The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-05-04
DIVISION OF THE SPOILS.
ALL THE WORLD To BE CAPTURED
FOR CHRIST.


Christian Need Bring Only Three
souls 20 Christ To Effect the Cap
ture-Days when the Arctic Re-
gions Had a Tropical Climate.
Washington. u. c.. May 3-This Imon
Of DR.. Talmage IS radiant with coming
rewards for all weli-ioers. Many 90 the
disheartened viii rally after reading i-
He chose for his subject. "TEe Division
Of Spells" the text selected being isaiah
1912. HE shall divide the spoil with
the strong"
in the Coliseum at Rome. where per-
secutors used 10 let out the half-s-arvet
lions TO eat mp Christians. there is now
planted the figure of "a cross And ! re-
iOice to know that the upright piece Of
wood nailed 10 q transverse piece has be-
come the symbol not more of suffering
than Of victory II is OF Christ, the CON
queror. that my text speaks. AS "a kingly
warrior, having subdued an empire might
divide the palaces and mansions and cities
and valleys and mountains among his
officers. so Christ is going 10 divide up
all the earth and all the heavens among
his people. and you and l will have 10
take our share if we are strong in
faith and strong in our Christian 10y
atty, for my text declares ii: He shall
divide the spoil with the strong"
The capture of this round planet for
Christ is not so much Of a job as you
might imagine, when the church takes of
its coat and rolls up its sleeves Cor the
work, as it VIII. There are sixteen hun
bred millions of people now in the world.
and four hundred and fifty millions are
Christians Subtract four hundred and fif-
D. Afa.a fvsa.r ia,
sixteen hundred millions, and there are
eleven hundred and fifty millions left. Di-
vide the eleven hundred and fifty millions
who are not Christians by the four hun
bred and fifty millions who are Christians.
and you will find that we shall have TO
average less than three souls each,
brought by US into the Gingdom of God,
10 have the whole world redeemed. Ger
tainly, with the church rising up TO its
fuu dutv no Christian will be willing to
bring less than three souls into the king
dom of God. 1 hope and pray Almighty
God. that 1 may bring more than three. /
know evangelists who nave already
brought nifty thousand each for the KING
dom of Cod There are two hundred thou
sand people whose one and only and alb
sorbing business in the world Is to save
souls When you take these things into
consideration, ana that the Christians VIII
have to average The bringing Of only three
our Lord. all. impossibnity vanishes
from this oTnnipotent crusade. Why,
know Sabbath school
teacher who for many years has been en-
gagged in training the young, and she has
had five different classes, ana they aver
aged seven TO a class, and they We're an
converted, and five times seven are thir-
ty-five, as near as ! can calculate. SO that
she brought her three into the Kingdom
of God and had thrty-two TO spare. MY
grandmother prayed her children into the
Il. of m.
and hope all her great-grandchlufen' lot
God remembers a prayer seventy lNe years
old, as though II were only a lllH t. Oh,
and 50 she brought her three INTO the
kingdom of God and had more than one
bundled to spare. Besides that through
the teleDhOne and the telegraph, TINS
whole world, within a few years, VIII DE
brought within compass or ten minutes.
Besides that omnipotence, omnlpreseHce'
and omniscience are presiding IN TINS mat
ter of the worlds Dettermeht, anu tndt
Ukes the question of the world salNd-
ion out of the impossibihues INTO the
possibilities, and then out OF the POSI-
Utilities into the probabilities and then
out of the probabilities into the certain
ties The building Of the Union Paclhc
railroad from ocean TO ocean was a sreaIer
undertaking that the g1rdhng OF lhe
earth with the gospel; for one enterprise
depended upon the human arm, whhe the
other depends upon almlghtness.
Do l really mean all the earth VIII sur
render TO Christ? Yes. How about the
lnnviting portions? VIII Greenland be
eVanEelZeQ. Inc pOSSlDllLg Is ludl dAAEl
a few more hundred brave lives are DASH
ed out among the icebergs, that great re-
frigerator, fthe Polar region, Will be given
up to the walrus and bear, and that the Ia
habitants will come down by invitation IN
10 tolerable china tes,O those climates may
soften; and as il has been positively dem
onstrated that the Arctic region was once
a blooming garden and fruitful held,
those regions may change climate ana
again be a blooming garden and a frult-
ful field. 1t is proved beyond controVer-
sy by German and American scientists,
that the Arctic regions We're the nrst por-
tions of this world inhabitable; the world
hot beyond human endurance, those re-
gions were, of course, the first to be cool
enough for human foot and human lung.
1t was positively proved that the Arctic
region was tropical climate Ifot; Heer
of Zurich says the remains OF mowers
have been found in the Arctic region,
showing it was ike Mexico for climate,
ana II IL found that the Arctic was the
mother region from which all the flowers
descended. Prof Wallace says the re-
mains of all styles of animal life are
found in the Arctic regions, including
those animals that can live only in warm
climates. Now that Arctic region, winch
has been demonstrated by nora ana tauna
and geological argument to have been as
full of vegetation and life as our Florida,
may be turned back to its original bloom
and glory, or II will be shut up as mu-
scum of crystals for curioStty-seeke
once in awhile to visit. But Arctic and
Antarctic, in some shape, will belong 10
the Redeemer's realm.
What about other unproductive or re-
pulsive regions? All the deserts will be
irrigated, the waters will be forced up TO
the great American desert between here
and the Pacific by machinery now known
or yet to be invented. and, as Great Salt
Lake City has no rain and could not raise
an apple or a bushel of wheat in hundred
years ,sithopt artificial help, but is now
through such means one great garden, so
all the unprOductive parts of all the con-
tinents will be turned into harvest fields
and orchards. A half dozen De Lesseps
will furnish the world with all the canals
needed, and will change the course OF
rivers and open new lakes, and the great
Sahara desert will be cut up into farms
with an astounding yield of bushels to the
acre. The marsh win be drained of its
waters and cured of its malaria. ] saw
what was for many years called the Black
swamp of Ohio, its CHIEF crop chills and
fevers, but now, by the tiles put into the
ground to carry off the surplus moisture,
transformed into the richest and healtn-
lest of regions. The God who wastes
nothing, l think, means that this world,
from pole to pole, has come TO perfection
of foliage and fruitage. For that reason
he keeps the earth running through space,
though 50 many fires are blazing down In
its timbers and so many meteOric terrOrs
have threatened to dash it to pieces. AZ
soon as the earth is completed Christ will
divide il IN among the poo1 The 7.aa sor,