Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-04-25

indirectly, VIII take hundreds OF thousands
each. So You see that that viii discharge
some OF the 2, 81, 3s5 from the necessity Of
taking any.
Another reason why 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
and is being divided up not geographically,
but according to the temperaments OF the
human family. Wecannot say to one denomiE
nation, You take Persia, and another, You
take China, and another. You take India,
because there are all styles of temperaments
in all nations. And some denominations are
especially adapted TO work with people of
sangiIine temperament or plegmatic tempera-
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 win have certain kinds Of peo-
pie whom it win especially affect. SO let the
/ work be divided up There are the seven hun
bred and fifty thousand Christians OF the Pres
byterian Church, North, and other hundreds
i of thousands in the Presbyterian Church,
South and all foreign Presbyterians, more es-
pecially Scotch, English and Irish, making,
l guess about two million Presbyterians; the
! Methodist Church is still larger; the Church
of England on both sides the sea still larger;
4 and many other denominations much, If
not more. consecrated than anv 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 Hotbentot, the
] lacf Ttlrly fine last .fanaueca the last Ampri-
can, the last European, the last Asiatic, the
I last African will see the salvation of God be
fore he sees the opening gate of the Twentieth
4 century.
Again, I feel the whole world can be saved
/ in the time specified. because we have all
manner of machinery requisite It is not as
though we had to build the printing presses;
I they are all built and running day and night.
those printing religious papers l925 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 billheaas and cir
/ culars of patent medicines and tell the news
1 which in three weeks viii be of no importance
From the old-time Franklin printing press on
up TO the Lord Stanhopes press and the
I Washington press and the Victory press TO
I 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 a 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 10 the adjoining thought;
namely, we have the money 10 do the work
mean the fifty million of Christians have IL
Ave the two million seven hundred and fifty
four thousand Christians have it, and the
dam which is beginning TO leak will soon
nreak and there will be rushing
floods of hundred and millions and
billions Of dollars in holy contribution
when YOU persuade the wealthy men
Of the kingdom Of God that the speedy con
version Of the world is possibility and that
Isaiah and Ezekiel and Daniel and st. John
will not stand in the way of II but help it on.
| bave no sympathy with this bombardment
of rich men. We would each one be worth
five million dollars if we could. and by hard
persuasion might perhaps be induced to take
fifteen million. Almost every paper / take
up tells OF some wealthy man who has endowed
a college or built church or a hospital
or free library, and that thing is going TO
multiply until the treasury Of all our de-
nominations and reformatory organizations
will be overwhelmed with muniicence if we
can persuade our men OF wealth that the
worlds evangehzation is possible and that
they may live to see it with their own ewes.
have always cherished the idea that when
the world is converted we would be allowed
10 come out on the battlements of heaven
and see the hammered procession and
the bonfires of victory. But would like to
see the procession closer by and just be per-
mitted myself to throw on fagot for a big
ger bonfires. And II you persuade our men
Of wealth that there is possibility for them
To Join on earth in the universal glee Of a re-
deemed planet instead of laborious beseech-
ing for funds and arguing and fiattering in
order to get a contribution for Christian
objects our men of wealth win
stand in line as, at a postofiice window or a
railroad ticket office but in this case waiting
for their turn to make charitable deposit. The
JSentfles arc not long going 10 allow them
selves TO be eclipsed by Mr.. Hirsch, the jew,
who has just given forty million dollars for
schools in France. Germany and Russia. re-
ioice that so much of the wealth OF the world
is coming into the possession of Christian men
and women And although the original
church was very poor, and its members We're
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 Chris
tian men and women there is enough money
TO print Bibles and build churches and sup
port missionaries under God in ten years 10
save the world
Again. l think that the worlds evangelical
ton can be achieved in the time specified be-
cause we have already the theological instr
buttons necessary for this work. We do not
have to build them: they are built ana they
are filled with tens of thousands of young men
and there win be three sets of students
who win graduate into the ministry
before the close of this century, and once have
them understand tnat mspean OF preaching
thirty or forty years aud taking into the king
dom 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, viii
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 I'M
circllncised Philistine that he shouh defy the
armies of the living Gods7 and with five
gravel stones slsillfully flung sent sprawling
the Dragging ten footer. his mouth into the
dust and his heels into the air.
Ny friends, what but such a CONSUMING
ton could be a fit climax to this century,
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