The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-04-24

that when l sifted the 5OO0O0,0O0 nominal
Christians of the earth down TO
100000 and stopped there, I
retained for this work 47,000000
people too many. There it is in glorious
mathematics, quod erat demOnstrandum.
Do you tell me that God does not care for
mathematics? Then you have never seen
the giants causeway where God shows
His regard for the hexagonal in whole
ranges of rocky columns with six sides
and sixangles. Then you have not studied
the geometry of the bees honeycomb
with six sides and six angles. Then you
have not noticed what regard God has for
the square; the altar of the ancient taber-
nacle four square, the breastplate tour
square, the court of the temple in Ezekiel's
vision four square, the New Jerusalem
laid out four square. Or you have not
noticed His regard for the circle by making
it His throne-"sitting on the circle of the
earth, and fashioning sun and moon and
stars in circle, and sending our planetary
system around other systems in a circle,
and the whole universe sweeping around
the throne of God in circle. And as to
His regard for mathematical numbers, He
makes the fourth book in His bible the
Book OF Numbers, and numbers the
hosts OF Israel and numbers the troops OF
Seunacherib and numbers SolomOn's
hewers in the forest and numbers
the spearmen and numbers the foot
men and numbers the converts at
Pentecost and numbers the chariots
of God rolling down the steps OF
heaven. So / have a right 10 enlist math-
ematics for the demonstration of the easy
possibility of bringing the whole world to
God in the coming decade by simple proc
ess of solicitation, each one only having
TO bring one year; although l want to
take in 10000, and l know men now alive
who, think, by pen or voice, or both, dI.
rectly or indirectly, will take hundreds of
thousands each. So you see that that
will discharge some of the 2,754, 375 from
the necessity of taking any.
Another reason why / know it can be
done is that we may divide the work up
among the denominations. God does not
ask any one denomination to do the work,
or any dozen denominations. The work
can be divided and is being divided up,
not geographically, but according to the
temperaments of the human family. We
can not say TO one denomination you
take Persia, and another, you take China,
and another, you take India, because
there are all styles of temperaments in all
nations. And some denominations are
especially adapted to work with people
of sanguine temperament or phleg-
matte temperament or chronic tenn
permanent or bilious temperament or
nervous temperament or Emphatic tenn
permanent The episcopal church viii do
its most effective work with those who by
taste prefer the stately and ritualistic. The
methodist church will do its best work
among the emotional and demonstrative.
The PRESBYTERIAN church will do its best
work among those who like strong doc
trine and the stately service softened by
the emotional. So each denomination will
have certain kinds of people whom it will
especially affect. So let the work be di-
vided up There the 10000 Christians of
the pre-, bvterian church north, and other
hundreds of thousands in the presbyter-
ian church south, and all foreign presby-
terians, more especially Scotch, English
and Irish, making, l guess, about 100000
presbyterians; the methodist church is
still larger; the church OF England on
both sides the sea still larger; and many
other denominations as much If not
more cOnsecrated than any l have
mentioned. Divide up the worlds
evangelization among these denomina-
tons after they are persuaded it can be
done before the nineteenth century Is
dead, and the last Hottentot, the last
Turk, the last Japanese, the last American,
the last Asiatic, the last African will see
the salvation of God before he sees the
opening gate of the twentieth century.
But this brings me to the adjoining
thought, namely, we have the money to
do the work. / mean the 50,0O0,000 of
Christians have it. Aye, the 2,75i,0O0
Christians have it; and the dam which is
beginning to leak will soon break. and
and there will be rushing floods of hun
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in holy contribution when you persuade
the wealthy men of the kingdom OF God
that the speedy con version of the world
is a possibility, and that Isaiah, and Eze-
kiel, and Daniel, and st. John will net
stand in the way of it, but help it on. /
have no sympathy with this lombard
ment of rich men. We would each on
be worth S5,000,000 if we could
and by hard persuasion might perhaps be
induced to take $4,000, 900. Almost every
paper take up tells OF some wealthy man
who has endowed a college or built a
church or hospital or free library, and
that thing is going TO multiply until the
treasury OF all our denominations and re-
formatory organizations will be over
whelmed with munificence if we can per-
suade our men of wealth that the worlds
evangelization is possible and that they
may live To see it with their own eyes.
| have always cherished the idea that when
the world is converted we would be al
lowed to come out on the battlements of
heaven and see the hammered procession
and the bonfires of victory. But / would
like to see the procession closer by and
Just be permitted myself to throw on a
fagot tor bigger bonfire. And ii you per-
suade our men OF wealth that there is a
possibility for them to join on earth in
the universal glee of a redeemed planet,
instead of laborious beseeching for funds
and arguing and flattering in order to get
a contribution for Christian objects. our
men of wealth will stand in line at post
Office window or railroad ticket office,
but in this case waiting for their turn to
make charitable deposit. The gentiles
are not long going to allow themselves to
be eclipsed by Mr.. Hirsch, the Jew who
has just given S40,000000 for schools in
France, Germany and Russia. l rejoice
| that sc much of the wealth of
the world is coming into the pos
session of Christian men and women.
And although the original church was
very poor, and its members were fish
dealers on the banks of Galilee, and had
only such stock in hand as they could
| take in their own net, to-day, in the hands
of Christian men and women, there is
enough money to print bibles and build
churches and support missionaries under
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