The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-04-15

YOU see that when l Slfted the nVe hundred
million nominal CHRISTIANS of the earth
down to fifty million and stopped there,
retained for tnis work forty-seven million
people too many. There it Is in glorious
mathematics, q1J0d erdt demon StrdndLDl.
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 aud six angles.
Then you have not studied the geome-
try of bees hOneycomb with six
sides and six angles. Then you 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 Ia Ezakiel'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 on the circle of the earth, :"
and fashioniug sun and moon and
stars in circle, and sending our plan
etary. system around other systems in
a circle of the whole universe sweeping
around the throne Of God in 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 numbers the troops ofsSenna-
cherib and numbers Solomon's heWers in
the forest and numbers the spearmen
aid numbers the footmen and num-
bers the converts at Pentec0st and
numbers the chariots of God rolling
down the steps of heaven. So l have
a right to enlist mathematics for the
demonstration of the easy possibility of
bringing the whole world t. God in the
coming decade by simple process of solicita-
ton, each one only h wing to bring one a
year; although | want to take in forty
thousand and know men now alive who,
| think, by pen or voice, or both, directly
or indirectly, will take hundre Is Of thous-
auds each. 50 YOU see that that will dis
charge some of the 2, 754, 375 from the ne
cessity of taking any.
Another RS son why know it can be
done is that we may divide the work up
among the demo ninatlons. God does not
ask any one denomination to do the work
or any dozen denominations. The work
can he divided and is being divided up,
not geographically but according to the
temperamenJs Of the human family.
We cannot say to one denomination,
you take Persia, and another, you
taHe China, and another, you take India,
because there are all styles of Compartments
in all nations. And some denominations
are especially adapted to work VITA people
of a sanguine temperament or pheg matte
temperament, or choleric temperament, or
bilious temperament, or nervous tempera-
ment, or lymphatic temperament. The
Episcopal church will do its most
effective work with those who by
taste prefer the stately and ritual
istic The Methodist church will do
its best work among the emotional and
de nonstrative. The Presbyterian church
will do its best work among those who like
strong doctriue and the stately service
softened by the emotional. 81 each demon
ination will have certain kinds of people
whom it will especially affect. 50 let the
work be divided up There are the $50 900
chri stians of the Presbyterian church
north, and other hundreds of thousands in
the Presbyterian church south, and all
foreign Presbyterians. more especially
Scotch, English and Irish, making,
guess, about two million PresOyUerians; the
Methodist church is still larger; the church
of England on both sides the sea still
larger aud many other denominations as
much, If not more, cOnSecrated than any
have mentioned. Divide up the worlds
evangelization among these denominations
after they are persuaded it eau be done be-
fore the nineteenth century is dead, and
the last Hottentot, the last Turk, the last
Japanese the last American, the last Euro
pean, the last Asiatic, the last African will
sec the salvation of God before he sees the
opening gate of the twentieth century.
Again, | feel the whole world can be
saved in the time specified, because we have
all manner of machinery requisite. 1t is
not Us though we had to tuild the printing
presses; they are all built AID running day
and night, those printing religious papers
ops 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 i'll the service of God. Why was the
printing press invented9 To turn out bill
heads and circulars of patent medi-
cines and tell the news which
in three weeks will be of no I'M
portsnces From the old time Franklin
printing press on up to the Lord Stanhope's
press and the Washington press and tho
Victory press to Hoes perfecting printing
press that machine has been improving for
its best work and its final work, namely,
the publication of the glad tidings of great
Joy which shall be to ali people. We have
the presses, or can have them before the
first of January, when the new decade is to
begin, to put a Bible IN the hand of every
son and daughter of Adam and Eve now
living, and ii sucn person cannot read we
can have a colporteur, an evangelist or mis-
sionary to read il to him or her.
But this brings me to the adjoining
thought: namely, we have the money to
do the work mean the fifty million of
christians have it. Aye, the two million
seven hundred and flfty-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
contribution when you persuade the wealthy
men OF the kingdom of God that the speedy
conversion of the world is a possibility and
that Isaiah and Ezekiel and Daniel and st.
John will not stand in the way of
it but help it on. | have no
sympathy with this bombardment of rich
men. We would each one be worth five
million dollars if 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 a college or built a church or
hospital or free library, and that thing
is going to multiply until the treasury Of
all our denominations and reformatory
organizations will be overwhelmed with
munificence if we eau persuade our men of
wealth that the worlds evangelization is
possible, and that they may live to see it with
their own eyes | have always cherished
the idea In u when the world is converted
we would be allowed to come out on the
battlements of heaven and see the bann red
procession and the bonfires of victory. But
| would like to sec the procession closer by
and just lie permitted myself to throw on a
fagJt for bigger bonfire. And if you per-
suade our men # wealth that there is a
possibility for them 60 join on earth in the
universal glee Of redeemed planet instead
of laboriJus beseeching for funds and argu-
ing and hattering in order 10 get a contribu-
tiOn for Christian objects our me "a of wealth