The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-06-28

floods Of hundred and millions and |
billions CT dollars In holy contribution
Wien you persuade the wealthy men
OF the kingdom of God that the speedy con
version OF the world is possibility and that |
Isaiah and Ezekiel and Daniel and st. John
VIII not stand in the way Of it but help it on.
have no sympathy with this bombardment !
OF rich men We would each one be worth |
hve million dollars If we could, and by hard |
persuasion might perhaps be induced to take |
fifteen million. Almost every paper I take |
up uelisof some wealthy man who has endowed
a college or built a church or a hospital |
or a.free library, and that thing is going to
murphy until the treasury of all our de
he mol, and reformatory organizations
VIII De overwhelmed with munificence II we |
cSn-persuade our men OF wealth that the |
woriPs CHARACTERIZATION 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 allowed !
to come out on the battlements of heaven
and see the hammered procession and |
the bonhres OF victory. But would ike TO !
see the procession closer by and Just be per- |
mitted myself to throw on a fagot for a big |
ger bonfres. Aud if you persuade our men
of wealth that thSre is a possibility for them
TO Join on earth in the universal glee of a re-
deemed planet instead of laborious beseech- |
ing for funds and arguing and fiattering in
order TO get a contribution for Christian
objects our men of wealth win |
stand in line as, at a postofiice window or a
railroad ticket Office but in this case waiting
for their turn to make charitable deposit. The
eentiles are not long going to allow them
selves to be eclipsed by Mr.. Hirsch, the Jew,
who has lust given forty million dollars for |
schools in France Germany and Russia. Ire
ioice that so much Of the wealth of the world
IS coming into the possession Of Christian men
and women. And although the original
church was very poor, andyts members were
fish dealers on the banks oN sSalllee, and had
only such stock on hand as they could take in
their own net, to-day in the hands OF Chris
tan men and women there IS enough money
to prinfzzHalss and build churches and sup
port missiS Aaries under God in ten years TO
save the world.
Again think that the worlds eYangeliza-
ton can be achieved IN the time speetned pc
cause we have already the theological lnsti-
tuticns necessary for this work we 90 not
have toeuild them; they are built and they
are filed with tens of thousands of young men
and there viii be three sets OF students
who will graduate into the ministry
before the close of this century. and once have
them understand that instead of preaching
thirty or forty years and taking into the king
dom of God few hundred souls right before
them is the Sedan, is the Armageddon, and
these young men, instead of entering the
ministry tinid and with apologize air, will
feel ike David who came up just as
the armies were set in array and
ne leIL Ills C1nTL4Rt anu SuOuIeu
for the battle and cried: ''Who is this I'M
circnmcised Philistine that he should defy the
armies of the living GodF and with five
gravel stones skilhIllly flung sent sprawiing
the Dragging ten footer his mouth into the
dust and his heels into the air
Ny friends, what but such q consumma-
ton could be a fit climax TO this century,
You notice a tendency in history and all
about US TO q climax The creation week ris-
ing from herbs to fish and from fish TO bird
and from TO bird to quadruped and from
quadruped 10 immortal man. The New
Testament rising from quiet genealo-
gical table in Matthew to apocalyptic |
doxology in Revelation. Now, what can be
an appropriate climax to this century which |
has herd the puff of the first steamer and the |
throb of the first stethoscope and the click of |
the first telegraph and the clatter OF the first
sewing machine and saw the fash of the first |
electric light and the revolution of the first |
steam pillow, and the law Of storms was written,
and the American Bible society and American
Tract society were born; and instead of an |
audience laughing down Dr. Carey for adyo-
eating foreign missions, as was done at North /
ampton in England in the last century, now
all denominations wing with each other as to |
who shall 90 the furtherest and the soonest |
into the darkest of the New Hebrides; |
and three hundred thousand souls have |
been born to God in the South Sea
Islands, and Micronesia and Melanesia and |
Malayan Polynesia have been set in the |
crown of Christ, and David Livingstone has |
unveiled Africa and the last boited gate Of |
barbaric nations has swung wide open 20 let |
the Gospel in What, ask, with a thousand !
interrogation points uphfted, can be a fit, an
appropriate and sufficient climax except it be |
a world redeemed?
Yes I believe it can be done If we get pre-
pared for it, because the whole air and the |
whole heaven Is full of willing help. Are |
they not all ministering spirits sent forthy'
We make an awful mistake If we calculate
only on the forces we can see The |
mightiest array is in the air. My breth-
eTn, 50 much of selishness anS~nlde |
But the mighty Sis 800
the hying armies Of the sky have IeTt II I
imperfection behind; and these souls are |
with US and without fault and with per-
feet natures are on our side. You cannot |
make me believe that after toiling
here for long years for the redemp- |
ton Of thaworld until from exhaustion some !
Of them fell into their graves they have ceased |
their interest In the stupendOus conflict now !
raging, or that they are going to decline their
help. Ireneus Prime HOnOred on earth, |
but now glor:fied In heaven, have you forgot |
ten the work toward which you gavefor more /
than half a century your gracious HE, your /
swing voice and your matches penn NO. |
licrll come down and help Alexander DUH!
= l0lkpbltil TIE lAAAlllpLs VI AnlAd ADl
COM tEation you suffered in Hindoo jun /
ties iI.ered en- missionary platform? |
irIeS BE down and help. David Brain |
cnaSeou forgotten the aborigines to |
VI ton cpreached and for whom you /
ner- You could preach and pray no |
aIlnrrown deliriOus amid the miasmas |
into lampf mol Then come down and |
O5oncrieff and Freeman and Campbell |
forgotten Lucknow and Gavin |
tsrei mol Then come down and help. l |
sib out of my eyes the stupidity and unbe-
fFef, and I, the servant of these great Elishas \
N the Gospel, see the mountains all round |
about are full of horses of fire and chariots Of |
fire; and they head this way. lowered over
Sare We by great clouds Of witnesses and help
ersl Clouds of apostles in the air led |
on by Pauli Clouds of martyrs in the air led |
on by StepheDl Clouds of prophets in the |
air led on by Isaiah Clouds of patriarche IN
the air led on by Abraham Clouds of ian |
Gent warriors in the air led on by Joshua,
and that Bible warrior at whose prayers as
tronomy once halted over Ajalon and GihDeon |
seems now to lift one hand toward the descend |
ing sun OF thus century, and the other hand /
toward the moon Of the last decade, saying: |
Stand thou still till the church of God gets |
the final victoryl"
Then let US take what remains of this de |
cade to get ready for the final decade OF the /
Nineteenth century You and I mayf lot |
live 70 see that decade or may not live to, zee /
declaring the magnificent possibility ON |
fess that the mistake Of my life has been, not I
that did not work hard-for I could not
have worked harder and lived as God |
knows and my family know-but that have /
not worked under the realization that tbs sal
walton of this world was a nearby possibility.
But whether we see it, the beginning or the /
closing Of that decade, is Of no imports 16s
If only that decade can get the corona Az.
and :. then all decades shall kneel beE1e
this Genthroned decade, and even the
gray grown centuries will cast sir
crowns before it aud it viii be the most pon-
ored decade between the time whenS the
mornilssstars sang together as the fh5etto
of 49, was opened and the time whenthe
mighty angel, Tobed in cloud and gaTiaIys d
in rainbow, shall, with one foot on thesea
and the other on the land, swear by Him that
Iiyeth forever and ever, that time shall beno
longer Alleluiai Amen
Two MEN in Tloga County, Pennsyl-
vania, who had jointly bought epw,
quarreled about dividing the milk, ,qne
claiming that the other owned only he
@front half of the animal S-ps-