The Red Cloud chief., 1889-04-26
THE CLOSING CENTURY
Christians Exhorted to Good Deeds
During the Next Decade
Gated Christian Work Sure TO Result In
thu Worlds S~AlvAsion-The Lord Ready
to Assist-The Power of Prayer
The Next Tea Years Work.

In . late sermon At Brooklyn Rev. I. De
Witt Talrnace took his text from Reveal
tons xix 4 Amen; Allelula." lie
.aii
The ninet-cath century /, departing.
After IL has taken q few more steps !:
each year be q step. IL shall De gone into
the eterniti.s. In a short time W. shall lie
In the last decade o: thi. century. which
fact makes the soleinnest book outside the
Bible the almanac. and the most u .ce
i've and the most tremendous piece OF
machinery III the e6Ttu the clock The
last decade u this century upon which We
shall soon enter will b. the gTand.sr
miShtiest and most decisive decade In ali
c6ronoioSies. ! am glad L - MT 10 come
Immediately. for weue-d 10y a new baptism
II the Hoy Gnost To- prepare for u The
.as: ten years ot the nineteenth century.
may We all live G. ses them. Does any
one saw that this division of time IL arti-
.rary: Oh, no; in other ages the divisions,
Of tine may have been arbitrary, but
our years date from Christ Does any one
say that the grouping OF ten together is
an arrangement arbitrary. y. no next
to the figure seven, ten is with God q
favorite number. Abraham dwelt ten
years in Canaan. Ten righteous mn
would have saved So lom. In the ancient
t~abernacles were ten cur tains. their pillars
Ten and their sockets ten. In the ancient
temple were ten LAYERS and ten candle.
sticks. and ten tables aud u III Dlicn sea Of
ten clbits. And the commandments
written OIL the granite of Mount Sinai
were ten. and the kingdom II Col was
!ikened to ten virgins, and ten men should
lay hold of him that was a Jew. and the
reward OF the greatly faithful is that they
shall reign over ten cities. and in the ef.
fort to taks the Census Of the New Jsru-
salem the number ten wings around the
thousands. crying ten thousand times
ten thousand" So / come to look toward
the closing ten year. Of the nineteenth
century with an intensity Of interes, ! can
hardly describe.
have also noticed that the favorite time
in many Of the centuries for great events
Wa the closing fragment Of the century.
Is America To be discovered il, must be in
the last decade OF the fifteenth century,
namely, 49,. Was fres constitutional
Government to be we'll established in
America, the last years Of the eighteenth
century must achiev. il. Were rhre.
cities to b. submerged by N pitch Of
scoria.. Hcrcu'aneum and Strnb!e and
Pompeii in 'he latter part of the first cen
tuary must 20 under. The fourth century
closed with the most asitstin; ecclss!as-
tical war of history. Urban tn. Sixth
against Clement the Seventh. Alfred the
Great closes the ninth century and
Edmund lronsides the tenth century
with their ~resounliny deeds. The six
teenth century closed with the establish
ment Of religious independence. in the
United Netherlands Ave. almost every
century has had its peroIation Of overflow
cring achievements. As tn. closing years
OF the centuries seem "a %favort- tim. for
great scenes of emancipation or disaster.
and rs the number ten seems . favOrit,
numter in the Scriptures written by divine
direction. and as W. are soon To enter up
on the last tn years Of the nineteenth
century. what does tho world PROPOSE,
What does the Church Il Christ propose:
What do ref"rmers propose: know not;
TUT now In the presenc. Of this con>ecrat.d
assembly l propos. that w. make ready,
get al! our batteries I~lant.i aud al our
plans well laid in what remains, Il this
decale AMI then IN th. last decade of thr
nineteenth century. march up and take
tbs round world for Col
When I say We. | mean IN. five hundred
million Christians now alive. But as
many Of them Will not have enough heart
for the work let Us copy Gideon. aud as hs
had 'hirty-two THOUSAND men In bis army
to iigh, the Aiiianite~ but msuv Of them
were not made OF the right stuff and he
promulgated n military order saying:
'Who.o-v-r is fearful and afraii let h.m
a.
twenty-five thousand were nfrai Il 81 get.
ting hurt ani went home AMI onlv ten
thousand were left and Colt told them ;ha,
even this reduced nun'er was too large a
number for they might think they had
.triumphel Independently Of dIvin. help
anI so the number must h. stil! further re-
duced AMI only those should b. krp, in the
ranks who in passing the river should b-
So in haste Tor victory over their enemies
that. though very thirsty. they would
without stopping IA second just scoop mp
the water In tn. palm o: their right hand
aud scoop up the water in the palm Of
their left hand. and only three hundred
men did that. and those three hundred men
With the battls shout Tho sword of the
Lord and Of Gideon" scattered the Md !
ianiies Ike leaves IN an equinox
30 out NJ Tue uNS Eun'sE~ai '1i.tspU nOrl- /
iual Christians OF TODAY let all unbciiev.
ers and towards 20 hom. aud &c, out Of
the way. And suppose W.. nav. only four |
hundred million left; sul pose only two
million left: uppo>s only one
hundred million lsf;; yea. suppose ".
only have if,y million eff; with them w.
will undertake the divine ciu,ai~. and
each on. just ~sccoping mp a yaimfal
II - IL. ---- L. ~ I
and o painful o. the river Of Gods
strength IN tn. other. let US with the cry,
The sword Of ,hs Lord and o; GIDEON"
tn. sword u the Lord aud of John Knox
the sword Of the Lord and Of Matthew
= mpson. the sword OF the Lord and Of
Bishop M~cfivaine. the sword OF the Lori
ana q Adoniram Jsison. the ssord o.
the Lord and % Martin Luther. 20 into sh.
last: decade Il the nineteenth cen.ary.
l. /; au lac on. for me Ia propose 1t, q. /
no: . captive servant IN the Kitchen Of
Naaman tod the commanier-in-chi.;
he could &c; rid OF the blo,cs.. ct
his aw ful ispro.y and he complexion To-
came a. fair a. a bates
And 90 l. who am less than ,h. lsas; OF
all saints" propose a sho', cut 20 vic:agy
and arr willing 81 be the exp<c;o.a:son on
some C.ihS eve AGs S<i SUM- Ns II" TX Z
ad~ier--enerals o. the Lord OF ho.,s bsv
leprosisi world mas n tie assl ae-
of the nineteenth csniury have H..
ne.h g IA again as tns sesa Of . hate
ch;ld
l. there any thing in prophecy 20 hinder
speedy consamms,o On, Va Some
b~SiEs to quote from Daassl atoat
-,.mea tims and = hs.f 'iu-." and tsk,s
D---N-x 49, -
flowing them all .; one Ia my ear. Bot