The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-06-28

but II hardy ever III any ltun6. ~ uld us
chief Destructive work when It burst and killed
those who were setting it of. Short rangeis
the effective kind of work, whether it be for
worldly or religious purpose Some man
with his eyes hall shut droneS out to me
tba Ribia ouotati0n: "a thousand years Art
rs one day:n that is, ten centuries are not
long for the Lord. But why do you not
quote the previous sentence, which says that
me dfv is with the Lord as q thousand
1-earsi' That Is. He could do the work of ten
eeatuiies in twenty-four hours. ing
mightiest obstacle TO Christian WORN
is IN, immersion that the worlds evan
oelizaion e away of. And we take the tele-
scope and look on and on through centuries
until we see two objects near each otner, ana
we strain our vision and guess what they are,
and We call great conventions 10 guess what
sbe,- "a and We get down our heaviest theo-
lgical works and balance or telescope on the
sd aid look and look and finally conclude
mai they are two beasts that we see and the
me has hair and the other has wool and We
mess IL must be the lion and the lamb
wing DOWN together. In that great cradle
II postponement and somnolence we rock the
church as though it were an impatient child
and say: .Hush, my dear, don't De 4 "a
tienti Don't get excited by reyiValsl Don't
cryi Your Fathers comingi Don't get IN
easyi He viii be here in two or three or ten
or Twenty thousand years And we act as
though we thought that when B'acauley,s
ANGUS New Zealander in the far distance is
seated on a broken arch OF London
bridge stretching the ruins Of st
Paufs his grandchild might break IN
and jolt his pencil by asking him If he
thought the millennium ever would appear.
Men and women of the eternal God Sons
and daughters of the Lord Almighty We
may hive It start in the decade that is soon
70 commence and it viii pc done if we canr
persuade the people between now and then to
get ready for the work.
Whar makes me think = can be done?
First, because God is ready He needs no
long persuasion to do His work, Tor if He is
not willing that any should perish, he is not
willing that any OF the people Of the next
decade shall perish; and the whole Bible is a
chime Of bells ringing out "Come, come
come,n and you need not go round
the earth to find out how much
BE wants the world TO come, but just to walk
around one stripped and bare and leaiess
tree with two branches, not arched, but hori-
z0ntal. But He IS waiting, as He said He
would, for the cooperation of the church.
When we are ready God is ready. And He
certainly has all the weaponry ready TO cap
tire this world for the truth, all the
weapons OF kindness or devastation.
On the one hand the Gospel and
sunshine and power to Orchsrdize and gard
enize the earth, and fountains swinging IN
rainbow. and Chatsworthian verdure and
aFoInas poured out of the vials 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
second would leave consultations and
gslaxies 50 many split and shivered wheels
on the b0uleyards OF heaven. And that God
8 on our side. all on our side. Blessed be
His glorious namei Blessed was the hour
when through Jesus Christ my sinful soul
made peace with bunl
II 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 viii 90 at it, If once
persuaded it can be done. We have
ifted the five hundred million of work
ers down 10 four hundred million and
three hundred million and two hun
dred million and one hundred million and 10
fifty million I went to work to cipher out
how many souls that number could bring to
God IN ten years il each one brought a soul
every year, and if each soul 50 brought should
bring another each succeeding year. found
out. aided BY a professor in mathematics, that
we did not need anything like such numbered
workers enlisted You see It is simply aques-
ton Of mathematics and In geometr1cal pro
erosion Then 1 gave TO the learned pro
lessor this problem; How many persons
would if require TO start with if each one
brought a soul into the kingdom each year for
zen years and each one brought another each
succeeding year, in order TO have fourteen
hundred million people saved or the population
Of the earth at presentg His answer was two
million seven hundred and hfty-four thousand
three hundred and seventy-five workers. Sc
YOU see that when I sifted the five hundred
million nominal Christians Of the earth down
70 fifty million and stopped there, retained
for this work forty-ssyez million people Toe
mnny. There it Is Ia glorious mathematics,
auod erat deEHcnstrandum- Do you tell me
mat God does not care FOR mathematics
Then you have never seen the Giants Cause
way where God shows His regard for the
hexagonal In whole ranges Of rocky columns
with SIX sides and six angles Then you have
not studied the geometry of a bees honey
comb with six sides and SIX angles Then
you have not Eotieed what regard God mas
for the square; the altar OF the ancient
four square, the breastplate four
square, the court Of the temple in EzelZiel's
vision four square, the New Jerusalem laid
out four square Or you have not noticed
his regard for the circle by making 49,
throne, sitting On the circle Of the linds.I
and fashioning sun and moo,
stars In a circle and sending our pjIectrIc
system around other systems in G
the whole universe sweeping ar AlIH1lS
throne Of God IN a circle Ands,va fonn,
regard FOR mathematical numbers Z " III
the fourth book in His Bible tie factors
Numbers, and numbers the hosts
and numbers the troops Of ne and
forest, and numbers the spearsIaesill spring
Be osT p me iootme en- and NUMBER IS t direct
God rolling. down the steps Of heayhills and
have right TO enlist mathematir
DEMONSTRATION of the easy the graiE
The tn coming 55Sli decade by ssinpek region
81 ee o at fan 6lf oay "a of
thousand I9I nd and know men now S. a3are forf
indirectly Vim take hundreds q bic sps
some Of tie 2 -, SO i from mt the n, be nof
taking any.
Anothe. reason why know it ana .one
is that We may divide s the w ,s the the
denomination to do the wo-k ge end ioze9
as9GPe g oa divided IhG up nq nos & Sent sa aSa
Bgs a6iG5 any Y We es nno aen en- nne
nation, Y,Su take Persia, and at saer, You
take ChiniL and another, Yios-ake India,
because there are all styles y s mperaments
IN all nations And some de- plantations are
especially adapted to work with people of
sangufne temperament or piegnatic temI'sra-
ment or cloleric temperament OF bilious tenn
permanent or nervous temperament or lynn
phatic temperament The Episcopal Church
win do itsin most effective work with those who
BY taste prefer the stately and ritual
site. The Methodist church will
30 its best work among the emo
tional and demonstrHtiFe- The Presby-
terrain church viii do its best work among
those who ike strong doctrine and the stately
service softened by the emotional. SO each
viii have certain kinds Of peo-
pie whom it VIII especially affect. So let She
work be divided up. Thore are the seven ! IN
dred and dity thousand Christians Of the Pres
1yterian Church, North, and other hundreds
u Thousands IN the Presbyterian Church,
South, and all foreign Presbyterians, more Is
peciaiiy Scotch. English and Irish, making |
l guess. about two million Presbyterians; the !
Methodist Church Is still larger; the Church |
1f England on both ides the sea still larger; |
and many other denominations as much, il |
not more consecrated than any have men |
toned. Divide up the worlds eyangeliza6ion |
among these denominations after they are |
persuaded ii can be done before the Nineteenth |
century IS lead, and the last Hottsntot, the |
last Turk, the last japanese, the last Aneri- |
ian, the last European, the last Asiatic, the |
nst African win see the salvation of God be- |
Tore be sees the opening gate Of the Twentieth !
century.
Again, / feel the whole world can be saved |
IA the time specified because we have all |