Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1896-05-13
DIVISION OF SPOILS.
Dividends Declared by Christ on the
Net Earnings
De His Heavenly Company. According I'm
the Investment of Every Man Here Re-
io"->crmon by Rev. Il. Dewitt
Talmagc. DID.

io"->crmon by Rev. T. Dewitt
raimase. DID.
Dr. Talmage chose for his subject
last Sunday: THE Division of Spoils."
the text being Isaiah lii: IL: "He shall
divide the spoil with the strong"
In the Coliseum ut Rome, where per
secutors used to let out half-starved
lions to eat up Christians. there is now
planted the figure of n cross And i
rejoice to know that the upright piece
of wood nailed to n transverse piece
has become the syiabol not more of suf-
fering than of victory. IL is of Christ
The Ccnquerer that my text speaks As
n 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 ali the earth and
all the Heavens among his people, and
you and will have to take our share
If we are strong in faith and strong in
our Christian loyalty, for my text de-
clares 1t: He shall divide the spoil
with the strong"
The capture of this round plane. for
Christ is not SO much of Job as YOU
might imagine, when the church takes
on its coat and rolls up its sleeves for
the work, as it will. There are l,6o0.-
OO0,0 900 people now in the world. and
45o,00o,0O0 are Christians. Subtract,
$50, 900, 900 who are Christians from
LOCO, 900, 600, and there are .l5o. 600. 600
left Divide the 1850, 600, 900 who are
not Christians by the $50. 0o0, 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 mp to its full duty, no Christian
Will be willing to bring less than
three souls into the kingdom of God.
l hope and pray Almighty God, that /
may bring more than three. | know
evangelists who have al ready brought
so, 600 each for the kingdom OF God.
There are 1000, 900 people whose only
and absorbing business is to save souls.
When you take these things into con
sideration, and that tho Christian will
have to average the bringing of only
three souls each into the kingdom of
our Lord, all impossibility vanishcs
from this omnipotent crusade. Why, !
know Sabbath school teacher who for
many years has been engaged in train
ing the young, and she has had
hvc different classes, and they
averaged seven to n class and they
were all converted, and five times
seven are S. 80 near as can
calculate. So that she brought her
three into the kingdom OF God and had
S2 to spare. My grandmother prayed
her children into the kingdom OF
Christ, and her grandchildren, and
hope all her Observation-Disclosures for
God remembers a prayer - years old
as though it was only a minute old
ana so she brought her three into the
Kingdom of God, and had more than
one hundred 70 spare. Besides that
through the telephone and tn,
telegraph, this whole world
within few years, will be
brought within compass Of ter
minutes. Besides that. omnipotence
omnipresence and omniscicnce are pre-
siding in this matter of the worlds
betterment, and that takes the aues
tion of the worlds salvation out of tn,
impossibilities into the possibilities
and then out of the possibilities into
probabilities into the certainties The
building of the Union Pacific railroad
from ocean to ocean was "A greater I'M
dertaking than the girdling of the
earth with the Gospel; for one enter.
prise depended upon the human arm,
while the other depends upon almighti-
ness.
DO really mean all the earth will
surrender to Christ? Yes How about
the uninviting portions? Will Green
land be evangelical? The possibility
is that after few more hundred brave
lives are dashed out among the icebergs
that great refrigerator, the Polar Re-
gion, will be given up to the walrus
and bear. and that the inhabitants will
come down by invitation into tolerable
climates, or those climates may soften;
and, as IL has been positively demon
strated that the Arctic Region was
once blooming garden and fruitful
Held, those regions may change climate
and again be blooming garden and a
fruitful field. IL is proved beyond con-
troversy by German and American sci.
entists that the Arctic regions were the
first portions of this world inhabitable;
the world hot beyond human cndur-
ance, those regions were, of course.
the first TO be cool enough for human
foot and human lung II was positive.
~ proved that the Arctic Region was
tropical climate. Prof. Hcer. of
Zurich, says the remains of flowers
have been found in the Arctic region.
showing il was like Mexico for climate.
and IL is found that the Arctic was the
mother region from which all the flow.
ers descended. Prof. Wallace SAYS
the remains of all styles OF animal life
are found in the Arctic regions. in.
Guiding those animals that can live
only in warm climates. Now that Arc
tic region, which has been demonstrat.
ed by flora and fauna and geological
argument 60 have been as full of veget.
alton and life as our Florida. may be
turned back 90 it's original bloom and
glory, or IL will be shut up as a museum
of crystals for curiosity seekers once i'm
While TO visit. But Arctic and Ant
arctic. in some shape, will belong 70
the Rcdeemer's realm.
What about other uprOductive OF re-
pulsive regions? All tho deserts will be
irrigated, the waters will be forced no 70
the great American desert between here
md thcPacilic by machinery now known