TALMAGFS SERMON. 'DIVISION OFTHE SPOILS" LAST SUNDAY'S SUBJECT. A Lhiod Radiant with Comlo( Re ward for All Well Dears "Shall Xlvld Spoils with thm Strong" laaUta, AS:1S. N THE Coliseum at Rome.where per secutors used to let out the half-starved lions to eat up (dl Christians, there is now pianiea ine figure of a cross. And I rejoice to know that the up right piece of wood nailed to a trans fers piece has become the symbol not more of suffering than of victory. It is of Christ the conqueror, that my text epeaks. As a kingly warrior, having pubdued an empire, might divide the palaces and mansions and cities and valleys and mountains among his offi cers, so Christ is going to divide up all the earth and all the heavens among his people and you I will have to take our share if we are strong in faith and strong in our Christian loyalty, for my text declares It: "He shall divide the spoil with the strong." The capture of this round planet for Christ Is not so much of a job as you might imagine, when th Church takes off Its coat and rolls up its sleeves for the work, as It will. There are six teen hundred millions of people now In the world, and four hundred and fifty millions are Christians. Subtract four Lundred and fifty millions who are Christions from the sixteen hundred millions, and there are eleven hundred and fifty millions left. Divide the tleven hundred and fifty millions who are not Christians by the four hundred and fifty who are Christians, and you will find that we shall have to average less than three souls each, brought by us Into the kingdom of God, to have the whole world redeemed. Certainly, with the church rising up to its full duty, no Christian will be willing to bring less than three souls into the kingdom of God. I hope, and pray Almighty God that I may bring more than three. I know evangelists who have already brought fifty thousand each for the kingdom of God. There are two hundred thousand people whose one and only and absorbing business In the world is to save souls. When you take these things into considera tion, and that the Christians will have to average the bringing of only three souls each into the kingdom of our Lord, all impossibility vanishes from this omnipotent crusade. Why, I know a Sabbath School teacher who for many years has been engaged in training the young, and she has had five different classes, and they averaged seven to a class, and they were all converted, and five times seven are thirty-five, as near as I can calcvilate. So that she brought her three Into he kingdom of God and tad thirty-two to spare. My grand mother prayed her children into the! kingdom of Christ, and her grandchil dren, and I hope all her great-grandchildren, for God remembers a prayer seventy-five years old, as though it were only a .minute old; and so she brought her three Into the kingdom of God, and had more than one hundred to spare. Besides that, through the telephone and the telegraph, this whole world, within a few years, will be brought within compass of ten minutes. Besides that, omnipotence, omnipres ence, and omniscience are presiding in this matter of the world's betterment, and that takes the question of the world's salvation out of the impossibili ties into the possibilites, and then cut of the possibilities into the probabili ties, and then out of the probabilities into the certainties. The building of the Union Pacific Railroad from ocean to ocean was a greater undertaking an the girdling of the earth with the 4osel: for one enterprise depended up n the human arm. while fhe other de ends upon almightiness. Do I really mean that all the earth till surrender to Christ? Yes. How ibout the uninviting portions? Will Greenland be evangelised? The possi felity is that after a few more hundred tave lives are dashed out among the 5brgs, that great refrigerator, the "blar region, will be given up to the lalrus and bear, and that the innabi tnts will come down by invitation in t tolerable climates, or those climates my soften; and. as it has been posi tiely demonstrated that the Arctic re gn was once a blooming garden and afruitful field, those regions nay range climate and again be a bloom it; gcrden and a fruitful field. It is piveri beyond controversy, by German ' aii American scientists, that the Arc tl regions were he first portions of tls world inhabitable; the world hot bond human endurance, those regions we. of course, the first to be cool ccugh for human foot and human la. It was positively proved that the Atlc region.. wa -a ;trcpi:al cjimate. Pi. Heer. of Zurich, says the remains of owm have been found in the Arc tieegion, showing it was like Mexico foiclimate. and it is found that the Aric was the mother region from whh all the flowers descended. Prof. Waace says the remains of all styles of ilmal life are found in the Arctic regns. including those animals that caniv only in warm climates. Now thaArctlc region, which has been demst rated by flora and fauna and geogical argument -to have been, as fullf vegetat.Vrc tiiti iife as our Flor ida.icv be lurned back to its original bloc and glory, or it will be shut up as museum of crystals for curioslty- eeeTks once in awhile to visit. But Arctand Antarctic, in some shape, will belo to the Redeemer's realm. What about other unproductive or j repulsive