to God in tho coming decado by sim
ple process of solicitation, each one only liav
lng to bring ono n year; although I want to
tako in forty thousand, and I know men now
allvo who l think by ien or volco or both,
directly or Indirectly, will tako hundreds of
thousands each. So you see that that will
discharge somo of tho 'J,7.VI,itT from tho ne
cessity of taking nny.
Another reason why I know it can bo dono
is that wo may divido tho work up among
tho denominations. God does not ask nny
ono denomination to do tho work or auy
dozen denominations. Tho work can ' bo di
vided aud is lielng divided up, not geographi
cally, but uccording to the temornment of
tho human family. We cannot say to ono
denomination, Yon tako Persia, and another,
You take-China, and another, You tako India,
because thcro nro nil styles of .tomjioraments
in nil nations. And somo denominations nro
especially adapted to work with H.oploofan
gulno temperament or phlegmatic tompora
ment or choleric temperament or bilious tern,
pcrnuicnt or nervous teuicraincut or.iym
phntlo temperament. Tho EpiNcopal .church
will do its most effective work with thoso who
by taste jirofer tho stately nnd ritualistic. Tho
Methodist church will dolts best work among
tho emotional and demonstrative, Iho Pres
byterian .church will do Its best work nmong
those who llko strong doctrine and the
stately servlco softened by tho emo
tional. So each denomination will have
certain kinds of peoplo whom It will espe
cially nlTect. So lot tho work bodlvideU.up.
Thcro aro seven hundred and fifty thousand
Christlansiof tho Presbyterian church, north,
und other hundreds of thousands In tho Pres
byterian church, south, and all .foreign Pres
byterians moro especially Scotch, English
and Irish, making, 1 guess, about two million
Prcsby torlans. Tho MothodUt church .is still
largor; the.church of England on .both sides
the sea still largor; and many other denomi
nations ns much, If not snore,. consoorn tod
than auy I have mentioned. Divido .up tho
world's ovangolizatton amosg these denomi
nations after thoy aro persuaded .it can bo
dono before .the Nlnoteonth entury is dead,
and .tho lost Hottentot, tho last Turk, tho Jast
Japanese, the Jost American, tho lost Euro
pean, tho last Asiatic, tho last African will
see tbo salvation of God before bo sees tho
opening gato-af tho Twentieth century
EVKUXTllI.NU IH IN CONDITIO ron TUB .CON
SUMMATION. AlTflln. .1 ffVll 3llA Urlinlfl Umrlrl .fl luixanml
n -, ---- w -. sv w.wu.. wvn.ivu
in tho tlmo specified, because we havo all
manncr.oi macmnory requisite. It is notes
thoilf-1l Wn llftf! tl llllIM Him ttrlntlnw A1UAA.
thev are all built nnd mnnlmrilnvnnrl nlrlit
hone printing religious papers K,cf those
religious papers in this country) , those print
ing religious tracts and tlrase printing re-
iiiuuk uuuks. iuiu inousauus oi printing
grosses no w.ui the service of Ibodovll .could
i uruiiKiuianu Bet u woric ou tue service af
God. Why was tho printing press Inveutodf
To turn out billheads and circulars -of paiuit
medicines and tell the news which in throo
wicks will bo of .no Importance? From the
old time Franklin 'printing presou up to th
Lord Stauhopo's ipress and tbo Washington
prcssaud tliu Victory proes to Hoo's (lorfect
lug printing jireM that machine has been Im
proving Xor its best work and Its final work,
namely, tbo publication of the glad Uiiingsof
peat Joy which skall bo to all iiooplo. We
havo tho presses, or can have them
before the first of Jumiary wheu tho new
decade Is to begin, onough to put a Bible in
tbo hand o I or v son anil l litMiti.r if Ailnm
nnd Eve now living, and Jf such penou can-
nocreau wocau nave arolpoitour, uintvan
gellstor a missionary to read it to him or tn-r
But this brings mo to Uxo adjoining thought,
namely, we Lave the money to do the wivk.
I menu tho fifty mllliou of ''hi Istlani bar It.
