Milford chronicle., 1896-05-08


/ nent. Many Cf tho millionaire estates will
crack to pieces on tho designations Of
grandchildren and then dissolve into the
possession of tho masses, who now have an
insuniciency
What You say, will become of the OK
/ pensive and elaborate buildings how de-
! voted TO debasing amusemontsl They will
/ become schools, art galleries, museums,
] cymnasiums and churches. The world is
already getting disgusted with many Of
these amusomonts, and no wonder. What
an importation Of unclean theatrical stuff
wo have within tho last few years had
brought 10 cur sh0resl And professors CT
religion patronizing such thingsl Having
sold out to the devil, why don { you deliver
the goods and go over to him publicly,
body, mind and soul, and withdraw your
name from Christian churches and say,
"Know all tho world by these presents
that l am patron Of uncleanness and a
child Of hell" Sworn to be the Lords S,
you are perjurers
If you think these Offenses are to go on
forever, you do not know who tho Lord is.
God will not wait for the day of Judgment.
All these palaces Of sin will become pal
aces of righteousness. They will come
into the possession of those strong for vir-
tue and strong for God. "He shall divide
the spoil with the strong"
China and Africa, the two richest por-
tions of tho earth by reason Of metals and
rare woods and inoxhnustible productive
ness, are not yet divided up among the
good because they are MT ready to be di-
vided. Wait until all the doors that Liv
ingstone opened in Africa shall bo entered,
and Bishop Taylor, with his band Of self
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work, and the Ashantis and Senegambi-
ans shall know Christ as well rs you know
him, and there shall DO on the banks of
the Milo and the Niger higher civilization
than is now to be found on tho banks of
the Potomac or tho Hudson. Then Christ
will divide UP that continent amorg his
friends. Wait until China, which is half
as large as all Europe, shall have developed
her capacities for rice and tea and sugar
among ediblcs, and her amethyst and
sapphire and topaz and opal and jasper
and porphyry among precious stones, and
her rose wood and ebony and CamphOr and
varnish trees among precious woods, and
turned up from her depths half dozen
Pennsylvania of coal and iron, and 20
Nevadas of silver, and so CALIFORNIA; of
gold, and her 500, 000 600 of people shall
be evangelical. Then tho Lord will di-
vide it up among tho good
The Eternal Truth.
If my toxt be not a deception, but the
eternal truth, then the time Is coming
when all tho farms will be owned by
Christian farmers, and all the commerce
controlled by Christian merchants, and all
the authority held by Christian officials,
and all tho ships commanded by Christian
captains, and all tho universities under the
instruction of Christian professors; Chris
tian kings, Christian presidents, Christian
governors, Christian mayors, Christian
common council. Yet what securing
out What an upturningl What demOli-
toni What resurrection must precede
this new apportionmontl
l do not undorratO tho enemy. Julius
Caesar got his greatest victories by fully
estimating tho vastnoss Of lis foes and
prepar, d his men for their greatest tri-
un,ph by saying, Tomorrow King Juba
will be hero with $4,000 horses, leo, GOO
skirmishers and 500 elephants. / do not
underrato tic vast forces Of sin and death,
but do you know who commands usf Je-
hovahiireh. And tho reserve corps behind
us are all the armies of heaven and oarth
with hurricane and thunderbOlt. Tho good
work of the worlds redemption is going
on every minute. Never SO many splendid
men and glorious women on tho side Of
right as today. Never so many good people |
as now. Diogenes has been spoken Of as a |
wise man because he went with a lantern /
at MONDAY, saying ho was looking for an
honest man. If he had turned his lantern
toward himself he might have discovered |
a crank. Honest men by the ton thou
sand Through the international series OF
Sunday school lessons the next generation |
all through ChristendOm are going to be
wiser than any generation since the world !
Stood Tho kingdom is coming, God can /
do it. No housewife with channels cloth |
ever polished a silver teaspoon with more |
easo than Christ will rub off from this /
world the tarnish and brighten it up till /
it glows like heaven, and then the glorious /
for my text is re-enforoed |
by a score Of other texts, when it says Of |
Christ, "He shall divide the spoil with the .
strong"
But" you say, this is pleasant to .
think of for others, but before that time |
shall have passed up into another exist |
ence, and l shall got no advantage from
that new superintendent" All, you have !
only driven mo to the other more exciting /
and transporting consideration, and that
is that Christ is going to divide up heaven |
in tho same way. There are old estates in
the celestial world that have been in the
possession of the inhabitants for thousands |
of years, and they shall remain as they are.
There arc old family mansions in heaven
filed with whole generations of kindred,
and they shall never be driven out Many
of the victors from earth have already got
their palaces and they are pointed out to
those newly arrived. Soon after our get
ting there we will ask to be shown the
apostolic residences and ask where docs
Paul live and John, and shown the patri-
archal residences and shall say, Where
does Abraham 1.-Two or Jacohg'' and shown
the martyr residences and say, "Where
does John Huss 1.-Two and Ridley?" We
will want to SEQ the boulevards where the
chariots of conquerOrs roll. l will want
to see the garden where the princes walk.
We will want to see Music row, where
Handel and Haydn and Mozart and
Charles Wesley and Thomas Hastings and
Bradbury have their homes, out Of their
windows, ever and anon, rolling some
snatch of an earthly oratoriO or hymn
transported with the composer We will
want to see Revival terrace, where White
Geld and Nettlcton and PaySon and Row
land Hi and Charles Finney and other
giants of soul reaping are resting from
their almost supernatural labors, their
doors throngcd with converts just arrived,
coming to report themselves.
distribution of Spells.
But brilliant rs tho sunset and like the
leaves Tor NUMBER are the celestial homes
yet to be awarded when Christ to you and
millions Of others shall divide the spoil.
What do you want theroY You shall have
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