Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1901-03-28

the United States made proclamation
for $4,000 troops. Some of you remem-
Der the big stir. But the King OF the
universe today asks for twelve hun
dred million more troops than are en-
listed. and We want IL done softly, i'm
! perceptibly, no excitement. one by
one. You are a dry goods merchant on
q large scale. and | come to you and
want to buy 1000 yards OF cloth. Do
you say: Thank you. IL send you
1000 yards OF cloth. but I'll sell you 20
yards today. and 20 tomorrow, and
20 the next day. and IL II takes me six
months. III send 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 that 900 yards of
cloth is too much to sell all at once?"
No; you do not say that. You take me
into the counting room. and in ten
minutes the whole transaction is con-
summated. The fact is we cannot af-
ford to be. fools in anything but re-
ligion.
That very merchant who on Satur-
day 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 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 500 years. Here is a man who says
200 years. Here is some one more con-
fdent who says in so years. What,
80 years? Do you propose to let two
generations pass off the stage before
the world is converted? Suppose by
prolongation OF human life at the end
Of the next so years you should walk
the length of Pennsylvania avenue,
Washington. or the length OF Broad
way, New York. In all those walks
you would not find one person that
you recognize. Why? All ad or so
changed that you would not know
them. In other words. If you post
UOAb lllt ltdtllpllOn vi lulS NOllu lDI
80 years you admit that the majority
of the two whole generations shall go
off the stage unblessed and unsaved.
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 m and
women now in middle life part.
The Coming Great Revival
II seems to me as if God is preparing
the world for some quick and univer-
sal movement. A celebrated electri-
clan gave me a telegraph chart of the
world. On that chart the wires CIR SIS
ing the continents and the cables un-
der the sea looked like veins red with
blood. On that chart | see that the
headquarters of the lghtnings are in
Great Britain and the United States.
In London and New York the light
nings are stabbed, waiting to be har-
messed for some quick dispatch. That
shows you that the telegraph is in the
possession of Christianity.
1t is a significant fact that the man
who invented the telegraph was an old
fashioned Christian, Cyrus W. Field,
and that the president of the most ia
nous OF the telegraph companies Of
this country was an old fashioned
Christian. William orion. going from
the communion table on earth straight
10 his home in heaven. What does all
that mean?
do not suppose that the telegraph
was invented merely to let us know
whether -four is up or down or which
horse won the race at the Derby or
which marksman beat at the latest
contest | 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 his 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 a
species Of foreknowledge in the wealth
er probabilities, gives Us a species OF
omniscience in telegraphy, gives us
species Of omnipresence in the tele-
phone, gives us a species of omnipo-
tence in the steam power. Discoveries
and inventions all around about us,
people are asking what next?
will tell you what next Next,
stupendous religious movement Next.
the end of war. Next, the crash OF
despotism. Next, the worlds expurgl-
ton. Next, the Christlike dominion
Next. the judgment. What becomes OF
the world after that care not. 1t will
have suffered and achieved enough for
one world. Lay IL up on the drydocks
of eternity. like an old man-of-war
gone out of service, or fit il up like
Constellation to carry bread of relief
to some other suffering planet or let
IL be demolished Farewell, dear old
world. that began with paradise and
ended with Judgment conhagration.
Talking shop In the Woods.
Mr.. Blank, busy and successful oc-
culist spent his summer vacation in