Aye. tbo two million seven hundred and fifty
four thousand Christian havo it, nnd live
dam which U beginning to leak will soon
break aod thero will bo rushing floods of bun
dress and millions mul billion, nt Inllnm I..
holy contribution when you uudo tho
t uiuiv men oi tue iunguom oi uod tual the
cnerdv con vemtnnf f tiii nni-lil t. fww,il.iii
and that Isaiah and Ezeklcl and Daniel mid
Joan will uot stand In tho way of it but help
it on. I havo no synijiathy with Ibis bom
bardment of rich men Wit urnnl.l ..nnl. o
bo worth flvo million dollar if wo could, aud
oy iinru persuuwou ieriiaps inlglit Uo Induced
ui .uk' imceu iiiiiuou. Almost very (taper
. h.v Hi. .. . b..u ,itit tij muu nuu I11UI
i-uuuiveu n cunt-go or nunc a cuurcu or n
hospital or n free library, nnd that thing Is
going to multiply until tho treasury of nil our
denominations mid rofoi matory organizations
will bo overwhelmed with munificence if w,
can iicrsuado our men of wealth that tb.
woild's evnngellzntiou I possible mi'i tho
thoy may livo to poo it with their own eyes.
Ilmoulways cherished tho Idea that when
th i world Is converted wo would boullowed
to como out on tho battlements of heaven and
sco tho bannered procession and tho bonfires
of victory But I would llko to see tho pro
cession closer by and Just lie jiermlttcd mjsclf
to throw on a fagot for a bigger bonfl'e
Aud if you persuade our men of wraith that
there is a povdblllty for them to Join on
earth in the uuiversul glee of a redeemed
planet, Instead of laborious beseeching for
fund and arguing aud flattering In order
to got n contribution for Chrlstiau
objects our men of wealtth will stand
In Ium a nt a postofilco window or n
railroad ticket office, but lu this com) waiting
SATURDAY, APRIL 20,
for their tutu to mako uhnrltnhto deposit.
The Gent Hi's nro not long going to allow
themselves to ho eclliwod by Mr. Hirscb, Uio
Jow who hns ust given forty million dollars
for school In Franco, Germany and Uiissln,
I rejoice that mi much of tho wealth of tho
world Is coming Into tho hwmw.Ioii of Chris
tian men nud women. And although tho
original chin th wn very poor aud its mem
ber weiii IMi dealer on tho bank of Galileo
nnd Imd only such stock ou hniidn thoy could
tako lu their own net, today in the hands of
Chrlstnln men and women thero I enough
money to print lllhlcsnud build churches nnd
tupKirt missionaries under God in ten years
to savo the world,
Again, I think that tho world' evangeliza
tion can bo achieved lu tho tlmo icclliod bo
cituso wo hnvu already tho theological Insti
tutions necessary for this work. Wo Ao not
have to build them( thoy nro built nnd thoy
aro filled with ten of thousands of young
men, nud thcio will bo three sols of students
who will graduate Into tho ministry before
tho closo of this century, and onco havo them
understand that Instead of preaching thirty
or forty years ami taking Into tho kingdom
of God a few hundred souls, right boforn
them is the Sedan, h the Ariuageddoii, and
these young men, instead of entering tho
ministry timid nnd with apologetic nlr, will
feel llko David, who camo up Just ns tho or
mle wcro set iu array and ho left Ids carriage
and shouted for tho battle aud crledi "Who
Is this uncirciimcisod Phllistiuo that ho should
defy tho nrmle of the living Godi" nud with
flvo gravel stone skillfully Hung sent sprawl
ing tbo bragging ten footer, Ids mouth Into
the dust and Id heels into tho nlr,
WUAT NO 11 1. til OLOSK TO A OUKAT UK.ITUIlYf
My friend, what but such a consummation
could Iwn fit climax to this century t You
notice a teodenoy in history nud all about us
to u climax. The creation week rising from
herlwto fish and from fish to bird nnd from
bird to qimilrued nnd from quadruped to
Immortal man. The New Testament rising
from qutot genealogical table In Matthow to
apocalyptic doxology in Ilovelatloii. Now
what cau bo an appropriate climax to this
century, which has heard tho pufT of tho
first steamer nud tho throb of tho first stotho
tcopo nnd tho click of tho first telegraph nnd
tbo clatter of the first sowing machine, and
saw tho flash of tho first electric light and
tho revolution of tho first steam plow; nud
tho law of storms wo written; nnd tho Ameri
can Bible society aud American Tract socloty
woro born; nud instead of Tin nudlouco laugh
ing down Dr Carey for advocating foreign
mission, a was dono at Northampton in Eng
land in tbo last century, now all denomina
tions vying with each other a to w ho shall
go tho furthorest nud tho soonest Into tho
darkest of tbo Now Hebrides; and throo hun
dred thousand souls have been born to God In
tho South Bea Islands, nnd Micronesia nnd
Melanesia nud Malayan Polynesia havo been
sot in tho crown of Christ, and David Living
btono has unveiled Africa nnd tho Inst bolted
gato of barbaric nations has swung wldoopcu
to lot tho Gospel In. What, I ask, with n
thousand Interrogation points uplifted, can
bo a lit, nu appropriate and sulllclent climax
except It boa world rcdcomtslf
Yen, I bellovo it can bo dono if wo got pre
pared for It, liecauso tho wholo air and tho
whole heaven is full of willing holp. "Aro
thoy not all ministering spirits sent forth!"
