Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1896-05-15
TALMAGE'S SERMON
INTERESTING THEME BY THE
WASHINGTON PREACHER.
Subject. "The Division of spOIls."

sNFE OF a cross. Anu EttlAtu 10 kAANN tAAe+s
the upright piece Of wood nailed 20 a trans
verse piece has become the symbol not more
Of suffering than OF victory. II is Of Christ
the cOnqueror that my text speaks. As
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 will have TO take our
share If We are strong in faith aud 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 a job as you might imagine,
when the church takes Off its coat aud rolls
up its sleeves for the work, as II will. There
are l, 500, GOD 900 Of people now in the world,
and 100000, 900 are Christians. Subtract
45) ,000,OO who are Christians from the
1000 900, 900. and there are $4,000 900 left.
Divide the .l5O, 900 900 who are not Chris
tians by the 450, 00O,0 900 who are Christians,
and You will lind that we shall have to aver
age 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 Chris
tian will be willing to bring less than three
souls into the kingdom of God.
l hope and pray Almighty God that may
bring more than three. l know evangelists
who have already brought $4,000 each for
the kingdom of God. There are 200 900 peO-
pie whose one and only and absorbing busi-
ness 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 impossthiltty
vanishe5 from this omnipotent crusade.
Why, know a Sabbath school teacher who
for many years has been engaged in train
ing the young and she has had five differ
ent classes, and they averaged seven TO n
class, and they were all converted, and five
times seven are thirty-ave as near as | can
calculate. SO that she brought her three
into the kingdom of God and had thtrty-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 prayer
seventy-ave years old as though it were
only a minute DID, and so she brought her
three into the kingdom OF God and had more
than 100 to spare. Besides that, through the
telephone and the telegraph, this whole
world, within few years, will be brought
within compass of ten minutes. Beside:
that, omnipotence, omnipresence and omnis
cience are presiding in this matter OF tbs
worlds betterment, ar takes the question
of the worlds salvation out of the impossi
bilities into the possibilities. and then out o.
tho possibilities into the probabilities, anC
then out ofthe probabilities into the certain
ties. The building of the Union Paciil
Railroad from ocean to ocean was create
undertaking than the girdlinC OF the eartl
with the Gospel, for one enterprise depended
| upon the human arm, while the other de
! ponds upon almightiness.
Do | really mean all the earth will sur
] Iart 70 b-i- INVrr oh ftt bA IN
inviting portions? Will Greenland be evan
gelized? The possibility is that after a few
more hundred brave lives are dashed GU
among the icebergs that great refrigerator
| the Polar region, will be given up to tn
walrus and bear, and that the inhabitant
| will come down by invitation into tolerabl
| climates, or those climates may soften, and
as it has been positively demonstrated tina
the arctic region was once blooming gan
den and a. fruitful field, those regions ma
change climate and again be bloOmin
garden and fruitful field. II is proved be
yond controversy, by German and American
scientists. that the arctic regions were tn
first portions of this world inha5itable: tn
world hot beyond human endurance, thos
regions were, of course, the first to be coo
enough for hGmaR g9q ftb nPq hgm nPta pe
/ was tropical climate. Professor Heer, {
! Zurich, says the remains of flowers have bee
| found in the arctic region, showing it wa
like Mexico for climate, and it is found tina
the arctic was the mother region from whic
all the flowers descended. Professor Wa
lace says the remains of all styles of animt
life are found in the arctic regions, includin
those animals that can live only in war;
climates. Now that arctic region, which ht
been demonstrated by flora and fauna an
geological argument to have been as full {
vegetation and life as our Florida, may /
turned back to its original bloom and giOr
or it will be shut up as a museum Of crysta
for curiosity seekers once in a while to visi
But arctic and antarctic in some shape wi
belong to the Redeemer's realm.
What about other unproductive or repu
sive regions? All the deserts will be irrig;
ted, the waters will be forced up to the grei
American desert between here aud the Pacid
by machinery now known or yet to be in
vented, and as Great Salt Lake City has L
rain and could not raise an apple or bush
OF wheat in hundred years without artit
cial help, but is now through such means OF
great garden, so all the unproductive par
of all the continents will be turned into ha
gest fields and orchards. A half dozen I
Lesseps will furnish the world with all tn
canals needed and will change the course
rivers and open new lakes, and the gre
Sahara desert will be cut up into farms vii
The marsh will be drained OF its waters an
cured Of its malaria. l saw what was f.
many years called the Black Swamp Of Obi
its chief crop chills and fevers, but now,
the tiles put into the ground to carry Off tt
surplus moisture, transformed into the richie
and healthiest OF regions. The God wi
wastes nothing, 1 think, means that tn
world, from pole to pole, has comet to perfe
tion of foliage and fruitage. Forthat reast
he keeps the earth running through spac
though so many fires are blazing down in i
t1mbers and so many meteoric terrors ha'
threatened to dash it to pieces. As soon
the earth is completed Christ will divide
up among the good. The reason He does n
divide it now is because it Is not done.
kind father will not divide the apple amor
his children until the apple is ripe. In fu
flllment of the New Testament promis
"The meek shall inherit the EARTH" and Il
promise OF the Old Testament. "He sha
divide the spoil with the strong" the wor
will be apportioned to those worthy to 20
sess it.
1t is not 50 now. In this country capab
of holding, feeding. clothing and shelterir
1,2O0GO,O00 people, and where we ha'
100000 Inhabitants, we have 1900.
who cannot get honest work and with the
families an aggregation Of 100000 that a
on the verge of starvation. SOmethir
wrong. most certainly. IN some way the
will be new apportionment. Many Of II
millionaire estates will crack to pieces on Il
designations or the grandchildren acd thu
dissolve into the possession Of the mass
who now have an insufficiency.
What. you say, will become Of the expe
sive and elaborate buildings now devoted
, debasing amusements2 They will becon
schools, art galleries, museums, gymnasium
and churches. The world Is already gettiI
disguised with many of these amusement
and no wonder. What an importation OF u
clean theatrical stuff we have within {
) last few years had brought to our shor'
And professors of religion patronizing su
things Having sold out to the devil, W
, don't you deliver the goods and 60 over
him publicly, body, mind and soul, n
withdraw your name from Christi
l churches and say, "Know all the world
/ these presents that 1 am a patron of IL
,leanness and child of hell?" Sworn to
Ii T n.lN