Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1894-12-03

S.s,uid not in all that walk find one per-
SCH 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 so years,
you admit that the majority of the two
whole generations shall go off the stage
unhlessed 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 strug-
gle to have the whole world saved be-
fore the men and women now in middle
life pass off.
''Oh, - you say, cit is too vast an en-
terprise to be conducted o.. SO short
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. l
should be ashamed to meet my God in
Judgment if with all my opportunities
of commencing Christ to the people l
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 tho 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 arc in Great Britain and the
United States. In London and New
York the lightnings are 6abled, 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.
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-Cyrus w. Field-and that
the president of the most famous of the
telegraph companies of this country WAS
an old fashioned 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
filly won the race at the Derby, or
which marksman beat at Dollymount.
l 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 a 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
Gods possession God, desiring to make
the race like himself gives US spe-
cies of forellnowledge in the weather
probabilities, gives us a species of ON
niscience in telegraphy, gives us spe-
cies of omnipresence in the telephone,
gives us q species of omnipotence in
the steam power. Discoveries and in
ventions all around about US, people are
asking what next?
I will 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 tho
world after that I care not. It will have
suffered and achieved enough for one
world. Lay 1t up i'll the dEydocks OF
eternity, like an old man-o war gone
out of service, or fit it up like a ship
of relief to carry bread to son2o Other
suffering planet, or let it be dcmol-
ished. Farewell, dear old world, that |
began with paradise and ended with
Judgment coEfagration!
Training For Heaven.
One summer 1 stood on the isle of |
Wight, and had pointed out to me tho |
place where the Eurydice sank with !
900 or 800 young men who were in |
training for the British navy. You re-
member when the training ship went |
down there was thrill of horror all |
over the world Oh, my friends, this |
world is only training ship On it
we are training for heaven. Tho old |
ship sails uu and down the ocean of i'm
mensity, now through the dark wave Of
the midnight, now through tho golden |
CieSt0u WdN6 VI VIC mum, Duo Bulls Oh
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 tho
human race were emancipated? Send
out 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!