Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-04-27
Important Events at the
Rounding Up OF a
Century.
Interesting Mathematical GAL
culatiOns Taken From
the Bible.
Look Into the Near Future
and Discovers Golden
Opportunities.

BROOKLYN, April 14.-At the Brooklyn
tabernacle today, after %expounding pas
sages descriptive of the world as it shall
be when gospelized, DR.. Talmage gave
out the hymn:
People and realms Of every tongue
Dwell on bis love with sweetest song.
Text, Revelations xix, a: amen;
Alleluia."
The nineteenth century is departing
After it has taken a few more steps, IL
each year be a step, it will be gone into
the eternities. In a short time we shall
be in the last decade Of this century,
which fact makes the solemnest book out
side the Bible the almanac, and the most
suggestive and the most tremendous piece
Of machinery IN all the earth the CLOCK.
The last decade of tins century upon
which we shall soon enter will be the
grandest, mightiest and most decisive de-
cade in al the ~chronologies. l am glad
il is not to come Immediately, for we
need by a new baptism OF the Holy
Ghost to prepare for it. That last ten
years If the nineteenth century, may we
all live to see theml Does any one say
that this division of time is arbitrary
Oh. no; In other ages the division of time
may have been arbitrary, but our years
date from Christ. Does any n say thai
the grouping of ten together IS an
arrangement arbitrary Oh, no; next to
the figure seven, ten is with God a favor
ite number. Abraham dwelt ten years in
Caanap. Ten righteous men would have
saved Sodom. In the ancient tabernacle
were ten curtains, their pillars ten and
their sockets ten. In the ancient temple
were ten LAYERS and ten candlesticks and
ten tables and a molten sea OF ten Cubits.
And the commandments written on the
granite of Mount Sinai were ten, and the
kingdom of God was likened to ten vir-
gins, and ten men should lay hold of him
that was a Jew, and the reward Of the
greatly faithful is that they shall reign
over ten cities, and in the effort to take
the census Of the New Jerusalem the
number ten swings around the thousands,
CRYING 40, 600 times IL, 600" SO come
to look toward the closing ten years of
the nineteenth century with an intensity
Of interest l can hardly describe.
have also noticed that the favorite
time in many OF the centuries for great
events was the closing fragment of the
century. Is America to be discovered, it
must be in the last deca6e Of he tif-
teenth century, namely. 1892 Was free
constitutional government to be well es-
tsblished in America, the las; years OF
the eighteenth century must achieve 1t.
Were three cities to be submerged by one
pitch of scoria, Herculaneum and Strabig
and Pompeii in the latter part of the first
century must go under. The fourth cen
tury closed with the most agitating eccle-
siastical war of history, Urban the Sixth
against Clement the Seventh. Alfred the
Great closes the ninth century and Ed
ward Ironsides the eleventh century will
their resounding deeds. The sixteenth
century closed with the establishment OF
religious independence in the United
Netherlands. Aye, almost every century
has had it's peroration of overtowerine
achievements. AS the closing years o.
the century seem a favorite time TO
great scenes Of emancipation or disaster
and as the number ten seems the favorit'
number in the Scriptures, written by di
vine direction, and as we are soon Il
enter upon the last ten years Of the Nine
teenth century, what does the worlt
propose? What does the church o
Christ propose2 What do reformers pro
pose? know not; but now in the pres
ence of this consecrated assembly l pro
pose that we MAKE ready, get all on
batteries planted and all our plans wei
laid In what remains of this decade, AM
then in the last decade of the nineteenth
century march up and take this roun'
world for God.
When / say we, l mean the 500, 0OO, O0
Christians now alive. But as many o
them will not have enough heart for tn
work let us copy Gideon. and as he ma.
SO, 900 men in his army To tight the Midi
antics but many of them were not mau'
out Of the right stuff and he promulgated
a military order saying: "Whosoever l
fearful and afraid let him return and de
part from Gilead," and %. 600 were afral'
OF gettlDg nuIt anu Wcnt boho cH'.
10. 600 were left and God told them tina
even this reduced number was too larg
a number, for they might think they ha'
triumphed Independent of divine help
and 80 the number must be further re
duced and only those should be kept !
the ranks who in passing the river SHOULD
be 40 in haste for victory over thel
enemies that, though very Thirsty. the.
would without stopping a second Jus
scoop up the water in the palm OF thei
right hand and scoop u!
the water in the pal OF thei
left hand and only 800 men did hal ant
those 800 men with the battle Shout
"The sword Of the Lord and of Gideon,
scattered the Midianites like leaves In a.
equinox. 30 out of ,he 500, 00O, 600 nomina
Christians of today let all unb"liever
and towards go home and get out OF Tn
way. And suppose we nave only 4o w,
600, 900 left, suppose only 200. 600, w
left, suppose only 100, 600, 600 lett, yea
suppose we only have $4,000, 0oo ief'
with them we will undertake the OWN
crusade. and each one just scooping up.
palm full of the river OF Gods mercy II
one hand and q palm full of the river Q
Gods strength in the other. let us wit
the .aThe aword of the Lord an