Daily Yellowstone journal., 1889-04-21

and the lamb lying dow gelher' Lee
that great cradle OF postr- ement and
somnolence we rock the church as
though il were an inpatient child and
saw, flush, my dear, don't be lmpar
tientl Don't get excited by r~eviyalsl
Don't eryl Your Fathers comingl
Don't get uneasy He will be here in
two or three or ten oil twenty thousand
wears" And we act as though we
thought that when Macaulay's famous
| New Zealander in the far distance is
| seated on a broken arch OF London
bridge sketching the ruins Of st.
Paul's his grandchild might break in
and jolt his pencil by asking him if he
thought the millennium ever would
appear. Men and women of the eter-
nal Godl Sons and daughters of the
Lord Almighty We may have it
start in the decade that is soon TO COM
hence and it will be done if we can
persuade the people between now and
then TO get ready for the work.
What makes me think il can be
donei First, because God is ready.
He needs no long persuasion TO do his
work, for if he is not willing that any
should perish, he is not willing that
any of the people of the next decade
shall perish; and the whole Bible is a
chime of bells ringing out Come,
come, come" and you need not go
round the earth TO find out how much
he wants the world TO come, but just
to walk around one stripped and bare
and l%eatleSs tree with two branches,
not arched, but horizontal. But he is
waiting, as lie said he would, for the
cooperation of the church. When we
are ready God is ready. And he GER
tainly has all the weaponry ready 10
capture this world for the truth, all
the weapons of kindness or devasta-
| ton. On the one hand the Gospel and
sunshine and power to orchardize and
gardenize the earth, and fountains
swinging in rainbow and Chats.
WORKMAN verdure and aromas poured
out of the Walls Of heaven, while on
the other hand he has the weaponry of
devastation, thunderbolt and conila-
grafton and forces planetary, solar,
lunar, stellar or meteoric, that with
loose rein thrown on the neck for a
second would leave consultations and
galaxies so many split and shivered
wheels on the boulevards Of heaven.
And that God is on "a side, all on our
side. Blessed be his glorious name
Blessed was the hour when through
Jesus Christ my sinful soul made peace
with himl
THERE is NOTHING MPRACTIcABLE
ABOUT 1T.
III YOU continue 10 ask me why /
think that the world can be saved in
the final decade of the Nineteenth cen-
fury, / reply because il is not a great
undertaking. considering the number
of workers that will 60 at it, il once
persuaded it can be done. We have
sifted the FIVE hundred million Of work
ers down to four hundred million and
three hundred million and two hun
dred million and one hundred million
and TO fifty million. | went 10 work
TO cipher out how many souls that
number could bring To God in ten
years, if each one broughta soul every
year, and if each soul SO brought should
bring another each succeeding year
/ found out, aided by a professor in
mathematics, that we did not need
anything like such a number of work,
ers enlisted. You see 1t is simply q ques-
ton of mathematics and in geometri'
cal progression. Then | gave to the
learned professor this problem: How
many persons would it require Ia
start with if each one brought a soul
into the kingdom each year for ten
years and each one brought another
each succeeding year, in order TO have
fourteen hundred million people saved
or the population Of the earth at pres
entl His answer was two million
seven hundred and ffty-fourt thousand
three hundred and seventy-fve work,
ers. So you see that when | sifted the
five hundred million nominal Chris.
tians of the earth down TO fifty mil.
lion and stopped there, | retained for
this work forty-seven million people
too many. There it is in gloriou:
mathematics, quod erat demonstran,
DUN. Do you tell me that God doe:
not care for mathematical 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 six angles
Then you have not studied the geom
etry Of a bees honeycomb with sig
sides and six angles. Then you have
not noticed what regard God has fOl
the square; the altar of the ancient
tabernacle four square, the breastplat,
four square, the court of the temple in
Ezekiel's vision four square, the New
Jerusalem laid out four square. On
you have not noticed his regard fol
the circle by making ii his throne
Sitting on the circle of the earth,
and f%ashioning sun and moon ant
stars in a circle and sending our plan
etary system around other systems il
a circle and the whole universe sweep
ing around the throne Of God in {
circle. And as TO his regard for math
ematical numbers, he makes the fourth
book in his Bible the Book Of Mum
bcrs, and numbers the hosts of Israe
and numbers the troops Of Sennache
RIB and numbers Solomon's hewers il
the forest and numbers the spearmer
and numbers the footmen and mum
bers tho converts at Pentccost an,
numbers the cbariots of God rolling
down the steps Of heaven. SO | hav,
a right 70 enlist mathematics for In,
demonstration Of the easy possibilit,
OF bringing the whole worldto God il
the coming decade by simple process,