Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-04-26

when through Jesus Christ my sinful
soul made peace with Him!
If you continue to ask me why think
that the world can be saved in the final
decade of the nineteenth century, l re-
ply because it is not great undertake
ing, considering the number OF workers
that will 60 at it, if once persuaded it
can be done. We have sifted the five
hundred million of workers down to
four hundred million and three hundred
million and two hundred million and
one hundred million and to fifty mill
ion. Invent to work to cipher out how
MANY souls that number could bring to
God in ten wears. if each one brought a
soul every wear, and if each soul SO
brought should bring another each sue
ceeding year. | found out, aided by a
professor in mathematics, that we did
not need anything like such number Of
workers enlisted. You see it is simply
question of mathematics and in
geometrical progression. Then l gave
to the learned professor this problem:
How many persons would 1t require to
start with if each one brought soul
into the kingdom eachyear for ten years
and each one brought another each sue
ceeding year, in order to have fourteen
hundred million people saved or the
population of the earth at present? His
answer was two million seven hundred
and tifty-four thousand three hundred
and seventy-tive workers. So you see
that when 1 sifted the five hundred
million nominal Christians of the earth
down to fifty million and stopped there,
retained for this work forty seven
million people too many. There it is in
glorious mathematics, quod erat demon
strandum. Do you tell me that God
does not care for mathematics? Then
you have never seen the Giants Cause
way where God shows His regard for the
hexagonal i'll whole ranges of rocky
columns with six sides and six angles.
Then you have not studied the geom-
etry of q 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 four
square, the court of the temple in
EzekieIs vision four square, the New
Jerusalem laid out four square. Or you
have not noticed His regard for the cir
Gle by making it His throne, Sitting on
the circle of the earth" and fashioning
sun and moon and stars in 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 Sennacherib and numbers Solomon's
hewers in the forest and numbers the
spearmen, and numbers the footmen and
numbers the converts at Pentecost and
numbers the chariots of God rolling
down the steps of Heaven. Sol have a
right to enlist mathematics for the de-
monstratiOn 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 year; although I want to
take in forty thousand and 1 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, 1915 from the necessity of taking
any.
Another reason why I know it can be
done is that we may divide the work up
among the denominations. God does
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 cannot say to one denomination,
You take Persia, and another, You take
China, and another, You take India, be-
cause there are all styles of tempera-
ments in all nations. And some denomi-
nations are especially adapted to work
with people of sanguine temperament or
phlegmatic temperament OF choleric
temperament or bilious temperament or
nervous temperament or Emphatic tenn
permanent. The Episcopal Church will
do its most effective work with those
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ritualistic. The Methodist Church will
and demonstrative. The Presbyterian
Church will do it's 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 effect. So let the work be
divided up. There are the seven hun
dred and fifty thousand Christians of
the Presbyterian Church, north, and
other hundreds of thousands in the
Presbyterian Church, south, and all
foreign Presbyterians, more especially
Scotch, English, and Irish, making, I
guess, about two million Presbyterians;
the Methodist Church is still larger;
the church of England on both sides the
sea still larger; and many other denomi-
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Grated than any 1 have mentioned. Di-
vide up the worlds evangelization
among these denominations after they
are persuaded it can be done before the
Nineteenth century is dead, and the last
Hottentot, the last Turk, the last Japa-
nese, the last American, the last
European, the last Asiatic, the last Afri-
can 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, 1 mean the fifty million
of Christians have it. Aye, the two
million seven hundred and fifty-f four
thousand Christians have it; and the
dam which is beginning to leak will
soon break and there will be rushing
floods of hundred and millions and
billions of dollars in holy contribution
when you persuade the wealthy men of
the kingdom of God that the speedy
conversion of the world is possibility
and that Isaiah and Ezekiel and Daniel
and st. John will not stand in the way
of it but help it on. I have us sympathy
with this bombardment OF rich men.
We would each one be worth five mill
ion dollars if wo could. and by hard
persuasion might perhaps be induced to