The Brookhaven leader., 1889-04-25

| unity OF bringing the WnOle WOTiu W UON
in the coming decade by simple process
OF solicitation, each one only having 10
bring one year; although want to take
In forty thousand. and know men now
alive who / think, by pen or voice. or
both, directly or indirectly, will take
hundreds OF thousands each, SO you ses
that that will discharge some of the two
million seven hundred and fiftyifour thou
sand three hundred and seventy five from
the necessity cf taking any.
But this brings me to the adjoining
thought; namely, we have the money to
do the work. l mean the fifty million
Christians have 1t. Aye, the two million
seven hundred and fifty thousand Chris!
tians have 1t; and the dam which is be-
ginning to leak will soon break and there
will be rushing floods OF hundreds and
millions and billions Of dollars In holy
contribution when you persuade the
wealthy men Of the Kingdom OF God that
the speedy conversion OF the world is
possibility, and that Isaiah and Ezekiel
and Daniel and st. John will not stand
in the way of 1t, but help it on. / have
no sympathy with this bombardment OF
rich men. We would each one be worth
FIVE million dollars if we could, and by
hard persuasion might, perhaps, be in
most every paper take up tells of some
wealthy man who has endowed a college
or built q church or hospital or free
library, and that thing is going to multi
ply until the treasury Of all our denomina-
tions and refOrmatory organizations will
be overwhelmed with munifcence, II we
can persuade our men OF wealth that the
worlds evangelization Is possible and
that they may live to see it with their own
eyes. have always cherished the idea
that when the world is converted we
would be allowed to come out on
the battlements of Heaven and
see the hammered procession and the bon
fires of victory. But would like to see
the procession closer by, and just be per-
mitted myself to throw on a fagot for
bigger bonfire. And If you persuade our
men of wealth that there Is q possibility
for them to join on earth in the universal
glee Of a redeemed planet. instead OF
laborious beseeching for funds and argu-
, ing and fattering in order to get O con.
tribution for Christian objects, our mon OF
wealth will stand in line as at post-office
window or a railroad ticket Office, but In
this case waiting for their turn to make
charitable deposit
Yea, believe 1t can be done If We get
prepared for it, because the whole air and
the whole deaven are full of willing help.
"Are they not all ministering spirits sent
forth." We make an awful mistake II we
calculate only on the forces we can see.
The mightiest army is in the air. My
brethren. so much of selfshness, and
pride and rivalry, and bad motives of all
kinds get into our work here that we are
hindered. But the mighty souls that haye
gone up to the flying armies OF the sky
have left all imperfection behind; and
these souls are with us, and without O
fault, and with perfect natures, are on
| our side. You can not make me be-
lieve that after toiling here for long
years for the redemption OF the world un-
til from exhaustion some of them fell into
their graves, thy have ceased their in.
| terest in the stupendous conflict now rag
} ing or that they are going to decline
) help. Iren@us Prime! Honored OIL
5 earth, but now glorified in Heaven, have
: you forgotten the work toward which y you
I gave for more than half century your
gracious life, your loving voice and youl
matchless pen? No! Then come down
and help. Alexander Duff Have you
forgotten the millions of India for whose
salvation you suffered in Hindoc
Jungle and thundered on missionary
platforms Mol Then come down and
help. David Brainard! Have you forgot
ten the aborigines to whom you preached
and for whom you prayed until you could
preach and pray no more; lying down de-
lirious amid the miasm mas Of the swamp!
No! Then come down and help. Moncriei
, and Freeman and Campbell! Have you
forgotten Lucknow and Cawnpore? No
Then come down and help. I rub out o,
my eyes the stupidity and unbelief, and l.
the servant of these great Elishas in the
Gospel, see the mountains all round about
are full of horses of fire and chariots OF
fire; and they head this way.
, Hovered over are we by great crowds OF
witnesses and helpers Clouds of apos.
ties in the air led on by Paul! Clouds
of martyrs in the air led on by Stephen
Clouds of prophets in the air led on by
Isaiah! Clouds Of patriarchs in the all
led on by Abraham! Clouds of ancient
warriors in the air led on by Joshua, and
that Bible warrior at whose prayer as
tronomy once halted over Ajalon and
Gibeon seems now to lift one hand to
ward the descending sun of this century
and the other hand toward the moon Of
the last decade, saying: "Stand thou
still till the Church of God gets the final
victory!'
Then let US take what remains of this
decade to get ready for the final decade Of
the nineteenth century. You and l may
not live to see that decade, or may not
live to see its close, but that shall not
hinder me from declaring the magnificent
possibility. l confess that the mistake of
my life has been, not that I did not work
hard-for could not have worked harder
and lived, as God knows and my family
know-but that have not worked under
the realization that the salvation
of this world was nearby pos
sibility. But whether we see it,
the beginning or the closing OF
that decade, is of no importance, If only
that decade eau get the coronation, and
then all decades shall kneel before this
enthroned decade, and even the gray
grown centuries will cast their crowns
before it, and it will be the most honored
decade between the time when the morn.
ing stars sang together as the libretto of
worlds was opened, and the time when
the mighty angel. robed in cloud and gar.
landed in rainbow. shall, with one foot on
the sea and the other foot on the land,
swear by Him that liveth forever and ever
that time shall be no longer. Alleluia
| Amen!
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