Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1896-05-08

llAtlAtAA AtNs 4 saw nAAAA ntA7 AGA AAHt-+s
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 into the richest and healthiest Of
regions. The God who wastes nothing,
| think, means that this world, from
pole to pole, has come to perfection Of
foliage and fruitage. For that reason he
keeps the earth running through space
though so many fires are blazing down
in its timbers and 50 many meteoric
tcrrors have threatened to dash it to
pieces. As soon as the earth is complet-
ed Christ will divide it up among the
good. The reason he does not divide it
now is because it is not done. A kind
father Will not divide the apple among
his children until the apple is ripe. In
fulfllment Of the New Testament prem
Use, "Ihc meek shall inherit ,, art. -
and the promise Of the Old Ics,am,Lt.
"He shall divide the spoil with tLe
strong. " the world viii be apportioned
to these worthy TO possess it.
1t i not so now. I'm this country, ca
pable Of holding, feeding, clothing and
shcltering l,200, O00 600 people and
where we have only 60, 600, 600 inhabit-
ants, we have 1000, 600 who cannot
get honest work. and with their families
an aggregation Of 5000, 600 that are on
the verge Of starvation Something
wrong, most certainly. In some way
there will be a new apportionment.
Many Of the millionaire estates will
crack to pieces on the dissipations Of
grandchildren and then dissolve into the
posse ssion Of the masses who now have
an insufliciency.
From Sin to Righteousness.
What You say, will become Of the
expensive and elaborate buildings now
devoted to debasing amusements? They
will become schools, art galleries, mu-
seums. gymnaSiums and churches. The
world is already getting disgusted 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 shores.
And professors If religion patronizing
such things. Having sold out 10 the
devil. why don't You deliver the goods
and 90 over % him publicly, body, mind
and soul. and withdraw your name from
Christian churches and say, Know all
the world by these presents that am a
patron # unclcanness and a child Of
hell!' Sworn to be the Lord 5, you are
perjurers.
If you think these offenses are 10 60
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
metals and rlre woods and inexhaust-
ible pr0ductivenoss 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-
sionarics, have done their work, and
the Ashantis and Senegambians shall
know Christ as well as you know him.
and there shall be on the banks Of the
Nile and the Niger a higher civiliza-
tion than is now to be found on the
banks Of the Potomac or the Hudson,
then Christ will divide up that conti-
nont among his friends Wait until
China. which is half as large as all Eu-
rope, shall have developed her capaci-
ties for rice and tea and sugar among
edibles. and her amethyst and sapphire
and topaz and opal and jasper and por-
phyry among precious stones, and her
rosewood and ebony and camphor and
varnish trees among precious woods,
and turned up from her depths a half
dozen Pemsylvanias Of coal and iron,
and 20 Neyadas Of silver, and 90 Cali
fornias Of gold, and her 800, 600, 600 OF
people shall be evangelical. Then the
Lord will divide it up among the good
If my text be not a deception, but tie
eternal truth, then the time is coming
when all the farms will be owned by
Christian farmers, and all the COM
merce controlled by Christian merchants,
and all the authority held by Christian
officials and all the ships commanded
bv Christian captains, and all the uni
versities under the instruction Of Chris
tian professors; Christian kings, Chris
tian presidents, Christian governors,
Christian mayors. Christian common
council. Yet, what a securing out!
What an uptmningl What demolition
What resurrection must precede this
new apportionmentl
| do not undcrrate the enemy. julius
Caesar got his greatest victories by fully
estimating the vastness Of his foes and
prepared his men for their greatest tri-
umph by SAYING Tomorrow King Juba
will be here with 80, 900 horses, 100, 600
skirmishers and 300 elephants. " l do
not undcrrate the vast forces # sin and
death. but do you know who commands
us? Johovahjirch. And the reserve corps
behind rs are all the armies Of heaven
and earth. with hurricane and thunder
bolt. The good work Of the worlds Ie-
demption is going on every minute.
Never so many splendid men and glori-
Gus women on the side Of right as today.
Never so many good people as now.
Diogenes has been spoken Of as a wise
man because he went with a lantern at
MONDAY, saying he was looking for an
honest man. If he had turned his Ian
tern toward himself, he might have dis
covered "A crank. Honest men by the TO-
600! Through the international series
Of Sunday school lessons the next gen.
Grafton all through Christendom are go
ing to be wiser than any generation
since the world stood. The kingdom Is
coming. Gcd can do it, No housewife
with a chamois cloth ever polished a
silver teaspoon with more case than
Christ will rub or from this world the
tarnish and brighten it up till it glow'
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