Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-03-30

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what solemn thought for those of us
who minister at the altar, With the
present ministry in the present temper
allure of piety, this land will never be en-
vcloped with REVEALS While the news
on one side the altar cry for mercy. the
puipits on the other side the altar must
cry for mercy. Ministers quarreling.
Ministers trying to pull each other down.
! Ministers struggling for ecclesiastical
place. Ministers lcthargic with whole
congregations dying on their hands What
| spectacle.
Aroused pulpits viii make aroused
pcws. Pnlpits allame will make pews
atlame. Everybody believes in revival
in trade, everybody likes a revival in lit
crature. everybody likes revival in art.
yet n great multitude cannot understand
revival in matters of religion. Depend
upon it, whore you find a man antago-
nistic to reyivalS. whether he he in pull
pit or pew, he needs to he regencratcd by
the grace OF God
l could prove to demonstration that
without revivals this world will never be
converted and that in 100 or 200 years
without reviyals Christianity will be-
practically extinct, 1t is n matter of as
/ tuonding arithmetic. In each of our
modern generations there are at least
32Oo0.000 children. Nav add - .0OO-
600 to the worlds population and then
I have only 100000 or 100000 converted
every year, and how long before The
/ world will be saved3 Never absolutely
/ never,
More Troops Wanted.
/ During our civil war the President OF
/ the United States made proclamation for
/ 10000 troops. Some of you remember
| the big stir. But the King Of the uni
/ verse to-day asks for twelve hundred
/ million more troops than are enlisted, and
/ We want it done SOFTLY, impercepubly,
/ no cNcjtcment one 10y one You are q
| dry goods merchant on large scale ana
/ ann a merchant ON a small scale, and !
| come 10 you and want to buy 1000 yards
/ Of cloth. Do you say: Thank you. I'll
/ sell YOU 1000 yards of cloth hut I'll sell
/ You 20 yards to-day ana 20 tomorrow
/ ana 20 the next day, and if 1t takes me
/ sin months I'll sell You the whole thou-
/ sand yards. You will want as long as
/ that 10 examine the goods. and I'll want
| rs long as that to examine the credit,
and besides that 1000 yards Of cloth is
| too much to sell all ut ouccE' No; you
| do not say that, You take me into the
| counting room, and in ten minutes the
whole transaction is consummated. The
| fact is We cannot afford to be fools ia
| anything hut religion.
! That very merchant who on Saturday
| afternoon sold me the thousand yards Of
| cloth at one stroke the next Sabbath ia
/ church will stroke his beard and wonder.
| whether it 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 a man who says
! 200 years. Here is some one more conf
dent who says in 80 years. What, 30
years? DO you propose to let two gen
erations pass off the stage before the
world is converted? Suppose by pro-
longation of human life at the end of the
next 80 years yeu should walk the length
of Pennsylvania avenue, Washington, or
| the length of Broadway, New York. In
all those walks you would not find one
| person that YOU recognize. Why? An
! dead or so changed you would not know
! them. In other words. il you postpone
! the redemption Of this world for 30 years
/ you admit that the majority Of the two
| whole generations shall go of the stage
unblessed and unsaycd | tell you the
church of Jesus Christ cannot consent to
it. 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.
oh you say, lit is too vast an enter
prise To be conducted in so short "a time"
Do you know low long it would take to
save the whole world il each man would
bring anothcrf 1t would take ten years.
by calculation in compound interest,
each man bringing another and that one
another and that one another, in ten
years the whole earth would be saved
1911. Before the organs in our churches
are worn out they ought to sound the
grand march Of the whole earth saved.
If the world is not saved in the next ten
years, it will be the fault Of the church
of Christ But it viii all depend upon
the revival spirit. The hook and line
fishing will not do it,
1t seems to ne as if God is preparing
the world for some quick and universal
movement. A celebrated electrician gave
me telegraph chart of the world. On
that chart the wires crossing the CONT
nents and the cables under the sea looked
like veins red with blood. On that chart
/ see that the headquarters Of the light
nings nre in Great Britain and the Unit
ed States. In London aud New York the
lighinings 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, Prof. Morse, and
that the man who put the telegraph un-
der the sea was an old-fashioned Chris
tian, Cyrus w. Field and that the presi
dent OF the most famous of the teIe-
graph companies Of this country was an
old-fashioned Christian, William orion.
going from the communion a HI. %, o,..a