The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-04-25
THE WORLD TO BE SAVED.
Or. TALMAGE SAYS 1T CAN BE
DONE IN TEN YEARS.

BROOKLYN, April 14.-At the Brook-
lyn tabernacle today, after expound-
ing passages descriptive of the world
as il shall be when gospelized, DIR.
Talmage gave out the hymn:
People and realms OF every tongue
Dwell on his love with sweetest song.
Text Revelations xix, A: "Amen;
Alleluia.n
The Nineteenth century is depart
ing. After it has taken q few more
steps, If each year be a step, it will be
gone into the eternities. In short
time we shall be in the last dec
ade of this century, which fact
makes the solemnest book outside the
Bible the almanac, and the most sug-
gestive 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, mightiest and most
decisive decade in all the chronolo-
gies. | am glad it is not to come
Immediately, for VIC need by a new
baptism of the Holy Ghost to
prepare for it. That last ten years
of the Nineteenth century, may we
all live To sec them Does any one
say that this division of time is arbi-
traryf Oh, no; in other ages the divi-
slons OF time may have been arbitrary,
but our years date from Christ. Does
any one say that the grouping of ten
together is an arrangement arbitrary2
Oh, no; next to the figure seven, ten
is with God favorite number Abra-
ham dwelt ten years in Caanan 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 candle
sticks and ten tables and molten sea
of ten cubits And the command
Wents 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 Jew, and the reward of the great
ly 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 "ten thousand times
ten thousspd." So come to look to-
ward the closing ten years of the Nine
tcenth century with an intensity of in
terest L can hardly describe.
| have also noticed that the favorite
.ime IN many of the centuries for great
events was the closing fragment of the
century. Is America to be discovered,
IL must be in the last decade of the
Fifteenth century, namely, 1892. Was
free constitutional government to be
well established in America, the last
years of the Eighteenth century must
achieve it. Were three cities to be
submerged by one pitch of scoria,
Herculaneum and StrabiG and Pom
peii in the latter part of the First cen
tury must go under The Fourth CEN
tury closed with the most agitating
ecclesiastical war of history, Urban
the Sixth against Clement the Seventh
Alfred the Greet closes the Ninth CEN
tury and Edward Ironsides the Elev-
enth century with their resounding
deeds The Sixteenth century closed
with the establishment of religious in
dependence in the United Netherlands.
Aye, almost every century has had its
peroration of overtowering achieve
ments. AS the closing years of the cen
turies seem favorite time for great
scenes of emancipation or disaster, and
as tho number ten seems a favorite
number in thcScriptures, written by di-
vine direction, and as we are soon to en-
ter upon the last ten years of the Nine
teenth century, what does the world
proposed What does the church of
Christ proposed What do reformers
lproposel 1llnow not; but now in the
presence of this consecrated assembly
il propose that we make ready, get all
our batteries planted and all our plans
well laid in what remains of this dec
ade, and then in the last decade of
the Nineteenth century march up and
take this round world for God.
When | say we, | mean the five
hundred million Christians now alive.
But, as many of them will not have
enough heart for the work let us copy
Gideon, and rs he had thirty two
thousand men in his army to fight the
MdianiteS but many of them were not
made of the right stuff and he pro
mulgated a military order saying:
"Whosoever is fearful and afraid let
him return and depart early from Gil
esd" and twenty-five thousand were
afraid 70 getting hurt and went
home alS only ten thousand were left
and God told them that even this re
,duccd number was too largo n mum
Der, for they might think they
had triumphed Independent of divine
help, and SO tho number must be still
further reduced and only those should
be kept in the ranks who in passing
ttho river should be SO in haste for vic
tory over their enemies that, though
very thirsty, they would without stop
ping second just scoop up tho water
i'm the palm of their right hand and
scoop up the water in the palm of their
left hand and only three hundred men
sVgd thaS and those three hundred men
with the battle shout, THE sword of
the Lord aud of Gideon" scattered the
Midianites like leaves in an equinox,
SO out of tho five hundred million
nominal Christians of today let all un.
believers 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 only one hundred million left
yea, suppose we only have fifty million
left, with them we will undertake. the
divine crusade, end each one jus
scoopng up palm full of the river O
Gods mercy in one hand and Il palm
full of the river of Gods strength IL
the other, let us with the cry, The
sword of the Lord and of Gideon, th'
sword of the Lord and of John Knox
the sword of the Lord and of Matthew
Simpson, the sword of the Lord ant
of Bishop Mcllvaine, the sword OF tin
Lord and of Adoniram Judson, th'
sword of the Lord and of Martin
Luther, go into the last decade OF TIT
Nineteenth century.
NOTHING IMPRACT1CABLE IN THE PRoPo
sTTIoN.
Is il audacious for me To propose 1t
Oh, no; captive servant in the KIT
chen of Naamaa told the commander
in-chief where he could get rid OF tn
blotches of his awful leprosy and III
complexion became as fair as a babes
And didn't Christ in order to take tn
ophthalmia out of the eyes of the blin
man use n mixture of spittle and dust
And who showed Blucher a short GU
for his army so that instead of takin
The regular road by which he woul
have come up too late, he came up i
time TO save Waterloo and Europe
Was il not an unknown lad, who pei
haps could not write his own name
And so !, ''who ann less than the lea.
of all saints, propose a short cut [
victory and am willing to be the G,
pectoration on some blind eye and te
some OF the brigadier generals of I'll
the Lord of host how this leprosie
world may in the final decade of I'll
Nineteenth century have its fes
come again as the flesh of a iitt
child.
Is there anything in prophecy
a,;ndar his anaady " copsnmmafiong NJ