regions? All the deserts will be irrigated, the waters will be forced up to the great American desert be tween here and the Pacific by machin ery now known or yet to be invented, and. as Great Salt Lake City has no rain and could not raise an apple or a bushel of wheat in a hundred years without artificial help, but is now through such means one great garden, so all the unproductive parts of all the continents will be turned into harvest fields and orchards. A half-dozen De Lesseps will furnish the world with all the canals needed, and will change the course of rivers and open new lakes, and the great Sahara desert will be cut up into farms with an astonishing yield of bushels to the acre. The marsh will be drained of its waters and cured of its malaria. I saw what was for many years called tfce Black Swamp of Ohio, its chief crop chills and fevers, but now, by the tiles put into the ground to carry off the surplus mois ture, transformed into the richest and healthiest of regions. The God who wastes nothing, I think, means That this world, from pole to pole, has come to perfection of folia ge and fruitage. For that reason he keeps the earth runnirg through space, though so many fires are blazing down in its timbers and so many meteoric terrors have threat ened to dash It to pieces. As soon as the earth is completed Christ will di vide It up among the good. The reason he does not divide it now is because it is not done. A kind father will not di vide the apple among his children until the apple is ripe. In fulfilment of the New Testament promise, "The jaeek shall inherit the earth," and the prom ise of the Old Testament. "He shall di vide the spoil with the strong," the world will be apportioned to those worthy to possess it. It is not so now. In his country, capable of holding, feeding, clothing and sheltering twelve hundred million people, and where we have only sixty million inhabitants, we have two mil lion who cannot get honest work, and with their families an aggregation of five millions that are on the verge of starvation. Something wrong, most certainly. In some way, there will be a new apportionment. Many of the millionaire estates will crack to pieces on the dissipations of grand children, and then dissolve into the possession of the masses who now have an insuffi ciency. What, .you say, will become of the expensive. and elaborate buildings now devoted to debasing amusements? They will become schools, art galleries. museums, gymnasiums, and churches. The world is already getting disgusted with many of these amusements, and no wonder. What an importation of unclean theatrical stuff we have within the last few years had brought to our shores! And professors of religion patronizing such things! Having sold out t the devil, why don't you deliver the goods and go over to him publicly. body, mind and soul, and withdraw your name from Christian churches, and say: "Know all the world by these present that I aid a patron of unclean ness and a child' of hell!" Sworn to be the Lord's, you are perjurers. If you think these offenses are to go on forever, you do not know who the Lord is. God will not wait for the Day of Judgment. All these palaces of sin will become palaces of righteousness. They will come into the possession of those strong for virtue and strong for God. "He shall divide the spoil with the strong." If my text be not a deception, but the eternal truth, then the time is coming when all the farm3 will be owned by Christian farmers, and all the com merce controlled by Christian mer chants, "and all the authority held by Christian officials, and all the ships commanded by Christian captains, and all the universities under the instruc tion of Christian professors; Christian kings, Christian presidents, Christian governors. Christian mayors, Christian common council. Yet, what a scouring out! what an upturning! what a demoli tion! what a resurrection must precede this new apportionment! I do not underrate the enemy. Julius Caesar got his greatest victory by fully estimating the vastness of his foes, and prepared his men for their greatest tri umph by saying: "Tomorrow Ring Juba will be here with thirty thousand horses, one hundred thousand skir mishers and three hundred elephants." 1 do" not underrate the vast forces of Sin and Death; but do you know who commands us? Jehovah-jireh. And the reserve corps behind us are all the armies of heaven and earth, with hurri cane and thunderbolL The good work of the world's redemption is going on every minute, isever so many splendid men and glorious women on the side of right as to-day. Never so many good people as now. Diogenes has been spoken of as a wise man be cause he went with a lantern at noon day, saying he was looking for an honest man. If he had turned his lan tern toward himself he might have discovered a crank. Honest men by the ten thousand! Through the Interna tional Series of Sunday, School lessons the next generation all through Christendom are going to be wiser than any generation since the world stood. The kingdom Is coming. God can do it. No housewife with a chamois cloth ever polished a silver teaspoon with more ease than Christ will rub off from this world the tarnish, and brighten it up till it glows like heaven; and then the glorious apportionment! for my text