The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-12-07


examine the credit: and. besides that,
thousand yards of cloth are too much
70 sell all at once?' No. You do not
say that. You take me into the count
ing room, and in ten minutes the whole
transaction is consummated. The fact
is. we cannot afford to be fools in any
thing but religion!
That very merchant, who. on Satur-
afternoon. sold me the 1000 yards of
cloth at one stroke, the next Sabbath,
in church, will stroke his beard
and wonder whether it would not be
better for thousand souls to come
struggling along for ten years, instead
of boiling in at one service.
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 iority 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 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 enter
prise to be conducted in 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. Is it too much to eN-
pect each one to bring one? Some of
us must bring more than one. for some
will not do their duty. | want to bring
ten thousand souls. should he ashamed
to meet my God in judgment if. with
all my opportunities of commenting
Christ to the people, | could not bring
ten thousand souls. BIT il will all de-
pend on the revival spirit. The hook
and line fishing will not do it.
1t seems to me that God is preparing
the world for some quick and universal
movement. A celebrated electrician
gave me Il telegraph chart of the world.
On that chart the wires crossed the
continents and the cables under the
sea looked like veins red with blood.
On that chart | see that the headquar-
tiers of the lightning are in Great Brit
ain 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 telegraph
under the sea was another old-fashioned
Christian-Cyrus w. Field-and that
the president of the most famous OF
the telegraph companies of this coun-
try was an old-fashioned Christian
William Orton-going from the COM
munion table on earth straight to his
home in Heaven. What does all tina
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.
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,
omnipresence, omnipo-
tence, seem to have been exclusive
ly Gods possession. God desiring to
make the race like Himself, gives us d
species of foreknowledge in the wealth
err probabilities, gives us a species of
in telegraphy. gives us
species of omnipresence in the tele-
phone, gives us species of omnipot-
tence in the steam power. Discoveries
and inventions all around about us,
people are asking what next?
| will tell you what next. Next a
religious movement. Next.
the end of war. Next, the crash
of despotisms. Next, the worlds ex-
Next, the Christ-like do
minion. 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 in
the dry-docks of eternity, like an old
gone cut of service. Or, ut
it up like ship of relief to carry bread
to some other planet. Or. let it be de-
molished. Farewell. dear old world,
that began with Paradise and ended
with Judgment contiagration.
One summer | stood on the Isle of
Wight. and | had pointed out to me
the place where the Eurydice sank
with two or three hundred young men
who were in training for the British
navy. You remember when the train |
ing ship went down there was a
thrill of horror all over the |
world. o 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
now through the dark wave |.
of the midnight, now through the |
wave of the morn, but 1
sails on and sails on. After awhile her /
work will be done and the inha bitants |
of Heaven will look out and find
world missing. The cry will be: |
Where is that earth where Christ .
died and the human race was emanci- /
pated? Send out fleets of angels .
to find the missing craft"
Let them sail up and down, /
,ruise up and down the ocean of
eternity, and they will catch not one
glimpse of her mountain masts. or her
of floating cloud. Gone
Town. The training ship of world
persisted in the last tornado. Oh, let
t not be that she goes down with all
IN board. but rather may it be said of