Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1901-03-29

in trade, everybody likes a revival in lit
erature, everybody likes revival in art,
yet a great multitude cannot understand
a revival in matters of religion. Depend
upon it, whore you find a man antago-
nistic to revivas. whether he be in pulpit
or pew. he needs to be regenerated BY
the grace of God.
l could prove to a demonstration that
without revivals this world will never be
converted and that in 100 or 200 years
without revivals Christianity will be
practically extinct. 1t is a matter of as
founding arithmetic. In each Of our mod
ern generations there are at least $4,000
600 children Now add 32.O0OOO0 10 the
world 5 population and then have only
lOO.OOO or 100000 converted every year
and how long before the world will be
savedF Never-absulutely never!
More Troops Wanted.
During our civil war the president Of
the United States made proclamation for
10000 troops. Some of you remember
the big stir. But the King of the uni
verse today asks for twelve hundred mil
lion more troops than are enlisted. and
we want 1t done softly. imperceptibly,
no excitement one by one You are a
dry goods merchant on a large scale. and
am a merchant on a small scale. and |
come to you and want to buy 1000 yards
of cloth. Do You say: Thank YOU. III
sell you 1000 yards of cloth. but I'll sell
you 20 yards today and 20 tomorrow
and 20 the next day. and if it takes me
six months I'll sell you the whole thou
sand yards. You will want as long as
that to examine the goods. and I'll want
as long as that TO examine the credit. and
besides thar 1000 yards of cloth is too
much to sell all at onceY' No; you do
not say that. You take me into the
counting room. and in ten minutes the
whole transaction is consummated The
fact is we cannot afford to be fools in
anything but religion.
That very merchant who on Saturday
afternoon sold me the thousand yards of
cloth at one stroke the next Sabbath in
church will stroke his beard and wonder
whether it would not be better for a
thousand souls to come struggling along
for ten years instead of boiling in at one
service.
We talk a good deal about the good
times that are coming and about the
worlds redemption. How long before
they will come? There is a man who
SAYS 800 years. Here is man who
says POO years. Here is some one more
confident who says in 80 years. What,
30 years? DO you propose to let two
generations pass off the stage before
the world is converted? Suppose by pro.
longatiun of human life al the end of the
next 80 years you should walk the length
Of Pennsylvania avenue, Washington, or
the length Of Broadway New York In
all those walks you would not find one
person that you recognize. Why? All
dead or SO changed you would not know
them. In other words, if you postpone
the redemption of this world for 30 years
you admit that the majority Of the two
whole generations shall 90 off the stage
unhlessed and unsavcd tell you the
| church Of Jesus Christ cannot consent to
it. We must pray and toll and have the
revival spirit. ana we must struggle to
have the whole world saved before the
men and women now in middle life part.
"Oh." you say, "it is too vast an enter
| prise to be conducted in so short a time"
DO you know how long il would take to
save the whole world If each man wond
! bring another? II would take ten years.
/ BY a calculation in compound interest,
| each man bringing another and that one
| another and that one another in ten
! years the whole earth would be saved
1911. Before the organs in our churches
are worn ont they ought to sound the
| grand march Of the whole earth saved If
the world is not saved in the next ten
| years. il will be the fault Of the church
81 Christ ~, it win alI ,lrncnd upon the