The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-05-02

much enthusiasm about something five hun
dret Years from now or a thousand years
from now, We are fighting at too long a
range That gun called the "Swamp
Angel" was a nuisance, II shot six miles,
but il hardly ever hit anything II did its
chief destructive work whepit hurst and killed
those who wefn retting it off Short rangeis
thu effective kind Of work, whether IL be for
worldly or religious purpose, Some man
with his eyes half shut drones out to me
as one day" that is, ten centuries are not
long for the Lord. But why do you not
quote the previous sentence which sass that
one day is with the Lord as q thousand
yearsS That is, 10 could do tho work of ten
centuries IN twenty-four hours. The
mighnest obstacle to Christian work
is the impression that the worlds evan
gelization is away off. And we take the tele-
scope and look on and on through centuries
until we SEQ two objects near each other, and
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 tho
one has hair and the other has wool and we
guess IL must DO the lion and the lamb
lying down together. In that great cradle
Of postponement ard somnolence we rock the
church as though it were an impatient child
and say; Hush, my dear, don't be impa-
tientl Don't get excited by reyivalsl Don't
cryl Your Fathers oomingl Don't get un-
easy 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 Zealapder In tie fnr distance is
seated on q broken arch of London
bridge stretching the ruins of st.
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 VS.
may have 1t start in the decade that Is. SOON
to commence ard IL 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 6cne7
First, because GsSa 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 re whole Bible Is O.
chime, Of bells ringing, out. Come, como.
come" and you need ',os 60 round
He wants the world to come, but Just to walk
around one stripped and bare and leafess
tree with two branches, not arched, but hori-'
zontal. But He Is waiting, as 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
suIe .nl' wSrid III cue trutS, an mo
| On the, ono hand the Gospel and
sunshine and power to orchardize and gard
enise the earth, and fountains swinging in
rainbow, and Chatsworthian verdure, and
aromas poured out Of the walls Of bsavers
while on the. other hand he ha.ss The weaponry
of devastation, thunderbolt and confaga-
TIM 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 shiye,ed wheels
on the boulcvards of heaven, And that God
is on pNr side, all on our side. Blessed be
His glorious namel Blessed was the hour
when through Jesus Christ my sinful sobl
made peace with Hipai ....-4
| II you cont,nco 70 ASK me why think unar
the world can be saved in the final decade Of
the Nineteenth century l reply because it Is
not great undertaking, considering than NUM-
Der Of workers that vii, IS at Il, II once
persuaded il csh ue done. We have
siftsd 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 tc
fifty million. l went to work TO cipher out
how many souls that number could bring Il
God In ten years, If each one brought q sou
every year, and If each soul SO brought should
bring another each succeeding year. founS
we did not need anything like such number o
workers enlistAd. You see it is simply ques
ton Of mathematics and in geometrical pro
erosion. Then l gave to the learned pro
fessor this problem; How many person.
would il require to start with if each on,
brought soul into the kingdom each year fo
ten years and each one brought another eacl
succeeding year, in order to have fourteen
hundred million Teoplesavedo or the populatio,
of the earth at PRESENT. His answer was tw
million seven hundred and fifty-four thousan
three hundred end seyenty-fve workers. s
yai, see that when sifted the five hundre
million nominal Christians ce the earth dow
to fifty phillion and stopped there ! retain a
fnc us work forty-seven million people to
many There it Is in glorious mathematics
ouod erat demonstrandum. Do you tell n,
mat God does not care for mathematic
Then you have never seen the Giants Caus
, way where God shows His regard for til
, with six sides and SIX angles. Then yon hay
not studied the; geometry Of a bees hone,
comb with s;x Sides and SIX angles. The
yct have not noticed what regard God he
for the square; the altar OF the ancier
tabernacle four square, the breastplate fou
square, the court Of the temple in Ezekiel
vision four square, the New Jerusalem lai
his regard for the circle by making It Ii
throne, sitting on the circle Of the earth
and fashioninG sun and moon an
/ stars Ia circle and sending our planetar
) system around other systems in a circle an
| the whole universe sweeping around til
. throne of God in circle. And as to H
regard for mathematical numbers, He max.
| the fourth book In Hs Bible the Book {
] Numbers, and numbers the hosts Of Israe
, and numbers the troops of Sennach,
i rib, and numbers Solomon's hewers in tn
D forest, and numbers the spearsnler, and nun
\ bers the footmen, and numbers tie convert
s at Pentecost, and nrfiibers the chariots {
;, God rolling down the steps Of heaven. So
u have right to enlist mathematics for til
E of bringing the whole world to God
e the coming decade by simple proce
n of solicitation, each one only having to brin
v one year although l want to take in fort
A thousand and know men now alive who,
think nv N or voice. or both. directly {
+ indirectly, will take hundreds OF thousand
a each. So you see that that will dischare
!, some of the 2, 754,375 from the necessity (
= taking any.
i, Another feason why know it can be dor
!. Is that wemay divide the work up among Il
4 denominations. God does not ask any OF
r denomination to do the work or any doze
! denominations. The work can be divide
i audis being divided UP, not geographical
Il but according to the temperaments of ii
"a human family. Wecannot say to one demon
"a nation, You take Persia, and another, Yc
= take China, and another, You take Indi
!, because there are all styles of Temperament
=, in all nations. And some denominations a
y especially adapted to work with people
4. sanguine temperament or plegmatie temper
!, ment or choleric temperament or bilious ten
" permanent or nervous temperament or lyr
/ phatic temperament. The Episcopal Churt
= will do its most effective work with those wi
"a by taste prefer the stately and ritus
= istic The Methodist church W
!. do its best work among the EN-
:; tional and demonstrative. The Presb
H. terrain church will do its best work amor
r. those who like strong doctrine and the state
es service softened by the emotional. So ea'
Id denomination will have certain kinds of pc
r pie whom it will especially affect. So let &
,e work be divided up. There are the seven hli
III dred and fifty thousand Christians OF the Pre-
IL byterian Church, North, and other hundre
S of thousands in the Presbyterian Churc
20 South, and all foreign Presbyterians, more
a pecially Scotch, English and Irish, maxim
I'd guess, about two million Presbyterians; t
ir Methodist Church is still larger; the Chur
It of England on both sides the sea still large
lie and many other denominations as much,
Is not more, consecrated than any have me
m toned. Divide up the worlds evangelizati