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is that we may divide the work up among TIE
denominations. God Goes not ask any oIe
denomination to do the work OF any dozen
denominations. The work can be divided
and is being divided up, not geographically
but scc0rdiug to the tclGperaInents of the
human family. Wecannot say 10 one denorii-
nation, You take Persia, and another,- You
take China, and another, You take lnola,
because there are all styles OF tem?eraments
in all nations And some denominations arc
especially adapted 10 work with people of
sanguine Temperament Or plesmatic tempera-
ment OF choltric temperament or bilious tenn
permanent or nervous temperament or lynn
phatic temoeranent. The Episcopal Church
will do its most effective work with those who
by taste prefer the stately and ritual
istic. The Methodist church will
do its best work among the emo
tional and denlonstrative. The Presby-
terian church will do its best work among
those who like strong doctrine and the stately
service softened by the emotional. So each
denomination will have certain kinds Of peo-
pie whom it will especially affect. So let the
work be divided up. There are the seven hun
dred and fifty thousand Christians of the Pres-
byterian Church, North, and other hundreds
of thousands in the Presbyterian Church,
pecially Scotch, English and Irish, making,
/ guess, about two million Presoy yteriars; the
Methodist Church is still larger; the Church
of England on both sides the sea still larger
and many other denominations as much, If
not more, consecrated than any have men
toned. Divide UP the worlds evangelization
among these denominations 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 Ameri-
can, the lest European, the last Asiatlc, the
c., Lln o1ro nf NNl
fore he sees the opening gate of the Twentieth
century.
Again I 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
printing religious tracts and those
printing religious books. And thou
Sands 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 cir
culars 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 perfectng printing press that machine
has been improving for its best work and it's
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, to put Bible In the
hand of every son and daughter OF Adam and
Eve now living, and if such person cannot
read we can have colporteur, an evangelist
or missionary to read 1t to him or her.
But this brings me to the adjoining thought;
we have the money to do the work.
I 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 will soon
break and there will be rushing
foods of hundred and millions and
billions Of dollars in holy contribution
when you persuade the wealthy men
Of the Kingdom of God that the speedy con-
version of the world is possibility and that
Isaiah and Ezekiel and Daniel and st. John
will not stand in the way Of it but help it on.
I have no sympathy with this bombardment
Of rich men, We would each one be worth
five million dollars if we could, and by hard
persuasion might perhaps be induced to take
fifteen million. Almost every paper I take
up tells of some wealthy man who has endowed
o college or built church or a hospital
or free library, and that thing is going to
multiply until the treasury of all our de-
nominations and refolmatory organizations
will be overwhelmed with muni1cence If we
can persuade our men Of wealth that the
worlds evangehZation is possible and that
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
10 come out on the battlements Of heaven
and see the hammered procession and
the bonfires Of victory. But would like to
see tine procession closer by and just be per-
mitted myself to throw on fagot for big
ger bonfres. And if you persuade our men
of wealth that there is possibility for them
to join on earth in the universal glee Of re-
deemed planet, instead Of laborious beeeech-
ing for funds and arguing and hatterng in
order to get a contribution for Christian
objects our men of wealth will
stand in line as, at postofice window or
railroad ticket Office, bit in this case waiting
FOR their turn to make charitable deposit. The
Gentiles are not long going to allow them
selves to be echpsed by Mr.. Hirsch, the Jew,
who has just given forty million dollars for
schools in France, Germany and Russia Ire
;oice that so much Of the wealth Of the world
IS coming into the possession Of Christian men
and women. And although the original
fish dealers on the banks Of Galilee, and had
only such stock on hand as they could take in
5teir own net, to-day in the hands Of Chris
5isa,. men and women there is enough money
10 print Bibles and build churches and SUP
port missionaries under God in ten years 70
save the world.
Again, think that the worlds evangeliza-
ion can be achieved in the time specified be-
.ause we nave already The theological tnsti-
5utions necessary for this work. We do not
ave 10 build t:.e1n; they are built and they
ire filed win tens Of thousands Of young men
md there "iil be three sets OF students
Who will 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 king
dom of God few hundred souls, rightbefore
Them is the Sedan, is the Armageddon, and
ihese young men, instead Of entering the
ministry tinid and with apologetic air, will J
eel like, David who came up just as |
ihe armies were set in array and
le left his carriage and shouted
or the battle and cried: "Who is this un- !
.ircumcissd Philistine that he should defy the |
.rmies of the living GodT' and with five
,ravel stones skilIfully flung sent sprawling |
he Dragging ten footer, his mouth into the |
lust and his heels into the air.
My friends, what but such consumma-