News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-04-25

we strain our vision and guess what they are,
and we call great conventions to guess what
they are, and we get down our heaviest theo-
logical works and balance our telescope on the
lid and look and look and finally conclude
that they are two beasts that we see, and the
one has hair and the other has wool and we
guess it must be the lion and the lamb
lying down together In that great cradle
of postponement and somnolence we rock the
church as though it were an impatient child
and say: Hush, my dear, don't be impa-
tent! Don't get excited by revivals! Don't
cry! Your Fathers coming! Don't get un-
eaSyl He will be here in two or three or ten
or twenty thousand years" And we act as
though we thought that when Macaule7's
famous New ZeaIander In the far distance Is
seated on a broken arch of London
bridge stretching the ruins of st.
PauPs his grandchild might break in
and jolt his pencil by asking him if he
thought the millennium ever would appear.
Men and women of the eternal Godl Sons
and daughters of the Lord Almighty We
may have it start in the decade that is soon
to commence and it will be done if we can
persuade the people between now and then to
get ready for the work.
What makes me think it can be done9
First, because God is ready. He needs no
long persuasion to do His work, for if He is
not willing that any should 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 Come, come
come" and you need not go round
the earth to find out how much
He wants the world to come, but just TO walk
around one stripped and bare and leafless
tree with two branches, not arched, but hori-
zontal. But He is waiting, 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 cap
ture this world for the truth, all tho
Of ind, u
On the one hand the Gospel and
sunshine and power to orchardize and gard
enize the earth, and fountains swinging in
rainbow, and Chatsworthian verdure and
aromas poured out of the walls of heavens
while on the other hand he has the weaponry
of devastation, thunderbolt and confagra-
ton and forces planetary, solar,
lunar, stellar, or meteoric, that with
loose rein thrown on the neck for a
second would leave consultations and
galaxies so many split and shivered wheels
on the boulevarCls of heaven. And that God
His glorious namel Blessed was the hour
when through Jesus Christ my sinful soul
made peace with Him!
If you continue TO ask me why 1 think that
the world can be saved in the final decade of
the Nineteenth century, reply because it Is
not great undertaking, considering the num-
Der of workers that will go at it. If once
persuaded it can be done. We have
sifted the five hundred million of work
ers down to four hundred million and
three hundred million and two hun
dred million and one hundred million and to
fifty million. went to work to cipher out
how MANY souls that number could bring to
God in ten years if each one brought soul
every year and if each soul 50 brought should
bring another each succeeding year. l found
out aided b. professor in mathematics, that
we did not need anything like such number of
-, He-zer,,
ton of mathematics and in geometrical pro-
erosion. Then | gave to the learned pro-
feSsor this problem: How many persons
wellld it require to start with if each one
brought soul into the kingdom each year for
ten wears and each one brought another each
succeeding 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-tiYe workers. So
you see that when | sifted the five hundred
million nominal Christians of the earth down
to fifty million and stopped there, [ retained
for this work forty-seyen million people too
many. There it is in glorious mathematics,
Quod erat demonstrate" 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 in whole ranges of rocky columns
with six sides and six angles. Then you have
nOB SDUuleu the geometry OF u Dee money!
comb with six sides and six angles Then
you have not noticed what regard God has
for the square; the altar OF the ancient
tabernacle four square, the breastplate four
square, the court of the temple in EzekiePs
vision four square the New Jerusalem laid
out four square Or you have not noticed
his regard for the circle by making it his
throne, "sittipg on the circle of the earth"
and fashioning sun and moon and
stars in a circle and sending our planetary
system around other systems in circle and
the whole universe sweeping around the
throne of God i'll circle And as TO His
regard for mathematical numbers He makes
the fourth book in He Bible the Book of
Numbers, and numbers the hosts of Israel
and numbers the troops OF sennache-
forest, and numbers the speaTsTnen, and num-
bers the footmen, and numbers the converts
at Pentecost, and numbers the chariotS of
God rolling down the steps of heaven. So l
have right to enlist mathematics for the
demonstration of the easy possibility
of bringing the whole world to GOD tn
the coming decade by simple process
of solicitation, each one only having to bring
one year although | want to take in forty
thousand and | know men now alive who, [
think, by pen or voice, or both, directly or
indirectly, viii take hundreds OF thousands
each. So you see that that will discharge
some of the 2, 754,37 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 not ask any one
denomination to do the work or any dozen
denominations. The work can be divided
andis being divided up, not geographically,
but according to the temperaments of the
human family. Wecannot say to one denomi
nation, You take Persia, and another, You
take China, and another, You take India,
because there are all styles of temperaments
in all matt Ard da71OToino finTc ar
especially adapted to work with people of
Sang1Iine temperament or plegmatic tenpera-
ment or choleric temperament or bilious tenn
permanent or nervous temperament or lynn
phatic temperament. The Episcopal Church
will do its most effective work with those who
by taste prefer the stately and ritual
istic. The Methodist church will
do its best work among the emo
tional and demonstrative. The Presby-
terrain church will do its best work among
those who like strong doctrine and the stately
service softened by the emotional So each
denomination will have certain kinds of peo-
pie whom it will especially affect. So let the
work be divided up. There are the seven hun
dred and fifty thousand Christians OF the Pres
byterian Church, North, and other hundreds
of thousands in the Presbyterian Church,
South and all foreign Presbyterians, more es-
| guess, about two million P1'esbyterians; the
Methodist Church is still larger; the Church
of England on both sides the sea still larger;
and many other denominations as much if
not more. consecrated than anv l have men
toned Divide 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 Japanese, the last Ameri-
can, the last European, the last Asiatic, the
last African will see the salvation of God be-
fore he sees the opening gate of the Twentieth
century.
Again, 1 feel the whole world can be saved
in the time specified, because we have all
of machinery requisite. 1t is not as
though we had to build the printing presses:
they are all built and running day and night,
those printing religious papers 1925 of those
religious papers in this country, those
printing religious tracts and those
printing religious books And thou
sands of printing presses now in the service of
the devil could be brought and set to work in
the service of God. Whv was the PRINTING
press invented? To turn out billheads and cir
culars of patent medicines and tell the news
which in three weeks will be of no importance?
From the old-time Franklin printing press or
up to the Lord Stanhopes press and the
Washington press and the Victory press to
Hoes perfecting printing press that machine
has been improving for its best work and its
final work, namely, the publication of the
glad tidings of great Joy which shall be to all
people. We have the presses, or can have
them before the first of January when the
new decade is to begin, to put Bible in the
hand of every son and daughter of Adam and
Eve now living, and if such person cannot
read we can have a colporteur an evangelist
or missionary to read it to him or her.
But this brings me to the adjoining thought;
namely, we have the money to do the work.
mean the fifty million of Christians have it
Ave the two million seven hundred and fifty
four thousand Christians have it; and the
dam which is beginning to leak viii soon
break and there viii be rushing
floods of hundred and millions and
billions of dollars in holy contribution