The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-03

itv will be practically extinct. II is a
matter OF astounding arithmetic In each
OF our modern generations there are at
] least thirty-twO million children Now
. add thirty-two million 10 the world popu-
lation. and then have only one or two
/ hundred thousand converted every year,
. and how long before the world viii be
. saved2 Never-absolutely never.
| During our war the President OF the
l United States made proclamation for
I seventy-fve thousand troops. Some Of
you remember the big stir. But the king
/ OF the universe to-day asks for eight hun
I dred million more troops than are en-
Z listed. and We want It done softly, imper-
] ceptibly. gently, no excitement, one by
one
You are dry goods merchant on large
I scale. and I am a merchant on small
/ scale. and I come 10 you and want TO
I buy a thousand yards Of cloth. Do you
say: Thank you: I'll sell you a thousand
/ yards OF cloth, but I'll sell you twenty
/ yards to-day, and twenty tomorrow, and
/ twenty the next day, and II it takes me
| six months I'll sell you the whole thou
sand yards: you will want as long as that
TO examine the goods, and I'll want as
long as that 10 examine the credit; and De
sides that. a thousand yards OF cloth are
too much 10 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 religionl
That very merchant who on Saturday
afternoon sold me the thousand yards OF
cloth at one stroke. the next Sabbath in
church will stroke his beard and wonder
whether it would not be better for thou
sand souls to come struggling along for
ten years, instead of boiling in at one ser
vice.
We talk a good deal about the good
times that are coming, and about the
worlds redemption. How long before they
will Gomez There is a man who says five
hundred years. Here is a man who says
two hundred years. Here is some one more
confident. who says in fifty years. What,
nifty years? DO you propose to let two
generations pass off the stage before the
world is converted?
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 I'M
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.
"Ohr you say. "it is too vast an enter
prise to be conducted in so short a time"
Do you know how long 1t would take to
save the whole world II each man would
bring another? 1t would take ten years.
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 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. 1 want to bring 10000 souls 1
should be ashamed to meet my God in
judgment if with all my opportunities of
commencing Christ to the people 1 could
not bring 10000 souls. But it will all de-
pend upon the revival spirit. The hook
and line fishing will not do it,
1t seems to me as If God is preparing
the world for some quick and universal
movement celebrated electrician gave
me a telegraph chart of the world. On
that chart the wires crossing the CONT
nents and the cables under the sea looked
like veins red with blood. on that chart
l 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
harnessed for some quick dispatch. That
shows you that the telegraph is in possess
sion of Christianity.
1t is a significant fact that the man who
invented the telegraph was an old-fash-
Toned 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
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communion table on earth straight to his
home in heaven What does all that mean ?
l do not suppose that the telegraph was
invented merely to let us know whether
flour is up or down, which filly won the
race at the Derby or which marksman
beat at Dollymount. / suppose the tele-
graph 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 in
stance in his love and in his kindness. But
until of late, foreknowledge, omniscience,
/ omnipresence, omnipotence, seem to have
! been exclusively Gods possession. God de-
! string to make the race like himself gives
! US a species of foreknowledge in the
/ weather probabilities, gives us a species
! of omniscience in telegraphy, gives us a
/ species of omnipresence in the telephone,
! gives us a species of omnipotence in the
steam power. Discoveries and inventions
all around about us, people are asking
what next?
1 will tell you what next. Next, stu
pendous religious movement. Next, the
end of war. Next, the crash of despot-
isms. Next, the worlds expurgation. Next
the Christ-like dominion. Next, the judg-
ment. 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 ship of relief to carry bread to
some other suffering planet. Or, let it be
| demolished. Farewell, dear old world that
| began with Paradise and ended with iudg-
| ment confiagration.
one summer / stood on the Isle of Wight
and 1 had pointed out to me the place
where the Eurydice sank with two or
| three hundred young men who were in
! training for the British navy. You re-
| member when the training ship went
| down there was a thrill of horror all over
| the world. o, my friends this world is
only training ship. On it we are train
! ing 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