The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-12-05

want as long as that to examine the credit.
and. besides that, 1000 yards of cloth are
too much to sell all at once?" No; you do
not say that. You take me into the count
ing room. and in ten minutes the whole
transaction is consummated. The fact is
we cannot afford to be fools in anything but
religionI
That very merchant who on Saturday af-
ternOon sold me the 1000 yards Of cloth at
one stroke the next Sabbath in church will
stroke his beard and wonder whether 1t
would not be better for 1000 souls to come
struggling along for ten years, instead or
boiling in at one service.
We talk good deal about the good times
that are coming and about the worlds re-
demption. How long before they will come?
There is a man who says 800 years. Here
is a man who says 200 years. Here is some
one more confident who says in fifty years
What. fifty years? Do you propose to let
two generations pass off the stage before
the world is converted?
A Vast Enterprise.
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, If you postpone the redemp-
ton of this world for fifty years, you adj
NIT that the majority Of the two whole
generations shall go off the stage un-
blessed and unsaved. 1 tell you the church
of Jesus Christ cannot consent to It, we
must pray and toll and have the revival
spirit, and we must struggle to have the
whole world saved before the men and
women now in middle life pass off.
oh" you say, at is too vast an enter
prise to be conducted in SO short timer
Do you know how long it would take to
save the whole world If each man would
hiring qnothar9 would taken zen wears.
BY a calculation in compound interest,
each man bringing another, and that one
another, and that one another, in ten
years the whole world would be saved. If
the world is not sOved in the next ten
years, it will be the fault Of the church Of
Christ.
Is it too much to expect each one to
bring one? Some Of us must bring more
than one, for some will not do their duty.
want to bring 10000 souls. 1 should De
ashamed 10 meet my God in judgment If,
with all my opportunities Of commencing
Christ to the people. l could not bring TO-
600 souls. But it will all depend upon the
revival spirit. The hook and line fishing
will not do il.
1t seems to me as if God is preparing
the world for some quick and universal
movement. A celebrated electrician gave
me telegraph chart of the world. On
that chart the wires crossing the CONT
nents and the cables under the sea looked
like veins req WIFI DlOJQ. AJl DltL CIldIl
1 see that the headquarters Of the light
nings are in Great Britain and the United
States. In London and New York the
lightnings are stabbed, waiting to be har-
messed for some quick dispatch. That
shows you that the telegraph is in posses
sion Of Christianity.
An Old Fashioned Christian.
1t is a significant fact that the man who
invented the telegraph was an old-fash-
toned Christian-Prof. Morse-and that the
man who put the telegraph under the sea
was an old-fashioned Christian-Cyrus W.
Field-and that the president of the most
famous Of the telegraph companies Of this
country wasl an old-fashioned Christian
William Orton-going from the communion
table on earth 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 FLY won the
race at the derby, or which marksman
beat at Do.lymount. L suppose the tee
graph was invented and built TO call the
word to God.
In some Of the attributes of the Lord we
seem TO share on a small sca.e-for in
stance. in His love and in His kindness.
But until of late foreknowledge, omni-
science, omnipresence, Omnipotence, seem
to have been exclusively Gods possession.
God. desiring 10 make the race Ike him
self, gives US species of foreknow,edge il.
the weather probabilities, gives us a spe-
cies of Omniscience in biography, gives us
a species Of omnipresence in the telephone
gives US a species of omnipotence in the
steam power. Discoveries and inventions
al. around about us, people are asking,
What next?
will tell YOU what next. Next, a stu
pendous religious movement. Next, the
end of war Next, the crash of despotisms
| Next tln uVOrl1fC gym p,
Christlike dominion. Next, the judgment.
What becomes Of the world after that /
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 a ship of relief to carry bread to
| some other suffering planet, or let it be de-
mOlished. Farewell. dear old world that
began with paradise and ended with judg-
ment conflagration!
The Ocean of Life
One summer I stood on the isle of
Wight, and I had pointed out to me the
place where the Eurydice sank with 2OO
or 800 young men who were in training for
the British navy. You remember when
the training ship went down there was a
| thrill of horror all over the world. Oh
my friends, this world is only a training
| ship. On it we are training for heaven
| The old ship sails up and down the ocean
| of immensely, now through the dark wave
| Of the midnight, now through the golden
| crested wave of the morn but sails on and
sails on. After awhile her work will be
| done, and the inhabitants of heaven will
| look out and find a world missing. The
cry will be: Where is that earth where
| Christ died and the human race were
| emancipated? Send out fleets of angels tc
find the missing craft" Let them sail ur
and down. cruise up and down the ocean
| Of eternity, and they will catch not one
| glimpse Of her mountain masts or her top
| gallants Of floating cloud. Gone down
| The training ship of a world persisted in
| the last tornado. On, let it not be that she
| goes down with all on board, but rather
may 1t be said Of her passengers as 1t wa.
| said Of the drenched passengers of the
| Alexandrian corn ship that crashed into
the breakers Of Melita, They all escaped
| safe to land"
The Hydra.
The most remarkable creature in the