Democratic messenger., 1894-12-08
TALMAGES SER MON
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would not in all that walk find one pr
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 30 years.
you admit that the majority of the two
whole generations shall 30 off the stage
unblessed and unsaved. / 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 i'll middle
life pass off.
"Oh. you say, 'it t. tco vast sn en-
terprise TO be conducted in SO short
time. r." Do you know how long il would
take to save the whole world if each
man would bring another? 1t would
take ten years. By calculation i'll com
pound interest. each man bringing an
other, and that ono another. and that
one another. i'll ten years the whole world
would bo saved. If the.world is not
saved i'll 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. l want to bring 10, 900 souls. i
should be ashamed to meet my God i'll
judgment if with all my opportunities
of commencing Christ to the people
could not bring 0,000 souls. But it
will all depend upon the revival spirit.
Tho 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 tho wires crossing the conii-
nents and the cables under the sea look
ed like veins red with blood. On that
chart sec that the headquarters of the
lightnines 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 i'll possession of Christianity.
Old Fashioned Christians.
1t is significant fact that the man
who invented the telegraph was an old
fashioned Observation-Disclosures Morse-
and that the man who put the telegraph
under the sea was an old fashioned
Christian-C'yrus 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 i'll 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 tho race ut the Derby, or
which marksman beat at DollymOunt.
/ suppose tho telegraph was invented
and built to call the world to God.
In some of tho attributes of the Lord
we seem to share on small scale-for
instance, in his love and i'll his kind
ness. But until of late foreknowledgc,
omniscience, omnipresence, omnipo-
tence, seem to have been exclusively
Gods possession. God. desiring to make
the race like himself, gives us Il spe-
cies of foreknowledge i'll the weather
probabilities, gives us n species OF ON
niscience i'll telegraphy, gives us spc-
cies of omnipresence i'll the telephone.
gives us species of omnipotence Ill
the steam power. Discoveries and in
ventions all around about us. people are
asking what next?
Twill tell you what next. Next. a
stupendous religious movement. Next,
the end of war. Next, the crash of des
potisms. Next, the worlds expurgation.
Next, the Christlike dominion. Next,
the Judgment. What becomes of the
world after that care not. 1t will have
suffered and achieved enough for one
world. Lay it up i'll the drydocks of
eternity, like an old manof-war gone
out Of service. or fit il 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 conflagration!
Training For Heaven.
One summer | stood on the isle of
Wight, and had pointed ont to me thu.
place where the Eurydicc sank with
eco or 300 young men who Were i'll
training for the British navy. You re-
member when the training ship went
down there was thrill of horror all
over tho world. Oh, my friends, this
world is only "a 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
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 "a world
missing. The cry will be: Where is
that earth where Christ died and the
human race were emancipated? Send
ont fleets of angels to find the missing
craft" Let them sail up and down,
cruise up and down the ocean of eterni
ty, and they will catch not one glimpse
of her mountain masts or her top gal
lants of floating cloud. Gone down!
The training ship Of world perished
i'll the last tornado. Oh, let it not be
that she goes down with all on board,
but rather may it be said of her passen-
gers as il was said of the drenched pas
sengers of the Alexandrian corn ship
that crashed into the breakers of Nell
ta, "They all escaped safe to land" +"
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