Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1896-05-02
DIVISION OF SPOILS.
REV. DR.. TALmAGE breaches A JOY.
Gus SERMON.

The Earth YIN Isc Mado to blossom and
the World WIN BE EvanEeiiscd Wealth
VIII 10 Equali1ed aud Poverty Bo
Known 40 More In Gods Kingdom.
WASHINGTON. Nav 2-1his sermon of
DIR. TRlmagc is Tadiant with coming re-
wards for all welldoers Many of the
disheartened will rally after reading it, lie
will choose for his subject The Division of
Spells. the text selected will be Isaiah lii.
=. "Ilc shall divide the spoil with the
strong
In tho Coliseum at liomc, where pcrsc
cutors used To let ont the half starved lions
to eat up Christians. there Is row planted
the figure az "a cross And l rejoice To
know that tho upright picce Of wood nailed
10 "a transverse piecc has become the SYM
Dol not moro Of suffering than OF victory.
IL Is of Christ, the conquerOr, that my text
speaks. As u kinSly warrior, having sub
lucd an empire, might divide tho palaces
and mansions and cities and valleys and
mountains among his officers, 50 Christ Is
going 10 divide up all tho earth and all the
heavens among his people. and you and
will havo to take our sharcif wcnrc strong
In faith and strong in our Christian 10y
atty, for my text declares II, lilo shall
divide the spoil with tho strong
Tho capture of this round planet for
Christ Is not 80 much of a job rs you might
imagine, when the church takes OF its
coat and rolls up its sleeves for the work,
as Il will There nrc ! 600. 600, 900 of poo
plo now In tho world, and $50, 900 900 arc
Christians. Subtract 450, 600, 600 who are
Christians from the 1000, 600, coo, and
there nrc l.l5o, 000 600 left. Divide the
!, 1850 600. 900 who arc not Christians by
the $50, coo. 600 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
tho church rising up To ito full duty, no
Christian will be- willing 10 bring less
than three souls into the kingdom of God.
hope and pray Almighty God that l
may bring moro than three. | know evan
gelists who have already brought 10000
each for tho kingdom of God. There are
zoe. 900 people whose ono and only and alb
sorhlng business I'm 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 vanishcs from this ON
nipotcnt crusade Why, know u sabbath
school teacher who for many years has
been engaged In trimming tho young, and
sho has had five different classes, and they
averaged seven to n class, and they We're
all converted. and times z arc IS as near
rs / can calculate. 80 that she brought
her thrco into tho kingdom OF God and
had 81 to spare. My grandmother prayed
her children into the Kingdom of Christ
and her grandchildren, and hope all her
great grandchildren. for God remembers
prayer - years old rs though it were
only "a minute old, and So she brought her
thrcc In tho kingdom Of God and had
moro than 100 to spare. Besides that,
through tho telephone and tho telegraph,
this whole world, within u few years, will
DO brought within compass of ten min
utcs. Besides that, Omnipotencc, omni-
presence and omniSciencc arc presiding in
this matter Of tho worlds hettcrment and
that takes the question uf the worlds sal
walton ont Of the imposSibilities into tho
possibilities, and then out of the possibili-
ties into the probabilities, and then out of
tho probabilities into the ccrtaintics. The
building of the Union Pacific railroad from
ocean Ia ocean WAS a greater undertaking
than tho girdling of the earth with the
gospel, for ono enterprise depended upon
the human arm, whilo tho other depends
upon almiehtiness.
Tho World WIN 10 Evangelical.
DO really mean all tho earth will sur
render To Christ? Yes. How about the
uninviting portions? Will Greenland bc
cyangclizcd?, The possibility IS that after
few moro hundred brave lives are dashed
out among the icchorgs that great rcfriger
ator, tho polar region, will be- given up to
tho walrus and bear, and that tho inhabi-
tants Will como down by invitation into
tolorablc climates, ar those climates may
soften, and as IL has been positively dem
onstrated that the arctic region was once
n blooming garden and fruitful field
those regions may change climate and
again be- "A blooming garden and fruitful
field. IL Is proved beyond controversy by
German and American scientists that the
arctic regions were tho first portions 81
this world inhabitahlc. Tho world hot
beyond human endurance, those regions
were of course tho first To bc cool enough
for human foot and human lung. II was
positively proved that tho arctic region
was tropical climate. Professor IIccr of
Zurich says the remains Of flowers have
been found In the arctic region, showing
1t was like Mexico for climate, and Il IS
found that the arctic was tho mother re-
gion from which all the flowers descended.
Professor Wallace says tho 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 bccn demonstrated
by flora and fauna and geological argu-
mcnt 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 bc shut up rs museum OF crystals
for curiosity seekers onco in awhile to
visit. But arctic and antarctic, In some
shape, will belong TO the Rcdcemer's
realm.
What abont other unproductivc or re-
pulsivc rcgionsy All the deserts will bc
irrigated. the waters will be forced uD TO
the great American desert between here
and tho Pacific by machinery now known
or yet 70 be invented, and, ms great salt
Lake City has no rain and could not raise
an apple or u hushcl Of wheat in n hundred
years without artificial help, but Is now
through such means one great garden, so
all tho unproduciiye parts of all the con
tinents will be turned into harvest fields
and orchards. a half dozen DE LcSscps
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 he 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. ! saw what was
for many years called the Black swamp
Of Ohio, It's chief crop chills and fovcrS,
hut now, by tho tiles put into tho ground
To carry off the surplus moisture, trans
formed into tho richest and healthicst OF
regions. The God who wastes nothing.
think, means that this world, from pole To
pole, has come To perfection Of foliage and
fruitagc For that reason ho keeps the
earth running through space. though so
many fires are blazing down In it, timhers
and So macy mc;coric tcrrurs have threat
cncd 10 dash il to pieces. As soon AS
the earth is completed Christ will divide 1t
mp among the good. The reason he does
not divide 10 now Is because II Is not done.
y Kind father will not divide the apple
nmung his children until the apple Is tiio.
In fullllmcnt IL the Sew Testament prom
isc, The meek shnll inherit tho earth, +"
and tho lruii,, Of the old Testament,
lie shall divide the spoil with tho
strong the world will be apportioncd TO
those worthy to possess II.
Uplifting of the Masses
II Is not So now. In this country capa-
bic of holding feeding, clothing and shell
tering ,2On, coo, uuu people and where we
have only 80. 600 900 inhabitants we have