Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1894-12-06

convention to order. But the sun
kept growing in intensity of heat, and
the south wind blew stronger and
stronger, and soon all the ice field be-
gan to flow away. The first resolution
passed by the convention was: RE
solved, That we abolish the sun"
But the sun would not be abolished.
The heat of the sun grew greater and
greater until after awhile the very
king of the icebergs began to perspire
under the glow, and the smaller ice
bergs fell over, and the cry was: TOO
much excitement! order! order!" Then
the whole body, the whole field of ice,
began to flow out, and thousand
voices began to ask: where are we
going to now? Where are we floating
to? We will all break to pieces" BY
this time the icebergs had reached the
gulf stream; and they were melted into
the bosom of the Atlantic ocean. The
warm sun is the eternal spirit. The
icebergs are frigid Christians. The
The ocean into which everything melt
ed is the great. wide heart of the par
doning and sympathizing God.
But l think, after all, the greatest
obstacle to revivals throughout Christ
endom to-day is an unconverted min
istry. We must believe that the vast
majority of those who otiiciate at
sacred affairs are regenerated; but |
suppose there may float into the min
istry of all the denominations of Chris
tians men whose hearts have never
been changed by the grace of God. OF
course they are all antagonistic to re-
vivals.
Suppose by some extra prolongation
of human life, at the next fifty years
you should walk around the world,
you would not in all that walk find
one person that you recognize Why?
All dead, or SO changed you would not
know them. In other words, ii you
postpone the redemption Of this world
for fifty years, you admit that the ma
jority of the two whole generations
shall go off the stage unblessed and
unsaved. ! tell you the church of
Jesus Christ can not consent to it. We
must pray and toll and have the re-
vival spirit, and we must struggle to
have the whole world saved before the
men and women now in middle life
pass off.
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terprisc to be conducted in SO short
time" DO you know how long it
would take to save the whole world if
each man would bring another? 1t
would take ten years. BY II calcula-
ton in compound interest, each man
bringing another and that one :n-
other, and that one another, in ten
years the whole world would be saved.
If the world is not saved in the next
ten years, it will be the fault of the
Church of Christ.
1t seems to me as if God is preparing
the world for some quick and universal
movement A celebrated electrician
gave me a telegraph chart of the world
On that chart the wires crossing the
uHu Vic CdDlco VIZ
sea looked like veins read with blood.
On that chart ! see that the headquar-
tiers of the lightnings are IN Great
Britain and the United States. In
London and New York the lightnings
are stabbed, waiting to be harnessed
for some quick dispatch. That shows
you that the telegraph is in possession
of Christianity.
1t is significant fact that the man
who invented the telegraph was an
old fashioned Christian-Prof. Morse,
and that the man who put the tele-
graph under the sea was an old
fashioned Christian--Cyrus w. Field
and that the president of the most
famous of the telegraph companies of
country was an old fashioned Chris
tian-William orion, going straight
! to his home in heaven. What does all
| that mean?
do not suppose that the telegraph
was invented merely to let us know
whether flour is up or down, or which
| filly won the race at the Derby, or
which marlSsman beat at Dollymount
/ supposed the telegraph was invented
and built to call the world to God.
| In some of the attributes Of the
Lord we seem to share on a small
scale. For instance, in his love and in
| his kindness, But until Of late, fore
knowledge, omniscience, omnlpresence,
omnipotence, seem to have been ex-
clusivcly Gods possession. God desir.
! ing to make the race like himself,
| gives us species of forcknowledge in
the weather proba abilities, gives MS a
species Of omniscicnce in biography
gives us species of omniprcsence in
the telephone, gives us u species OF
omnipotence in the steam power. Dis
coveries and inventions all around
about us, people are asking what next?
will tell you what next. Next, a
stupendous religious movement. Next,
| the end of war. Next, the crash of
despotisms. Next, the worlds expur-
CATION Next, the Christlike domin-
ion. Next, the judgment. What be-
| comes of the world after / care not. 1t
will have suffered and achieved enough
for one world. Lay it up in the dry
docks of eternity, like an old man-of-
war gone out of service. Or, fit it up
| like ship of relief to carry bread to