The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1889-04-26
SAVE THE PERISHING,

| SAVE THE PERISHING,
DR.. Talmage Looking Forward 10 the
Salvation Of Men Of Every
Race.
BROOKLYN. n. Y, April 14.-At the
Brooklyn tabernacle today. nftcrcxpounlina
passngcs descriptive oil the world rs II shall
bc when gospclizcl, DIR. Tnlmngc gave out
the hymn:
| "Peoplc and realms ofcvcry tongue
Dwell on his love with sweetest song.
| Text. Revelations. xix, 4: ".imen; Allcl,,.
ia"
The nineteenth century ia departing. At
or il has taken IL few more STEPS. fcuch year
br n step, it will In gone into the rternitics
| In short time We shall be in the last decade
OF this century. which fnct makes tho solemn
est book outside the bible the almanac, and
thu most suggestive and the most tremendous
piece Of machinery in all the earth the clock
The last decade Of his century upon which
We slnll soon enter will he the granlrst
mighticst. and mort decisive decade in nll tho
chronologies. am glad 1t is not to come
Immediately, for we mead by ~ new baptism
of he holy ghust to prepare for it. That
last ten years of the ninet ccrtll century; may
We al live to sec them Does any onr say
that this division of time is arbitrary? Oh
no: in other ages the divisions of time may
have been arbitrary, but uur years
date from Christ. Docs amy one sny
TINT the grouping Of ten together
is IN Arrangement arbitrary? oh, no
next to the figure seven, ten il with God Il
favoritc number Abraham dwclt ton years
in Cnanan Ten righteous men would have
saved Sodom. In the nnricnt tabernacle
were ten curtains, their pillars ten, and their
sockets ten. In the atrient trnple wrrr ten
lnvcrs ind ten cnndlcsticks and ten tables
nml molten sen of ten cubits. And the
commandments written on Mount Sinai were
ten, nntl the kingdom Of God was likcnctl q
ten virgins, and ten men should lay hold o
lin TINT was Il Jew, and the reward uf tn,
greatly faithful is that they shnll reign owe,
ten ctts. mud in the cfIOrt totake tho census
of the New Jerusalem the number ten swings
around the thousands, crying ten thousand
times ten thousand" So l come to lonk to-
wnr,l the closing ten years of the nineteenth,
century with an intensity of interest cun
hardly describe
| have also noticed that the fnvorite time
in many of the centuries for.rrni events was
the closing fragment Vt tho century. is
Amrrira to be discovered it must be in the
last decade OF the fifteenth century, namely,
lla2. Was free constitutional government
| To I've well est blisled in America, the last
years of the eighteenth century must
achieve il. Wcrr hrrr cities to he submerged
by one pitch uf sroria, liercnlnneum and
Strahi;r nnd Pompcii in the latter part OF the
first century must goun'lrr. The fourth cen.
tury closed with the most ngitating errcsi-
nsttcal wnr of history-lirhan vi. against,
ninth century with their rrsounling deeds.
Tho sixteenth century closed with the "
tahlishment of religious Independence in the
United Netherlands Aye. almost every cen.
tnry hns had its perorntion of uvcrtowering
achievements. AS the closing years of the
centuries seem afnvorite time for great scenes
| of emancipation or disaster, and us the
number ten seems II fnvOrite number in the
scriptures. written by divine direction, and
| as We are soon to enter upon the last ten
years of the ninteenth century, what does
the world propose? Whnt does the church
ofl,hrist propose.
Whnt do reformers propose: know not:
hut now. i'll the presence of this colsecrate,
assembly, propose TINT We make ready. get
| all our batteries planted md our plans well
lail IN what remains in this deradr and then
in the last decade of the nineteenth century
march up and take this round world for
| God.
When say we menn the 500. 900 900
| Christians now alive. But as mnny of them
will not have enough henrt for the work let
us copy Gideon, an,i us he hat 1000 men
in lis army to fight the Miliantes but
mnnS of them were not made of the rigl,
stun. and he promulgated n military order
saying: "Whosoever is fearful and afraid
let him return and depart early from Gilpa,l, -
md 22.000 were afraid of getting hurt and
went home and only 10000 were let and God
told them hat even this reduced number was
too large n number for they might think
they had triumphe,l independent of divine
help, mud so the number must be still further
reduced and only those should be kept so in
though very thirsty, they would, without
stopping a second, Just scoop up the
water in the palm of their right
hand, and scoop up the water in the
palm OF their left hand. ind only 300 men
did that, md those 300 men, with the bat
tle.shout The sword of the Lord and of
Gideon!" scattered the Midinntes like leaves
in an equinox, SO out of the OO.OOO, 900
nominal Christians of today let all unl,elev.
ers, md towards go home and get out of
the way. And suppose We have only 4OO,-
100000 left..suppose only 200 900 600 left
suppose only 10n,oo0 leit-yca, suppose
we only have 5O.OOO,O 900 left. with them We
will undertake the divine crusade. and earh
one Just srooring up painful of the river
Of Gods mercy in one hand and n painful
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 aud
OF John knux, the sword of he Lord and %
Mntthew Simpson. the sword of the Lord
md of Bishop Mcllvaine. the sword of the
Lord ind of Adont ram .Iu,lson. the sword of
the Lord and of Martin Luther. go into tho
Inst decade of the nintecnthcentury
| In it audaclons for me to propose il? Oh
no; Il cnptive servant in the kitchen of Nna-
man told the commandcr-n.chief where he
could get rid of the blotrhes of his awful lr,,-
rosy. and his com plexion became us fair us n
babes And didn't Christ in order to take
| the Opht halmia out Of the eyes of the blind
man. IKE u mixture ofspittle and dust: Aud
who showed Butcher n short cut for his army
80 that, instead Of taking the regular road
by which he would have come up late, he
came up in time to save Waterloo and
Europe? Was it not M unknown lad who
perhaps could not write his own name? AM,
40 l, "whOam less than the least ofnIl saints. =
| propose short cut to victory, and am will
Ing 10 IN the eStettOratlOn on some blind
eve and tell come of the brigadier- generals of
the Lord Of hosts how this leprosietl world
| may in the final decade of the nineteenth
| century have it's flesh come again ny the flesh
of II little child.
Is there anything in prophecy to hinder
| this speedy consumInntiOn? No. Some one
begins to quote from Daniel about time,
times, and half time" and takes from
Revelation the seven trumrets, blowing them
all Mt once in my ear. But with utmos,
reverence take up all the prophecies AM,
hold them towards henven and say God
effort and holy determination and mngnif-
cent resolve, and that il the church of God
will risr up to its full work it eau make Dan
irl's time twenty years and his halt time ten
years. Neither Isaiah, nor Ezekiel nor Micah,
nor Malachi, nor Jeremiah. nor any oil the
major or minor prophets will hinder us n
second. Suppose the bible had announced
the millennium to begin the year 1850, that
would In no hn,irancc. In one sense tod
never changes his mind, being the same yes.
terday. today, and forever. But in another
sense he does change his mind and tunes
without number every dry, and that is when
his people pray. Didn't he change his mind
about Nineveh? BY God e command Jonah,
at the top of his voice, while standing ON
the steps of the merchants exchange AMI
the rnlatial residences of that city
cried out: Yet forty days and Uneven shall
| I've overthrown!'' Was it overthrow in forty
days? No. The people gave up their sins
and cried for mercy. and though Jonah got
| mad bccauselis whole course 0f sermons had
! been SPOILED and went into adisgrnrc.,il pout-
| ing, we have the record 30 sublime cannot