The national leader., 1889-05-04


SO enlist mathematics for the demon.
stration of the easy possibility of
bringing the world to God In the com.
ing decade by simple process of solicit
tatioE. each one only having to bring
one year; although want to take in
forty thousand, and I know men now
alive who think. by pen or voice, or
both, directly or indirectly, will take
hundreds OF thousands each. So you
see that that will discharge some OF
2.754, ,375 from the necessity Of taking
any.
III. Another reason why know 1t
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 denom-
nations.
THE WORK CAN BE DIVIDED,
and is being divided up, not geograph-
ically, but according to the tempera-
ments of the human family. We can
not say to one denomination, You take
Persia. and another, You take China,
and another, You take India, because
there are all styles of temperament in
all nations. And some denominations
are especially adapted to work with
people of sanguine temperament. or
phlegmatic temperament, or choleric
temperament, or bilious temperament,
or nervous temperament, or Emphatic
temperament. The Episcopal Church
will do Its most effective work with
those who by taste prefer the stately
and ritualistic. The Methodist Church
will do its best work among the emo
tional and demonstrative. The Pres.
byterian 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 people whom it
will specially affect. So let the work
be divided up.
There are the seven hundred and
fifty thousand Christians of the Pres
byterian Church North, and other hun
dreds of thousands in the Presbyterian
Church South, and all foreign Presby-
terians, more especially Scotch, Eng.
lish. and Irish, making, l guess, about
two million Presbyterians; the Metho-
dist Church is still larger; the Church
OF England on both sides Of the sea
still larger; and many other denomina-
tiOns as much, II not more consecra.ed
than any have mentioned Divide up
the worlds evangeliZatiOn among these
denominations after they are persuaded
1t can be done before the Nineteenth
century Is dead. and the last Hotten-
tot, the last Turk, the last japanese,
the last American, the last European,
the last Asiatic, the last African, will
gee the salvation Of God before he sees
the opening gate Of the Twentieth CEN
tury.
THE MACHINERY READY.
w. Again, l feel the whole world
can be saved In the time specified, be-
cause we have all manner of machinery
requisite. It 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
thousands Of printing! presses now In
the service of the devil could be
brought and set to work IN the SER
vice OF God. Why was the printing
press invented? To turn out bill-heads,
and circulars of patent medicines.
and tell the news which in three
weeks will be of no 1mportance3
From the old-time Franklin print
impress. on up To the Lord
Stanhope press, aud 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 publica-
tion of the glad tIdlngs 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.
V. But this brings me to the
thought; namely, we have
THE MONEY TO DO THE WORK,
mean the fifty million Of Christians
have it. Ay, the two million seven
hundred and ffty-four thousand Chris
tians have it; and the dam which is
beginning to leak will soon break, and
there will be rushing floods of hundreds
and millions and billions Of dollars In
holy contribution when you persuade
the wealthy men of the kingdom of
God that the speedy conversion of the
world is a possibility. 1 have no sympa-
thy with this bombardment of rich
men. Almost every paper I take up
tells of some wealthy man who has
endowed a college, or built church
or free library, and that thing is going
to multiply until the treasury of all our
denominations and refornatory organi-
cations will be overwhelmed with
munlfcence if we can persuade our men
of wealth that the worlds evangeliza-
tion is possible, and that they may live