Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1896-05-09
sPOILs OF VICTORY.
REV. DR.. TALMAGE breaches A SER
MON FULL OF HOPE.

REV. DR.. TALMAGE breaches A SER
MON FULL or HOPE.
70 Looks For tho Final Capture of the
Would For Christ and Says the Glorious
Event Is Comparatively Near at Hand.
Tho Spells.
WASHINGTON, May 8.-This sermon
Of DR.. Talmage is radiant with coming
rewards fer all wclldoers. Many of the
disheartcned will rally after reading it.
He chose for his subject 1.-THE Division
of Spells, the text selected being Isaiah
lii, -, "He shall divide the spoil with
the strong"
In the Coliseum at Rome, where per-
secutors used to let ous the half starved
lions to eat up Christians, there is now
planted tho figure Of a cross. And l re-
joice to know that the upright piece Of
wood nailed to transverse piece has
become the symbol not more of suffering
than of victory. 1t is Of Christ the con-
queror that my text speaks AS a 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 tho earth and all the heav-
ems among his people, and you and l
will have to take our share if we are
strong i'll faith and strong in our Chris
tian loyalty, for my text declares 1t,
"He shall divide the spoil with the
strong"
Modest Spells.
Tho capture Of this round planet for
Christ is not so much Of q job as you
might imagine when the church takes
off its coat and rolls up its sleeves for
the work, as it will. There are 1,GOo,-
600, 900 of people now in the world, and
$50, 900, 900 arc Christians. Subtract
45C, 0OO, 900 who arc Christians from the
1,GOO, 900, 600, and there are 1,15O, 0OO,-
COO left. Divide tho 1, 150, 900, 600 who
are not Christians by the $50, 600, 600
who arc 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.
hopo and pray Almighty God that I
may bring more than three. I know
evangelists who have already brought
$4,000 each for the kingdom of Cod.
There are 200, 900 people whose one and
only and absorbing 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 the kingdom of our Lord, all i'm
possibility vanishcs from this omnip-
potent crusade. Why, ! know Sab
bath school teacher who for many years
has been engaged i'll training the young,
and she has had five different classes,
and they averaged seven to a class, and
they were all converted, and b times Z
are 80, as near as 1 can calculate. So
that she brought her three into the
kingdom CT God and had 80 to spare.
Ny grandmother prayed herchildren into
the kingdom Of Christ, and her grand
children, and hope all her great-grand-
children, for God remembers prayer
70 years old as though it were only a
minute old, and so she brought her
three into 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
minutes. Besides that, omnipotence,
omnipresencc ard omniscience are pre-
siding in this matter of the worlds
betterment, and that takes the question
of the worlds salvation out of the i'm
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 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 l really mean all the earth will
surrender to Christ? Yes. How about the
uninviting portions? Will Greenland be
evangelical? The possibility is that aft
er o few more hundred brave lives are
dashed out among tho 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 tolerable climates, or
those climates may soften, and, as it has
been positively demonstrated that the
arctic region was once blooming gar
den and fruitful field, those regions
may change climate and again be a
blooming garden and fruitful field. 1t
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.
1t was positively proved that the arctic
region was tropical climate. Professor
Heer of Zurich says the remains of flow
ers have been found i'll 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
ers descended. Professor Wallace says
the remains of all styles of animal life
are found il 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 IS our
Florida, may be turned back to its orig
inal bloom and glory, or it will be shut
up as museum of crystals for curiosity
seekers once III awhile to visit But
co,,oh cboDn will