West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-04-25

nVo De found there and III one DO found there
c LOT .nen i9r tns sake OF Lot It's one good
been spared. Eight times does the Bible saw
that God repented when He had promised
punishments and withheld the stroke Was
IL slip OF Paurs pen when he spoke Of Gods
cutting short the work In Righteousness No.
fauls pen never slipped. There Is nothing
IN the way OF prophecy 10 hinder the crusade
have proposed FOR the last decade OF the
Nineteenth century.
The whole trouble Is that we put Off the
completion of the worlds redemption To such
long and Indefinite distances. The old pro-
verb that what Is everybotly's business "a
nooody's business" might be changed little
and be made truthfully 20 say what Is
the gospel business OF all the ages
Is the gospel business OF no age We
are so constituted we cannot get mn
much enthusiasm about something five hun
9red years from now or a thousand years
from now. We are fighting at too long n
range. That gun called the "Swamp
Angel was nuisance. IL shot six miles
but Il hardly ever hit anything. IL did its
chlef destructive work when IL burst and killed
those who We're setting it Off Short rangeis
the eiiective kind OF work. whether IL be for
worldly or religious purpose. Some man
with his eyes half shut drones out 70 me
the Bible quotation; "a thousand years are
as one day that is, ten centuries are not
long for the Lord But WHY do won NOT
quote the previous sentence. which saws thai
one day is with the Lord as a Thousand
years. That is. He could do the work of ten
centuries I'm twenty-four hours. The
Dgnuest obstacle to Christian work
Is the impression that the worlds evan
geiization is away of. And we take the tele-
scope and look on and on through centuries
until we see two objects near each other, and
we strain our vision and guess what they are
ana we call great conventions TO guess what
they are, and we get down our heaviest theo-
md hra1 Al.
hi and look and look and finally conclude
that they are two beasts that we see and the
one has hair and the other has wool and VIZ,
guess II must be the lion and the lamb
ying down together: In that great cradle
OF postponement and somnolence we rock the
church as though il were an impatient child
and say: Hush, my dear, don't be impa-
tent! Don't get excited by REVEALS! Don't
cryl Your Fathers comingl Don't get un-
easyl He will be here in two or three or fen
or twenty thousand years. And we act as
though we thought that when Macauley's
famous New zealander in the far distance Is
seated ON broken arch of london
bridge stretching the ruins of st
fanfs his grandchild might break In
and jolt his pencil by asking him AZ he
thought the millennium ever would appear
Men and women OF the eternal Gcdl Sons
and daughters of the Lord Almightyl We
may have II start in the decade that is soon
TO commence and il will be done il we can
n
get ready for the work.
what MAKES me think IL can be done,
FIRST because God is ready. He moods ~
IonS ps.suaaon - - his work or 4. "a -,
not willing that any should perish, He is not
S %m.,5g tnas any OF the people Of the next
chime OF bells ringing out "Come, come.
come, ana you need not 90 round
the earth to find out how much
de wants the world to come, but just to walk
around one stripped and bare and leafiess
tree win Two branches, not arched but hori-.
zontai. But BE is waiting, as He said He
would, Tor the cooperation OF the church
When we are ready God is ready. And He
certainly has all the weaponry ready to cap
ture this world for the truth. ALI f6a
weapons Of kindness or devastation
On the one hand the Gospel and
sunshine ana power TO orchardize and gard
enlze the earth, and fountains swinging in
rainbow, and Chatsworthian verdure and
aromas poured out of the walls of heavens
while on the other hand he has the weaponry
OF devastation, thunderbolt and conhagra-
ton and forces planetary, solar
lunar, stellar, or meteoric, that with
loose rein thrown on the neck for a
second would leave consultations and
galaxies so many split and shivered wheels
ON the boulevards Of heaven. And that God
IS on our side, all ON our side Blessed be
His glorious namei Blessed was the hour
when through Jesus Christ my sinful soul
ihaue peace Win mimi
IL you continue TO ask me why think that
the world can be saved in the final decade of
the Nineteenth century, reply because it is
not great undertaking, considering the num-
Der OF workers that will go at il, il once
persuaded it can be done We have
slfted the five hundred million of work
ers down TO four hundred million and
three hundred million and two hun
dred million and one hundred million and to
htty million. i went to work 10 climber ont
how many souls that number could bring to
6od IN ten years, il each one brought a soul
every yesT; and II each soul so brought should
bring another each succeeding year. found
oIt, aided by professor in mathematics, that
we d1d not need any thing like such a number of
workers enlisted. You see it is simply cues
ton OF mathematics and in geometrical pro
erosion. Then / gave to the learned pro.
fessor this problem: How many person,
would it require TO start with il each ont
brought a soul into the kingdom each year for
zen years and each one brought another eacl
succeeding year, in order TO have fourteen
hundred million people saved or the population
OF the earth at pTesenty His answer was two
million seven hundred and fifty-four THOUSAND
three hundred and seventy-five workers So
you see that when l sifted the five hundred
million nominal Christians of the earth down
70 fifty million and stopped there | retaineo
Tor this work torty-seven million people too
many. There it is in glorious mathematics
ouod erat demonstrandum Do you tell m
that God does not care for mathematics
linen you nave never seen the Giants Cause
way where God shows His regard for this
hexagonal in whole ranges Of rocky column,
with six sides and six angles Then Won have
not studied the geometry Of q bees honey.
COMB with six sides and six angles Their
you have not noticed what regard God M,
Tor the square; the altar Of the ancient
tabernacle four square, the breastplafe foul
square. the court of the temple in Fzekier,
VISION four square, the New Jerusalem laid
out four square. Or You have not notices
his regard for the circle by making Ii hi,
throne, sitting on the circle OF the earth. y
ana Iashioning sun and moon and
stars IN a circle and sending our planetary
system around other systems in a circle and
the whole universe sweeping around the
throne Of God I'm a circle And rs TO His
regard for mathematical numbers He makes
the fourth book i'm His Bible the Book az
Numbers, and numbers the hosts OF Israel
and numbers the troops Of Scnnache.
no ana numbers Solomon's hewers in the
tOreSr, ana numbers tne sIJearsiueu and mum.
bers the footmen and numbers the corve,ts
a. Peutecost, and numbers the chariOts Of
tod rolling down the steps Of heaven So I
have right To enlist mathematics for fbo
denomination Of the eaqv r,osqihilisy
Of bringing the whole world 20 God IN
the coming decade by simple process
Of solicitation, each one only having 20 bring
one year although ] want 20 take In fortv
thousand and know men now alive who. i
mink, ~ pen or voice. or both directly or
indirectly, viii take hundreds Of thousands
each. 80 you see that that viii discharye
some Of the 2 "a, 575 from the necessity Of
taking any.
Another reason why know Il can be done
Is That we may divide the work No among fbo
95enonlinstlons God does not ask any one