Daily Yellowstone journal., 1889-04-21
TINE WORLD TO BE SAVED.
or. TAlMAGE SAYS IT CAN BE
DONE IN TEN YEARS.

1917 Nthh's
BROOKLYN, April l4.-At the Brook-
lyn tabernacle today, after expound-
ing messages descriptive of the world
AS ir shall be when gospelized, DIR.
Talmage gave out the hymn;
People and realms Of every tongue
Dwell on his love with sweetest song.
Text, Revelations xix, A.; 'Amen;
AIleluia."
The Nineteenth century is depart
ing. After il has taken a few more
steps. if each year be a step, it will be
gone into the eternities. In a short
time we shall be in the last dec
AIDE of this century, which fact
makes the solemnest book outside the
Bible the almanac, and the most sug-
eestive and the most tremendous piece
OF machinery in all the earth the
clock. The lastdecade of this century
upon which we shall soon enter will
be the grandest mightiest and most
decisive decade in all the chronicle
gies. | am glad it is not 10 come
Immediately, for we need by a new
baptism OF the Holy Ghost TO
prepare for il. That last ten years
Of the Nineteenth century, may we
all live to see theml Does any one
say that this division of time is arbi-
iraryi Oh, no; in other ages the divi-
sions of time may have been arbitrary,
but our years date from Christ Does
any one say that the grouping Of ten
together is an arrangement arbitrary
oh, no; next 10 the figure seven, ten
is with God favorite number. Abra-
ham dwell ten years in Canaan. Ten
righteous men would have saved
Sodom. In the ancient tabernacle
were ten curtains, their pillars ten
and their sockets ten. In the ancient
temple were ten LAYERS and ten candle
sticks any ten tables and a molten sea
of ten cubits. and the command
ments written on the granite of Mount
Sinai were ten. and the kingdom Of
God was likenI 10 ten virgins, and
ten men should lay hold of him that
was q Jew, and The reward Of the great
ly faithful is that they shall reign
over ten cities, and in the effort to
iaav the census of the New Jerusalem
The number ten swings around the
thousands, CRYING ''ten thousand times
ten thousand" So | come TO look to-
ward the closing ten years of the Nine
ieenth century with an intensity of in
ierest | can hardly describe.
have also noticed that the favorite
time IN many Of the centuries for great
events was the closing fragment of the
century. Is America TO be discovered,
itmust be in the last decade of the
Fifteenth century, namely, 1892. Was
free constitutional government TO be
well established in America, the last
years Of the Eighteenth century must
achieve il. Were three cities to be
submerged by one pitch of scorie,
Herculaneum and StrabiH and Pom
pei in the latter part of the First CEN
fury must 90 under. The Fourth cen
tury closed with the most agitating
ecclesiastical war of history, Urban
the Sixth against Clement the Seventh.
Alfred the Great closes the Ninth cen
fury and Edward Ironsides the Flew
enth century with their resounding
deeds. The Sixteenth century closed
with the establishment Of religious in
dependence in the United Netherlands.
Aye. almost every century has had its
peroration Of overtowering achieve
ments. As the closing years of the CEN
tIries seem q favorite time for great
scenes of emancipation or disaster, and
as the number ten seems n favorite
uumberin th~eScriptures, written by d.
vine direction, and as we are soon to en-
ter upon the last ten years of the Nine
teenth century, what does the world
propose2 What does the church of
Christ proposei What do reformers
proposel know not; but now in the
presence Of this consecrated assembly
/ propose that we make ready, get all
our batteries planted and all our plans
well laid in what remains of this dec.
ade, and then in the last decade Of
the Nineteenth century march up anc
take this round world for God.
When / say we, / mean the five
hundred million Christians now alive.
But. as AMY Of them will not have
enough heart for the work Jet US copy
Gideon, and as he had thirty-twc
thousand men in his army 10 fight the
Midianites but many OF them were moi
made OF the right stuff and he pro
mulgated a military order saying:
whatsoever is fearful and afraid LET
him return and depart early from Gil.
cad" and twenty-five thousand were
afraid Of getting hurt and went
home end only ten thousand were left
and God told them that even this re.
duced number VAS too large a mum.
Der. for they might think they
had triumphed independent Of divine
help, and so the number must be still
further reduced and only those should
he kept in the ranks who in passing
the river should DO so In haste for vic.
o over their enemies that though
very thirsty, they would without stop
ping a second just scoop up the water
in the palm OF their right hand an'
SCOOP up the water in the palm OF thei
left hand and only three hundred mel
did that and those three hundred mel
with the battle shout, 1.-THE sword o
the Lord and Of Gideon" scattered tn
Midianites like leaves in an cqGinox
10 out Of the five hundred million
nominal Christians Of today let all un
believers and towards go home AM
- out of the way. And suppose W
h~ve only four hundred million ieil
suppose only two hundred million ieii
suppose only one hundred million left
ysa, suppose we only have fifty milliol