Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-04-27

What makes me think it can be done?
First, because God is ready. He needs
no long persuasion to do his work, for II
he is not willing that any should perish,
he is not willing that any OF the people
of the next decade shall perish; and the
whole Bible is a chime of bells ringing
out, Come, come, come" and you need
not go round the earth to find out how
much he wants the world to come, but
just TO walk around one stripped and bare
and ~leatless tree with two branches, not
arched, but horizontal. But he ia wait
ing, as he said he would, for the cooper
alton Of the church. When we are ready
God is ready. And he certainly has all
the weaponry ready to capture this world
for the truth, all the weapons OF kind
ness or devastation. On the n hand
the gospel and sunshine and power to or
chsrdise and gardening the earth. and
fountains swinging in rainbow and Chats
WORKMAN verdure and aromas poured out
of the walls of heaven, while on the other
hand he has the weaponry Of devastation,
thunderbolt and csnflsgration and ferces
planetary, solar, lunar, stellar or meteoric,
that with loose rein thrown on the neck
for a second would leave consultations
and galaxies 80 many split and shivered
wheels on the boulevards Of heaven. And
that God is on our side, all are on our
side. Blessed be his glorious name
Blessed was the hour when through Jesus
Christ my sinful soul made peace with
him
If you continue to ask me why l think
that the world can be saved in the final
decade of the nineteenth century, l reply
because it is not a great undertaking,
considering the number Of workers that
will go at IL, if once persuaded II can be
done. W. have sifted the 500, 600, coo
of workers down to 400 600, 600 and 300,
0G0, 600 and 200. 000, 600 and 100, DOC, O0C
and to SO, 600, 900. Invent to work to cipher
out how many souls that number could
bring 10 God IN ten years, If a one
brought a soul every year, and II each
soul SO brought should bring a soul each
succeeding year. | found out, aided by
a professor in mathematics, that we did
not need anything like such a number of
workers enlisted. You see it is simply a
question of mathematics and in geomet'
rical progression. Then | gave to the
learned professor this problem: How
many persons would it require to start
with if each one brought q soul into the
kingdom each year for ten years and
each one brought another each succeed
ing year, in order to have 400, 600, 600
people saved or the population of the
earth at present? His answer was . ,754,-
375 workers. So you see that when |
sifted the 500, 000, 600 nominal Christians
of the earth down TO so, o00, 900 and
stopped there, / retained for this work
AZ, 600, 600 people too many. There 1t is
demonstrandum, Do you tell me that
God does not care for mathematics?
Then you have never seen the Giants
Causeway where God shows his regard
for the hexagCnal in whole ranges of
rocky columns with six sides and SIX
angles. Then you have not studied the
geometry Of a bees honeycomb with six
sides and six angles. Then you have moi
noticed what regard God has for the
square,; the altar Of the ancient taberna.
Gle four square, the breastplate four
square, the court of the temple in Eek
iels vision our square,, the New Jerusa-
lem laid out four square. Or you have
not noticed his regard for the circle by
making it his throne, Sitting on the
circle of the earth" and ~fashioning sun
and noon and stars in a circle and send
ing u planetary system around other
systems in a circle and the whole universe
sweeping around the throne of God in a
circle. And as to his regard for mathe-
NAUTICAL numbers, he makes the fourth
book in his Bible the Book of Numbers,
and numbers the hosts of Israel and mum.
bers the troops OF S%ennacherib and num-
bers Solomon's hewers in the forest and
numbers the spearmen and numbers the
converts at Pentacost and numbers the
chariots of God rolling down the steps of
heaven. SO have a right to enlist
mathematics for the demonstration OF the
easy possibility of bringing the whole
world TO God in the coming decade by
simple process of solicitation, each one
only having TO bring n ayear; although
| want to take in 40, 600 and | 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 the
2, 754, 1916 from the necessity Of taking
any.
Another case why | know it car be
done is that we may divide the work up
among the denominations. God does not
ask any one denomination to do tho work
of any dozen denominations, The work
can be divided, and is being divided up,
not geographically but according to the
temperament Of the human family. We
cannot say to one denomination, You
take Persia, and another, You take
China, and another, You take India, be.
cause there are all styles of tempera'
ments in all nations. And some denomi
nations are especially adapted to work
with people of sanguine temperament OF
phlegmatic temperament or choleric tenn
permanent: or bilious temperament or lynn
phetic temperament. The Episcopa
church will do it's most effective worf
with those who by taste prefer the state
ly and ritualistic. The Methodist church
will do its best work among the emo
tional and demonstrative The Presby
terrain church will do it's 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 especially
affect. So lei the work be divided up
There are TOO, 900 Christians of the Pres
byterian church, north, and other hun
dreds Of thousands in the Presbyterian
church south, and all foreign Presbyter
isns, more especially Scotch, Englisl
and Irish, making, / guess, about 2, 600,
| O00 p~reahvterians. the churcl