Connecticut western news., 1896-05-07

He Looks For the Final Capture of tho World For Christ and Says the Glorious Event Is Comparatively Near .. Hand. The spoils.
 WASHINGTON, May 3.-This sermon of Dr. Talmage is radiant with coming rewards for all welldoers. Many of the d;sheartened will rally after reading it. He chose for his subject ''The Division of Spells, the text selected being Isaiah lii, 12, He shall divide the spoil with the strong.n
 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 Q cross. And re- joice to know that the upright piece of wood nailed to a transverse piece has become the symbol not more of suffering than of victory. It is of Christ the con- Queror that my text speaks As kingly warrior, having subdued an empire, might divide 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 heav- ems among his people, and you and
 
 strong in faith and strong in our Chris tian loyalty, for my text declares it, He shall divide the spoil with the strong"
 Modest spofis.
 The capture of this round planet for Christ is not 90 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 1,600,- GOO, 900 of people now in the world, and A6O, 900, 900 are Christians. Subtract 46O, GOO, 900 who are Christians from the 1.6O0. GOO, 900. and there are 1, 15O. OOO,- 900 left Divide the l, 150, 900, 900 who are not Christians by the 45O, 900, 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 may bring more than three. I know evangelists who have already brought 90, 900 each for the kingdom of God. There are 900, 900 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 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 are S5, as near as can calculate. So that. she brought her three into the kingdom of God and had 32 to spare. My grandmother prayed her children into the kingdom of Christ, and her grand children, and hope all her great-grand- children, for God remembers a prayer 75 years old as though it were only minute old, and so she brought her three into the kingdom of God and had moro than 100 to spare. Besides that, through the telephone and the telegraph, this whole world, within 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 that takes the question of tho worlds salvation out of the inn 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 earth with the gospel. for one enterprise de pended upon the human arm, while the other depends upon almightiness
 A Full Surrender.
 Do really mean all the earth will surrender to Christ? Yes. How about the uninviting portions? Will Greenland be evangelical? The possibility is that aft CT a few more hundred brave lives are dashed out among the icebergs that great refrigerator, the Polar region, will be given up to the walrus and bear, and that the inhabitants will come down by invitation into tolerabls climates, or thoss climates may soften, and, as it has been positively demonstrated that the arctic region was once a blooming gar den and 8 fruitful field, those regions may change climate and again be a blooming garden and fruitful field. It is proved beyond controversy, by Ger man and American scientists, that the arctic regions were the first portions 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 It was positively proved that the arctic region was tropical climate. Professor Heer of Zurich says the remains of flow CTS have been found 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 the flow CTS descended Professor Wallace says the remains of all styles of animal life are found in the arctic regions, including those animals that can live only in warm 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 our Florida, may be turned back to its orig inal bloom and glory, or it will be shut up as a 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 re- pulsiye regions? All the deserts will be irrigated, the waters will be forced up to the great American desert between here and the Pacific by machinery now known or yet to be invented, ard as Great Salt Lake City has TO rain and could not raise an apple or bushel of wheat in . hundred years without arti- fcial help, but is now through such means one great garden. so all the un- productive parts of all the continents ~v,l1 bo frrpa1 into ba,x-aSf taldS onJ