The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-04-26

OF thousands in the Presbyterian Church
south and all foreign Presbyterians, more
especially Scotch. English and Irish,
making. guess, about 100000 Presby.
terians; the Methodist Church is still
larger; the Church Of England on both
sides the sea still larger; and many other
denominations as much IL not more con.
secrated than any l have mentioned.
Divide up the worlds evangelization
among these denominations after they are
persuaded it can be done before the nine.
teenth century is dead and the last Hot.
tentot, the last Turk, the last Japanese.
the last American, the last European, the
last African, will see the salvation of God
before he sees the opening gate of the
twentieth century.
Again, feel the whole world can be
saved in the time specified, because we
have all manner Of machinery requisite.
1t 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 printing
religious tracts and those printing relig.
ious 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 invented? To turn out billheads and
circulars of patent medicines and to tell
the news which in three weeks will be Of
no importance? From the old Franklin
printing press on up to the Lord Stan.
hopes press and the Washington press
and the Victory press to Hoes perfecting
printing press that machine has been i'm.
proving for its best work and its final
work. namely. the publication of the glad
tiding of great joy which shall be to all
people. We have the presses, or we can
have them before January l, when the
new decade is to begin, to put Bible in
the hands Of every son and daughter Of
Adam and Eve now living, and il such
person can not read we can have a col.
porteur, an evangelist or missionary to
read to him or her.
But this brings me to the adjoining
thought; namely, we have the money to
do the work. I mean the $4,000, 600 Of
Christians have it. Ave, the 2, 754, 600
Christians have it, and the dam which is
beginning 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 O
possibility, and that Isaiah and Ezekiel
and Daniel and st. John will not stand in
the way Of it, but help It on. 1 have no
sympathy with this bombardment of rich
men. We would each be worth IS, 600, 900
if we could, and by hard persuasion might
perhaps be induced to take $4,000, 900.
Almost every paper take tells of some
wealthy man who has endowed college
or built church or q hospital or a free
library and that thing is going to multi
ply until the treasury of all our denomi-
nations and refOrmatory organizations
will be overwhelmed with munifcence if
we can persuade our meu of wealth that
the worlds evangelization is possible and
that they may live to see it with their own
eyes.
Now, what can be an appropriate climax
to this century, which has heard the puff
of the first steamer and the throb of the
first stethoscope and the click of the first
telegraph and the clatter of the first sew.
ing machine, and saw the flash Of the first
electric light and the revolution of the
first steam pillow, and the law of storms
was written, and the American Bible So
ciety and American Tract Society were
born; and instead Of an audience laugh
ing down DR.. Carey for advocating for.
eign missions, as was done at Northamp.
ton, Eng, in the last century, now all de-
nominations vying with each other as to
who shall go the furthest and the soonest
into the darkest of the New Hebrides; and
fhrae HIM 1ra6 fhnus nd Souls boua baap
born to God in the South Sea islands, and
and Melanesia and Polynesia
have been set in the crown of Christ, and
David Livingstone has unvailed Africa
and the last bolted gate of barbaric ma
tions has swung wide open to let the Cos.
pei in-what, ask, with thousand inte-
rogation points uplifted, can be fit and
appropriate and sufficient climax except
it lie world redeemed?
Yea, l believe it can be done if we get
for it. because the whole air and
the whole Heaven is full of willing help.
'Are they not all ministering spirits sent
forth?" We make an awful mistake if we
calculate only on the forces we can see.
The mightiess army is in the air. My
brethren, so much of selfishness and pride
and rivalry and bad motives of all kinds
get into our work here that we are hind
dered. But the mighty souls that have
gone up 10 the flying armies of the sky |
nave left all imperfections behind; and |
these souls are with us and without fault |
and with perfect natures on our side. You
can not make me believe that after toiiing |
here for long years for the redemption OF |
the world until from exhaustion some of |
them fall into their graves they have |
ceased their interest in the stupendous |
conflict now raging, or that they are GO |
ing to decline their help. IrenRus Prime! |
Honored on earth but now glorified in |
Heaven, have you forgotten the work |
toward which you gave for more than half |
3 century your gracious life. your loving |
voice and your 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 Numbered on missionary plat |
form? No! Then come down and help. |
David Brainard! Have you forgotten the |
aboriglnes TO whc m on preached and for |
whom you prayed until you could preach |
and pray no more, lying down delirous |
amid the miasmas of the swamp? No! |
Then come down aud help. Nom
crieff and Freeman and Campbell! |
Have you forgotten Lucknow and |
Cawnpore? No! Then come down |
and help. rub out of my eyes the stupid
ity and unbelief, and /, the servant Of |
these great Elishas in the Gospel, see the |
all round about are full Of |
horses Of fire and chariots of fire; and they |
head this way. lowered over are we by |
great clouds of witnesses and helpers!
Clouds of apostles 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 air led on by Abraham! Clouds Of
ancient warriors in the air led on by
Joshua, and that Bible warrior at whose |
praver n stronomy Onca halted over ialon |