The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1901-04-05
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the altar ory for mercy, Tho pIlpits
on tho other add K the III tar MUST
cry for mercy I. Niinisters quafrcIine.
Ministers trying to pull each other
down. Ministers strugg glinC for eaSle.
aiastical place. Minister lcthergic
with whole congregations dying
their hands. What q spectacloi
During our civil war the president
Of the United States made proclama.
i tion for 10000 troops. Some OF you
remember the big stir. But Tho King
OF the universe today asks for
1900, ,O00, 900 more troops than nre sn-
listed, and we want it done softly,
imperceptibly, no excitement, ono BY
one. You are aadry goods merchant
on q large scale, md I arn merchant
on small scale, and ! como to you
and want to buy 1000 yards OF 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 to-morrow
and 20 the next day and II It takes
mo six months I'll sell you the whole
thousand yards. You will! want as
long as that to examine tho goods,
and I'll want MS long as that to exam
ino 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 transac-
tion Is contaminated. The fact is re
cannot afford to be fools In anything
but religion. y
That ve1y merchant who on Satur-
dny afternoon sold mo the thousand
yards of cloth at one stroke the next
Sabbath In church will stroke his
beard and wonder whether it woald
not bo better for thousand souls;to
como struggling along for ten years
instead Of bolting in ut one service.
It seems to mo as If God Is prepar-
ing the world for some quick and
universal movement. A celebrated
electrician gayc me a telegraph chart
of the world. On that chart the wires
crossing the continents and the cables
under the seq looked like veins red
with blood. On that chart I SEQ that
the headquarters Of the lightnings are
in Great Britain and the United
States. In London and New York
the lightnings arc stabbed, waiting
TO be harnesscd for some quick dis
patch. That shows you that the tel
egraph is in the possession Of Chris
tianity.
It is significant fact that the man
who invented tho telegraph wss CT
old-fashioned Christian, Prof. Morse,
and that the man who put the 'tele-
graph under tho sea was nm old-fash-
toned Christian, Cyrus W Field, and
that tho president Of the most fa-
mous Of the telegraph companies Of
this country waB an old-fashioned
Christian, William Orion, going from
tho communion table on earth
straight to his home in Heaven. What
does oil that mean2
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 marl1sman beat at the latest
contest. suppose tho telegraph was
invented and built to call the world
TO God.
In some Of the attributes Of tho
Lord wo seem to share on small
scalo. For instance, in His love and
His kindness. But until of late fore
knowledge, omniscience, omnipres-
ence, omnipotence, seem to have been
exclusively Gods possession. God, de-
airing to make the race like Himself,
gives us species Of forelsnowledge
In tho weather probabilities, gives us
species Of omniscienco In telegraphy,
gives us q species Of omnipresence in
the telephone, gives us species Of
coveries and inventions nil around
about us, people are asking what next7
I will tell you what next. Next, q
stupendous religious movement. Next,
the end Of war. Next, the crash Of
despotism. Next, the worlds expurga-
tion. Next, the Christlike dominion.
Next, the Judgment. What becomes
of the world after that caro not
1t will have suffered and achieved
enough for one world. Lay it up in
the drydocls of eternity, like an old
man of war gone out OF aervice, or fit
it up like q Constellation to carry
bread Of relief to sone other suffering
planet or let it be demolished. Fare
well, dear old world, that began with
paradise and ended with Judgment
confagration. NJ
Last summer stood on the Isle Of
Wight, and had pointed out to me
the place where the Eurydice sank
WITH 200 or 400 young men who were
in training for tho British navy. You
remember when that training ship
went down there was thrill Of horror
all over the world. Since then thero
was another training ship missing.
The Atalanta, gone down with all on
board. BY order Of her majesty gov
ernment vessels went cruising up and
down the Atlantic trying to find that
lost training ship in which there were
30 many young mon preparing for
the British navy. Alas, for tho lost
Atalantal Oh, my friends, this world
is only a training ship! On it we are
training for Heaven. The old ship
sails up and down the ocenn Of Inn
mensity, now through the dark waves
Of midnight. now through the golden
crested wave of tho morn but sails
on and sails on. After awhile hor
work will be done, and the inhabitants
OF Heaven will look out and find q
world missing. The cry will be-:
"Where Is that earth where Christ
died and the human race was emanci.
pated? Send, out fleets Of angels TO
And the missing craft" Let them sail
up and down, cruise up and down the
ocean Of eternity, and thoy will catch