Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-03-25

they will come? There is man who
says 500 years; here is q man who says
200 years; here is some one more conf
dent who says in so years. What, 80
years? Do you propose to let two gen
erations pass off the stage before the
world is converted? Suppose by pro-
IOngatiOn of human life at the end of
the next so years you should walk the
length of Pennsylvania avenue, Wash
ingtOn, or the length of Broadway,
New York in all those walks you
would not find one person that you rec
Ognize. Why? All dead or so changed
you would not know them. In other
words, if you postpone the redemption
Of this world for 80 years you admit
that the majority of the two whole
generations shall go off the stage I'M
blessed and unSaved. l tell you, the
church of Jesus Christ cannot consent
to it. We must pray and toll and have
the revival spirit and we must struggle
to have the whole world saved before
the men and women now in middle life
part.
"Oh," you say, sit is too vast an en-
terprise to be conducted in so short a
timer Do you know how long it
would take to save the whole world if
each man would bring another? 1t
would take ten years. By a caIcula-
ton 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. Be
fore the organs in our churches are
worn out they ought to sound the
grand march Of The whole earth saved
If the world is not saved in the next
ten years, it will be the fault of the
church of Christ. But it will all de-
pend upon the revival spirit. The hook
and line fishing will not do it.
Universal Christianity.
1t seems to me as if God is preparing
the world for some quick and universal
movement. A celebrated electrician
gave me telegraph chart of the world
On that chart the wires crossing the
continents and the cables under the sea
looked like veins red with blood On
that chart l see that the Headquarters
of the lightnings are in Great Britain
and the United States. In London and
New York the Hghtnings are stabbed,
waiting to be harnessed for some quick
dispatch. That shows you that the tel
egraph is in the possession of Christi
anity.
1t is significant fact that the man
who invented the telegraph was an old
fashioned Christian, Professor Morse,
and that the man who put the tele-
graph under the sea was an old fash
Toned Christian, Cyrus w. Field. and
that the president of the most famous
of the telegraph companies of this
country was an old fashioned Chris
tan, William Orion, going from the
communion table on earth straight to
his home in heaven. What does all
that mean?
do not suppose that the telegraph
was invented merely to let us know
whether flour is up or down or which
horse won the race at the Derby or
which marksman beat at the latest
contest. l suppose the telegraph was
invented and built to call the world to
God.
In some of the attributes of the Lord
we seem to share on small scale. For
instance, in bis love and in his kind
ness. But until of late fOreknOWledge,
OmniScience, OmnipreSence, OmnipO-
tence, seem to have been exclusively
Gods possession. God, desiring to make
the race like himself, gives us Il species
of fOrellnOwledge in the weather prOba-
bilities, gives us a species of Omnisci-
ence in teIegraphy, gives us a species
of n tho tpIpnbnnp
US a species of omnipOtence in the
steam power. Discoveries and inven-
lions all around about us, people are
asking what next?
I will tell you what next. Next, a
stupendOus religious movement. Next,
the end of war. Next, the crash of des-
potisms. Next, the worlds eXpurga-
ton. Next, the Christlike dominion.
Next, the judgment. What becomes of
the world after that l care not. 1t will
have suffered and achieved enough for
one world. Lay it up in the drydocks
of eternity like an old man-of-war gone
out of service, or fit it up like a con-
stellation to carry bread of relief to
some other suffering planet, or let it
be demolished. Farewell, dear old
world that began with paradise and
ended with judgment con1agration.
Last summer 1 stood on the Isle of
Wight, and 1 had pointed out to me
the place where the Eurydice sank
with 200 or 300 young men who were
in training for the British navy. You
when that training ship
went down there was a thrill of horror
all over the world Since then there