The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1899-11-15

deSerterS and go over to the enemy, that
would not defeat the cause. A large part
of the Bible lis taken up with telling us
what the world will be. There is large
army, human and angelic, now in the
field, but Gods reserve forces are more
numerous and more mighty than those
now at the front, and if he could in Gid
cons time rout the Midianites with a
crash Of crOckery and if he could in
Shamgarts time overcome host with an
OK goad, and if in Samson's time he could
defeat an army with bleached jawbone,
and if the walls of Jericho went down
under blast of perforated rams horn,
and if in Christ's day blind eyes were
cured by ointment Of spittle, then God
can do anything he says he will do. AS
yet he has taken only one sword out OF
whole armory of weapons. Do not get
nervous, as If the Lord were going to be
defeated The redemption of these hemi-
spheres was settled in heaven, and Isaiah
and Ezekiel and Habakkuk and Malachi
and st. John only reported what the Lord
God Almighty had decided upon. My
only fear is that our regiment will not get
into the fight to do something worthy OF
the Christ who redeemed us and we be
left In lazy encampnent at Tampa when
we ought to have been at Santiago.
Coming Day of Perfection.
Oh, that coming day of the worlds per-
lection! The earth will be so changed
that the sermonology will be changed.
There will be no more calls to repent
ance, for all will have repented; no more
gathering Of aims for the poor, for the
poor will have been enriched; no hospital
iOin tod
been set and the wounds all healed, and
the lncurable diseases Of other times will
have been overcome by a materia medica
and pharmacy and dentistry and a
therapeutics that have conquered every
thing that afflicted nerve or lung or tooth
or eye or limb Pathology complete and
universal. The poultice and the ointment
and the panacea and the catholicon and
the surgeons knife and the dentists for
cops and the scientists X ray will have
fulfilled their mission. The social life of
the world will be perfected. In that mill
lennial age | imagine ourselves standing
in front of a house lighted for levee. We
enter among groups filled with gladness
and talking good sense and rallying each
other in pleasantries and in every possi-
bic way forwarding good neighborhood;
no looking askance, no whispered back
billings, no strut of pretension, no obliv-
ion Of some ones presence because you
do not want to know him; each one hap
py, determined on making some one else
happy; words of honest appreciation in
stead of hollow hattery; suavities and
genlaltles instead of mutations and POM
posities; equipage and upholstery and
sculpture and painting paid for; two
hours of mental and moral Improvement;
all the guests able to walk as steadily
down the steps of that mansion as when
they assembled them; no awaking next
morning with aching head and bloodshot
eye and incompetent for the days duties;
the social life as perfect as refinement
and common sense and culture and pros
perity and religion can make it; the earth
made better than it was at the start, and
all through gospelizing influences, direct
~ or indirectly. That the whole earth
win be redeemed is one of the things
long ago settled in heaven.
The Plan of Salvation.
Another thing decided in that high
place is that all who are adjoined to the
unparalleled One of Bethlehem and Naz-
areth and Goigotha will be the subjects
OF a supernal felicity without any taking
Off. The old adage says that "beggars
must not be choosers," and the human
race in its depleted state had better not
be critical of the mode by which God
would emplace all of us. 1 could easily
think of plan more complimentary to
our fallen humanity than that which is
called the plan of salvation" If God
had allowed us to do part of the work of
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do three-quarters of it and he do the last
quarter, if We could accomplish most of
it and he just put on the finishing
touches, many could look with more com
placency upon the projected reinstate
ment of the human family. No, no. We
must have our pride subjugated, our
stubborn will made flexible and a super
natural power demonstrated in MS at
every step. A pretty plan of salvation
that would be, of human drafting and
manufacturing! 1t would be doxology
sung to ourselves. God must have all the
glory, not one step of our heavenly
throne made by earthly carpentry: not
one string could we twist of the harp of
our eternal rejoicing. Accept all as an
unmerited donation from the skies, or we
will never have it at adj.
NOW says some one, IF Christ is
the only way what about the heather.
who have never heard of him?" But Won
are not heather, and why divert us from
the question of our personal salvation?
Satan lis always introducing something
irrelevant. He wants to take it out of a
personality into an abstraction. Get our
own salvation settled, and then we will
discuss the salvation of other people.
but" says some ONE, what percentage
Of the human race will be saved? What
will be the comparative number saved
and lost" There satan thrusts in the
mathematics Of redemption. He suggests
that you find out the mathematical pro-
portion Of the redeemed. But be not
deceived. | am now discussing the eter-
nal welfare Of only two persons, yourself
and myself. Get ourselves right before
we bother ourselves about getting others
right. 0 Christ, come hither and master
our case! Here are our sins-pardon
them; our wounds-heal them: our bur-
dens-lift them; our sorrows-comfort
them. We want the Christ of Bartimeus
to open our blind eyes, the Christ of
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