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| grandchildren and then dissolve into the
| possession Of the masses, who now have IN
| knsuiflcienoy.
What, you say, Will become of tho OK
| pensive and elaborate buildings now dc.
voted to debasing amusemontsp They will
become schools, art galleries, museums,
gymnasiuins and churches. The world is
already getting Disguised with many OF
these amusements, and no wonder. What
an Importation Of unclean theatrical stuff
We have Within the last fow years had
brought to our shores And professors OF
religion patronizing such things! Having
sold out to the devil, why don't you deliver
| tho goods and go over to him publicly,
body, mind and soul, and withdraw your
Damo from Christian churches and say,
"know all tho world by these presents
that am patron of uncloanness and a
child of hellP' Sworn to be tho Lords,
you are perjurers.
II you think these offcnses arc to go on
forever, you do not know who tho Lord is.
God will not wait for tho day Of judgment.
All these palaces of sin will become pal
aces of righteousness. They will como
into the possession Of those strong for vir-
tue and strong for God. "He shall divide
the spoil with the strong"
tions Of the earth by reason Of metals md
rare woods md incxhaustible productive
ness, are not yet divided up among the
good because they arc not ready to BIO di-
vidcd. Wait until all tho doors that Liv-
iagstono opened in Africa shall DO entered,
and Bishop Taylor, with his band of self
supporting missionaries, have done their
work, and the Ashantis and Senegambi-
ans shall know Christ us we'll as you know
him, and there shall BIO on tho banks of
the Nile and tho Niger higher civilization
thnn Is now to DO found on the banks of
the Potomac or the Hudson. Then Christ
will divide up that continent among his
friends. Wait until China, which is half
rs large rs oil Europe, shall have developed
her capacities for rico and tea and sugar
among edibles, and her amethyst and
sapphiro and topaz md opal and jasper
and porphyry among precious stones, and
her rosewood and ebony and camphor and
varnish trees among precious woods, and
turned up from her depths u half dozen
Pennsylvania of coal and iron, and 90
Nevadas Of silver, and 80 CALIFORNIA; of
gold, and hor 500, 100000 Of people shall
be evangelical. Then tho Lord will di-
vide it up among the good.
The Eternal Truth.
II my text DO not u deception, but tho
eternal truth, then tho time Is coming
when oil tho farms will be owned by
Christian farmers, and all the commerce
controlled by Christian merchants, and all
the authority held by Christian officials,
and all tho ships commanded by Christian
captains, and all the universities under tho
instruction Of Christian professors; Chris
tian kings, Christian Presidents Christian
governors, Christian mayors, Christian
common council. Yet what securing
out What un upturning! What n demoli-
ton! What q resurrection must prccede
this now apportionment!
l do not undorrato tho enemy. julius
Caesar got his greatest victories by fully
estimating tho vastness of his foes and
prepared his mon for their greatest tri-
umph by saying, Tomorrow King Juba
will be hero with 10000 horses, 100, 600
skirmishers and 300 elephants. / do not
underrato the vast forces Of sin and death,
but do you know who commands us2 Je.
hovahjireh. And the reserve corps behind
us are all tho armies of heaven and earth,
with hurricane and thunderbolt. The good
work of the worlds redemption Is. going
on every minute Never SO many splendid
mon and glorious women on tho side of
right as today. Never so many good people
as now. Diogones has been spoken Of as
wise man because he went with lantern
at MONDAY, saying he was looking for an
honest man. II he had turned his lantern
toward himself he might have discovered
a crank. Honest men by the ten thou
sand! Through the international series Of
Sunday school lessons tho next generation
all through Christendom are going to be
wiser than any generation since the world
stood. The kingdom is coming. God can
do 1t. No housewife with O chamois cloth
ever polished a silver teaspoon with more
case than Christ will rub off from this
world the tarnish and brighten 1t up till
1t glows like heaven, and then the glorious
apportionment! for my text is REINFORCED
by score Of other texts, when 1t says of
Christ, He shall divide the spoil with the
strong"
But" you say, this Is pleasant to
think OF for others, but before that time
shall have passed up into another exist
ence, and shall get no advantage from
that new apportionment." All, you have
only driven mo to the other moro exciting
and transporting consideration, and that
Is that Christ Is going to divide up heaven
In the same way. There are old estates in
tho celestial world that have been in the
possession of the inhabitants for thousands
OF years, and they shall remain as they are.
There arc old family mansions In heaven
filled with whole generations of kindred,
and thoy shall never BIO driven out. Many
of the victors from earth have already got
their palaces, and they arc pointed out to
those newly arrived. Soon after our got
ting there We will ask to be shown the
apostolic residences and ask where does
Paul 1.-Two and John, and shown the patr-
archal residences and shall say, where
does Abraham live or jacob" and shown
the martyr residences and say, "Where
does John Huss live and Ridley" We
VIII want TO sec tho boulevards whore the
chariots of conquerors roll. l win want
to SEQ the garden where the princes walk.
Wo will want to see Music row, where
Handel and Haydn and Mozart and
Charles Wesley and Thomas Hastings and
Bradbury have th,lr homes, out of their
windows, ever and anon, rolling some
snatch Of an earthly oratorio or hymn
transported with the composer. Wo will
want to see Revival terrace, where White
field and Nettleton and Payson and Row.
land Hill and Charles Finney and other
giants OF soul reaping are resting from
their almost supernatural labors, their
doors thronged with converts just arrived,
coming to report themselves.
Distribution of Spells.
But brilliant as the sunset and like the
loavcs for number are the celestial homes
yot to be awarded whom Christ to you and
millions of Others shall liyide the spoil