The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-04-25
SAVE The WORLD IN TEN YEARS
Or. Tsfmsge Waists Co Accomplish
This In the Last OF the Century.


The Rev. DR.. T4lmage preaehed IN
che Brooklyn TateEnacie yesterday
morning on the text. Amen. Halle
IuIsah. y Revelation xIs, g. He said IN
part: 1.-THE nineteenth century is de-
parting. We are IN 3 few months 10
enter H. last decade. The lat decade
will sse the gransls@t, Enlghfie5t and
mo-. decisive decade of all history. ]
afa glad .iat il has nos vet arrived
leeanse we want the whole country to
be prepared for L. MAY tse ali 1--we 10
Aes that last tsr wears Of this century.
thar last decade. / have noticed that
almost every century ends with
~ouefhfng tremendous. The lass
fragment Of this ce.atFiry - To
H. is most important part. Was
Amesiea 10 he niscovereaz 1t must
i,e fo4nd IN the last decade OF the
fifteenth century. f4!2. Was eoDsta-
tutioual government - iss established
ia America IE xas TO he % in tie last
svw wears OF the eighteenth century.
When realize that we are just about
a. enter upun such a decade. ask.
What does the world prDposef
! What does the church propose
What do refufmers pruposeI |
kr.,w not. But standing here to-say.
Il. the presence of this august assem-
l,aa9e. I propose that We set ready,
that we plant our batteries, that we
las oat our plans IN the remaining
months OF she present decade. atld
thatin the last decade OF this niRrteentn
century. nsaEch mp gpI take this
round wosia for God. When say
we. mean the a0A0,1D Christians
uow living.
II vou ask me shy ] think. why
/ kns. that this whole world could be
evangelix.sl in ten years. at q persuade
/ the people Of is possibility, answer.
1 because we have all the machinery re-
agIisife now. We don't have TO build
/ the printing presses. They are built
now. There are gl5 religious news
papers In this country. Besides the
printing presses printing tracts and
/ bibles or guide books, there are print
/ ing presses In the service OF the devil
which we could buy up and pat into
/ the service Of God What was the
printing press intended for anyhow
/ TO print biliheads and circulars Tor
patent medicines and 10 tell things
that in three weeks will be OF no inn
portance. No. That wondrous ma
chine. In all us Improvements, has
| been making proclanlations OF the glad
Aiugs OF great Joy and salvation OF all
people. We don't have 10 build them,
/ fhey are built, and enough printing
presses 10 put bible In the hands OF
every son and daughter of Adam and
Eve, and Tor such persons as can
not read, missionaries can be sent TO
reak il IA them. We have money
enough u carry on all this.
/ You tell business man, a Christian
business man, that this thing is to be
done ia about D 200 years and he will
not open bis eyes. but tell him it can
/ he done in ten wears and he would con-
/ tribute to such an enterprise more
than he has ever given To any other
cause before. Once persuade the man
OF wealth in the Christian church that
/ this thing Is possible, AMI sseithin a de-
cade they viii stand in a long line
watching for their chance 10 make
charitable deposits. know it Is pos
sible, because we have ali the theologi
cal institutions necessary. We don't
have To build them; they are built
now. Tens of thousands OF young
men are preparing for the ministry in
these institutions, and in that last de-
eade there will be thousands of these
students going forth 10 the work.
+ confess that the mistake of my life
has been. not that did not work hard,
| for could net work any harder and
| live ms God knows and my family
know, but that ] have net worked in
! the full realization OF the near-by pos
sibility OF the salvation OF the whole
world. But whenever yoa aud live
10 see that decade is of no importance,
| Ii only that decade can come to eoro-
nation. for then all the other decades
will how before il. and even the great
crowned centuries will cast their
eroans az It's feet and that one decade,
/ that final decade. viii lie the most inn
portant time since when the morning
stars sang together