is reinforced by a score of other texts, when it says of Christ: "He shall di vide the spoil with the strong." "But," you say, "that this is pleasant to think of for others, but before that time I shall have passed up into an other existence, and I shall get no ad vantage from that new apportionment." Ah, you have only driven me to the other more exciting and transporting consideration, and that is, that Christ is going to divide up heaven in the same way. Tnere are old estates in the celestial world that have been in the possession of the inhabitants for thou sands of years, and they shall remain as they are. There are old family mansions In heaven filled with whole generations of kindred, and they shall never be driven out. Many of the vic tors from earth have already got their palaces, and they are pointed out to those newly arrived. Soon after our getting there we will ask to be shown the Apostolic residences, and ask where does Paul live, and John; and shown the patriarchial residences, and shall say: "Where does Abraham live, or Jacob?" and shown the martyr resi dences and say: "Where does John Huss live, and Ridley?" We will want to see the boulevards where the chariots of conquerors roll. I will want to see the gardens where the princes walk. We will want to see Music Row, where Handel and Haydn and Mozart and Charles Wesley and Thomas Hastings and Bradbury have their homes, out of their windows, ever and anon, rolling some snatch of an earthly oratorio or hymn transported with the composer. We will want to see Revival Terrace, where Whitefield and Nettleton and Payson and Rowland Hill and Charles Finney and other giants of soul reap ing are resting from their almost super natural labors, their doors thronged with converts just arrived, coming to report themselves. But brilliant as the sunset, and like the leaves for number, are the celestial homes yet to be awarded, when Christ to you, and millions of others, shall di vide the spoil. What do you want there? You shall have it. An orchard? There it is; twelve manner of fruits, and fruit every month. Do you want river scenery? Take your choice on the banks of the river, in longer, wider, deeper roll than Danube or Amazon or Mississippi if mingled in one, and emptying into the sea of glass, mingled with fire. Do you want your kindred back again? Go out and meet your father and mother without the staff or the stoop, and your children in a dance of immortal glee. Do you want a throne? Select it from the million burnished elevations. Do you want a crown? Pick it out of that mountain of diamonded coronets. Do you want your old church friends of earth around you? Begin to hum an old revival tune and they will flock from aii quarters to revel with you in sacred reminiscence. All the earjth for those who are here on earth at the time of continental and planetary distribution, and all the heavens for those who are there. But notice that there is only one Be ing in the universe who can and will distribute the trophies of earth and heaven. It is the Divine Warrior, the Commander-in-Chief of the Centuries, the Champion of Ages, the universal Conqueror, the Son of God, Jesus. You will take the spoils from his hand, or never take them at all. Have his friendship and you may defy all time and all eternify, but without it you are a pauper, though you had a universe at your command. We are told in Rev elation that Jacob's twelve sons were so honored as to have the twelve gates of heaven named after them over one gate of heaven Naphtali, over another of heaven Issachar, over another Dan. over another Gad, over another Ze bulon, over another Judah. and so on. But Christ's name is written over all the gates, and on every panel of the gates; and have his help, his pardon, his intercession, his atonement. 1 must, or be a forlorn wretch for ever. My Lord and my God! make me and all who hear me this day, and all to whom these words shall come, thy re pentant, believing, sworn, consecrated and ransomed followers for ever. THE STAGE. Fanny Davenport has a fortune in rested in real estate In New York and vicinity, from which she derives large Income. Julia Marlowe Taber will make her first visit to Italy during her European tour this year, which will cover June, July and August. In Henry Arthur Jones' new play, Mr. Willard has a very strong character part, an imposter who makes hypno tism his profession. Clyde Fitch has contracted to pro vide Nat C. Goodwin next season with a comedy drama, with Nathan Hale, the American patriot, as hero. George Marion will create the part of Dominico, the Italian fruit seller in William A. Brady's production of "A Daughter of the Tenements." Emma Eames is mentioned as the leading soprano In the Mapleson grand opera company. The engagement In New York will begin October 21. Calve could draw a check for $100,000 that would be honored. She possesses much landed property In France, is heavily interested In stocks and bonds. "In Gay New York" is the title Canary & Lederer have decided upon for their next anuual review, which will be presented early in May, at the New York Casino. . . . . A Rome letter says:' "Madame Pez zana has returned to the stage. Many persons consider her superior to Rls tori, even in her prime. 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