Milford chronicle., 1889-04-19

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 in a circle And as to his re-
gard for mathematical numbers he makes
the fourth book in his Bible the Book Of
Numbers, and numbers the hosts of Israel
and numbers the troops of Sennacherib and
numbers SolOmon's hewers in the forest and
numbers the spearmen and numbers the foot
men and numbers the converts at Pentecost
and numbers the chariots of God rolling
down the steps of heaven. So have right
to enlist mathematics for the demonstration
of the easy possibility of bringing the whole
world to God in the coming decade by sim
pie process of solicitation, each one only hay
ing to bring one a year; although want to
take in forty thousand, and know men now
alive who l think by pen or voice or both,
directly or indirectly, will take hundreds of
thousands each. So you see that that viii
discharge some of the 2,754.375 from the ne
cessity Of taking any
Another reason why know it can be done
is that we may divide the work up among
tho denominations God does not ask any
one denomination to do the work or any
dozen denominations. The work can be di-
vided and is being divided up, not geographi-
cally, but according to the temperaments of
the human family. We cannot say to one
denomination, You take Persia, and another,
You take China, andanother, You take India,
because there are all styles of temperaments
in all nations And some denominations are
especially adapted to work with people Of san
guine temperament or phlegmatic tempera-
ment or cholelic temperament or bilious tenn
permanent or nervous temperament or lynn
phatic temperament. The Episcopal church
will do its most effective work with those who
by taste prefer the stately and ritualistic The
Methodist church will do its best work among
the emotional and demonstrative The Pres
byterian church will do its best work among
those who like strong doctrine and the
stately service softened by the emo
tional So each denomination will have
certain kinds of people whom it will espe-
| cially affect So let the work be divided up
There are seven hundred and fifty thousand
Christians of the Presbyterian church, north
and other hundreds of thousands in the Pres
| byterian church, south, and all foreign Pres
/ byterians, more especially Scotch, English
/ and Irish, making, guess, about two million
/ Presbyterians The Methodist church is still
/ larger; the church Of England on both sides
the sea still larger; and many other denomi
nations as much, if not more, consecrated
/ than any have mentioned. Divide up the
worlds evangelization among these denomi-
nations after they are persuaded it can be
/ done before the Nineteenth century is dead
and the last HottentOt, the last Turk, the last
| Japanese the last American, the last Euro
/ pean, the last Asiatic, the last African will
see the salvation of God before he sees the
/ opening gate of the Twentieth century
/ EVERYTHING IS IN CONDITION FOR TIE CON
/ SUMMATION.
| Again, feel the whole world can be saved
| in the time specified, because we have all
manner of machinery requisite It is not as
! though we had to build the printing presses;
/ they are all built and running day and night,
those printing religious papers (925 of those
religious papers in this country, those print
/ ing religious tracts and those printing re-
| ligious books. And thousands of printing
/ presses now in the service of the devil could
| be brought and set to work in the service of
| God Why was the printing press inventedl
| To turn out billheads and circulars of patent
medicines and tell the news which in three
weeks will be of no Importance From the
old time Franklin printing press on up to the
Lord Stanhope's press and the Washington
press and the Victory press to Hoes perfect
ing printing press that machine has been i'm
proving for its best work and its final work,
namely, the publication Of the glad tidings of
great joy which shall be to all people. We
have the presses, or can have them
before the first of January when the new
decade is to begin, enough to put Bible in
the hand of every son and daughter Of Adam
and Eve now living, aud if such person can
not read we can have colpOrteur, an evan
gelist or a missionary to read it to him or her
But this brings me to the ad joining thought
namely, we have the money to do the work
mean the fifty million Of Christians have it.
Aye, the two million seven hundred and fifty
four thousand Christians have it; and the
dam which is beginning to leak win soon
break and there will be rushing floods of hun
dress and millions and billions of dollars III
holy contribution when you persuade the
wealthy men of the kingdom of God that the
speedy conversion Of the world is a possibility
and that Isaiah and Ezekiel and Daniel and
John will not stand in the way of it but help
it on. | have no sympathy with this BON
bardment of rich men. We would each one
be worth five million dollars if we could, and
by hard persuasion perhaps might be induced
to taks fifteen million. Almost every paper
l take up tells of some wealthy man who has
endowed a college or built a church or a
hospital or a free library, and that thing is
going to multiply until the treasury of all our
will be overwhelmed with munifcence if W.
can persuade our men Of wealth that tho
worlds evangelization is possible and tina
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 bonire'
of victory. But | would like to see the pro
cession closer by and just be permitted myself
to throw on a fagot for bigger bonfire
And if you persuade our men Of wealth that
there is possibility for them to join on
earth in the universal glee Of a redeemed
planet, instead of laborious beseeching for
funds and arguing and Aattering in order
to get a contribution for Christian
objects our men of wealth. will stand
in line as at a postoffice window or a
railroad ticket Office, but in this case waiting
for their turn to make charitable deposit.
The Gentiles are not long going to allow
themselves to be eclipsed by Mr.. Hirsch, the
Jew who has just given forty million dollars
for schools in France, Germany and Russia.
rejoice that so much Of the wealth Of the
woriu is coming into the possession Of Chris
tian men and women. And although the
original church was very poor and its men,
bers were fish dealers on the banks Of Galilee
and had only such stock on hand as they could
take in their own net, today In the hands Of
Christian men and women there is enough
money to print Bibles and build churches and
support missionaries under God in ten years
TO save the world.
Again, think that the worlds evangeliza-
tion can be achieved in the time specified be
cause we have already the theological insti.
tutions necessary for this work. We do not
have to build them they are built and they
are filled with tens Of thousands of young
men, and there will be three sets Of students
who win graduate into the ministry before
the close of this century, and once have them
understand that instead of preaching thirty
or forty years and taking into the kingdom
of God a few hundred souls, right before
them is the Sedan, is the Armageddon, and
these young men, instead of entering the
ministry timid and with apologetic air, will