The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-05-22

70 HhAl NANlNe the Nn0N Win the
strong. "-laaiah 49,, ~
IN the Coliseum at Rome. whore ponssu-
Tors used 60 lei out the half starved lions 10
eat up Christians, there Is now planted tho
nknro Of q cross And rejoice 10 know that
tae upright piece Of wood nailed 20 trans-
verso piece has become the symbol not moro
q suffering than of victory. It Is of Christ
ne eonquoror that my text speaks. Asa
Angly warrior. having subdued an empire.
khi divide the palaces and mansions and
eltlea end valleys and mountains among his
olhconi go Christ is going 20 divide up all
the earth and an the heavens among his
people, and you and will have % take our
snare y We are strong IN faith and strong I'm
Our Olflstian loyalty, for my text declares
- "he shall divide tho spoil with tho
strong"
The. capture OF this round planet for Christ
iH not % much o. a JOB as y0H might imagine
When the church kes on rs coat aud rolls
up ~ sleeves for the work, az Il win. There
are litl0O0 900 OF people now in the world.
and 400 100000 are Christians. Subtract
a9li0O0 goo who are Christians from the
4e0J 90, 600, and there are 1885, 900 left.
divide tho l.l90, 900 600 who are not Chris
uana By the $50, 600 900 who are Christmas
and you will find that we shall have 10 efer-
age less than three souls each, brought by
as into tho kingdom Of God 20 have the
whole world redeemed. Certainly with the
church rising up to Its full duty, no Chris.
tan viii be willing TO bring less than three
souls into the kingdom Of God
hope and Pray Almighty God that I may
bring more than three. / know evangelists
VINO have already brought $4,000 each for
tne kingdom II God. There are 200, 900 peo-
pie whose one and only aud absorbing busl-
ness IN the world is to save souls. When
you take tnese things into consideration.
and that the Christians will have 10 average
the bringing Of only three souls each into
the kingdom Of our Lord. all imposslbllity
Aanl4ns nom this omnipotent crusade
Whli know Sabbath-school teacher who
tof many years has been engaged IN train
FPS ne young, and she has had five differ
classes, and they averaged seven to a
PASS and they were all converted, and five
times seven are thirty-hve as near as / can
calculate. So that she brought her three
into the kingdom Of God and had thirty-two
70 spare. My grandmother prayed her chill
afen into the kingdom Of Christ, and her
grandchildren, and hope all her great
grandchildren, for God remembers a prayer
seyenty-flve years old as though Il were
only minute old, and 50 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, omnipresence and omnis-
oience are presiding in this matter Of the
worlds betterment, and takes the question
q the worlds salvation out of the impossi.
billties into the possibilities, and then out Of
the possibilities into the probabilities, and
then out ofthe probabilities into the certain
ties. The building OF the Union Pacific
Railroad from ocean to ocean was n greater
undertaking than the girdllng Of the earth
with the Gospel, for one enterprise depended
upon the human arm, while the other de-
ponds upon almightiness
Do I really mean all the earth will sur
render to Christi Yes. How about the I'M
inviting portions2 viii Greenland be evan
gelized? The possibility is that after few
more hundred brave lives are dashed out
among the icebergs that great refrigerator,
the Polar region, will be given up to the
ValruB and BEAR and that the inhabitants
ill come down by invitation into tolerable
climates, or those climates may soften, and
4 has been positively demonstrated that
the arctic region was once a blooming gar
den and fruitful field, those regions may
change climate and again be a blooming
garden and a fruitful field. It is proved be-
yond controversy, by German and American
scientists that the arctic regions we're 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 a tropical climate. Professor Her, 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 the mother region from which
all the flowers descended. Professor Wal
lace 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 fora and fauna and
geological argument 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 museum of crystals
for curiosity seekers once in a while to visit.
But arctic and antarctic in some shape will
belong to the Redeemers realm.
What about other unproductive or repul-
give regions2 All the deserts will be irriga-
ted, the waters will be forced up to the great
American desert between here and the Pacific
BY machinery now known or yet to be in
vented, and as Great Salt Lake City has no
rain and could not raise an apple or bushel
OF wheat in a hundred years without artif-
cial help, but is now through such means one
great garden, so all the unproductive parts
Of all the continents will be turned into har-
vest fields and orchards. A half dozen De
A1oSSepS Will luInlhn lub WORM Win ali luo
canals needed and will change the course Of
rivers and open new lakes, and the great
Sahara 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 its malaria. I 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 to carry off the
surplusmoisture transformed into the richest
} and healthiest Of regions. The God who
Wastes nothing, I think, means that this
world, from pole TO POLE has cometo perfec-
tion OF foliage and fruitage. Forthat reason
be keeps the earth running through space,
though so many fires are blazing down in its
fimbers and so many meteoric terrors have
threatened to dash it to pieces AS soon as
the earth Is completed Christ will divide It
up among the good The reason He does not
divide It now Is because It is not done.
kind father will not divide the apple among
his children until the apple is ripe. In full
fllment Of the New Testament promise,
ttThe meek shall inherit the earth" and the
,,ronafan If fha Old Tnqtamenf fHo ghall