St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1901-04-27

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tion ana then have only 100000 OF
2OO, 900 converted every year, and how
long before the world will be saveds
-Neyer-absolutely never!
During our civil war the president
of the United States made proclama-
ton for $4,000 troops. Some Of you
remember the big stir. But the King
Of the universe to-day asks for
1,2OO, ,o0O, 900 more troops than are en-
listed, and we want it done softly.
imperceptibly, no excitement. one by
one. You are q dry goods merchant
on large scale. and am merchant
on a small scale, and come to you
and want to buy 1000 yards OIL cloth.
Do you say: "Thank you. I'll sell
you 1000 yards of cloth. but I'll sell
you 20 yards to-day and 20 tomorrow
and 90 the next day. and if it takes
me s.A months I'll sell you the whole
thousand yards. You will want a.
long as that to examine the goods,
and III want as long as that to exam
inc the credit, and besides that 1000
yards of cloth is too much to sell al
at once?" No; you do not say that.
You take me into the counting-roop.
and In ten minutes the whole transac-
tion, is consummated. The fact is we
cannot afford to be fools in anything
but religion.
That very merchant who on Satur-
day afternoon sold me the thousand
wards 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.
1t seems to me as II God is prepsr-
ing the world for some quick and
universal movement. A celebrated
electrician gave me a 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 see that
the headquarters Of the lightnings are
in Great Britain and the United
States. In London and New York
the lightnings are stabbed. waiting
to be harnessed for some quick dis
patch. That shows you that the tel
egraph is in the possession OF Chris
tianity.
It 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 tele-
graph under the sea was an old-fash-
ioned Christian, Cyrus w. Field, and
that the president Of the most f.
nous Of the telegraph companies OF
| this country was an old-fashioned
Christian, William Orton. going from
the communion table on earth
straight to his home in Heaven. What
does all that meanP
do not suppose that the telegraph
| wa. invented merely to let us know
whether -four il up or down or which
horse won the race at the Derby OF
which marksman beat at the latest
contest. I 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
H1 Kindness. But until of late fore
knowledge, omniscience, omnfpres'
ence, omnipotence, seem to have been
exclusively Gods possession. God, de-
string to make the race like Himself
gives us . species Of foreknowledge
in the weather probabilities, gives Us
q species of omniscience in telegraphy
gives us a species of omnipresence in
the telephone, gives us species OF
omnipotence in the steam power. Dis
coveries and inventions all around
about us, people are asking what next
l will tell you what next. Next,
stupendous religious movement. Next
the end of war. Next, the crash o.
despoti.m. Next, the worlds expurga
tion. Next, the Christlike dominion
Next, the Judgment. What become'
of the world after that I care not
It will have suffered and achieved
enough for one world. Lay it up IL
the drydocks of eternity, like an olt
man of war gone out Of service. or ID
II up like q Constellation to carr.
bread of relief to some other suffering
planet or let it be demolished. Fare
we'll, dear old world, that began will
paradise and ended with judgmen
confiagration.
Last summer stood on the Isle o
Wight, and I had pointed out to M
the place where the Eurydice sanl
With 200 or 800 young men who wer'
in training for the British navy. Yo'
remember when that training shil
went down there was thrill OF horro
alt over the world. Since then ther
was another training ship missing
The Atalanta, gone down with all ol
board. BY order Of her majestys gov
ernment vessels went cruising up an
down the Atlantic trying to find tha
lost training ship in which there wer
SO many young men preparing 10
the British navy. Alas, for the los
Atalanta! Oh, my friends. this worl
is only a training ship! On it we ar
training for Heaven. The old sni
sails up and down the ocean of In
mensity, now through the dark wave
OF midnight, now through the golde
crested wave Of the morn. but sail
ON and sails on. After awhile he
J work will be done. and the inhabitant
! of Heaven will look out and find
world missing. The cry will be
; sWhere is thxt earth where Chris
died and the human race was emanc
pated? Send out fleets Of angels
find the missing craft" Let them 50
up and down, cruise up and down tn
ocean of eternity. and they will cate
not one glimpse of her mountain mast
or her topgallants Of floating clou'
: Gone down! The training ship OF
world perished in the last TORNADO
) Oh. let It not be that she goes dow
with all on board, but rather may itt
said of her passengers, as II was sal
Of the drenched passengers OF the A
: exandrian corn ship that crashed int
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