The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-12-07
FRIDAY MORNING, DEC. 7. 1894.
ty. / want to bring 10, 600 souls.


should be ashamed TO meet my God in
Judgment II with all my opportunities
Of commanding Christ to the people |
could not bring 10, 900 souls. But IL
will all depend upon tho revival spirit,
The hook and line fishing will not doit,
II seems to me as II God Is preparing
the world for some quick and universal
movement. A celebrated electrician gave
me a telegraph chart of the world, On
that chart tho wires crossing the conti'
nents and the cables under the sea look
ed like veins red with blood On that
chart SEQ that the headquarters of tho
lightnings are in Great Britain and the
United States, In London and New
York the lightnings arc stabbed, wait
ing to DO harnessed for some quick dis
patch. That shows you that tho tolo-
graph is in possession of Christianity
Old Fashioned Christians.
1t is significant fact that the man
who invented the telegraph was an old
fashioned Christian-Professor Morse
and that the man who put the telegraph
under tho sea was an old fashioned
Christian--Cyrus w. Field--and that
tho president of the most famous OF the
telegraph companies of this country was
an old fashioned Christian William
Orton--going from tho 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
lilly won tie race at the Derby, or
which marksman beat at Dollymount.
suppose the telegraph was invented
and built to call tho world to God.
In some OF the attributes of the Lord
we seem to share on small scale-for
instance, in lis love and in his kind
ness. But until of late foreknowledge,
omnisoience, omnipresence, omnipo-
tence, seem to have been exclusively
Gods possession. God, desiring to make
the race like himself, gives us spe-
eies Of forekEowledge in the weather
probabilities, gives us species of ON
niscienoe in telegraphy, gives us spe-
cies of omnipresenoe in the telephone
gives us 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
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 l care not. 1t will have
suffered and achieved enough for one
world. Lay it up in the dydocks of
eternity, like an old man-ot 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 demol-
ished Farewell, dear old world, that
began with paradise and ended with
Judgment conflagration
Training For Heaven.
One summer l stood ON the isle Of
Wight, and had pointed out to me the
place where the Eurydice sank with
200 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. 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 world
missing. The cry will be: "Where is
| that earth where Christ died and the
| human race were emancipated? Send
out fleets Of angels to find the missing
craft. y Let them up and down,
| cruise up and dow AN of eterni-
ty, and they will C. 1t one glimpse
Of her mountain nit.at5 CT her top gal
lants Of floating cloud. Gone down
The training ship of world persisted
in khe 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 it was said of the drenched pas
sengers of the Alexandrian corn ship
that crashed into the breakers of Nell
ia, '"They all escaped safe to land"