Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-05-04
SPOILS OF VICTORY.
REV. DR.. TALMAGE breaches A SER
MON FULL OF HOPE.


He Looks For the final Capture of the
World Fer Christ and Says tho Glorious
Event Is Comparatively Near ut Hand.
The Spoils.
WASHINGTON, Nay 3.-This sermon
of DR.. Talnage is radiant with coming
rewards for all welldoers. Many Of the
disheartened will rally after reading it,
He chose fer his subject 1.-THE Division
of Spells, y the text selected being Isaiah
lii, 10, ''He shall divide the spoil with
the strong
In the Coliseum at Rome, where per-
secutors used to let out the half starved
lions to eat up Christians, there is now
planted the figure Of cross. And I re-
joice to know that the upright piece of
wood nailed to q transverse piece has
become the symbol not more Of suffering
than of victory. It is Of Christ the con-
queror 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 to
divide up all the earth and all the heav-
ems among his people, and you and I
will have to take our share if we are
strong il faith and strong in our Chris
tian loyalty, fer ny text declares it,
''He shall divide the spoil with the
strong"
Modest Spoiis.
The capture Ct this round planet for
Christ is not SO much Of q job IS yCu
might imagine, when the church takes
off its coat and rolls up its sleeves for
the work, as it viii. There arc 1,60O,-
600, 900 of people ROW in the world, and
$50, 600, coo arc Christians. Subtract
$50. coo, OOO who are Christians from the
I,6OO, 600, eco, and there are 1, $50, 00O,-
900 left Divide the 1, $50, 900, 900 who
are not Christians by the $50, coo. coo
who are Christians, and you viii 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 tho
church rising up to its full duty, 10
Christian viii be willing to bring less
than three souls into the kingdom OF
God.
I hope and pray Almighty God that l
may bring more than three. 7 know
evangelists who have already brought
so, 900 each for the kingdom of God.
There are 200, 900 people whose one and
only and absorbing business in the
world is to save souls. When you take
these things into consideration, and
that the Christians will have to average
the bringing CT only three souls each
into the kingdom Of our Lord, all i'm
possibility vanishes from this omnip-
potent crusade. Why, know Sab
bath school teacher who for many years
has been engaged in training the young,
and she has had 1--WE different classes,
and they averaged seven to q class, and
they were all converted, and times 7
are So, as near IS / can calculate. So
that she brought her three into the
kingdom CT God and had SO to spare.
My grandmother prayed her children into
the kingdom Of Christ, and her grand
children, and hope all her great-grand-
children, fer GCd remembers q prayer
rs years cid IS though it were only 4
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 a few years,
will be brought within compass of ten
minutes. Besides that, omnipotence,
Omnipresence and Omniscience are pre-
siding in this matter of the worlds
betterment, and that takes the question
of the worlds salvation out of the i'm
possibilities into the possibilities, and
then out Of the possibilities into the
probabilities, and then out of the prob
abilities into the certainties. The build
ing Of the Union Pacific railroad from
ocean to ocean was a greater under
taking than the girdling of the earth
with the gospel, for one enterprise de-
pended upon the human arm, while the
other depends upon almightiness.
Full Surrender.
Do I really mean all the earth will
surrender to Christ? Yes. How about the
uninviting portions? Will Greenland be
evangelical? The possibility is that aft
er a 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 tolerable climates, or
those climates 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 a fruitful field. 1t
is proved beyond controversy, by Ger
man and American scientists, that the
arctic regions were the first portions of
this world inhabitable; the world hot
beyond human endurance, those regions
We're, of course, the first to be cool
enough for human foot and human lung
It was positively proved that the arctic
region was tropical climate. Professor
Heer of Zurich says the remains Of flow
ers have been found in the arctic region.