The Penn's Grove record., 1896-05-08
GiI. DR.. TaLVGGf.
The Eminent Divin,, Sunda.
Sermon.
Subject, "rhe Division of spoils."

TEXT: Gle shall divide the spoil With tie
btrong."-Isaiah ill.,, II.
In the Coliseum Mt Rome, where per5ecu-
tors used TO let out the half starved lions to
Cat up Christians, thore is now planted tho
figure of IA cross. And l rejoice to know ina
the upright piece Of wood nailed to a trans
verse piece has become the symbol NOT more
OF suffering than Of victory. 1t is OF Christ
the ~conqueror that my text speaks. AS a
kin9ly warrior, having subdued an empire,
might divide the palaces and Snansfons ana
cities and valleys and mountains among ms
officers, so Christ is going to divide up all
the earth and all the heavens among HIS
people, and you and / will have to take our
share II we are strong III faith and strong IN
our Christian loyalty, for my text declares
1t, "He shall divide the spoil with the
strong"
The capture OF this round planet for Christ
Is not so much of Il job as you might imagine,
when the church takes of its o and roi $
up its sleeves for the work, as 1t will. There
are 500 .001, 900 Of people now In the world,
and 450, 900, 900 ara Christians. Subtract
450, 900 600 who are Christians from the
1900, 900, 900. and there are I, 150, 90 900 lett.
Divide the l $50, 000. 900 who are not Chris
tians by the $50, 900, 900 who are Christians,
and you will find thar we shall have to aver
age less than three souls eaoh, brought by
us into the kingdom Of God, to have tho
whole world redeemed. Certainly with tho
church rising up to its full duty, no Chris
tian will be willing to bring less b three
souls into the kingdom OF God.
1 hope and pray Almighty God that l may
bring more than three. l know evangeiistS
who have already brought $4,000 each for
the kingdom Of God. There are zoo. 600 peo1
pie whose one and only aud absorbing busi-
ness in the world Is to ave souls. When
you take these things into consideration,
and that the Christians will AVE to average
the bringing OF only three souls each into
the kingdom of our Lord. all impossibility
vanishes from this omnipotent crusade.
Why, l know II Slbbath.scho teacher h
for many years has been engaged In trains
ing the young, and she has had five differs
emit classes, and they averaged seven TO q
class, and they were all converted, and five
times seven are thirty-ilve as near. as l can
calculate. So that she brought her three
into the kingdom Of God and had thirty-two
to spare. My grandmother prayed her chill
dren into the kingdom of Christ, and her
grandchildren, and l hope all her great
grandchildren, for God remembers a prayer
seventy-flve years old as though 1t were
only a minute Old, and so she brought her
three into the kingdom Of God ard had more
than 100 to spare. Besides that, through tho
telephone and the telegraph, this whole
world, within q few years, will be brought
within compass Of ten minutes. Besides
that, omnipotence, omnipresence and omnis-
cience are presiding in this matter OF tho
worlds b%ettarment, and takes the question
of the worlds salvation out OF the impossi.
bllities into the possibilities, and b out OF
the possibilities into the probabilities, and
then out ofthe probabilities into the certain
ties. 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 de-
ponds upon almightiness.
Do l really mean all the earth will sur
render to Christ? Yes. How about the un-
inviting portions2 Will Greenland be evan
gelized2 The possibility is that after a few
more hundred brave lives are dashed out
among the icebergs that great refrigerator
the Polar region, will be given up TO the
walrus and bear. and that the Inhabitants
will come down by invitation into tolerable
climates, or those climates may soften, and.
as 1t has been positively demonstrated that
the arctic region was once a blooming gar.
den and a fruitful field, those regions may
change climate and again be a blooming
garden and a fruitful field. 1t is proved be-
yond controversy, by German and American
scientists. that the arctic regions were the
first portions of this world inbahttable; the
world hot beyond human endurance, those
regions were, of course, the first to be cool
enough for human foot and human lung. II
was positively proved that the arctic region
was q tropical climate. Professor Heer, OF
Zurich. saws the remains of flowers have been
found in the arctic region, showing II. was
like Mexico for climate, and 1t is found that
the arctic was the mother region from which
all the flowers descended. Professor Wal
lace saws the remains 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, which has
been demonstrated by fora and fauna and
geological argument to have been as full oil
vegetation and life as Florida, may be
turned back to its original bloom and glory,
or 1t will be shut up as a museum OF crystals
for curiosity seekers once In a while to visit.
But arctic and antarctic In some shape will
belong to the Redeemer'S realm.
What about other un~productiye or repul-
siye regions? All the deserts will be irriga.
ted. the waters will be forced up to the great
American desert between here and the Pacific
by machinery now known or yet to be In
vented, and az Great Salt Lake City has no
rain aud could not raise an apple or a bushei
OF wheat In a hundred years without artifl-
cial help, but is now through such means one
RTeaI RATutu, 81 MI mo utplOdhSttNo Dhtt5
of ali the continents will be turned into har-
vest fields and orchards. A half dozen De
Lesseps will furnish the world with all tho
canals needed and will change the course OF
rivers and open new lakes. n the great
Sahara desert will be cut up into farms with
an astounding yield OF bushels TO the acre.
The marsh will be drained of its waters and
cured of Its malaria. l saw what was for
many years called the Black Swamp OF Ohio,
A. .IgaF ,.o, ,kflia and fpynra hnf nOtr bu
the tiles put into the ground to carry of the
surplus moisture, transformed into therichest
and henlthiest Of regions. The God who
wastes nothing, / think, means that this
world. from pole to pole, has comet9 perfec-
tion Of foliage and fruitage. For that reason
he keeps the earth running through space.
though so many fires are blazing down in its
timbers and so many meteoric terrors have
threatened to dash it to pieces As o o ns
fine earth Is completed Christ will divide 1t
mn among the good. The reason He does not
divide il now is because 1t is not done. A
kind father will not divide the apple among
his children until the apple is ripe. In full.
dllment OF the New Testament promise.
sfThe meek shall inherit tho earth" and the
promise of the Old Testament, "Ho shalt
divide the spoil with the strong, the world
will he apportioned to those worthy to pos
sess it.
II ID not 80 now. In this country capabla
of holding, feeding, clothing n sheltering
I.21l, 900, 900 people, and where We have
Cd, 900, 900 Inhabitants, We have 1900. 00d
who cannot get honest work. and with their
families an aggregation of 500, 900 that are
on. the verge OF starvation. Something
wrong, most certainly. In some way there
will be a new apportioament. Many of the
millionaire estates will crack to pieces on the
designations OF the grandchildren AID then
dissolve into the possession OF the masses
who now have an insutlciency.
What, you say, will become OF the expen,
siye and elaborate buildings now devoted to
dehasing a~musementsp They will becomi
schools, art galleries, museums, gymnasium
ard churches. The Y Grid Is already GETTING
disgnsted with many Of these amusements
ana no wonder. What an importation OF uni
clean theatrical stuff we have within tht
last few years had brought to u shoreI
And professors OF religion ~patrOnlzlng sued
thingsl Having sold out to the devil, wig
don't Won oliver the goods and go over Il
him publicly, body, mind and soul, and
Withdraw YOUR name from Christiat
churches and say, "Know all the world N
these presents that / am a patron Of NJ
-aeanuess and q child Of hsila" Sworn to be
he Lord's, you are perjurers-
n Won think these offenses are to go on
soreyer, vow do not know who the Lord IL.
Sod Will not wait for b day OF Judgment.
III these palaces OF sin will become palaces
~ righteousnesa They will come into the
.ot thoaa afronQ for virtuA and