The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1889-04-17
THE WORLDS REDEMPTION.
Sermon by Rev. T. De Witt Tai
mage, D. d.
He Thinks the World Can BE Gospeilzed
Before the Present Century Closes
Christian Effort Backed by Chris
tlan Money Will Do 1t.


Tn his recent sermon at the Brooklyn
Tabernaee after expoundine passages de-
acriptive Of the world as Il shall be when
eosnelized DIR. Talmaee rave mt the hymn:
Peorle and realms Of every tongue
n Dwell on His love with sweetest song.
Text, Revelations XIX, 4: "Amon; Allie
tuia.n The eloquent preacher spoke as fol-
rows; u 1
The nineteenth century is departing. After
A. has taken a few more steps. II each wear
n a sten Il will be gone into the eternities.
In q ,hort time we shall be in thelast decade
az this century. which fact makes the SOL
emnest book outside the Bible the almanac,
and the most suepestive and the most tre-
Ipendous niece of machinery in all the earth
tbe clock The Last decade OF this century
npon which we shall soon enter will be the
Rrandest. miRhtiest and most decisive decade
h ali the chrouologies. am glad II Is not
10 come Immediately, for we need by new
Baptism Of the Holy Ghost to prepare for II.
That ten years Of the nineteenth century,
may we all live to see theml Does anyone
say that this division Of time Is arbitrarvi
D, no; In other ages the divisions 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
arbtraryi o, no; next to the i9ure seven.
ten is with God favorite number. Abra-
ham dwelt ten years in Caanan. Ten right
eous men would have saved Sodom. In the
ancient tabernacle were ten curtains, their
pillars ten, and their sockets ten. In the an
Client temple were ten LAYERS and ten CANDLE
sticks, and ten tables, aud molten sea OF
ten oubits. And the commandments writ
ten on the granite OF Mount Sinai we're ten,
and the kingdom OF God was lkere 10 ten
VIRGINS. and ton men should Ky hold Of him
that was Jew. and the reward Of the
greatly faithful is that they shall reign over
zen cities, and In tho effort to take the GEN.
sus Of the New Jerusalem the number ten
swings arc" nd the thousands crying "ten
thousand times ten thousand" So come
70 look toward the closing ten years Of tho
nineteenth century with an intensity Of in
terest can hard describe.
have also noticed that the favorite time
In many Of the centuries for great events
was the closing fragment OF the century.
ts America 10 be discovered, IL must be In
the last decade of the fifteenth century,
namely, 1902. Was free constitutional gov.
ernment To be well established in America
the last years of the eighteenth century
must achieve It. Were three cities to be
submerged by one pitch OF scnrin Hercu-
Ianeum and Strabim and Pompeii in the
latter mart of the firt century must 20
under The fourth century closed with
the most aeitating ecclesiastical war Of
history. Urban the Sixth AGAINST Clement
the Seventh Alfrei the Great closes
the nineteenth century. and Edward Iron
aides the eleventh century with their re-
anundin0 deeds. The slxteenth century
eiosed with the establishment of reliRious
Indenendence In the United Netherlands.
Ave almost every century has had It's pero-
ration Of overtowerinp achievements, As
tba elosino wears NJ, the cen,uries seem a
favor;,e time for great scsnes ~ eman Gina.
Hor or dI,as,er and as the humber Ten
aeems fayorite number In the Scriptures.
written bv divine direction. and as we are
soon to enter upon the last ten years OF the
niueteenth century. what does the world
proposel What does the church OF Christ
nronosel What do reformers proposei 4
know moi. hut now in the presence of this
cnnsecrated assembly propose that we
make ready. eet all our batteries planted
and ali our mans we'll laid In what remains
m this Secade. and then In the last debade
NJ the nineteenth century march up and
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