The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1901-03-29

vivals. While the pcws On one side
/ the altar cry for mercy, the pulpits
/ on the other side OF the ALTA. must
cry for mercy. Ministers quarrcIing.
Ministers trying TO pull each other
down. Ministers struggling Tor cccle-
siaStical place. Ministers. Ictb,raic
with whole congregations DIVING on
their hands. What a spectacle,
During our civil war the president
of the United States made procIama
/ tion for $4,000 troops. Some of Won
remember The big stir. But the King
/ of the universe to-day asks for
l,2Oo,00c,oo0 more troops than are en-
listed. and we want it done softly.
[ imperceptibly. no excitement. one nv
one. Nou are a dry goods merchant
on large scale. and | am a merchant
on small scale, and ! come to Won
and want to buy 1000 yards OF cloth.
Do you say: Thank YOU. III sell
YOU 1000 yards Of cloth. but IN sell
you 20 yards to-day and 20 tomorrow
and 20 the next day, and if il takes
me six months I'll sell YOU the whole
thousand yards. You viii want IS
long as that Ia examine the Foods
and I'll want a long as tina; 10 exam
Inc the credit. aud besides that I 600
yards of cloth is too much to sell all
at oucc?" No: You do not say that.
You take me into the counting-room.
and in11cu minutes the whole transac-
tion is consummated. The fact j. we
cannot afford 20 tc fools in ANYTHING
but religion.
That very merchant who on Sa;ur-
day afternoon sold ne The thousand
yards OF cloth az one stroke the next
Sabbath in church will stroke his
beard and wonder whether il would
not be better for a Thousand souls to
come struggling along for ten years
instead of boiling IN a one service.
!; seems 10 me a if God is prepa--
ing the world for some quick and
universal movement. \ celebrated
clectriciancravr me 4 telegraph char.
OF the world. ON that char; the wires
crossing the continents and the cables
under the sea looked like veins red
with blood. On that chart see that
the headquarters o. The lightnings are
in Great Britain and the United
States. In London ard New York
the lightniugS are stabbed. waiting
To he harncssed Tor some quick dis
patch. That shows you that the tel
cgraph is in the possession of Chris
tianity.
|: is a significant fact that the man
who invented the telegraph was an
old-fashioued Christian, Prof. 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 ia.
nous Of the telegraph companies CT
this country WAS an old-fa shoned
Christian, William orion, going from
the communion table on earth
straight 20 his home in Heaven. What
does all that mean?
do not suppose that the telegraph
was invented merely 20 let us know
whether flour is up or down or which |
-Iitr->. won ~ race at the Derby or
which marks man beat at the latest
contest. suppose the telegraph was
invented and built 10 call the world
Ia God
In some OF :he attributes of the
lord we seem 20 share on a small
scale. For instance. in fills love and
His Kindness. But until of late fore
knowledge. omniscience. omnipres-
ence. onnipo.cncc. seem "a have been
exclusively Goa possession. God, de-
string to make ;hr race like Himself
gives us a species of forehnOwiedge
in the weather proba hiliiies. gives us
q species 90 omuiSciencc in telegraphy.
gives us a species of omnipreSence in
the tclephonc. gives us a species of
omnipotcnce in the steam power. Dis
coveries and Inventions all around
about us, people are asking what next?
] win tell YOU what next. Next. a
stupcrdous religions movement. Next.
the end Of war. Next, the crash az
dcspptiSm. Next, tn" world : cxpurga-
tion. Next, the ChriStlike dominion.
Next. the Judgment. Wha'. becomes
OF the world after that I care not.
II will have suffered and achieved
enough for one world. Lay it up in
the drydocks of eternity. ike an old
man of war gone out OF service. or Il
ii mp like II Constellation To carry
bread OF relief 10 some other SUFFERING.
planet or let il br demolished. Fare
well. dear old world. that began with
paradise and ended with Judgment
conflagration.
Last summer stood on the Isle OF
Wight. and ! had pointed ont to me
the place where the Eurydicc sank
with 200 or 800 Young men who were
in training for the British navy. You
remember when that training ship
went down there was thrill of horror
all over the world. Since then there
was another training ship missing
The Atalanta. gone down with all on
board. by order Of her ma jcsty's gov
crnment vessels went cruising up and
down the Atlantic trying To find that
los, training ship in which there were
SO many young men preparing for
he British navy. Alas. for the lost
ATLANTA. Oh, my friends, this world
is only training ship. On it we are
training for Heaven. The old shin
sails UP and down the ocean of i'm
mcnsity. now through the dark waves
OF midnight. now through the golden
crested wave of the morn, but sails
on and sails ON. After awhile her