Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1901-03-27

- sAtNSs NfNAs utAs lihtS u ASNAhhA III az
erature, everybody likes a revival in art,
yet great multitude cannot understand
| revival iii matters of religion. Depend
| upon it, where you find a man antago-
! nistic TO revivals. whether he be in pull
pit or pew, he needs to be regenerated By
/ the grace of God.
| could prove to demonstration that
! without revivals this world will never be
| converted and that in 100 or 200 years
/ without revivals Christianity win be
| practically extinct. Ii is a matter OF as
I tuonding arithmetic. In each of our
modern generations there are at least
32,000000 children. Now add $1,000
600 to the worlds population and then
/ have only 100000 g 100000 converted
every year, aad how long before the
| world viii be saved? overwhelmingly
| ncveri
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 to-day asks for twelve hundred
milton more troops than are enlisted, and
we want it done softly, imperceptibly,
no excitement, one by one. You are "a
| dry goods merchant on a large scale, and
! / am merchant on : small scale, and
come to you and want to buy 1000 yards
of cloth. DO you say: THANK you. I'll
sell you 1000 yards If cloth, but I'll sell
you 20 yards to-day and 20 tomorrow
and 20 the next day, and il it takes me
SIX months III sell you the whole thou
sand, yards. You will want as long as
that to examine the goods. and I'll went
as long as that to examine the credit,
and besides that 1000 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 consummated. The
TACT 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
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 500 years. Here is a man who says
200 years. Here is some one more conf
dent who says in 80 years. What, 30
years? Do you propose to let two gen.
erations pass off the stage before the
world is converted? Suppose by pro-
longation of human life at 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 so years
you admit that the majority of the two
! whole generations shall go off the stage
| unblessed and unsaved. l tell you the
| church of Jesus Christ cannot consent 10
I ii. We must pray and toll and have the
revival spirit, and we must struggle to
have the whole world saved before the
men and W omen now in middle life part.
oh" you say, lit is too vast an enter
prise to be conducted in so short time"
! Do you know how long it would take to
save the whole world if each man would
bring another? 1t would take ten years.
i
each man bringing another and that one
another and that one another, in ten
years the whoa earth would be saved
1911. Before 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 depend upon
he 80 H.
fishing will not do it.
The Coming Great Revival.
1t seems to me as if God is preparing
the world for some quick and universal
movement. A celebrated electrician gare
me Il telegraph chart Of the world. On
that chart the wires crossing the CONT
nents and the cables under the sea looked
like veins red with blood. On that chart
| see that the headquarters of the light
nings are in Great Britain and the Unit
ed States. In London and New York the
! liehtnings 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, Prof. Morse. and
that the man who put the telegraph I'M
| der the sea was an old-fashoned Chris
tan, Cyrus w. Field, and that the presi-
dent of the most famous of the tele-
! graph companies of this country was an
old-fashoned Christian, 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
| -four is ND or down or which horse won
| the race ut the Derby or which marks
man beat at the latest contest | sup
! pose the telegraph was invented and built
! to call the world to God. Discoveries
and inventions all around about us, peo-
pie are asking what next?
! ! will tell you what next. Next. stu
| pendous religious movement Next, the
| end of war. Next, the crash of despot-
! ism. Next, the worlds expurgation
Next, the Christlike dominion. Next. the
! Judgment. What becomes of the world
| after that / care not. 1t will have suf-
! fered and achieved enough for one world
| Lay it up in the drydocks of eternity
| like an old man-of-war gone out of ser
vice, or fit it up like a Constellation to
carry bread of relief to some other suf-
fering planet or let it be demolished.
| Farewell, dear old world. that began
with paradise and ended with Judgment
confagration.