The Yale expositor., 1894-12-07

stronger, anu soon All TIC ice Hslu De-
gan to flow away The first resolution
passed by the convention was: Re
solved, That we abolish the sun"
But the sun would not be abolished.
The heat of the sun grew greater and
greater until after awhile the very
king of the icebergs began to perspire
under the glow, and the smaller ice
bergs fell over, and the cry was: "Too
much excitement! order! order!" Then
the whole body, the whole field of ice,
began to flow out, and thousand
voices began to ask: where are we
going to now? Where are we floating
to? We will all break to pieces" By
this time the icebergs had reached the
gulf stream; and they were melted into
the bosom of the Atlantic ocean. The
warm sun is the eternal spirit. The
icebergs are frigid Christians The
warm gulf stream is n great revival.
The ocean into which everything melt
ed is the great. wide heart of the par
doning and sympathizing God.
But think, after all, the greatest
obstacle to revivals throughout Christ
GDNlOlu 10 uHCOuNtIltl ullH-
istry. We must believe that the vast
majority of those who ofiiciate at
sacred affairs are regenerated; but
suppose there may float into the min
istry of all the denominations of Chris
tians men whose hearts have never
been changed by the grace of God. Of
course they are all antagonistic to re-
vivals.
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 redemption of this world
for fifty years, you admit that the ma
jority of the two whole generations
shall go off the stage unblessed and
unsaved. l tell you the church OF
Jesus Christ can not consent to it. We
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.
"Oh." you say, lit is too vast an en-
terprise TO be conducted in so short
time" Do you know how long il
would take to save the whole world II
each man would bring another? 1t
would take ten years. BY calcutta
ton in compound interest, each man
bringing another and that one an
other, 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.
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
continents and the cables under the
sea looked like veins read with blood.
On that chart see that the headquar-
tiers 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 Christianity.
| 1t is a significant fact that the man
who invented the telegraph was an
old fashioned Christian-Prof. Morse.
and that the man who put the tele
graph under the sea was an old
fashioned Christian-Cyrus w. Field;
and that the president of the most
famous of the telegraph companies OF
country was an old fashioned Chris
tian-William orion, going 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
filly won the race at the Derby, or
which marksman beat at Dollymount.
| supposed 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 2 small
scale. For instance, in his love and in
his kindness, But until of late, fore
knowledge, omniscience, omnlpresence,
omnipotence, seem to have been ex-
clusively Gods possession. God desir-
ing to make the race like himself,
gives us a species of forel1nowledge in
the weather probabilities, gives us a
species of omniscience in telegraphy,
gives us n species of omnipresence in
the telephone, gives us n species of
omnipotcnce in the steam power. Dis
coveries and inventions all around
about us, people are asking what next?
l will tell you what next. Next, a
stupendous religious movement. Next,
the end of war. Next, the crash OF
despotisms. Next, the worlds expur-
CATION. Next, the Christlilke domin-
ion. Next, the judgment. What be-
comes of the world after l 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
il be demolished. Farewell, dear old
world, that began with paradise and
ended with judgment conflagration.
Deer Nuisance.