The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-05-01

each one brought soul INTO toe KING
dom each for ten years, and each one
brought another each succeeding year,
In order to have fourteen hundred
mil lion people saved or the popula-
tion Of the earth at present? His answer
was two million seven hundred and ffty-four
thousand three, hundred and soventy-fve
workers So you see that when l sifted the
FIVE hundred million nominal Christians OF
the earth down to fifty millions and stopped
there. retained for this work forty-seven
million people too many There 1t IS IN
glorious mathematics, quod erat demonstran-
dunn. 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 hexagonal
in whole ranges: Of rocky columns with
six sides and six angles. Then you
have not studied the geometry Of bees
honeycomb with six sides and six angles.
Then ysu have not noticed what regard God
has for the square, the altar Of the ancient
tabernacle four square, the breastplate four
square, the court Of the temple in Ezekie"s
vision four square, the New Jerusalem laid
out four square. Or you have not noticed
His regard for the circle by making it his
throne, 'sitting in the circle Of the EARTH"
and fashioning sun and moon and stars in
circle. and sendiig- our planetary system
around other systems in circle and the
whole universe sweeping around the throne
of God in a circle. And as to His regard for
mathematical numbers, He makes the fourth
book in his Bible the Book Of Numbers,
and numbers the hosts Of Israel and num-
bers the troops of Sennacherib and numbers
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the spearmen and numbers the footmen and
numbers the converts at Pentecost and
numbers the charots Of God rolling down
the steps Of heaven. So have right to
enlist mathematics for the demonstration OF
the easv possibility of bringing the whole
world g God in the coming decade by simple
process of solicitation, each one only having
to brir 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 the 9, ,754 3775 from the
Necessity OF taking any.
Another reason why know it can be done
is that we NAV 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 de
vided and is being divided up, not geograph-
.cally. but according 70 The temperaments 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 ane al kinds OF tenn
peraments in all nations. And some de-
nominations are especially adapted to
work with people of sanguine temper
ament, or phelgmatic temperament. OF
choleric temperament, or bilious temper
ament. or nervous temperament. or lynn
phatic temperament The Episcopal church
will do its most effective work with III 50
who by taste prefer the stately ard ritual
istic. The Methodist church will do its
best work among the emotional and demon
strative The Presbyterian church will do
it's best work among those who like strore
doctrine and the stately service sottened ~
the emotional. SO each denomination VIII
have certain kinds Of people whom 1t Will
especially affect. So let the work be divided
up There are the seven hundred and tftr
thousand ChriSti4ns Of the Presbyterian
church North, and other hundreds oi
thousands in the Presbyterian church
South, ana all foreign Presbyterian
more especially Scotch. English and Irish.
making. guess, about two million Presby-
terians; the Methodist Church is still larger;
the Church of England on both sides the sea
still larger; and many ether denominations
as much If not more. consecrated than any
I have mentioned. Divide up the worlds
evargeli7ation among these denominations
after they are persuaded it can be done be-
fore the nineteenth century is dead, and the
last Hottentot, the last Turk, the last Jap
anese, Gle last American, the last European.
the last Asiatic, the last African will see the
salvation of God before he sees the opening
gate of the twentieth century.
Again, I feel the whole world can bs
saved in the time specified, because we have
all manner Of machinery requisite. 1t Is
not as though we had to build the printing
presses; they are all built and running day
and night. those printing religious papers
(9a5 Of those religious papers in this coun-
try), 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.
Why was the printing press invented! TO
turn out billheads and circulars Of patent
medicines and tell the news which IN three
weeks will be Of no Importance! From the
old-time Franklin printing press on up to
the Lord Stanhope's press and the Wash
iugton press and the Victory press to Hoes
perIectiug printing press that machine has
been improving for its best work, namely,
the pu ublication Of the glad tidiugs 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 now
| living, and if such person can not rt ad we
can have colporteur, an evangelist, or
missionary to read it to him or her.
But this brings ne to the adjoining
thought; namely, we have the money to dc
| the work I mean the fifty millions OF
| Christians have it. Aye, the two million
seven hundred and ffty-four thousand
| Christians 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 con
tribution when you persuade the wealthy
men of the kingdom Of God, that the
speedy conversion Of the world IS posi-
| bility, and that Isaiah and Ezekiel
and Daniel and st. John will not stand in She
way Of it but help it on. l have no sympa
thy with this bombardmento of rich men. We
would each one be worth S5,000,000 II 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 college or built q
chuoch or hospital or a free library, and
that thing is going to multiply until the
| ~ ! rofo
atory organizations will be overwhelmed
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