The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-05-15
1DIvIDING THE sP0Hs.'
Rev. DR.. Talmage Talks Encourage
ingly to Well-Doers
not ;Alone Shall tho Earth be Captured
for Christ, But His Hosts Shall
Have Share In the Heaven
Iy Treasures Also.

Rev T.. De Witt Talmage DeIore MS
Washington congregation. The tex
was:
He shall divide the spoil with the strong
Isaiah ILL.,, IL.
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 a
cross. And rejoice to know that the
bright piece of wood nailed to
transverse piece has become the SYM
boil not more of suffering than OF vic
tory. It is of Christ the conqueror that
my text speaks. As kingly warrior,
having subdued an empire, might di-
vide 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
heavens among His people, and you
and / will have to take our share II we
are strong in faith and strong 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
off its coat and rolls up its sleeves for
the work, as it will. There are 1,6OO,-
600, 900 of people now in the world, and
100000, 900 are Christians Substract
$50, 100000 who are Christians from
the 1000, 900, 900, and there are 1,l5O,-
100000 left. Divide the 1,15O,OOO,00O
who are not Christians by the $50, 000,-
600 who are Christians, and you will
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. I hope, and pray
Almighty God, that may bring more
than three. l know evangelists who
have already brought $4,000 each for
the kingdom Of God.
There are 100000 people whose one
and only 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 of only three
souls each into the Kingdom of our
Lord, all impossibility vanishes from
this omnipotent crusade. Why, know
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
five times seven are 35, as near as |
can calculate. So that she brought |
her three into the Kingdom of God
and had 80 to spare. My grandmother
prayed her children into the king |
dom of Christ, and her great-grand- |
children, and Ihope all her grandchil- |
dren, for God remembers prayer |
rs years old. as though it were |
only minute old; and so she brought |
her three into the kingdom of God,
and had more than hundred to spare. |
Besides that, through the telephone
and the telegraph. this whole world,
within few years. will be brought |
within compass of ten minutes. Be
sides that, omnipotence, omnipresence
and omniscience are presiding in this
matter of the worlds betterment, and |
that takes the question of the worlds |
salvation out of the impossibilities |
into the possibilities, and then out of
the possibilities into the possibilities,
and then out of the probabilities into
certainties The building of the Union
Pacific railroad from ocean to ocean |
was a greater undertaking than the
girdling of the earth with the Gospel;
for one enterprise depended upon the
human arm, while the other depends
upon Almightiness.
Do really mean all the earth will
surrender to Christ? Yes. How about
the uninviting portionsP Will Green
land be evangelizedP The possibility
Is that after a few more hundred brave
lives are dashed out among the ice
bergs, that great refrigerator, the
polar region, will be given up to the
walrus and bear, and that the inhab-
itants will come down by invitation
into tolerable climates, or those eli
mates may soften; and, as 1t has been
positively demonstrated that the
Arctic region was once q blooming gar
den and a fruitful field, those regions
may change climate and again be
a blooming garden and fruitful field.
1t is proved beyond controversy, by
German and American scientists, that
the Arctic regions were the first por-
tons of this world inhabitable; the
world hot beyond human endurance,
those regions were, of course, the first
to be cool enough for human foot and
human lung. 1t was positively proved
4bo+ 4ha Arofio raOion was a fron;oaI |
climate. Prof. Heer, of Zurlich, says
the remains of flowers have been
found in the Arctic region, showing