Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1896-05-07


Spoils," the text selected being Isaiah liil
12, HE shall divide the spoil with the
strong"
In the Coliseum ct Rome, where perse.
cutors used to let out the half starved lions
to eat up Christians, there is now planted
tho figure of cross. And I rejoice to
know that the upright piece of woud nailed
to transverse piece has become the SYM
Dol not moro Of suffering than of victory
1t Is of Christ, the conqueror, that my text
speaks. AS o kingly warrior, having SUBJ
dued an empire, might divide the palaces
and mansions and cities and valleys and
mountains among his officers, SO Christ is
going to divide mp all the earth aud all the
heavens among his people, and you and
will have to take our share If weare strong
ip faith apd sE9ng In cur Christian 10y,
atty, fof my text declares 1t, "He shall
divide tho spoil with the strong.p
The capture of this round planet for
Christ Is hot SO much of a job as yoE might
imagine, when the church takes off its
coat and rolls up its sleeves for the work.
as 1t will. There are / 900, 900, 600 of peo-
plo now in tho world, and 400, 100000 are
Christians. Subtract 45G, 900, 900 who are
Christians from the 1,600, 900, COO, and
there are 1850, 100000 left. Divide the
], 100, 900, 900 who arc not Christians by
the 450, 900, 900 who arc Christians, and
you will find that we shall have to average
less than three souls each brought by Us
into tho kingdom of God, to have the
whole world redeemed, Certainly, with
the church rising up to its full duty, no
Christian will ho willing to bring less
than three souls into the kingdom of God
I hope and pray Almighty God that l
may bring more than three. I know evan
gellsts who have already brought $4,000
each for the Kingdom Of God, There are
100000 people whose one and only and ab-
sorbing business in tho 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 tho kingdom of our Lord,
all impossibility vanishes from this ON
nipotent crusade. Why, 1 know Sabbath
school teacher who f2r mapy years has
been engaged in training the young and
she has had flvU different classes, and they
averaged seven to q class, and they were
all converted, and times are 35 as near
as I can calculate. So that sho brought
her three into the kingdom Of God and
had 80 to spare. My grandmother prayed
her children into the kingdom of Christ,
and her grandchildren, and hope all her
great-grandchildre for God remembers
prayer rs years old as though it were
only minute old, and so she brought her
three in the kingdom of God and had
more 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 min
utes. Besides that, omnipotence, omni-
presence and omniscience are presiding in
this matter of the worlds betterment, and
that takes the question of the worlds sal
vation out Of the impossibilities into the
possibilities, and then out of the possibili-
ties into the probabilities, and then out of
the probabilities into the certainties. The
building of the Union Pacific railroad from
ocean to ocean was greater undertaking
than the girdling of the earth with the
gospel, for one enterprise depended upon
the human arm, while the other depends
upon almightiness.
The World VIII Be Evangelized.
Do really mean all the earth will sur
render to Christi Yes. How about the
uninviting portionsp Will Greenland be
evangelized2 The possibility is that after
few more hundred brave lives are dashed
out among the icebergs that great refriger-
ator, the polar region, will be given up to
the walrus andsbear, and that the inhabi-
tants will come down by invitation into
tolerable climates, or those climates may
soften, and as it has been positively DEM
onstrated that the arctic region was once
a blooming garden and fruitful field
those regions may change climate and
again be blooming garden and fruitful
field. 1t Is proved beyond controversy by
German 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. 1t was
positively proved that the arctic region
was tropical climate. Professor Heer of
Zurich says the remains Of flowers have
been found in the arctic region, showing
1t was like Mexico for climate, and it Is
found that the arctic was tho mother re-
gion from which all the flowers 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 argu-
ment to have been as full Of vegetation
and life as our Florida, may be turned
back to its original bloom and glory, or 1t
will be shut up as q museum Of crystals
for curiosity seekers once in awhile to
visit. But arctic and antarctic, in some
shape, will belong to the Redeemer' g
realm.
What about other unproductive or re-
pulsive regionsP 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, and, as great Salt
Lake City has no rain and could not raise
an apple or bushel of wheat In hundred
years without artificial help, but is now
through such means one great garden, SO
all the unproductive parts of all the con-
tinents 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 riv-
ers and open new lakes, and the great Sa-
hara desert will be cut up into farms with
an astounding yield of bushels to the acre.
The marsh will be drained Of its waters
and cured Of It's malaria. 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
10 carry off the surplus moisture, trans
formed into the 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 foliage and
fruitage For that reason he keeps the
earth running through space, though SO
many fires are blazing down in its timbers
and so many meteoric terrors have threat
ened to dash it to pieces. AS soon as
the earth is completed Christ will divide 1t
A Valuable Prescription.