The Penn's Grove record., 1889-05-04

the gospel business of no age. We are
lighting at too long a range. That gun
called the Swamp Angel" was a nuis-
ance. 1t shot six miles, but 1t hardly
ever hit anything. 1t did It's chief
destructive work when 1t burst and
killed those who were setting 1t on
Short range is the effective kind OF
work, whether 1t be for worldly or
religious purpose. Some man with his
eyes half shut drOnes out to me the
Bible quotation, "A thousand years
are as one days" that is. ten centuries
are not long for the lord. but why
do you not quite the previous SEN
tence, which says that day IS with
the Lord as a Thousand years? That
is, He could do the work Of ten CEN
turtles in twenty-four hours. The
mightiest obstacle to Christian work
is the impression that the worlds evan
Relization lie away of. Many Of us
act as though we thought that when
Macaulay's famous New Zealauder In
the far distance is seated on u broken
arch of London bridge sketchinx TIE
ruins of st. Paul's, his grandcniid
might break in and jolt his pencil by
asking him IL he thought the milen-
mum ever would appear. Men and
women of the eternal Godl sons and
OF the Lord Almighty we
may have it start In the decade that is
soon to commence, and 1t will be done
il we can pursuade the people to get
ready for this work.
What makes me think 1t can be
donep First. because
GOD Is READY.
He needs no long persuasion to do His
work, for If He is not willing that any
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 "COmel
comet comet" But He is waiting, as
He said He would, for the cooperation
of the Church. When we are ready,
God is ready. And He certainly has
all the weaponry ready to capture this
world for the truth, all the weapons
Of kindness or devastation. On the
one hand the Gospel and sunshine, and
power to orchardiZe and gardenize the
and fountains swinging in rain
bow and Chatsworthian verdure, and
aromas poured out OF the Walls of heaven.
while on the other hand He has the
weaponry of devastation. thunderbolt
and cOnflagration, and forces planetary,
lunar, stellar, Tor meteoric. that
with loose rein thrown on the neck for
second would leave consultations and
galaxies 70 many split and shivered
wheels on the b%oulevards of heaven.
And that God is on our side. Blessed
be His glorious namel
IL. If you continue to ask me why
| think that the world can be saved in
the final decade of the Nineteenth Gen.
fury, l reply, Because 1t is not q great
undertaking, considering
THE NUMBER OF WORKERS
Will 60 az 1t, II once persuaded, it
can be done. We have sifted the Eve
hundred million of workers down to
four hundred million, and three hun
bred million, and two hundred million,
and one hundred million, and to fifty
1 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. l found out,
aided by a professor in mathematics,
we did not need anything like
such a number OF workers enlisted.
You see 1t Is a simple ques
ton of mathematics and In geome-
.rical progression. Then l gave to The
learned professor this problem: How
many persons would it require to start
if each one brought a soul into
The kingdom each year for ten years,
and each one brought another each sue
,eeding year, In order to have fourteen
hundred million people saved, or the
population of the earth at presentp
His answer was, Two million seven
hundred aud ffty-four thousand three
hundred and seventy.f1ve workers. So
you see that when l sifted the Eve
hundred million nominal Christians of
The earth down to Afty million and
there, l retained for his work
'orty-seven million people too many.
here 1t il in glorious mathematics,
Iu0d err at den.onstrdadunl.
DIVINE MATHEMATICS.
Do you tell me That Gul uoe, not care
Tor mathematicsr then you have never
seen the Giants Cause way, where GID
shows his regard tor the ~hexagonal IN
Whole ranges of rocky columns Nth
,ix sides and six angles. Then you have
lot studied the geometry Ut u bees
with six sides and SIX
Then you have not noticed
what regard God has for the square,
he altar of the ancient tabernacle four
,quare. the breastplate four square, thu
court of the Temple in EzekIel's vision
square, the New Jerusalem laid
,ut four square, Or you have not
his regard for the circle by
1t His throne, ''sittlng on
he circle of the EARTH" and
sun and moon and stars
a circle, and sending our planetary
around other systems In a
circle, and the universe sweeping
the throne of God in a circle.
So I enlist mathematics for the demon
'tratlon of the easy possibility OF
bringing the world to God IN the com.
ng decade by simple process of solicit
each mi only having to bring
,ne a year; although l want to take in
thousand, and | know men now
.live who l think, by pen or voice, or
directly OF indirectly, will take
hundreds OF thousands each. So you
zee that that will discharge some OF
,.754.375 from the necessity of taking
my.
Ill. Another reason why | know 1t
IAN be done IS that we may divide the
work up among the denominations.
iod does not ask any one denomination
o do the work or any dozen denom-
nations.
THE WORK CAN BE DIVIDED,
md is being divided up, not geograph- |
cally, but according to the tempera.
nents of the human family. We can
rot say to one denomination, You take |
and another. You take China, |
md another, You take India, because
here r all styles of temperament In
nations. And some denominations
IRE especially adapted to work with
of sangulne temperament, or
temperament, or chOlerlc
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