Milford chronicle., 1896-05-08
DIVISION OF SPOILS.
REV. DR. TALMAeE breaches A JOY
GUS SERMON.

Tho Earth VIII Be Made to Blossom and
the World VIII BE Wealth
WEI lie Ecualized and Poverty Ee
Known No More In Gods Kingdom.
WASHINGTON, May 3.-This sermon OF
DR.. Talmage IS radiant with coming re-
wards for all wclldocrs. Many of the
dishoartened viii rally after reading 1t.
Ho chose for his subject Tho Division Of
sspoils," the text reelected being Isaiah lii,
70, He shall divide the spoil with the
strong"
In tho Coliseum at Rene, where perso-
cutors used 10 let Outtho half starved lions
to eat up Christians, there is now planted
tho figure of a cross. And l rnioice to
know that tho upright piece of wood nailed
to a transverse piece has become the sym
Dol not moro of suffering than Of victory.
1t is Of Christ, tho conqueror, that my text
speaks. As u kingly warrior, having sub
. duod an empire, might divide the palaces
and mansions and cities and valleys and
mountains emong his officers, so Christ is
going to divide up all tho earth and all the
/ heavens among his people, and you and
will havo TO take our share If woaro strong
! in faith and strong in our Christian 10y
atty, for my text declares It, "He shall
divide tho spoil with tho strong"
/ Tho capture Of this round planet for
/ Christ is not SO much of a job us you might
/ imagine, when the church takes off its
J coat and rolls up its sleeves for tho work,
! as 1t will. There arc 800, 600, 600 Of peO-
/ pie now in tho world, and $50, 600, 900 are
4 Christians Subtract $50, 600, 600 who arc
I Christians from tho LOGO, 600, 600, and
| there are !. 15O 600, 600 left. Divide the
| 1,15O, 600, OOO who arc not Christians by
/ tho 45O, 600, 600 who arc Christians, and
you will find that we shall have to average
less than three souls each, brought by us
into tho kingdom Of God, to have the
whole world redeemed Certainly, with
the church rising up TO its full duty, no
Christian will DO willing to bring less
than thrco souls into tho kingdom Of God
1 hope and pray Almighty God that
may bring moro than three l know evan
gelists who have already brought $4,000
each for tho Kingdom Of God. There are
200. 600 people whose one and only and alb
sorbing business in tho world is to save
souls When you tako these things into
consideration and that tie Christians will
have to average the bringing Of only three
souls each into tho Kingdom Of our Lord,
all impossibilitY vanishcs from this ON
nipotont crusade. Why, 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 n class, and they were
all converted, ana times are 30 as near
as I can calculate. So that she brought
her three into tho kingdom Of God and
had 32 to spare My grandmother prayed
her children into tho kingdom of Christ,
and her elaECchildrcn, and hope all her
groat-erandchildrcn for God remembers
a prayer as years old as though it were
only a minute old, and so shJ brought her
three in tho kingdom Of God and had
moro than 100 to spare. Besides that,
through tho telephone and tho telegraph,
this whole world, within fow years, will
DO brought within compass of ten min
utes. Besides that, Omnip0tence, omni-
presence and omniscienco arc presiding in
this matter of the worlds betterment, and
that takes the question of tho worlds sal
walton out Of the impossibilities into tho
possibilities, and then out Of the POSSIBLE
tics into the probabilities, and then out Of
the probabilities into tho certainties. The
building Of tho Union Pacific railroad from
ocean to ocean was greater undertaking
than tho girdling of tho earth with tho
gospel for one enterprise deponded upon
the human arm, while the other depends
upon almightiness.
Tho World VIII Be Evangelical.
DO really mean all tho earth will sur
render to Christ? Yes. How about the
uninyiting portions? VIII Greenland be
ovangelizedY Tho possibility is that after
a few moro hundred brave lives are dashed |
out among the icebCrgs that great refriger- |
ator, the polar region, will Ee given up to !
tho walrus and bear, and that the inhabi- |
tants will come down by invitation into |
tolerablo climates, or those climates may |
soften, and us it has been positively DEM |
onstrated that the arctic region was once |
a blooming garden and a 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 portions Of |
this world inhabitable Tho world hot |
beyond human endurance, those regions /
were of course the first to be cool enough /
for human foot and human lung 1t was |
positively proved that the arctic region /
was a tropical climate. Professor Heer OF |
Zurich says the remains of flowers have /
been found il tho arctic region, showing 1
it was ike Mexico for climate, and 1t Is /
found that the arctic was tho mother re-
zion from which all the flowers descended. |
Professor Wallace says the romans of all
styles of animal life are found in tho arctic |
regions including those animals TINT can
live only in warm climates. Now that |
arctic region, whichhas been demonstrated |
by flora and fauna and geological argu
ment to have been rs full of vegetation
and life as our Florida, may be turned |
back to its original bloom and glory, or it
will bo shut up as museum Of crystals
for curiosity seekers once in awhile to
visit But arctic and antarctic, in some |
shape, will belong to tho Redeemer's
realm.
What about other unproductive or re-
pulsive regions? All tho deserts will be
Irrigated, tho waters will DO forced up TO
tho great American desert between here
and the Pacific by machinery now known
or yet to be invented, and, as great Salt |
Lake City has no rain ind could not raise
an apple ora bushel Of wheat in Il hundred
years without artificial help, but is now |
through such means one great garden, so
all tho unprOdUctiyo parts Of all the con-
tinents will DO turned into harvest fields
and orchards A half dozen Dc Lesseps |
will furnish the world with all the canals
needed and will change the course Of riv-
crs and open new lakes, and the great Sa-
hara 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 ohills and fevors,
but now, by the tiles put into the ground
to carry of tho surplus moisture, trans
formed into tne richest and healthiest Of
regions. The God who wastes nothing,
think, means that this world, from pole to
pole, has come to perfection Of foliage and
fruitago For that reason he keeps the
earth running through space, though SO
many fires are blazing down in its timbers
and so many mctooric terrors have threat
ened to dash it to pieces. As soon as
the earth IS completed Christ will divide it
m or,,ope, tba GOOD The reason he does