Wo mako an awful mistake if wo calculate
only on tho forces wo can sec, Tho mightiest
army I In the air. My brethren, so much of
selfishness: and prldo and rivalry aud bad mo
tives of all kind got into our work hero that
'wo aro hindered. Hut tho mighty souls that
.havo gono up to tho flying nrmlo of tho sky
havo.lcft nil imperfection behind; nnd these
souls nro with us and without n fault and
witli perfect natures nro on our sldo. You
ennnot make mo boliovo that after tolling
hero fonlong years for tho redemption of tho
world, until from exhaustion somo of them
fell .Into their graves, thoy havo ceased
their interest .in tho stupendous con
flict now raging, or that thoy aro going
do docllno thoir help, Irenrcus Prime
Honored on earth but now glorified in
heaven, havo you forgotten tho work
toward which you gavo for more than half n
century your gracious life, your loving volco
and your matchless pen J No I Then como
.down and help. Alexander Duff I Havo you
.forgotten tbo millions of India for whoso sal
ivation you suffered In Hindoo Jungle and
thundered ou missionary platform I No I
Then como dowu nnd help. David Rraluardl
Havo you forgotten tho aborigines to whom
you preached und. for whom you prayed until
you could preach nnd pray no more, lying
down delirious amid tho miasmas of tho
swamp Nol Thon como down and helix
Moticricff und Freeman and Campliell I Have
you forgotten Lucknow nud Cawniorof Nol
Then como dowu and help. I rub out of my
eyes tho stupidity and iinliollof, nnd I, tho
servant of these great Clhmas In tho Gospel,
see tho mountains all round about aro full of
horses or Hro and .chariots of fire, and thoy
head this way Hovered over aro wo by
great clouds of wltuesscs anil hclpersl
Clouds of aiiostle In the air led on by Paul I
Clouds of martyrs in tho air led on by
.Stephen I Clouds of prophets in the air led
en by Isaiah I Clouds of jiatrlareh In tho air
led ou iy Abrahnml Clouds of ancient wnr
rlors in the nlr led on by Joshua, and that
Blblo warrior nt .whose prayer Astronomy
once bolted over AJulon and Glboon seems
mow to lift one hand toward the descending
tun of this century and tho other hand
toward the moon of tho last decade saying:
"Stand thou still till tho church or God goU
the final victory I"
THE WOIUJ1 13 HOUND TO DS iUrm
Then let us tuko what remains of this
decado to get ready for I lie final decode or
the Nineteenth century You und 1 may uot
live to o thnt decade or may not live to see
IU closo, but that shall not hinder mo from
declaring tho magnificent possibility 1 con
fuss that tho inNtako or my llfo Jin been, not
that I did not work hard for I could not
bavo worked harder and lived, as God knows
and my family know but that 1 Iiavo not
worked under tbo realization that tbo salva
lion of this world was a near by jiosslblllty
But whether wo see It, tho beginning or tho
closing of that decado is of no importance.
If only that deendo can get tho coronation nnd
then all decades shall kneel before this eu
throned decode, nnd oven tho gray grown
centuries w 111 cast thulr crowns bofoi o It and
It will bo tho most honored decade between
tbo tlmo wh;u tho moiulu stars sanir to
gether as tho libretto of world was opened
and tbo tlmo when tho mighty nngel, rolled
in cloud and gurlauded In niliiliow, shall with
one foot on tbo ea and tho other foot on tho
land swear hy him tlmt llvvtli forever and
ever that tlmo shall bo no longer Alle
luia I Amen I
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wing and tlio fli wers nro itleeii, if a lamp I
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turn towards It. If n strong light Is placed
on ono side of tho caw containing thoin, tho
half of tho bouquet tlmt faces tho lump will
bo unfolded, whllo tho other half that Is lu
tho shadow will remain tightly closod. De
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