The Penn's Grove record., 1889-05-04
DR.. TALMAGE'S SERMON:
The Remnant OF the Century.
"Amen Allelluiai'' Rev. 10: A.

"Amenl Allelluiai - Rev. 10: A.
The Nineteenth century Is departing.
After it has taken a few more steps, II
each year be q step, it will be gone into
the eternities In q short time We
shall be In the last decade of this cen
tury, which fact makes the solemnest
book outside 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 this century, upon which we shall
soon enter will be the grandest, might
lest, and most decisive decade in all
the chronOl0gies. ! am glad 1t Is not
to come Immediately, for we Iced by a
new baptism Of the Holy Ghost to
prepare for 1t. The last ten years of
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 divisions of
time may have been. but our years date
from Christ.
Does any n say that the grouping
OF ten together is An arrangement
aoitldiyt VII, nv ucAt " tuO ukulC
seven, ten is with God atavorife mum.
Der. Abraham dwelt ten years IN
Canaan. Ten righteous men would
nave 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
virgins, and ten men should lay hold of
him that was O 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 Jeru-
salem the number ten swings around
the thousands, crying ''len thousand
times ten thousand" So I come to
look toward the closing ten years of
the Nineteenth century with an inten-
sity Of interest l can hardly describe.
l have also noticed that the favorite
TIME FOR GREAT EVENTS
In many of the centuries was the clos
ing fragment of the century. Is Ame-
RIGA to be discovered-it must be ID
the last decade Of the Fifteenth cell
tury, namely, 1892. Was free oonsti-
tuti0nal government to be we'll estab-
lished In America-the last years of
the Eighteenth century must achieve
1t. Were three cities to be submerged
by one pitch Of scorie-Herculaneum
and StabiB and POmpeil in the latter
part of the First century must 60 under.
The Fourth century closed with the
most agitating ecclesiastical war Of
history-Urban the Sixth against Glenn
emit the Seventh. Alfred the Great
closes the Ninth century, and Edmund
IrOnsides the Eleventh century. with
their resembling deeds. The Sixteenth
century closed with the establishment
of religious Independence in the United
Netherlands. All, almost every century
has had its peroratlon Of overt0wering
achievements.
As the closing years of the centuries
seem q favOrite time for great scenes Of
emancipation or disaster, and as the
number ten seems a favorlte number
In the Scriptures, written by divine de
rection, and as we are 500 to enter
upon the last ten years of the Nine
teenth century, what does the world
propose? What does the Church of
Christ proposeP What do reformers
proposep / know not; but now in the
presence Of this consecrated assembly
l propose that we make ready to get
all our batteries planted, and all our
plans well laid, In what remains Of this
daooAa opd than in fho loot daooda IF
the Nineteenth century march up and
take this round world for God.
When l say we, l mean the five hun.
dren million Christians now alive.
But, as many of them will not have
enough heart for the work,
LET US COPY GIDEON,
and as he had thirty-two thousand men
in his army to fight the Midianites, but
many of them were not made of the
right stuff, and he promulgated a
military order, saying: "Whosoever is
fearful and afraid let him return and
depart early from Gliead, )" and twenty.
two thousand were afraid of getting
hurt, and went home. and only ten
thousand we've left. and God told them
that even this reduced number was too
large a number, for they might think
they had triumphed independent of
divine help, al d so the number must
be still further reduced, and only thOs'
three hundred men with the battle
"The sword Of the Lord and Of
Gideon,'' scattered the MIdianites like
leaves in an equinox; 80 out Of the five
hundred million nominal Christians of
let all unbelievers and towards
go home and get out of the way. And
suppose we have only four hundred
million left, suppose only two hundred
million left, suppose we only have fifty
left, we will undertake
THE DIVINE CRUSADE,
and each one just scooping up a palm
full of the river of Gods mercy in one
hand, and q palm full of the river of
Gods strength in the other, let us with
the cry, 'rThe sword of the Lord and
of Gideon" the sword of the Lord and
of John Knox, the sword of the Lord
and OF Matthew Simpson, the sword of
the Lord and of Bishop McIllvaine, the
sword Of the Lord and Of Adoniram
Judson, the sword Of the Lord and of
ma I'LL ALutuCAs Ky II WV iooe oSS"NS
Of the Nineteenth century.
Is it audacious for mt to propose it2
Oh. no; a captive servantin the kitchen
of Naaman told the commandment in
chief where he could get rid of the
blotches Of his awful leprosy. and his
became as fair as a babes.
And didn't Christ, in order to take the
out of the eyes Of the blind
man, use a mixture Of spittle and
dustP And who showed Butcher a
for his army, SO that instead
Of taking the regular road, by which he
would have come up too late, he came
up in time to save Waterloo and
Europep Was 1t not un unknown lad,
who perhaps could not write his own
namep And 70 l, ''who am less than
the least of all saints" propose
A SHORTCUT TO VICTORY,
and am willing 10 be the expectoration
some blind eye. and tell some of the
brigadler-generals Of the Lord OF hosts
how this leprosled world may in the