Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1896-05-13
1El. Or. 'TaLuG6E.
The Eminent Divine's Sunday
Sermon.
Subject: "The Division of spoils." !"

TEXT: 'He shall divide the spoil With tlH
strong. ILL.,, IL
In the Coliseum at Rome, where persecu-
tors used to let out the half starved lions to
9at up Christians, there Is now planted the
igure Of a cross. And rejoice to know that
he upright piece Of wood nailed to trans
verse piece has become the symbol not more
of suffering than OF victory. II Is Of Christ
he conqueror that my text speaks. As
kingly warrior. having subdued an empire,
might divide the palaces and mansions and
cittss and valleys and mountains among his
officers, 90 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 In faith and strong In
our Christian loyalty, for my text declares
It, "He shall divide the spoil with the
strong"
Tho capture Of this round planet for Christ
Is not so much Of job as you might imagine.
when the church takes on its coat and rolls
up its sleeves for the work, as 1t will There
are 500, ,009 900 Of people now in the world.
and 450, ,0O, 900 are Christians. Subtract
l50, 900 900 who are Christians from the
,e6O, ,O6O, 900. and there are 90 900 left.
Divide the l.150, 900 600 who are not Chris
tians by the SO, ,00O, 900 who are Christians,
and you will and that we shall have to aver
age lees 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.
Ihops and pray Almighty God that may
bring more than three. know evangelists
who have already brought 80 600 each for
the kingdom Of God. There are 200. 900 peot
pie whose one and only and absorbing busi-
ness in the world Is to save souls. When
you take these things into consideration,
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the bringing OF only three souls each into
the kingdom OF our Lord. all impossibiltty
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 q
class, and they were all converted, and five
calculate. So that she brought her threa
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 1 hope all her great
grandchildren. for God remembers prayer
only a minute old, 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 q few years, will be brought
within compass Of ten minutes. Besides
IuhI, OtuulpOtouCc, 6uu oi11utS-
cience are presiding in this matter OF the
worlds bettsrment, and takes the question
of the worlds salvation out Of the fmpossi.
bilities into the possibilities, and then out of
the possibilities into the probabilities, and
then out Of the probabilities into the certain
ties. The building Of the Union Pacific
Railroad from ocean to ocean was greater
undertaking than the glrdlinS Of the earth
with the Gospel, for one enterprise depended
upon the human arm, while the other de-
pends upon aimightiness.
Do really mean all the earth will sur
render to Christi Yes. How about the un-
inviting portions7 Will Greenland be evan
gelized? The possibility Is that after u 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 tolerabls
climates, or those climates may soften, and.
as 1t 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 q blooming
garden and a fruitful field. 1t Is proved be-
yond controversy, by German and American
scientists. that the arctic regions were the
world hot beyond human endurance. those
regions we're, OF course, the first to be cool
enough for human foot and human lung. II
was positively proved that the arctic region
was a tropical climate. Professor Heer, OF
Zurich, says the remains Of flowers have been
found In the arctic region, showing 1t was
like Mexico for climate, and It Is found that
the arctic was the mother region from which
all the flowers descended. Professor Wal
lace says 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
bean demonstrated by fora and fauna and
- h.,.v, fall >t
vegetation and life as our Florida, may be
turned back TO its original bloom and glory,
or II will be shut up as a museum Of crystals
for curiosity seekers once In q while to visit.
But arctic and antarctic In some shape will
belong to the Redeemer's realm.
What about other unproductive or repul-
sive regions2 All the deserts will be irriga-
ted, the waters will be forced up to the great
American desert between hero and the Pacific
by machinery now known or yet to be In
vented. and as Great Salt Lake City has NO
rain and could not raise an apple or bushel
OF wheat in hundred years without artifl-
cial help, but IS now through such means one
great garden, so all the unproductive parts
Of all the continents will be turned into har-
vest fields and orchards. half dozen De
Lesseps will furnish the world with all the
canals needed and will change the course Of
rivers and open new lakes. and 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 I saw what was for
many years called the Black Swamp Of Ohio,
its chief crop chills and fevers, but now, by
the tiles put into the ground to carry off the
surplus moisture, transformed into the richest
and healthiest OF regions. Tho God who
wastes nothing, think, means that this
world, from pole to pole, has come to perfec.
tion OF foliage and fruitage. Forthat reason
he keeps the earth running through space.
though 80 many fires are blazing down in its
timbers and so many meteoric terrors have
threatened to dash 1t to pieces. As soon as
the earth Ia completed Christ will divide II
up among the good. Tho reason He does MOI
divide It now is because It Is not done.
kind father will not divide the apple among
his children until the apple is ripe. In full
"The meek shall inherit the earth," and tn,
promise of the Old Testament. "He shal!
divide the spoil with the strong, the world
will be apportioned to those worthy to pos
sess 1t.
1t is not 80 now. In this country capabl;
of holding, feeding, clothing and shelterinf
1,2DO. .OO0, 900 people, and where We have
sc. .0O0, 600 inhabitants, We have 1000. .O0t
who cannot get honest work. and with theil
families an aggregation Of 5000, 900 that ar
on the verge of starvation. Something
wrong, most certainly. In some way Their
will be a new apportionment. Many OF thf
millionaire estates will crack to pieces on tn
dissipations of the grandchildren AID theI
dissolve into the possession OF the masse
who now have an insufficiency.
What, you say, will become Of the exPen
siye and elaborate buildings now devoted t
debasing amusements2 They will becom
schools, art galleries, museums, gymnasium
and churches. The world Is already getfinl
disguised with many of these amusemenfs
and no wonder. What an importation OF un
clean theatrical stuff We have within tn
last few years had brought to our shores
And professors of religion patronizing sue
things! Having sold out to the devil, VII
don't you deliver the goods and go over
him publicly, body, mind and soul, an
withdraw your name from Christia
churches and say. "Know all tho world !
these presents that am . patron OF n
aeanness and child Of h61n~ sworn % b
he Lords, you are perjurou.
II You think these ohenses are to 90 o
, brewer. You do not know who the Lord u
Sod viii not watt for the day OF judgment
,, IN these palaces Of sin Will become palace
- Righteousness. They will come into th
poeseegion OF those strong tor virtue an
xronR for God. ssHe shall d3v1de the spo