The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1894-12-08

in church, will stroke his beard
and wonder whether it would not be
better for n thousand souls to come
along for ten years, instead
Of boiling in at M service.
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, il you
postpone the redemption of this world
for fifty years, you admit that the
majority of the two whole generations
shall go off the stage unblessed
and unsaved. l tell you the church
of Jesus Christ cannot consent to it.
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.
"OhI" you say, sit is too vast an enter
prise to be conducted in so short a
time" Do you know how long it would
take to ave the whole world If each
man would bring another? 1t would
take ten years. Is it too much to ex-
pect each n to bring one? Some of
us must bring more than one, for some
will not do their duty. l want to bring
ten thousand souls. / should be ashamed
to meet my God in judgment if, with
all my opportunities of commencing
Christ to the people, l could not bring
ten thousand souls. But it will all de.
pend on the revival spirit. The hook
and line fishing will not do it.
It seems to me that 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 crossed the
continents and the cables under the
sea looked like veins red with blood.
On that chart l see that the headquar-
ters of the lightning are in Great Brit
ain and the United States. In London
and New York the lightnings are
stabbed, waiting to be harnessed for
some quick dispatch. That shows you
Christianity.
do not suppose that the telegraph
was invented merely to let us know
whether iour is up or down, or which
| ally won the race at the derby, or
| which marksman beat at D~ollymount.
I suppose the telegraph was invented
and built to call the world to God.
In some of the attributes of the Lord
we seem to share IN a small scale. For
instance in His love and in His kind.
ness. But until Of late, foreknowledge,
o~mniscience, omnipresence, omnipo-
tsnce, seem to have been exclusive
" Gods possession. God desiring to
make the race like Himself, gives US q
species of foreknowledge in the wealth
er probabilities, gives us a species Of
omniscience in telegraphy, gives us q
species of omnipresence in the tele'
phone, gives us a species of omnipot'
tsnce in the team power. D~iscoverie,
and inventions all around about US,
people are asking what next?
I will tell you what next. Next
stupendous religious movement. Next,
the end of war. Next, the crash
Of despotisms. Next, the worlds ex
purgation. Next, the Christ-like do
minion. Next, the judgment. What
becomes of the world after that l cart
not. It 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 u of service. Or, d
II up like a ship of relief to carry breat
to some other planet. Or, let it be de
molished. Farewell, dear old world
that began with Paradise and ende'
with judgment confiagration.
One summer I stood on the Isle o
Wight, and l had pointed out to m,
the place where the E~urydice sanl
with two or three hundred young me-
who were in training for the Britisl
navy. You remember when the train
ing .ship went down there was
thrill of horror all over tn,
world. o my friends, this worl'
II only a training ship. On it W
} ere training for Heaven. The oil
ship sails up and down the ocean Q
i~miasnsity, o through the dark wav
of the midnight, now through tn
golden-crested wave of the morn, bu
sails ON and sails on. After awhile he
work will be done and the inhabitant
Of Heaven will look put and find
world missing. The cry will bt
"Where Is that earth where Chris
died and the human race was emancI
patsdS Send out fleets of angel
| to find the missing craft.
. Let them sail up and down
!. cruise up and down the ocean &
steFuity, and they will catch not ON
glimpse of her mountain masts, or he
top-gsllants of floating cloud. Con
{ down! The training ship of a worl
l. Inarishad in the last tornado. OH le
{ IL not be that she goes down with a
r ON board, but rather may it be said {
!. her passengers as it was said of tn
. drenched passengers of the Alexandria
corn-ship that crashed into the breal
ers Of Melita: They all escaped sal
to land"