The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1901-04-05
,fessns tsh shapSra ORE gof piety, thiss
land will never b6 6tSol opsd Wit sh 9ro.si

3yiyals, w hilo9 tho pey8a oi, 4 on 8 Sstdo;
tho o ltar oty fof mercy, the pulpitaS
zon tho OF her Side OF the altar i, m,itisa'
cry for mercy. Nfitisters quarrei iinp.
Ministers trying to- pull Z eatch \ o ther,
down. Ministers struggling Tor eo1e.
siastical place. Ministers, letharaio
with whole congregations dying; On
their hands. What q spectacle! 5g
During our civil war tho president
OF the United States nude prsciaInu..
tSion for $4,000 troops. Some Of you
remember the big stir. But tho King
OF the Universe to-day asks for
100000, 900 more troops than are en-.
listed, and we want It done softly.
imperceptibly, no excitement, ono By
one. You are a dry goods merchant
on q large scale, and am q merchant
on small scale, and I como to YOU
and want to buy 1000 yards or cloth.
DO you say: "rhank you. I'll sell
you 1000 yards Of cloth, but I'll cell
you 20 yards to-day and 20 to-morrow
and 20 the next day, and IT it takes
mo six months I'll sell you the whole
thousand yards. You will want 40
long as that to examine she goods.
and III want as long as that to exam
inc the credit, and besides that 1000
yards Of clothis too much to sell Ill
at once 2" No; you do not say that.
You take me into the counting-room,
and in ten minutes the whole transac-
tion ia contaminated The fact is we
cannot afford to bo fools in anything
but religion. -S
That very merchant who on Satur-
day afternoon sold mo the thousand
yards Of cloth at one stroke the next
Sabbath In church will stroko his
beard and wonder whether it wopld
not be better for q thousand souls Ito
como struggling along for ten years
instead Of boltihg in at one service.
II seems to me as II God Is prepar-
ing tho world for some quicis and
universal movement. A celebrated
electrician gave mo 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 sec that
the headquarters Of the lightnings are
In Great Britain and the United
States. In London and New York
the lightnlngs aro stabbed, waiting
to be harnessed for some quick, dis
patch That shows you that the tel
egraph Is in tho possession OF Chris
tianity.
It is q significant fact that the man
who invented the telegraph was an
old-fashioned Christian, Prof. Norsc,
and that the man who put the tele-
graph under the sea was an old-fash-
ioned Christian, Cyrus W. Field, and
that tEe president Of tho most fa-
nous Of the telegraph companies OF
this country was an old-fashioiied
Christian, William Orion, going from
tho communion table on earth
straight to his homo In Heaven. What
does all that mean?
do not suppose that the telegraph
was invented merely to let us know
whether flour ia up OF down or which
horse won the raco at the Derby or
which marksman beat at the latest
contest. suppose tho telegraph was
invented and built to call tho world
to God.
In some Of tho attributes OF tho
Lord we seem to share on q small
scale. 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-
string to make the raco like Himself,
gives us species Of foroltnowlcdge
In tho weather probabilities, gives us
q species Of omniscicnce in telegraphy,
gives US q species Of omnipresence In
tho telephone, gives us species OF
omnipotence in the steam power. Dis
coveries and inventions oil around
| n, 1ro 10 II, IL n
will tell you what next. Next, q
stupendous religious movement. Next,
the end OF war. Next, the crash OF
despotism. Next, the world expurga-
tion. Next, the Christlike dominion.
Next, the Judgment. What becomes
of tho world nfter that care not
It will have suffered and achieved
enough for one world. Lay 1t up.in
the drydocks of eternity, like nm old
man Of war gone out OF service, or flt
1t up like Constellation to carry
bread Of relief to some other suffering
planet or let 1t be demolished. Fare
well, dear old world, that began with
paradise and ended with Judgment
confagration.
Last summer stood on the Isle of
Wight, and I had pointed out to me
the place where the Eurydico sank
with 200 or 800 young men who were
In training for tho British navy. You
remember when that training ship
went down there wes thrill Of horror
all over tho world. Since then there
was another training ship missing.
The Atalante, gone down with all on
board. BY order OF her majesty's gov
ernment vessels went cruising up and
down the Atlantic trying to find that
lost training ship in which there were
80 many young men preparing tor
the British navy. Alas, for the lost
Atalantal Oh, my friends, this world
is only q training shipt On it we are
training for Heaven. The old ship
sails up and down tho ocean Of Inn
mensity, now through the dark waves
of midnight, now through the golden
crested wavo OF the MORN but sails
on and sails on. After awhile hor
work will be done, and the inhabitants
Of Heaven will look out ana find
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 70
find the missing craft" Let them soil
up and down, cruise up md down the
ocean Of eternity, and they will catch
not one glimpse Of her mountain masts
or her topgallants Of floating cloud.
Conc downi The training ship Of
world perished in the last tornado.
Oh let It not Ira that she, copa f1ovvr