Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1896-05-13

teoric tcrrors have threatened to dash
II To pieces AS soon rs the earth is
completed Christ will divide il mp
among the good. The reason he does
not divide II nov Is because il is not
done. a kind father will not divide
the apple among his children until the
apple is ripe. In fulfillment of the
New Testament promise, 1.-The meek
shall inherit the earth" and the prom
Use OF the Old Testament, He shall di-
vide the spoil with the strong" the
world will be apportioned to those
worthy to possess IT,
IL is not So now. In this country,
capable of holding, feeding, clothing
and shcltering 10000, 900. 900 people,
and where we have only 90. 600, 900 in
habitants, we have 2,000,o 900 who can
not get honest work, and with their
families an aggregation of 5000, 900
that arc on tie verge of starvation.
Something wrong, most certainly. In
some way, there will be new appor-
tionment Many of the millionaire
estates will crack to pieces on the dis
sipations of grandchildren, and then
dissolve into the possession of the
masses who now have an insufiiciency.
What, you say, will become of the ex-
pensive and elaborate buildings now
devoted TO debasing amusements? They
Will become schools, art galleries, mu-
seums, gymnasiums and churches. The
world is already getting Disguised with
many of these amusements, and no won
der. What an Importation Of unclean
theatrical stuff we have within the last
few years had brought to our shoresi
And professors of religion patronizing
such things. Having sold out to the
devil, why don't 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 the world by these presents
that | am n patron of uncleanliness and
child OF hellr' Sworn To DO the
Lords you are pcrjurcrs.
IL you think these offcnses are TO go
on forever, you do not know who the
Lord is. God will not wait for the day
OF judgment. All these palaces OF sin
will become palaces of righteousness.
They will come into the possession of
those strong for virtue and strong for
God. "He shall divide the spoil with
the strong"
| China and Africa, the two richest
portions of the earth by reason of met
ais and rare woods. and inexhaustible
productiveness, are not yet divided up
among the good because they are not
ready to be divided. Wait until all the
doors that Livingstone opened in Africa
shall be entered, and Bishop Taylor,
with his band of self-supporting mis-
sionaries, have done their work, and the
Aseantis and Senegambians shall know
| Christ m Nynl n
there shall be on the banks OF the Nile
and the Niger n higher civilization
than is now to be found on the banks
of the Potomac or the Hudson, then
Christ will divide up that continent
among His friends Wait until China,
which is half as large rs all Europe,
shall have developed her capacities for
rice and tea and sugar among cdiblcs:
and her amethyst and sapphire and to-
paz and opal and jasper and porphyry,
among precious stones; and her rose
wood and ebony and camphor and var
nish trees, among precious woods; and
turned up from her depths half dozen
Pennsylvania of coal and iron, and 20
Ncvadas of silver. and 30 CALIFORNIA; OF
gold, and her 500. 900, 900 of people shall
be evangelical; then the Lord will di-
vide IL up among the good.
If my text be not n deception, but the
eternal truth, then the time Is coming
when all the farms will be owned by
Christian farmers, and all the COM
mcrce be controlled by Christian mer-
chants, and all the authority held by
Christian officials, and all the ships
commanded by Christian captains, and
all the universities under the instruc
ton OF Christian professors; Christian
kings. Christian presidents, Christian
governors, Christian mayors, Christian
common councils. Yet. what securing
out! What an upturning What a dem
clifton! What "A resurrection must pre-
cede this new apportioDment.
do not undcrrate the enemy. julius
Caesar got his greatest victories by
fully estimating the vastness of his foe.
and prepared his men for their greatest
triumph by saying: Tomorrow King
Juba will be here with &c, 900 horses.
100, 900 skirmishcrs and 800 elephants -
| j do not undcrrate the vast forces of
| Sin and Death. but do you know who
commands us? Jehovah-iirch And
the reserve corps behind us are all the
armies of Heaven and earth. with hur-
ricane and thunderbolt. The good
! work OF the worlds redemption is 90
ing on every minute Never so many
splendid men and glorious women on
the side of right as to-day. Never
so many good people as now. Dio-
genes has been spoken Of as wise man
because he went with a lantern at
monday, saying he was looking for an
honest man. II he had turned his Ian
tern toward himself he might have dis
covered crank Honest men by the
ten thousand! Through the intcrna-
tional series Of Sunday-school lessons
the next generation all through
Christcndom are going TO be wiser than
any generation since the world stood.
The kingdom is coming. God can do
H.. No housewife with a chamois cloth
ever polished n silver teaspoon with
more ease than Christ will rub of from
this world the tarnish and brighten IL
up till IL glows like Heaven. And then
the glorious apportionment for my text
Is reinforced by a score OF other texts.
when IL says OF Christ: "He shall di-
vide the spoil with the strong"
But" you say. this Is pleasant 20
think Of for others, but before that