Connecticut western news., 1894-12-06


 changed, and, as many ministers of the gospel declare, they were preaching and had been ordained to sacred orders years and years before their hearts were re- generated. Gracious God, what sol emn thought for those of us who minis ter at the altart With the present min istry in the present temperature of piety the world will never be enveloped with revivals. While the pews on one side the altar cry for mercy the pulpits on the other side the altar must cry for mercy. Ministers quarreling Ministers trying to pull each other down. Minis ters struggling for ecclesiastical place. Ministers lethargic with whole oongre- gations dying on their hand What spectaclel
 Aroused pulpits will make aroused pews. Pulpits afame will make pews afiame. Every body believes in a revival in. trade, everybody likes revival in literature, everybody likes revival in art, yet a great multitude cannot un derstand revival in matters of reli zion. Depend upon it, where you find Q man antagonistio to revivals, whether he be in pulpit or pew, he needs to be regenerated by the grace of God.
 I could prove to demonstration that without revivals this world will never be converted, and that in 100 or 200 years without revivals Christianity will be practically extinct. It is matter of astounding arithmetic. In each of our modern. generations there are at least 82, 900, 900 children. Now add 32, 000,- 900 to the worlds population. and then have only 100, 900 or 200, 900 converted every year, and how long before the world will be saved? Never-absolutely never l
 We Cannot Afford to Be Fools.
 During our war the president of the United States made proclamation for 70. 900 troops Some of you remember the big stir. But the King of the uni verse today asks for 800. 900, 900 more troops than are enlisted, and we want it done softly, imperoeptibly, gently, no excitement, one by one!
 You are a dry goods merchant on a large scale, and I am merchant on n small scale, and come to you and want to buy 1000 yards of cloth. Do you say: ''Thank you; I'll sell you 1000 yards of cloth, but I'll sell you 20 yards today, and 20 tomorrow, and 20 the next day, and if it takes me six months I'll sell you the whole 1000 yards; you will want as long as that to examine the goods, and I'll want as long as that to examine the credit, and, besides that, 1000 yards of cloth are too much to sell all at oncey' No. you do not say that. You take me into the counting room, and in ten minutes the whole transac- tion is consummated. The fact is, we cannot afford to be fools in anything but rehgiolti
 ; That very merchant who on Saturday afternoon sold me the 1000 yards of cloth at one stroke the next Sabbath in church will stroke his beard and won- der whether it would not be better for 1000 souls to come struggling along for ten years, instead of bolting in at one service
 We talk agood deal about the good times that are coming and about the worlds redemption. How long before they will come? There is a man who says 500 years. Here is a man who says 900 years. Here is some one more confii dent who says in 50 years. What, 50 years? Do you propose to let two generi ations pass off the stage before the world is converted?
 We AIust Pray and Toll.
 Suppose by some extra prolongation of human life at the next 50 years you shUld walk around the world, you would not in all that walk find one per, son that you recognize. Why? All dead or SO changed you would not know them. In other words, if you postpone the re- demption of this world for 50 years, you admit that the majority of the two whole generations shall go off the stage unblessed and unsaved. I tell you the church of Jesus Christ cannot consent to it. We must pray and toll and have the revival spirit and we must strugt gle to have the whole world saved be- fore the men and women now in middle life pass off.
 "Oh," you say, "it is too vast an en terprise to be conducted in so short Q time" Do you know how long it would take to save the whole world if each man would bring another? It would tako ten years. By calculation in com pound interest, each man bringing an other, and that one another, 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.
 Is it too much to expect each one tc bring one? Some of us must bring more than one, for some will not do their du. ty. want to bring 10, 900 souls. should be ashamed to meet my God in judgment if with all my opportunities of commenting Christ to the people could not bring 10, GOO souls. But 1t will all depend upon the revival spirit The hook and line fishing will not do it.
 It 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 conti- nents and the cables under the sea look ed like veins red with blood. On that chart see that the headquarters of the Hghtnings are in Great Britain and the United States. In London and New York the lightnings are stabled, wait ing to be harnessed for some quick dis patch. That shows you that the tele- graph is in possession of Christianity.
 old Fashioned Christians.
 It is significant fact that the man who invented the telegraph was an old fashioned Christian-Professor 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 was an old fashioned Christian-W William Orton-going from the communion table on earth straight to his home in heaven What does all that meanr
 I do not suppose that the telegraph was invented merely to let us know whether flour is up or down, or which f7Iv xv0U tho raco af tha Darhv or