The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1894-12-05

Che revival spirit, and we must struggle
to have the whole world saved before
the men and women now in middle life
pass off.
"Ohw you say, ''it is too vast an
enterprise to be conducted in so short
a time" Do you know how long 1t
would take to save the whole world il
each man would bring another? Ii
would take ten years. BY a calculation
in compound interest, each man bring
ing another, and that one another and
that one another, in ten years the
whole world would be saved. II 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 to
bring one? Some of us must bring more
than one, for some will not do their
duty. want to bring ten thousand
souls. | should be ashamed to meet
my God in Judgment if, with all my op.
portunities of commending Christ to
the people, could not bring ten thou
sand souls. But it will depend upon
the revival spirit. The hook and line
fishing will not do.
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
continent and the cables under the sea
looked like veins red with blood. On
that chart see that the headquarters
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 Christi
anity.
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 telegraph
under the sea was an old-fashioned
Christian-Cyrus w. Field; and that
the president of the most famous OF
the teleg raph companies of the coun'
try was an old-fashioned Christian
William Orton, going from the com.
munion table on the earth straight to
his home in Heaven. What does all
that mean?
do not suppose that the telegraph
was invented simply to let us know
whether -four is up or down, or which
flly won the race at the Derby, OF
which marksman beat at Dollymount.
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 on small
scale. For instance, in His love and in
His kindness But until of late, fore
| knowledge, omniscience, omnipres
ence, omnipotence, seems to have beer
exclusively Gods possession. God, de
string to. make the race like Himself
gives us species of forek nowledge II
the weather probabilities, gives us 6
species of omniscience in telegraph
give us a species of omnipresence il
the steam power Discoveries and in
ventions all around about u.s. people
are asking what next?
will tell you what next. Next, I
stupendous religious movom ent. Next
the end of war Next, the crash o
despotisms. Next, the worlds expur
cation. Next, the Christ-like dominion
Next, the Judgment. What becomes o
the world after that care not. will
have suffered and achieved enough TO
one world. Lay it up in the dry-loclk
of eternity, like nm old man of wa
gone out Of service. Or, fit it up like
ship of relief to carry bread to som
other suffering planet. Or, let it b
demolished. Farewell, dear old world
that began with Paradise and ende'
with Judgment confagrati on.
One summer stood on the Isle O
Wight and had pointed out to me tn
place where the Fury dice sank wit
two or three hundred young men VIII
were in training for the British navy
You remember when the training shi
went down there was thrill of horro
all over the world. o, my friends, thi
world is only training ship On
we are training for Heaven. The oil
ship sails up and down the ocean O
immensity, now 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 out and find worl
missing The cry will be: Where
that earth where Christ died and tn
human race were emancipated? Sen
out fleets OF angels to find the missiL
craft" Let them sail up and dowr
cruise up and down the ocean of etei
nifty, and they will catch not on
glimpse of her mountain masts, or he
topgailants of floating cloud. Con
down. The training ship of the worl
perished in the last tornado. o, let
not be that she goes down with a.
on board, but rather may it be said @
her passengers, as 1t was said OF tn
drenched passengers Of the Alexandria
corn ship that crashed into the break
ers Of Melita: "They all escaped SAT
to land"
"ExPLOSivES VERY uNTlDY.
Perhaps 1t Ii just as Well That DOVE
CuIrass Failed.
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