The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1896-05-09

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verse piece has become the symbol no
more OF suffering than Of victory. |
IS OF Christ the conQueror, that my tex
speaks. As kingly warrior. having
suDdued an empire, might divide The
palaces and mansions and cities an(
valleys and mountains among his Off.
GERS, so Christ is going to divide ul
Pill the earth and all the heavens among
his people and you | will have to take
our share if we are strong in faith and
ttrong 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
or Its coat and rolls up its sleeves for
the work, as it will. There are six
teen hundred millions of people now in
Tire world, and four hundred and fifty
millions are Christians. Subtract four
! hundred and fifty millions who are
| Chrl5uons from the sixteen hundred
millions, and there are eleven hundred
ard fifty, millions left. Divide the
eleven hundred and fifty millions who
are not Christians by the four hundred
ana nifty who are Christians, and YOU
VIII 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 full
duty, no Christian 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. ] know evangelists who
nave already brought fifty thousand
each for the kingdom of God. There
are two hundred thousand people whose
one and only and absorbing business
IN the world is to save souls. When
you take these things into considera-
ton, 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, know
a 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
live times seven are thirty-fve, as near
as can calculate. So that she brought |
her three into the kingdom Of God and
had thirty-two to spare. My grand
mother prayed her children into the
kingdom Of Christ, and her grandchlI-
dren, and | hope all her great-grand-
for God remembers a prayer
seventy-fve years old, as though it
we're only minute old; and so she
brought her three into the kingdom of
Tod, and had more than one hundred
o spare. Besides that, through the
telephone and the telegraph, this whole
world. within few years, will be
'rought within compass of ten minutes.
BESIDES that, omnipotence. omnipres-
nee, and cmniscence are presiding in
his matter Of the worlds betterment.
ND that takes the question of the
worlds salvation out of the impossible
les into the possibilities, and then cut
Il the possibilities into the probabi
les, and then out Of the probabilities
nto the certainties. The building of
ne Union Pacific Railroad from ocean
ocean was a greater undertaking
han the girdling of the earth with the {
gospel; for one enterprise depended up I
n the human arm, while the other de-
ends upon almightiness.
Do l really mean that all the earth
ill surrender to Christ? Yes. How
bout the uninviting portions? Will
reenland be evangelical? The posi-
ility is that after few more hundred
rave lives are dashed out among the
ebergs, that great refrigerator, the G
olar region, will be given up to the Z
alrus and bear, and that the innabi- I
nts will come down by invitation in '
tolerable climates, or those climates '
ay soften; and, as it has been posi-
vely demonstrated that the Arctic re- +
on was once blooming garden and L
fruitful field, those regions may
lange climate and again be a bloom e
g garden and fruitful field. It is v
owed beyond controversy, by German
I'd American scientists, that the Arc n
: regions were the first portions of c
is world inhabitable; the world hot
yond human endurance, those regions c
ere, OF course, the first to be cool a
Tough for human foot and human tt
ng. 1t was positively proved that the k
rctlc region was tropical climate. 6
of. Heer, of Zurich, Sd the remains CT
mowers have been found<n the Arc o
region, showing it was like Mexico ii
r climate, and it is found that the Il
'ctic was the mother region from
llch all the flowers descended. Prof E,
allace says the repains of all styles o.
animal life are fond in the Arctic IN
slons, including those animals that =,
n 1--we only in warm climates. Now :,
at Arctic region, which has been !,
monstrated by flora and fauna ,,Sd ~