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DIVISION OF SPOILS.
REV. DR.. TALMAoE breaches A JOY
GUS SERMON.
The Earth Will Be Mado to Blossom and
the World VIII 30 Evangeiizod-weaith
Will BE Equaiired and Poverty He
Known No More In Gods Kingdom.


VIII he Equaiined and Poverty He
Known No More In Gods Kingdom.
WASHINGTON, May 3.-This sermon Of
DR.. Talmage is radiant with coming re-
wards for all wolldoers. Many of tho
ilisheartened will rally after reading It,
He chose for his subject 1.-THE Division of
Spoils, the text selected being Isaiah lii,
12, "He shall divide tho spoil with the
strong.'
In tho Coliseum at Rome, where perse
outors used to let out tho half starved lions
to cat up Christians, there Is now planted
the figure OF cross. And l rejoice to
know that tho upright piece Of wood nailed
to q transverse piece has become tho sym
Dol not moro Of suffering than Of victory.
1t 10 Of Christ, tho conqueror, that my text
speaks. AS q kingly warrior, having sub
ducd an empire, might divide tho 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 l
will have to take our share IL we are strong
IN faith and strong In our Christian 10y.
nlty, for my text declares II, "Ho shall
divide tho spoil with the strong.'
The capture Of this round planet for
imagine when tho church takes off It's
coat and rolls up its sleeves for the work,
rs it will There arc / 600, 900, 900 of poo.
plo now in tho world, and 400, 900, 900 are
Christians. Subtract $50, 900, 900 who are
Christians from the 1000, 900, 900, and
there arc I, 100, 900 900 loft. Divide tho
!, 100, 900, 900 who arc not Christians by
tho $50, 600, 900 who are Christians, and
you will find that we shall have to average
less than three souls eaoh, brought by us
into tho kingdom Of God, to bavp the
whole world redeemed. Certainly, with
tho church rising up to Its full duty, no
Christian will be willing to bring less
than three souls into tho kingdom of God
hope and pray Almighty God that
may bring more than three. know evan
gel!sts who have already brought $4,000
each for thu kingdom Of God. Thoro are
900 900 people whose ono and only and alb
sorbiEg 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 Of only three
souls each into tho kingdom Of our Lord,
all impossibility vanishes from this ON
nipotent crusade. Why, know Sabbath
school teacher who for many years has
boen engaged In training the young, and
she has had five different classes, and thoy
averaged seven to q class, and they were
all converted, and times aro 80 as noar
rs I con calculate. So that sho brought
her three into the kingdom Of God and
had 82 to spare. My grandmother prayed
her children into the ltngdom of Christ,
and her grandchildren and hope all her
great-grandchildre for God remembers
prayer rs years old as though it were
only minute old, and so she brought her
three In the kingdom of God and had
more than 100 to spare. Besides that
through the telephone and the telegraph
this whole world, within few years, will
BIO brought within compass of ten min
utes. Besides that, omnipotence, omni-
presence and omniscience are presiding in
this matter Of the world betterment, and
that takes the question Of the worlds sal
walton out Of the impossibilities into tho
possibilities, and then out of the possibili-
ties into tho probabilities, and then out of
the probabilities into the certninties. Tho
building Of tho Union Pacific railroad from
ocean to ocean was q greater undertaking
than the girdling Of the earth with tho
gospel, for ono enterprise depended upon
the human arm, while the other depends
upon almightiness.
The World VIII Be Evangelical.
DO really mean all the earth will sur
render to Christi Yes. How about the
uninviting portionsp Will Greenland be
evangelizedP The possibility is that after
few more hundred bravo lives are dashed
out among tho icebergs that great rofriger-
ator, the polar region, will BIO 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 as 1t has been positively dem.
onstrnted that the arctic region was once
q blooming garden and fruitful field
those regions may change climate ard
again be q blooming garden and fruitful
field. II Is proved beyond controversy by
German and American scientists that tho
arctic regions were the first portions Of
this world inhabitabio. The world hot
beyond human endurance, those regions
were Of course the first to BIO 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 tho remains of flowers havo
been found In the arctic region, showing
1t was like Mexico for climate and 1t Is
found that the arctic was the mother re-
gion from which all the flowers descended.
Professor Wallace says the remains of all
styles Of animal life are found In tho arctic
regions, including those animals that can
live only In warm climates. Now thSt
arctic region, which has been demonstrated
by flora and fauna and geological argu-
ment to have been as full of vegetati
and life as our Florida, may DO turne.
back to It's original bloom and glory, or 1t
will be shut up as q museum of crystals
for curiosity seekers once in awhile to
visit. But arctic and antarctic, In some
shape, will belong to the Redeemer's
realm.
What about other unproductive or re-
pulsive regionsp All the deserts will be
irrigated, the waters will be forced up to
the 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 and could not raise
an apple or bushel Of wheat in hundred
years without artificial help, but Is now
through such means ono great garden, SO
all the unproductive parts Of all the con
tinents will be turned into harvest fields
and orchards. A half dozen De Lessens
will furnish the world with all tho canals
needed and will change tho course of r'v-
ers and open new lale s, and the great Sa.
hara desert will be out up into farms with
an astounding yield of bushels to tho aero.
The marsh will DO drained of It's waters
and CURED Of Its malaria. I saw what was
for many years called the Black swamp
OF Ohio, it's ohiof crop ohills and feyers,
but now, by the tiles put into the ground
to carry OIL the surplus moisture, trans
formed into the richest and healthiest of
re0iOng Tho God who uaafos pothino 7