The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1896-05-07
IAGE'S SUNDAY SERMON.
LooUENT DISCOURSE.
s.The Division OF spoils.

Isaiah ILL.,, IL.
nilseum at Rome. where persecu-
lot out the half starved lions to
stians, thore Is now planted tho
xrross. And l rejoice to know that
piecc Of wood nailed TO q trans
has become the symbol not moro
than OF victory. II ia OF Christ
eror that my text speaks. As u
Flor. having subdued an empire,
ae the palaces and mansions and
enlleys and mountains among his
Christ Is going to divide up all
and all tho heavens among HIS
Won and will have to take our
ara strong I'm faith and strong In
nm loyalty, for my text declares
hall divide the spoil with the
,,re OF this round planet for Christ
sich OF job as you might imagine,
hurch takes of its coat and rolls
he's for the work, as IL will. There
D, 900 OF people now In the world,
/. 900 are Christians. Subtract
who arc Christians from the
ko and there are i.i50, 90 900 left.
I5O. 900. 900 who are not Chris
= tjD. 900, 900 who are Christians,
ll nnd that we shall have to aver
In three souls each, brought by
c kingdom of God. to have the
In redeemed. Certainly with tho
|ng up to its full duty, no Chris
wllliugt 10 bring less than three
&the kingdom OF God.
hi pray Almighty God that / may
thnn three. | know evangelists
nlready brought $4,000 each for
In OF God. There are 200. 900 peo-
1 one and only and absorbing busi-
~ world is 10 save souls. When
,[ihess things into consideration,
IN Christians will have TO average
III of only three souls each into
In OF our Lord. all impossibility
irom this omnipotent crusade.
@bw n Sabbath.school teacher who
E bars has been engaged In train
hng. and she has had five differ
" and they averaged seven 10 n
hoy were all converted, and five
are thirty-nve as near rs can
SO that she brought her three
hgdom Of God and had thirty-two
XNly grandmother prayed her chill
MID kingdom OF Christ. and her
ren, and | hope all her great
rem, FOR God remembers prayer
|o years old as though IL were
mute old, and so she brought her
[fhe kingdom OF God and had more
y spare. Besides that, through.the
and the telegraph, this whole
Ihin a few years, will DO brought
8mpass OF ten minutes. Besides
Ipotence. omnipresence and omnis-
J presiding in this matter of the
Htterment. aud takes the question
3fd's salvation out Of the impossi. /.
ID the possibilities. and then out OF
Silities into the probabilities, and
d the probabilities into the certain
building OF the Union Pacific
8from ocean to ocean was a greater
hg than the girdlinc OF the earth
ospei, for one enterprise depended
v1rp arm, while tho other de-
~
] bean all the earth will sur
/, Yes. How about the un-
j? VIII Greenland ba-, evan
bssibility Is that afte u few
bravo lives arc dashed out
ergs that great refrigerator,
~, will bo given up to the
hr. and that the Inhabitants
~ by invitation into tolerable
So climates may soften, and.
positively denpnstrated that
Msn, wd,Unce RnioUuing gIi
tui fed, those regions may
o and again be a blooming
en,uitful field. 1t Is proved be-
Wy by German and American
hatNie astctic regions were the
hs OF this world inhabitable; the
Ibeyond human endurance, those
Pre-, OF course, the first to be cool
p human foot and human lung. 1t
Fely proved that the arctic region
|pical climate. Professor Heer. OF
.gs the remains OF flowers have been
fhe arctic region, showing il was
70 Tor climate, and 1t Is found that
was the mother region from which
Rwers descended. Professor Wal
he remains OF all styles OF animal
pnd In ths arctic regions. including
nals that can live only in warm
Now that arctic region, which has
frustrated by fora and fauna and
argument 10 havo been as full OF
and life as our Florida, may be
ck TO It's original bloom and glory,
p smut up rs n museum OF crystals
" seekers once in n while to visit.
ana antarctic in some shape will
Pho Reieemer's realm.
2out other unproductive or repul-
p! All the deserts will be irriga-
piers Will be forced up to the great
'esert hetween here and the Pacific
3ery now known or yet to be In
Du as Great Salt Lake City has no
ouil not raisean apple or bushel
2 a hundred years without artifl-
put Is now through such means one
pen, so all the unproductiye parts
continents will be turned into har-
ana orchards. A half dozen Do
Fiil furnish the world with all tho
eued and will change the course of
open new lakes. and the great
fsert VIII be cut up into farms with
iding yield OF bushels 10 the acre.
q VIII be drained OF its waters and
W. malaria. | saw what was for
rs called the Black Swamp of Ohio.
rop chills and ievers, but now. by
ut INTO the ground to carry OH tho
Oisture, transformed into the richest
.hiest OF regions. The God who
''hlhH. l think, means that this
pm pole 70 pole, has come TO perfec-
'iaSe ana irdltaSe. For that reason
Ihe earth running through space,
many ilres are blazing down in It's
hl so many meteoric terrors have
q 70 dnsh II TO pieces. As soon ns
Is completed Christ will divide If
the good. The reason He does not
low " because 1t is not done. A
er will not divide the apple among
On until the apple is ripe. In full.
9t tho New Testament promise.
x shall inherit the earth" and tho
" the Old Testament, "He shall
,spoil with the strong, ,"the world
klohed to those worthy to pos
now. In this country capable
! soding, clothing and sheltering
People, and where We have
mbitants, we have 1000. 900
ot honest work. and with their
! kfregation OF 500 600 thnt are