The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-05-08
A DIVISION OF SPOILS.
The Latest Subject Which DR.. Tai
mage Takes for Sermon.
He Declares That the Time IL Coming When
All the Business of the World VIII
be In the Hands OF Chris
tian People.

| MS suOJCCI LHc DIVlSlOu OI OpOns,
the text selected being Isaiah liii:12:
HE shall divide the spoil with the
strong" He said:
In the Coliseum at Rome were perse-
cutors used to let out the half-starved
lions to eat up Christians. there is now
planted the figure of cross. And
rejoice to know that the upright piece
of wood nailed to transverse piece
has become the symbol not more of
suffering than of victory. 1t 10 of
Christ, the Conqueror, that my text
speaks AS a kinQly warrior, having
subdued an empire, might divide the
palaces and mansions and cities and
valleys and mountains among his of
ficers, SO Christ is going to divide up
all the earth and all the heavens
among his people, and you and I will
have to take our share il 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
of its coat and rolls up its sleeves
for the work, as it will. There are
LOCO, O0O, eco of people now in the world,
and 49, O0O, 600 are Christians. Sub
tract 450,o0O.Oo who are Christians
from LOCO, 600, 600, and there are 1,l5O,
100000 left Divide the 1850, 900, 600
who are not Christians by the $50, OOO,-
900 who are Christians, and you will
| find that we shall have to average less
than three souls each brought into the
| Kingdom of God, to have the whole
world redeemed. Certainly, with the
church rising up TO it's full duty, no
Christian will be willing to bring less
than three souls into the Kingdom of
God. A hope, and pray Almighty God
that may bring more than three.
know evangelists who have already
brought $4,000 each for the Kingdom
of God
| There are 10000 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 of only three
souls each into the Kingdom Of our
Lord, AL impossibility vanishes from
the omRipotent crusade. Why, know
a Sabbath school teacher who for
many years has been engaged in train
ing the young, and she has had five
different classes, and they averaged
seven TO class and they were all con-
verified, and five times seven are IS, as
near as / can calculate. So that she
brought her three into the kingdom of
God ant had so te spare. My grand
mother prayed ali her children into
the kingdom of Christ, and her grand
children, and i hope all her great
grandchildren, for God remero bers a
prayerZ5 years old as though 1T were
only q minute old; and so she brought
her three into the,Eingdom of God and
had more than 100 to spare. Besides
that, through the telephone and the
telegraph, this whele world, within a
few years, will be brought within COM
pass of ten minutes. Besides that,
omnipotence, omniPresence and ON
niscience are presiding in this matter
of the worlds betterment, and that
takes thesquestion of the worlds saliva
ton out of the impossibilities into the
possibilities, and then out of the posi-
bilities into the probabilities, and then
out of the probabilities into the GER
tainties The building of the Union
Pacific railroad from ocean to ocean
was greater undertaking than the
I girdling of'the earth with the Gospel;
| for one enterprise depended upen the
Thurman arm. while the other depends
Islpon almiCttiness.
Do / really mean all the earth will
Iaurrender to Christ? Yes How about
the uninvitiEg portions2 Will Green
Land be evangelical? The possibility
is that after.G few more hundred brave
lives are dashed out among the ice
be-gs, that great refrigerator, the
polar region, will be given up to the
waGrus and bear. and that the inha BIZ
tancs will cone down by invitation
into tolerable climates, or those eli
mates may soften; and, as it has been
positively demonstrated that the Are
tic region was once a blooming garden
and fruitful field. those regions may
change climate AID again be a blooming
garden and frultful field. tits proved
beyond controversy by German and
American scientists, that the Arctic re-
gions were the first portions of this
world ink a bitable; the world hot be-
yond haman endurance, those re-
gions were, of course, the first
to be cool enough for human
foot and human lung. 1t was posi-
tizely proved that the Arctic region
was tropical climate Prof. Heer, of
Zurich, says the remains of flowers
have been fosad in the Arctic region,
showing it was like Mexico for climate,
and it is found that the Arctic was the
mother region from which all flowers
descended. Now. that Arctic region,
which has been demonstrated by fora
and fauna and geological argument to
have been as full of vegetation and
life as our Florida, may be turned
back to its original bloom and glory,
or it will be shut up as 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