The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1894-12-07

wuuld 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 80 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. We must pray and toll and have
the revival spirit, and we must strug
gle to have the whole world saved be-
| fore the men and women now in middle
life pass off.
"Oh," you say, sit is too vast an en-
terprise to be conducted in so short a
time. Do you know how long it would
take to save the whole world if each
man would bring another? 1t would
take 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 to
bring one? Some Of us must bring more
than one, for some will not do their du-
ty. I want to bring 10, 900 souls.
should be ashamed to meet my God in
Judgment if with all my opportunities
of commencing Christ to the people
could not bring 10, 900 souls. But it
will all depend 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. A celebrated electrician gave
me telegraph chart of the world. On
that chart the wires crossing the CONT
nents and the cables under the sea look
ed like veins red with blood. On that
chart I see that the headquarters of the
lightnings are in Great Britain and the
United States. In London and New
York the lightnings are stabbed, 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 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 mean?
do not suppose that the telegraph
was invented merely to let US know
whether flour is up or down, or which
FLY won the race at the Derby, or
which marksman beat at Dollymount.
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 on small scale-for
instance, in his love and in his kind
ness. But until of late foreknowledge,
omniscience, omnipresence, omnipo
tence, seem to have been exclusively
God's possession God, desiring to make
the race like himself gives us a spe-
cies of foreknowledge in the weather
probabilities, gives us a species of ON
nisoience in telegraphy, gives us a spe
cies of omnipresence in the telephone, |
gives us a species of omnipotence in |
the steam power Discoveries and in
ventions all around about us, people are
asking what next?
l will tell you what next Next, a |
religious movement Next,
the end of war Next, the crash of DIES,
potisms. Next, the worlds expurgation.
Next, the Christlike dominion. Next,
the Judgment What becomes of the
world after that l care not 1t will have
suffered and achieved enough for one
world. Lay it up in the drydocks Of
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 it be demol-
ished. Farewell, dear old world, that
began with paradise and ended with
judgment confagration
Training For Heaven.
One summer stood on the isle of
Wight, and had pointed out to me the
place where the Eurydice sank with
900 or 800 young men who were in
for the British navy. You re-
when the training ship went
down there was a thrill of horror all
over the world. Oh, my friends, this
world is only training ship. On it
we are training for heaven. The old
ship sails up and down the ocean of i'm
mensity, now through the dark wave of
the midnight, now through the golden 4:
crested wave of the morn, but sails on
and sails on. After awhile her work
will be done, and the inhabitants of .
heaven will look out and find world
missing. The cry will be: ''Where is
hat earth where Christ died and the c
human race were emancipated? Send I
,ut fleets of angels to find the missing q
raft Let them sail up and down, I
,ruise up and down the ocean of eterni i
v. and they will catcD not one glimpse t
# her mountain masts or her top gal a
ants of floating cloud. Gone down! I
The training ship of world persisted !
n the last tornado. Oh, let it not be
hat she goes down with all on board,
nut rather may it be said of her passen- =
,ers as il was said of the drenched pas =
engers of the Alexandrian corn ship g
hat crashed into the breakers of Nell n
a, "They all escaped safe to land. r