Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-04-22
Relioions department.
To Save the World.

The Rev. DR.. Talmage preached in
the Brooklyn Tabernacle Sunday
morning on the text, "Amen, Halle
luliah,'' Revelation xix, 4. He said
in part:
The nineteenth century is depart
ing. We are in few months to en-
ter its last decade. That last decade
will be the grandest, mightlest and
most decisive decade of all history.
I am glad that it has not yet arrived,
because we want the whole country
to get prepared for it. May we all
live to see that last ten years OF this
century, that last decade. L have
noticed that almost every century
ends with something tremendous.
The last fragment of this century is
to be the most important part. Was
America to be discovered? 1t must
be found in the last decade of the
fifteenth century, 1895. Was consti-
tutional government to be established
in America? 1t was to be so in the
few years of the eighteenth century.
When I realize that we are just about
to enter upon such a decade, | ask:
ssWhat does the world propose"
ssWhat does the Church propose r.
"What do reformers propose" |
know not. But standing here to-day,
in the presence Of this august assem-
blage, propose that we get ready,
that we plant our batteries, that we
Law out all our plans in the remaining
months of the present decade, and
that in the last decade of this MIN
teenth century, march up and take
this round world for God. When I
say we, [ mean the 100000, 900
Christians now living.
If you ask me why think, why L
know, that this whole world could be
evangelical in ten years, and per-
suade the people of its possibility, |
answer, because we have all the ma
chinery requisite now. We don't
have to build the printing presses.
They are built now. There are 925
religions newspapers in this country
Besides the printing presses printing
tracts and bibles or guide books,
there are printing presses in the SER
vice of the devil which we could buy
up and put into the service of God.
What was the printing press invented
for anyhow? To print bill-heads and
circulars for medicines and to tell
things that in three weeks will be of
no Importance? No. That wondrous
machine, in all its improvements, has
been making proclamations of the
glad tidings of great joy and saliva
ton of all people. We don't have
to build them. they are built, and
enough printing presses TO put a bible
in the hands of every son and daugh-
ter of Adam and Eve, and for such
persons as cannot read, missionaries
can be sent to read it to them. We
have money enough to carry on all
this. You tell a business man, q
Christian business man, that this
thing is to be done in about 1000
years and he will not open his eyes,
but tell him it can be done in ten
years and he would contribute to
such an enterprise more than he has
ever given to any other cause before.
Once persuade the man of wealth in
the Christian Church that this thing
is possible, and within decade they
will stand in long line watching for
their chance to make charitable de-
posts. l know it is possible because
we have all the theological institu-
tons necessary. We don't have to
build them, they are built now. Tens
of thousands of young men are pre-
pairing for the ministry in these insti-
buttons, and in that last decade there
will be thousands of these students
going forth to the work.
| confess that the mistake of my
life has been, not that did not work
hard. for | could not work any hard
er and live, as God knows and my
family know, but that [ have mo-
worked in the full realization of the
nearby possibility of the salvation OF
the whole world. But whether yot
and I live to see that decade is of ne
imp ortance, if only that decade car
come to coronation, for then all thu
other decades will bow before it
and even the great crowned centuries
will cast their crowns at its feet; ant
that one decade, that final decade
will be the most important time since
,, when the morning stars sang to
: gether.