The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1896-05-15
DIVIDING THE sPOILS."
Rev. DR.. TalmaRs talks Encourage
fngiy to Wen-Doers.
Not sAlone Shall the Earth be Captured
for Christ. But His Hosts Shall
Have Share fn the Heaven
Nv Treasures Ainos

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Isaiah rs. ~
In the Coliseum at Rome, where per-
secutors used to let oat the half
starved lions &c eat up Christians,
there = how planted the figure of a
cross. And I rejoice to know that the
bright piece of wood nailed 10 a
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 snbdued 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 / 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 IL viii. There are 1,6O0,-
bO0, 600 Of people now in the world, and
45O, 600, 600 are Christians. Substract
$50. DOC, eco who are Christians from
the / 600, 0O0, 900, and there are 1,150,-
600, 900 left. Divide the 1,150, 0o0, 900
who are not Christians by the $50, OO0,-
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 fHll
duty, no Christian win be willing to
bring less than three souls into the
kingdom of God. 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, 700 people whose one
and only absorbing business in the
world Is 10 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, l 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 a
class, and they were all converted, and
five times seven are IS, as near as
can calculate. So that che Brought
her three into the Kingdom of God
and had 80 to spare. My grandmother
prayed her children into the king
dom of Christ, and her great-grand-
children, and Hope all her grandchil-
dren, for God remembers a 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 a hundred TO spare.
Besides that through the telephone
and the telegraph, this whole world,
within few years, will be brought
within compass of ten minutes. Be
sides that, omnipotenoe, omnipresence
and omniscience are presiding in this
matter of the worlds betterment, and
that takes the question of the worlds
salvation out of the impossibilities
into the possibilities, and then out of
the possibilities into the possibilities,
and then out Of the probabilities 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 AlIniRhtiness,
Do really mean ell The earth will
surrender to Christ? Yes. How about
the uninviting portions? VIII Green
land be evangelical? The possibility
is that alter a 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 wiz 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 a blooming gar.
den and fruitful field, those regions
may change climate and again be
a 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 inbabitable; the
world hot beyond human endurance,
those regions were, of course, the first
10 be cool enough for human foot and
human lung. 1t was positively proved
that the Arctic region was a tropical
climate. Prof. Heer, of Zurich, says
the remains of flowers have been
found in the Arctic region, showing
IL was like Mexico for climate, and
IL 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
by fora and fauna and !
geological argument to have been as
full of vegetation and life as our Flor !
ida, may be turned back TO its original |
bloom and glory, or il will be shut up
as a museum of crystals for curiosity |
seekers once in awhile to visit. But |
Arctic aad Antarctic, in some shape, |
win belong to the Redeemer's realm. |
What about 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
csinery now known or yet to be in
vented, and, as Great Salt Lake City
has no rain and could not raise an APP
pie or a bushel of wheat in hundred
years without artificial help, but is
now through such means one great
garden, so all the unproductive parts