The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-04-25

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. I went to work
to cipher out how many souls that
number could bring to God in ten
years, if each one brought a 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
like such number of work
ers enlisted. You see it is simply a ques-
ton of mathematics and in geometri-
cal progression. Then / gave to the
learned professor this problem: How
many persons would it require to
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
enta His answer was two million
seven hundred and fifty-four thousand
three hundred and sevcnty-ive 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, l retained for
this work forty-seven million people
too many. There it is in glorious
mathematics, quod erat demonstran-
dunn. 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 six angles.
Then you have not studied the geom-
etry of 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
tabernacle four square, the breastplate
four 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, 5"
and fashioning sun and moon and
stars in circle and sending our plan
etary system around other systems in
Il circle and the whole universe sweep
ing around the throne of God in a
circle. And as to his regard for math-
ematical numbers, he makes the fourth
book in his Bible the Book of Num-
bers, and numbers the hosts of Israel
and numbers the troops of Sennache-
rib and numbers Solomon's hewers in
the forest and numbers the spearmen
and numbers the footmen and num-
bers the converts at Pantecost and
numbers the chariots of God rolling
down the steps of heaven. So | have
a right to enlist mathematics for the
demonstration of the easy possibility
Of bringing the whole world to God in
the coming decade by simple process
of solicitation, each one only having
to bring one a year; although ] want
to take in forty thousand and / know
men now alive who think, by pen or
voice, or both, directly or indirectly,
will take hundreds of thousands each.
So you see that that will discharge
some of the 2,754,375 from the ne
oessity 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 >denomina-
ton to do the work or any dozen de-
nominations. The work can be di-
vided and is being divided up, not
geographically but according to the
temporaments of the human family
We cannot 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 SAN
guine temperament or phlegmatic
temperament or choleric temperament
or bilious temperament or nervous
temperament or lymphatic tempera-
ment. The Episcopal church will do
its most effective work with those who
by taste prefer the stately and ritual
istic. The Methodist church will dc
its best work among the emotional
and demonstrative. The Presbyterian
church will do its best work among
those who like strong doctrine and the
stately service softened by the emo
tional. So each denomination will have
certain kinds of people whom it will
especially affect. So let the work be
divided up. There are the seven hun
dred and fifty thousand Christians ot
the Presbyterian church, north, ano
other hundreds of thousands in the
Presbyterian church, south, and all
foreign Presbyterians. more especially y
Scotch, English and Irish, making,
guess, about two million Presbyte
rians the Methodist church is still
larger; the church IF England on botI
sides the sea still larger; and many
other denominations as much, if not
more, consenpated than any have men
tened. Divide up the worlds eyangel
ization among these denomination:
after they are persuaded it can be dons
before the Nineteenth century Is dead
and the last Hottentot, the last Turk
| the last japanese, the last American
the last European, the last Asiatic, th'
| last African will see the salvation o
| God before he sees the opening gait
of the Twentieth century.
EVERYTHING Is IN CONDITION FOR TIL
CONSERVATION.
Again, | feel the whole world car
| be saved in the time specified, becaus
| we have all manner of machinery req
uisite. It is not as though we had t
build the printing presses; they are al
built and running day and night, thos
| printing religious papers (925 OF thos
religious papers in this country, thos
| printing religious tracts and thos
printing religious books. And thou
sands of printing Presses now in tn
service of the devil could be brough
and set to work in the service of God
Why was the printing press invented
To turn out billheads and circulars @
patent medicines and tell the new
which in three weeks will be of no i'm
portance} From the old time Frank
| lin printing press on up 90 the Lor
Stanhope's press and the Washingto
press and the Victory press to Hoe
perfecting printing press that machin
has been improving for its best wor
and its final work, namely, the publ
cation of the glad tidings of great jo
which shall be to all people. We hav
the presses, or can have them befor
lie first of January when the new d.
cade is to begin, 10 put Bible IN tn
hand of every son and daughter {
Adam and Eve now living, and If sue
person cannot read we can have co
porteur, an evangelist or missionar
to read it TO him or her.
But this brings me to the adjoinin
thought; namely, we have the none
to do the work. ] mean the fifty mil
ion of Christians have 1t. Aye, 81
two million seven hundred and Eft,
four thousand Christians have it; an
the dam which Is beginning to lea
will soon break and there will be rusl
ing floods of hundred and millions an
billions of dollars in holy contribAio
when you persuade the wealthy me
of the kingdom of God that the speed
! conversioa OF the world is o possibilil
| and that Isaiah and Ezekiel and DAM
and St. John will not stand in q