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

heads 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 Washing
ton press, and the Victory press, to Hoes
perfecting printing press that machine
has been improving for its best work, and
it's tinal work, namely the publication OF
the glad tidings Of z eat JOY which shall
he to all prople. We have the presses,
or can have them before the first Of Jan
xary, when the new q cade is TO begin, to
put a Bible IN the hand OF every son and
da ,gbier OF Adam and Eve nov living,
aud II such person n not read we can
have a colporteur, an evangelist or mis-
sionary TO read il 10 HIM OF her.
But this brings me to the adjoining
thought; nancy, We have re money to
do the work. mean the so, 900 Of Chris
tians have it. Aye, the ? 754NO Chris
tians have it; and the dam wbicu is be-
ginning to leak will soon break and there
will be rushing floods Of hundreds and
millions and billions of dollars in holy
contribution when you persuade the
wealthy men Of the kingdom Of God that
IL cpCSiy COMMISSIONS Va tHC WV 10 q
possibility and that Isaiah and Ezekiel
and Daniel and St. John will not stand
in the way Of it but help it on. [ have
nc sympi thy With this bombar iment of
rich men. We would each one be worth
So, DOC, 900 if we C uld, and by hard per-
suasion might perl APPS be inouced to
take Is GOO 600. Almost every paper 1
take up tells Of some wealthy mau who
has MOVED college or built IA church
or IA hop tai or II free library, bud that
thing IS going to multiply until the treas
ury Of all our denominations and reform-
atory organizations will be overwhelmed
with muniticence If we car persuade III
men of wealth that the worlds %evangel-
lzation is possible and that they may live
TO see il with their own eyes. | have
always cherished the idea that when the
world is converted we would be allowed
to come out on the battlements of heaven
and see the hammered procession and the
bonfires of victory But ] would like to see
the procession closer by and just be per
mitted myself TO throw on a tagot for a
bigger bonfire. And if you persuade our
men of wealth that there is a possibility
for them to join on earth in the universal
glee Of a redeemed planet, instead Of
labori0us beseeching for funds and argu-
ing and t1attering in order to get a con
tribution for Christian objec's our men
OF wealth will stand in line as at q post
Office window or a railroad ticket office,
but ia this case waiting for their turn TO
make charitable deposit. The Gentiles
are not long going to allow themselves to
be eclipsed by Mr.. Hirsch, the Jew who
has Just given $40, 600, 900 for schools In
LNropaa Garpnat,u apI J(,oo,a rayaioo
that so much of the wealth Of the world
is coming into the possession OF Christian
men and women. And although the
original church was very poor, and its
members were fish dealers on the banks
of Galilee. and had only such stock on
hand as they could take in their own net,
today in the hands of Christian men and
women there is enough money TO print
Bibles and build churches and support
missionaries under God in ten years to
save the world.
Again, | think that the worlds evan
geliZation can be achieved in the time
specified because we have already the
theological institutions necessary for this
work. We do not have TO build them;
they are built and they are filled with
tens of thousands Of young men and there
will be three sets of students who will
graduate into the ministry before the
close of this century, and once ave them
understand that instead of preaching
thirty or forty years and taking into the
kingdom Of God a few hundred souls,
right before them is the Sedan, is the Ar.
mageddon, and these young men, instead
of entering the ministry timid and with
apologize air, will feel like David who
came UP just as the armies were set in ar.
ray and he left his carriage and shouted
for the battle and cried: "WhO is this I'm.
circumcised Philistine that he should
defy the armies of the living God?' and
with five gravel stones skilfully flung
sen sprawling the Dragging ten, %footer,
his mouth into the dust and his heels into
the air
Ny friends, what but such a consum-
nation could be a fit climax 10 this coun-
tryP You notice a tendency in history
and all about US to a climax. The crea-
ton week rising from herbs to fish and
from fish to birds and from birds to
quadruped and from quadruped to i'm
mortal man. The New Testament rising
from quiet genealogical table in Matthew
to spocalyptic doxology in Revelation.
Now, what can be an appropriate climax
to this century, which has heard the puff
of the first steamer and the throb Of the
first stethoscope and the click Of the first
| telegraph and the clatter Of the first
sewing machine, and saw the fash of the
| first electric light and the revolution of
the first steam pillow, and thelaw Of storms
was written, and the American Bible
society and the American Tract society
were born, and instead of an audience
laughing down DR.. Carey for advocating
foreign missions, as was done at North
ampton in England in the last century,
now ell denominations vying with each
other as to who shall 60 the furtherest
and the soonest into the darkest of the
New Hebrides; and 300, 900 souls have
been born to God IN the South Sea
islands, and Micronesia and Melanesis and
Malayan Polynesia have been set in the
crown of Christ, and David Livingstone
has unveiled Africa and the last bolted
gate of bNbaric nations has swung wide
open to let the gospel in. What, / ask,
with q thousand interrogation points up
lifted, can he a ft an appropriate and
sufficient climax except it be . wsrld
redeemedf
Yea, / believe it can be done il we ge'
prepared for it, because the whole all
and the whole heaven is full Of willing