The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-05-13
DIVISION OF SPOILS.
REV. DR.. TALMAGE breaches a JOY
Gus SERMON.

the World Will Be EyanEelized-Nealth
VIII Be Eqslized and Poverty Be Known
No More In Gods Kingdom.
WASHINGTON, May 3.-Tnis sermon
OF DR.. Talmage is radiant with coming
rewards for all welldoerS. Many Of
the disheartened viii rally after read
ing it. He chose for his subject The
Division of Spoils." the t xt selected
being Isaiah lii, u, ''He shall divide
the spoil with the strong"
In the Coliseum at Rome, where per
secutors used to let out the half starry
ed lions to eat up Christians, there is
now planted the figure of cross. And
rejoice to know that the upright
piece of wood nailed to a transverse
piece has become the symbol not more
of suffering than OF victory. 1t IS OF
Christ, the conqueror, that my text
speaks. AS kingly warrior, having
subdued an empire, might divide the
palaces and mansions and cities ana
valleys and mountains among his 9th,
GERS. so Christ is going to divide up all
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 declares it, He shall di-
vide the spoil with the strong"
The capture Of this round planet
for Christ is not so much Of 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 900, ,OOO.0 900 of people now IN the
world, and 45O, 100000 are Christians.
Subtract 450,OO0,000 who are Chris
tians from the /. 900, coo, 900. and there
are 1,150,00O,000 left. Divide the
1,150, 100000 who are not Christians
by the 45O, 600, 900 who are Christians,
and you will ind that we shall have
to average less than three souls each,
: brought by US into the kingdom Of
God, to have the whole world redeem
ed. 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.
hope and pray Almighty God that
I may bring more than three. l know
eyangelists who have already brought
$4,000, 1000 each for the kingdom Of
God. There ara 100000 people whose
one and only and absorbing business
in the world is to save souls. When
you take these things into considera-
ton and that the Christians will have
to average the bringing of only three
souls each into the kingdom of our
Lord, all impossibility yanishes from
this omnipotent crusade. why, L
know Sabbath school teacher who
for many years has been engaged IN
training the young, and she has had
five different classes, and they aver
ages seven to class, and they were
all converted, and times are So as
near as can calculate. So that she
brought her three into Gods kingdom
and had 80 to spare. Ny grandmoth-
er prayed her children into the king
dom Of Christ, and her grandchildren,
and hope all her great-grandcaildren
for God remembers prayer I5 years
old as though it were only a 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 tele-
graph, this whole world, within few
years, will be brought within compass
of ten minutes. Besides that, .omnipo-
tence, omnipresence and omniscience
are presiding in this matter OF the
worlds bet.erment, and that takes the
question of the worlds salvation out
of the impossibilities into the possi0lll
ties. and then out of the possibilities
into the probabilities, and then out Of
the probabilities into the certaintles.
The building of the Union Pacific rail
road from ocean to ocean was great
er Undertaking than the girdling OF
the earth with the gospel, for one en-
terprise depended upon the human arm
while the other depends upon almlght-
ness.
Do I really mean all the earth will
surrender to Christa Yes. How about
the uninviting portions2 VIII Green
land be evangelized2 The possibility
is that after few more hundred brave
lives are dashed out among the ice
bergs 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 tolera-
BILE climates, or those climates may
soften, and as it has been positively
demonstrated that the arctic region
was once blooming garden and a
fruitful field those regions may change
climate and again be blooming gar
den and a fruitful field. It is proved
beyond controversy by German and
American ----Ssatists that the arctic re-
gions were the first portions Of this
world inhabitable. The world hot be-
yond 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 tropical cll-
mate. Professor 9eer of Zurich says
the remairs 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 de-
scended. 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 re-
gion, which has been demonstrated by
flora and fauna and geological argu-
ment to lave been as full Of vegetation
and life as our Florida, may be turned
back to its original bloom and glory,
or it will be shut up as museum OF
crystals for curiosity seekers once in
while to visit. But arctic and antarc
tic, in some shape, will belong to the
Redeeuer's realm.
What about other unproductive or
repulsive regions2 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
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