The Monitor-register., 1896-05-08
'sPOILs OF VICTORY.
nev Or. TALMAGE breaches A SER
MON FULL OF HOPE.

rnors For the Final Capture OF the
1919 ror christ and Says the Glorious
rv.ut Ia Comparatively Near at Hand
The Spells.
WASHINGTON, May 8.-This sermon
ri DR.. Talmage is radiant with coming
towards for all welldoers. Many of the
6;sbeartened will rally after reading IL.
Ha chose for his subject 1.-The DIVISION
Of snoils. " the text selected being Isaiah
liii. IL. "He shall divide the spoil Win
the strong.
Tn the Coliseum at Rome, where per-
.ocptors used to let out the half starved
lions to eat up Christians, there Is now
PLANTED the figure of a cross. Ana l re-
io;ce To know that the upright piece Oh
s,ood nailed to a transverse piece mas
hacome the symbol not more of suffering
than of victory. 1t is of Christ the con-
oueror that my text speaks. AS a kingly
warrior, having subdued an empire
might divide the palaces N mansions
and cities and valleys and Mountains
among his officers, SO Christ IS gong W
divide up all the earth and all the heas,
. among his people, n you ana l
,viIl have to take our share II we are
strong in faith and strong i'll our Chris
tfan loyalty, for my text declares 1t,
q shall divide the spoil with the
strong"
= The capture of this ound planet for
christ il not so much of a job as you
night imagine, when the church takes
oY its coat and rolls up its sleeves for
the work, as it will. There are 1,600,-
600, 900 Of people now in the world, and
AGO. 600, 900 are Christians. Subtract
$50. 900, 900 who are Christians from the
1000. 900, 900, and there are l, $50, 000,-
600 left. Divide the 1, $50, 900. 900 who
are not Christians by the 450, 600, 900
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.
hope and pray Almighty God that I
NAV bring more than three. I know
evangelists who have already brought
80, 600 each for the kingdom of God.
There are 200, 600 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, all i'm
possibility vanishes from this omnip-
potent crusade. Why, I know a Sab
bath 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 5 times z
m So, IS near as 1 can calculate. So
that she brought her three into the
Kingdom Of God and had 80 to spare.
Mygrandmother prayed her children into
the kingdom of Christ, and her grand
children, and Ihope all her g~reat-grand-
children, for God remembers a prayer
75 years old as though it were only a
minute old, and SO she brought her
three into the kingdom of God and had
more than 100 to spare. Besides that,
through the telephone and the telegraph,
this whole world, within a few years,
will be brought within compass of ten
minutes. Besides that, omnipotence,
omnipresence and omniscience are pre-
siding In this matter of the worlds
betterment, and hat takes the question
Of the worlds salvation out of the i'm.
possibilities into the possibilities, and
then out Of the possibilities into the
probabilities, and then out of the prob
abilities into the certainties. The build
ing of the Union Pacific railroad from
ocean to ocean was a greater under
taking than the girdling of the eartl
with the gospel, for one enterprise de
pended upon the human arm, while thu
other depends upon almightiness.
A Full Surrender.
Do I really mean all the earth will
surrender to Christ? Yes. How about TIN
uninviting portions? Will Greenland b.
evangelical? The possibility is that aft
er q few more hundred brave lives ar
dashed ont among the icebergs tina
great refrigerator, the Polar region, viii
ba given up to the walrus and bear, ant
that the Inhabitants will come down by
invitation into tolerable climates, o.
those climates may soften, and, as it ha
been positively demonstrated that TIN
arctic region was M a blooming gar
den and a fruitful field, those region
may change climate and again be
blooming garden and a fruitful field. I
fs proved beyond controversy, by Ger
man and American scientists, that thu
arctic regions were the first portions O.
this world inhabitable; the world no
beyond human endurance. those regions
were, Of course, the first to be COO
enough for human foot and human lung
Il was positively proved that the arctic
region was a tropical climate. Professol
Heer Of Zurich says the remains of flow
ers have been found in the arctic region
showing It was like Mexico for climate.
and 1t is found that the arctic was the
mother region from which all the flow
ers descended. Professor Wallace say
the remains of all styles of animal life
are found in the arctic regions, including
those animals that can live only in warn
climates. Now that arctic region, which
has been demonstrated by flora and
fauna and geological argument to have
been as full of vegetation and life as o
Florida, may be turned back to its orig
fnal bloom and glory, or it will be shut
mp as a museum of crystals for curiosity
seekers once in awhile to visit. But
arctic and antarctic in some shape viii
belong to the Redeemer's realm.
What about other unproductive or re
palsive regions? All the deserts will be
irrigated, the waters will be forced uI
to the great American desert between
hare 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 a bushel OF
wheat in a hundred years without arti-
ficial help but is now through such
means one great garden, SO all the Nh
productive parts of all the continents
will be turned into harvest fields and
orchards. A half dozen De Lesseps will
furnish the world with all the canals
needed and will change the course Of
rivers and open new lakes, and the
great Sahara desert will be cut up into
farms with IN astounding yield of
bushels to the acre. The marsh will be
drained of Its waters and cured of its
malaria. I saw what was for many
years called the Black swamp of Ohio,
its chief crop chills and fevers, but
now, by the tiles put into the ground to
carry off the surplus moisture, trans
formed intothe richest and healthiest OF
regions. The God who wastes nothing,
I think, means that this world, from
pole to pole. has come to perfection OF
fnliapa and fruitage. For that reason he