St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1896-06-27
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
And He Shall Divide His Spoil
with the Strong"

ana he Snau O1v1Qo d10 SpO0
with the Strong"
The Conquest Of the Earth fer Christ Nse
the Only Work Of Christianity
The Heavenly Treasures to
He Taken In, Also
Rev. T. Dewitt Talmagc gave words
of encouragement to well-doers by
promising them q division of the
Spells, in a recent sermon at Washing
ton. He took for his text:
He shall divide the spoil with the strong
Isaiah lii, 10.
In the Coliseum at Rome, where per-
sccutors used to let out the half
starved lions to eat up Christians,
there is now planted the figure Of .
cross. And l rejoice to know that the
bright piece Of wood nailed to .
transverse piece has become the SYM
boil not more of suffering than Of vic
tory. 1t is OF Christ the conqueror that
my text speaks. AS kingly warrior,
having subdued an empire, might di-
vide the palaces and mansions and
cities and valleys and mountains
among his officers, SO Christ is going
to divide up all the earth and all the
heavens among His people. and you
and l will have to take our share If we
are strong in faith and strong in our
Christian loyalty, for my text declares
it: HE shall divide the spoil with the
strong"
The capture of this round planet for
Christ is not SO much of job as you
| might imagine, when the church takes
off its coat and rolls up its sleeves for
the work, as it will. There are 1,6OO.-
0Oo, 900 OF people now in the world, and
$50, O0O, 600 are Christians. Substract
45o, 900, 600 who are Christians from
the SOC. OoO, 900, and there are l.l50,-
DOC, 600 left. Divide the 1,1sO, OO0, 900
who are not Christians by the 450, OOO,-
600 who are Christians, and you will
find that we shall have to average less
than three souls each, brought BY us
into the kingdom of God, to have the
whole world redeemed. Certainly,
with the church rising up to its full
duty, no Christian will be willing to
bring less than three souls into the
kingdom of God. l hope, and pray
Almighty God, that 1 may bring more
than three 1 know evangelists who
have already brought $4,000 each for
the kingdom of God.
There are O.ooO people whose one
and only absorbing business in the
world is to save souls. When you
take these things into consideration,
and that the Christians will have to
average the bringing of only three
souls each into the Kingdom of our
Lord, all impossibility vanishes from
this omnipotent crusade. Why, know
Sabbath-school teacher who for many
years has been engaged in training the
young, and she has had five different
classes, and they averaged seven to
class, and they were all converted, and
five times seven are IS. as near as l
can calculate. So that she brought
her three into the Kingdom of God
and had 30 to spare. Ny grandmother
prayed her children into the king
dom of Christ, and her great-grand-
children, and Ihope all her grandchil-
dren, for God remembers q prayer
IS years old. as though it were
only a minute old; and so she brought
her three into the kingdom of God,
and had more than hundred to spare.
Besides that, through the telephone
and the telegraph, this whole world,
within a few years, will be brought
within compass of ten minutes. Be
sides that, omnipotcnce, omnipresencc
and omnisciencc are presiding in this
matter of the worlds bettcrment, and
that takes the question of the worlds
salvation out of the impossibilities
into the possibilities, and then out of
the possibilities into the posba bilities,
and then out of the proba bilities into
certainties. The building of the Union
Pacific railroad from ocean to ocean
was a greater undertaking than the
girdling of the earth with the Gospel;
for one enterprise depended upon the
human arm, while the other depends
upon Almightiness.
Do really mean all the earth will
surrender to Christ? Yes. How about
the unipviting portions? Will Green
land be evangelical? The possibility
is that after few more hundred brave
lives are dashed out among the ice
bergs, that great refrigerator, the
polar region, will be given up to the
walrus and bear, and that the inhab-
itants will come down by invitation
into tolerable climates, or those eli
mates may soften; and, as it has been
positively demonstrated that the
Arctic region was once blooming gar
den and a fruitful field, those regions
may change climate and again be
blooming garden and fruitful field.
1t is proved beyond controversy, by
German and American scientists, that
the Arctic regions were the first por-
tions of this world inhabitable; the
world hot beyond human endurance,
those regions 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. Prof. Heer, of Zurlich, says
the remains of flowers have been
found in the Arctic region, showing
it was like Mexico for climate, and
it is found that the Arctic was
the mother region from which all
the flowers descended. Prof. Wallace
says the remains of all styles Of ami
NAL life are found in the Arctic re-
gions, including those animals that
can live only in warm climates. Now,
that Arctic region, which has been
demonstrated by dora and fauna and
geological argument to have been as
full Of vegetation and life Is our Flor
ida, may be turned back to its original
bloom and glory, or it will be shut up
a = museum Of crystals for curiosity
seekers. once in awhile to visit. But
Arctic and Antarctic, in some shape.
win belong to the Redeemer's realm.
What shout other unproductive or
repulsive regions? All the deserts
will be irrigated. the waters will be
forced up to the great American desert
between here and the Pacific by ma
chinery now known or yet to be i'm
vented, and, as Great Salt Lake City