Milford chronicle., 1889-04-19
TIE WORLD TO BE SAVED.
DR.. TALMAeE SAYS IT CAN BE
DONE IN TEN YEARS.

A Fitting Close to One of the Grandest
Centuries in the History Of the World.
Soul Saving Has Got to Be Done at
Short Range.
BROOKLYN, April l4-At the Tabernacle
today, after expounding passages descriptive
of the world as it shall be when gospelized,
DR.. Talmage gave out the hymn;
People and realms Of every tongue
Dwell on his love with sweetest song.
Text, Revelation xix, 4; amen; Allie
luiaiH
The Nineteenth century is departing After
it has taken a few more steps, If EACH year
be a step, it will be gone into the eternities.
/ In a short time we shall be In the
last decade of this century, 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 viii be the grandest, mightiest and
most decisive decade in all the chronologies
| am glad it is not to come Immediately, for
we need by a new baptism Of the Holy
Ghost to prepare for it. That last ten
years of the Nineteenth century, may we all
! i've 10 SEE bu5iul OOeo any Ollt alJ bldb AlAS
division of time is arbitraryl Oh no; in
other ages the divisions 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 arbitrary
Oh, no; next to the figure seven, ten is with
God favorite number Abraham dwelt ten
years in Canaan Ten righteous men would
have saved Sodom. In the ancient taberna-
Gle were ten curtains their pillars ten and
their sockets ten. In the ancient temple were
ten LAYERS and ten candlesticks and ten ta-
bles and 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 a 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 Jerusalem the
number ten swings around the thousands,
crying ''ten thousand times ten thousand
So l come to look toward the closing ten years
of the Nineteenth century with an intensity
of interest can hardly describe.
have also noticed that the favorite time
in many Of the centuries for great events was
the closing fragment Of the century. Is
America to be discovered it 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 scoriae, Herculaneum and Strabai@
and Pompeii in the latter part of the first
century must go under The Fourth century
closed wish the most agitating ecclesiastical
war Of history Urban the Sixth against Gle
ment the Seventh. Alfred the Great closes
the Ninth century and Edward Ironsides the
Eleventh century with their resounding deeds.
The Sixteenth century closed with the estab-
lishment Of religious Independence in the
United Netherlands. Aye, almost every cen
tury has had its peroration Of overtowering
achievements. As the closing years of the
centuries seem a favorite time for great scenes
Of emancipation or disaster, and as the num-
Der ten seems q favorite number in the Scrip
lures written by divine direction, and as we
are soon to enter upon the last ten years of
the Nineteenth century, what does the world
proposed What does the church of Christ
prOposel What do reformers propose9 l
know not; but now in the presence Of this
consecrated assembly propose that We make
ready, get all our batteries planted and all
our plans well laid in what remains Of this
decade, 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 win 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 Midanites, but many of them were not
made of the right stuff, and he promulgated
a military order saying "Whosoever is fear
ful and afraid let him return and depart
early from Gilead, ," and twenty-five thousand
were afraid of getting hurt and went homo
and only ten thousand were 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 and so the number must be still further
reduced and only those should he kept in the
ranks who in passing the river should be so
in haste for victory over their enemies that,
though very thirsty, they would without
stopping a second just scoop up tho water in
the palm Of their right hand and scoop
up the water in the palm of their
left hand, and only three hundred
men did that, and those three hundred men
with the battle shout, 1.-The sword of the Lord
and Of Gideon" scattered the Midiauites like
leaves in an equinox, so out Of the Eve hun
dred million nominal Christians Of today let
all unbelievers and towards so home and get
out Of the way And suppose we have only
four hundred million left, suppose only two
hundred million left, suppose only ono hun
dred million left, yea, suppose we Only have
fifty million left, with them we will under
take the divine crusade, and each one just
scooping up palm full of the river Of Gods
mercy in one hand and palm full Of the
river of Gods strength in the other, let US
with the cry, THE 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 tho Lord and of Bishop
McIlvaine, the sword of the Lord and of
Adoniram Judson. the sword Of the Lord and
of Martin Luther, go into the last decade OF
the Nineteenth century
NOTHING uiFRACTICABL BILE IN THE PROPOSITION
Is it audacious for me to propose itl Oh,
no; a captive servant in the kitchen of Naa-
man told the commander-in-chef where he
could get rid of the botches Of his awful lep
rosy and his complexion became fair rs a
babes. And didn't Christ in order to take
the ophthalmia out CT the eyes of the blind
man use a mixture of spittle and dusti And
who showed Blucher short cut for his army
so that instead of taking the regular road by
which he would have como up too late, he
came up in time to save Waterloo and Eu
ropel Was it not an unknown lad who per
haps could not write his own namei And so
|, ''who am less than the least of all saints"
propose a short cut to victory, and am will
ing to be the expectoration ON some blind
eye and tell some Of the brigadier generals Of
the Lord Of hosts how this leprosied world
may in the final decade OF the Nineteenth
century have its flesh come again as the flesh
Of little child.
Is there anything in prophecy to hinder
this speedy consummationl No. Some one
begins to quote from Daniel about "time,
times and half time" and takes from Reve-
lation the seven trumpets, blowing them all
at once in my ear. But with utmost reverence
| take up all the prophecies and hold them
toward heaven and say God never has and
never will stop consecrated effort and holy
determination and magnificent resolve, and
that if the church of God will rise up to its
full work it can make Daniels time twenty