Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-03-28

day afternoon sold me Tho Thousand
yards of cloth at one stroke the next
Sabbath in church will stroke his
beard and wonder whether 1t would
not be better for a thousand souls to
come struggling along for ten years
instead of boiling in at one service.
We talk good deal about the good
times that are coming and about the
worlds redemption. How long before
they will come? There is man who
says 500 years. Here Is man who says
200 years. Here is some one more con-
fident who says in SO years. What.
so years? Do you propose to let two
generations pass off the stage before
the world is converted? Suppose by
prolongation OF human life at the end
Of the next so years you should walk
the length of Pennsylvania avenue,
Washington, or the length of Broad
way, New York. In all those walks
you would not find one person that
you recognize. Why? All dead or SO
changed that you would not know
them. In other words, If you post
pone 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. I
tell you the church of Jesus Christ
cannot consent to 1t. We must pray
and toll and have the revival spirit,
and we must struggle to have the
whole world saved before the men and
women now in middle life part.
The Coming Great Revival
It seems to me as IL God is preparing
the world for some quick and univer-
sal movement. A celebrated electro
clan gave me a telegraph chart of the
world. On that chart the wires cross
ing the continents and the cables I'M
der the sea looked like veins red with
blood. On that chart / see that the
headquarters Of the lightnings are in
In London and New York the light
nings 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, Cyrus w. Field,
and that the president of the most ia
nous OF the telegraph companies Of
this country was an old fashioned
Christian, William Orion, going from
the communion table on earth straight
to his home in heaven. What does al
that mean?
do not suppose that the telegraph
was invented merely to let us know
whether -four is up or down or which
horse won the race at the Derby or
which marksman beat at the latest
contest. suppose the telegraph was
invented and built to call the world tc
God.
In some Of the attributes of the Lord
we seem to share on small scale. For
instance, in his love and in his kind
ness. But until of late foreknowledge,
omniscience, omnipresence, omnipo-
tence. seem to have been exclusively
Gods possession. God, desiring to
make the race like himself, gives us a
species of foreknowledge in the wealth.
er probabilities, gives us species Of
omniscience in telegraphy, gives us a
species of omnipresence in the tele-
phone, gives us species Of omnipo-
tence in the steam power. Discoveries
and inventions all around about US
people are asking what next?
l will tell you what next. Next, a
stupendous religious movement. Next,
the end Of war. Next, the crash Of
despotism. Next, the worlds expurga-
ton. Next, the Christlike dominion.
Next, the judgment. What becomes Of
the world after that care not. 1t will
have suffered a1d achieved enough for
one world. Lay 1t up on the drydocks
Of eternity, like an old man-of-war
gone out of service, or fit it up like a
Constellation to carry bread Of relief
to some other suffering planet or let
it be demolished. Farewell, dear old
world. that began with paradise and
ended with Judgment conflagration.