The national leader., 1889-05-04
DIR. TALMAGE'S SERMON:
The Remnant OF the Century.
"Amen Allelluial REV 10.

"Amen Allelluia! Rev. 1e:4
The Nineteenth century Is departing.
After 1t has taken few more steps. II
each year be step, it will be gone into
the eternit1es. In 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 tnls century, upon which we shall
soon enter will be the grandest, might
lest. and most decisive decade in all
the chronologies. l am glad it is not
TO come immediately, for we need by a
new baptism OF the Holy Ghost to
prepare for it. 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 one say that the grouping
Of ten together is an arrangement
abitrary? Oh, no; next to the figure
seven, ten Is with God O. faUorite num-
Der. Abraham dwelt ten years IN
Canaan. Ten righteous men would
have saved Sodom. In the ancient
tabernacle were ten curtains, their
pillars ten and their sockets ten. In
Fhe ancient temple were ten LAYERS,
md ten candlesticks. and ten tables,
md molten sea of ten cubits And
Ehe Commandments written on the
granite of Mount Sinai were ten, and
Fhe kingdom OF God was likened to ten
Firgins, and ten men should lay hold of
Inn that was Jew, and the reward of
he greatly faithful Is that they shall
eign over ten cities, and in the effort
D take the census of the New Jeru-
Rlem the number ten swings around
he thousands, crying ''ten thousand
mes ten thousand" So l come to
Pok toward the closing ten years Of
he Nineteenth century with an inten-
ty of interest can hardly describe.
have also noticed that the favorite
TIME FOR GREAT EVENTS
many of the centuries was the clos
g fragment of the century. Is Ame-
ca to be discovered-it must be IN
q last decade OF the Fifteenth cen-
Try, namely, 1892. Was free cOnstl-
tional government to be we'll estab-
he'd in America-the last years of
o Eighteenth century must achieve
Were three cities to be submerged
one pitch of scoriR-Herculaneum
d Stabi& and POmpeil in the latter
rt of the First century must 60 under.
be Fourth century closed with the
bst agitating ecclesiastical war o.!
tory-U rban the Sixth against Glenn
the Seventh. Alfred the Great
ses the Ninth century, and Edmund
nsides the Eleventh century, with
ir resounding deeds. The Sixteenth
tury closed with the establishment
religious independence In the United
therlands. All, almost every century
had its peroratlon of overtoWering
ievements.
Is the closing years of the centuries
On a favorite time for great scenes of
bncipation or disaster, and as the
nber ten seems a favorlte number
he Scriptures, written by divine di-
ion, and as we are soon 70 enter
n the last ten years of the Nine
th century, what does the world
bose? What does the Church of
st propose2 What do reformers
pose? | know not; but now in the
ence of this consecrated assembly
nnose that we make ready to get
bur batteries planted, and all our
we'll laid. in what remains OF this
de- and then in the last decade of
Nineteenth century march up and
this round world for God.
hen I say we, mean the i've hun
million Christians now alive.
as many of them will not have
oh heart for the work,
LET US copy GIDEON,
a he had thirty-two thousand men
army to flpht the Midianites, but
of them were no. made of the
stnff and he promulgated a
~, orHor saving: "WhOsOever is
and afraid let him return and
eorIv from Gllead," and twenty.
housord were afraid of getting
ond went home, and only ten
nd ~ ware left. and God told them
a".o-, this rednced number was too
nrmher for they might think
had triumphed lnueponuonu st o
help, ard so the NUMBER % thoss moss
further reduced, and only IhoSe .e1e
hundred men with the oat'le
"The sword of the LORD anu ,,,o Oh
- scattered the Mldianltes IKE
in AN equinox; so out OF tne i've
al miIlion nominal Christians VI
lat ali nnbelievers and co"arus
"a ond cat ont OF the way. Aua
y e' we we have only four hundred
lett lett suppose suppose we only have II flfty 3ty
,f. -a will unO6ILdho