The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-05-01
THE WORLDS REDEMPTION.
Sermon by Rev. T. De Witt Tal~
mage, D. D.
Hsf Thinks the World Can Be Gospelized
Before the Present Century Closes
Christian Effort Backed by Chris.
tiaa Money VIII Do It.

IN his recent sermon at the Brooklyn
Tabernacle, after expounding passages de-
scriptive Of the world as it shall be when
gospelized. Dr.. Talmage gave out the hymn:
People and realms Of every tongue
Dwell on His love with sweetest song.
Text, Revelations xix, 4: Amen; Ale
lula" The eloquent preacher spoke as fol-
lows:
The nineteenth century is departing. After
il has taken few more steps, il each year
be a step, 1t will be gone into the eternities.
In short time we shall be in the last decade
Of this century, which fact makes the SOL
emnest Book outside the Bible the almanac,
and the most suggestive and the most ire
mendous piece of machinery in all the earth
the clock. The last decade Of this century
upon which we shall soon enter will be the
grandest, mightiest and most decisive decade
in all the chropologies. am glad it is not
to come Immediately, for we need by new
baptism Of the Holy Ghost to prepare for it.
That last ten years of the nineteenth century,
may we all live to see them! Does anyone
say that this division Of time is arbitrarya
o, no; in other ages the divisions Of time
may have been arbitrary, but our years dats
from Christ. Does any one say that the
grouping Of ten together is an arrangement
arbitrary @, no; next to the figure seven.
ten isWith God a favorite number. Abrs-
ham dwets teny years in Caanan. Fen right
eous men would have saved Sodom. In the
ancient tabernacle were ten curtains, their
pillars ten, and their sockets ten. IN the an
cient temple were ten LAYERS and ten candle
sticks, and ten tables, and q molten sea OF
ten cubits. And the commandments writ
ten On the granite Of Mount Sinai were ten,
and She kingdom of God was lkenei to ten
virgins, and ten men should lay hold Of him
that was Jew. and the reward Of the
greatly faithful is that they shall reign ovef
ten cities, and in the effort to take the cen
sus Of the New Jerusalem the number ten
swings around the thousands, crying ''teu
thousand times ten thousand" So come
to look toward the closing ten years of the
nineteenth century with an intensity Of in
terest I can hardly describe.
nave also noticed that the favorite time
IN many of the centuries for great events
was the closing fragment OF the century.
Is America to be discovered, it must be in
the last. decade. of the fifteenth century,
namely, 1892 Was free constitutional gov
erpment to be well established in America,
the last years of the eighteenth century
must achieve it. Were three cities TO be
submerged by one pitch OF scorie Herca-
laneum and nStrabia and Pompeii in the
latter part OF the first century must go
under. The fourth century closed with
the most agitating ecclesiastical war OF
history, Urban the Sixth against Clement
the Seventh. Alfred the Great closes
the nineteenth century, and Edward Iron
sides the eleventh century with their re-
sounding deeds. Zhe sixteenth century
closed with the establishment of religious
independence in the United Netherlands.
Aye. almost every century has had its pero-
ration Of overtowering achievements. Al
the closing years Of the centuries seem
fayorite time for great scenes Of emancipa-
tion or disaster, and as the number ten
seems favorite number in the Scriptures,
written by divine direction, and as we are
soon to enter upon the last ten years Of the
nineteenth century, what does the world
propose? What does the church Of Christ
propose2 What do reformers propose!
know not; but now in the presence OF this
consecrated assembly propose that we
make ready, get all our batteries planted.
and all our plans well laid in what remains
of this decade, and then in the last decade
Of the nineteenth century march up and
take this round world for God.
When say We mean the five hundred
million Christians now alive. But as many
Of them will not have enough heart for the
work let US copy Gideon, and as he hs6
thirty thousand men in his army to fight
the Midianites, but many Of them were cof
made of the right stuff, and SO he promul.
gated military order saying: "Whososver
is fearful and a sraid let him return and de-
part early from Gilead," and twenty-five
Thousand were afraid OF getting hurt and
went home. and only ten thousand were
leftsand God told them that even this re-
duced-num5er- was too largea number. for
they might think they had triumphed inde-
pendent OF divine help, and so the number
must be still further reduced, and only those
should be kept in the. ranks who, in passing
the river should be so in haste for victory
over their enemies that, though very thirsty,
they would without stopping a second just
SCOOP up the water in the palm Of their right
hand and scoop up the water in the palm OF
their rleftihald; and only threehundred men
did that, and those three hundred men with
the battle shout, 1.-THE sword OF the Lord
and Gideon" scattered the Midianites like
leaves ia a equinox; SO out of the FIVE hun
dred million nominal Christians of to-day
let all uu ubelievers and towards go home and
get out of the way. And suppose we have
only four hundred million left, suppose only
two hundred million left, suppose only one
hundred million left, yes, suppose we only
have fifty million left, with them we will
undertake the divine crusade, and Zach one
Just scooping up palm full Of the river Of
Gods mercy in one hand and palm full Of
the river of Gods strength in the other. let
Us with the cry. The sword Of the Lord
and of Gideon" the sword Of the LORD and
OF John Knox, the sword Of the Lord and Of
Matthew Simpson, the sword of the Lord
and Of Bishop McIlvaine, the sword Of the
Lord and of Adoniram Judsor, the sword Of
the Lord and Of Martin Luther, go into the
last decade Of the nineteenth century.
Is. it audacious for me to propose itq q.
no; captive servant in the kitchen Of
Naaman told the comuander-in-chief where
he could get rid of the blotches Of his awful
: leprosy end his complexion become as fair
as babes. And didn't Christ in order to
take the ophthalmia out Of the eyes Of the
blind man, use mixture Of spittle and dusts
And who showed Blucher q shor. cut for his
.aruy, so that instead of taking the regular
sreaG by which he would have come up 100
Late he came up in time to save Waterloo
and Europe? Was it not an unknown lad
who, perhaps could not write his own name!
And so I, 'swho am less then the least of all
sainrs,'' propose short cut to victory and
am willing to be the expectoration on some
blind eye and tell some Of the brigadier
generals Of the Lord OF hosts how this
leprosied world may in the final decade Of
thenineteenth century have its flesh come