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

| road ticket Office, but in this case watt
ing their turn to make charitable de-
post The Gentiles are not long gong
to allow themselves to be ecllpsed by
Mr. Hirsch, the Jew who has just given
| forty million dollars for schools IN
France, Germany, and Russia. re]olce
that so much of the wealth OF the world
is coming into the possession OF Chrls-
tian men and women. And although
the original church was very poor ana
| its members were fish dealers on the
banks of Galilee, and had only such
stock on hand as they could take IN
their own net, to-day in the hands OF
| Christian men and women there is
enough money to print Bibles and build
churches and support missionaries I'M
| der God in ten years to save the world.
Again, think that the worlds evan
gelization can be achieved IN the time
specified becauseswe have already the
theological INSTRUCTIONS necessary for
this work. We 60 not have to build
them; they are built and they are filled
with tens of thousands of young men
and there will be three sets OF students
who will graduate into the ministry be-
fore the close of this century, and once
have them understand that instead of
preaching thirty or forty years and tax
ing into the kingdom of God few
hundred souls, right before them is the
Sedan, is the Armageddon, and these
Young men, instead of entering the
ministry timid and with apologize air,
will feel like David who came up just
as the armies were set in array and he
left his carriage and shouted for the
battle and cried: "Who is this uncir-
cumcised Philistine that he should defy
the armies of the living God?" and with
five gravel stones skillfully flung sent
SPRAYING the Dragging ten footer. his
mouth into the dust and his heels into
the air.
NV friends, what but such q consum-
nation could be tit climax to this CEN
fury? You notice tendency in history
and all about us to a climax. The crea-
ton week rising from herbs to fish and
from fish tc bird and from bird to quad
ruped and from quadruped to immortal
man. The New Testament rising from
quiet genealogical table in Matthew to
apocalyptic doxology in Revelation.
Now, what can be an appropriate climax
to this century. which has heard 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 flash
of the first electric light and the revolu-
ton 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
advocating foreign missions, as was
done at Northampton, i'll England in the
last century, now all denominations
vying with each other as to who shall go
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 Melan esia and Malayan
Polynesia have been set in the crown Of
Christ, and David Livingstone has I'M
yelled Africa and the last bolted gate of
barbaric nations has swung wide opento
let the gospel in. What, I ask, with a
thousand interrogation points uplifted,
can be tit, an appropriate and sufficient
climax except it be a world redeemed?
Yea, believe it can be done if we get
prepared for it, because the whole air
and the whole Heaven is full of willing
help. Are they not all ministering
spirits sent forth?" We make an aw-
full mistake if we calculate only on the
forces we can see. The mightiest army
is in the air. My brethren, SO much of
selfishness and pride and rivalry and
bad motives of all kinds get into our
work here that we are hindered. But
the flying armies of the sky have left all
imperfection behind; and these souls
are with us and without fault and with
perfect natures are on our side. You
cannot make me believe that after toll
ing here for long years for the redemp-
ton of the world until from exhaustion
some of them fell into their graves they
have ceased their interest in the stu
pendous conflict now raging, or that
they are going to decline their help.
Irenaus Prime! Honored on earth but
now glorited in Heaven, have you for
gotten the work toward which you gave
for more than half a century your
gracious life, your loving voice and
down and help. Alexander Duff!
Have you forgotten the millions
of India for whose salvation
you suffered in Hindoo Jungle
and Numbered on missionary platform?
No! Then come down and help. David
Brainard! Have you forgotten the abort
gines to whom you preached and for
whom YOU prayed until you could preach
and pray no more, lying down delirious
amid the miasmas of the swamp? No!
Then come down and help. Moncrieff
and Freeman and Campbell! Have you
forgotten Lucknow and Cawnpore? No!
Then come down and help. I rub out of
my eyes the stupidity and unbelief, and
I, the servant of these great Elishas in
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 are We by great clouds Of
witnesses and helpers! Clouds of apos-
ties in the air led on by Paul! Clouds
of martyrs in the air led on by Stephen!
Clouds of prophets in the air led on by
Isaiah! Clouds of patriarchs in the air
led on by Abraham Clouds of ancient
warriors in the air led on by Joshua,
and that Bible warrior at whose prayer
astronomy once halted over Ajalon and
Gideon seems now to lift one hand to-
ward the descending sun of this coun-
try and the other hand toward the moon
of the last decade saying: Stand thou
still till the church of God gets the final
victory"
Then let us take what remains of this