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The Brussels Post, 1889-4-26, Page 6( ''.DEN 'PPORTUNITIES. Dv. Talmage Discovers Tifellt In the tient. Future. At the Bruoklyu laboruaole Sun dr. , ,rte r expounding passages de- scilierve. id the world as it shall be whop gti-pelizcd, Dr. Talmage gave ou •le hymn : People and realms of every tongue Dwell on his love wish sweetest song• Text–Revelations xix, 4 : "Amen : Alleluia." :Che nineteenth century is de• pit/etre; After it has taken it few tr r 'ape, if each year be a step, it will goat, into the eternities II, a . hort time we will be in the , • cilia of this century, which fa • ,:Lakes the solemnest book out st ': litho Bible the almanno, and the ma»i suggestive and the most trem- endous piece of mt.e emery in all the earth, the clock. The last dee,tde of this century, upon which we el- di soon outer, will be the grand or, mightiest and most decieive dea.:re in all the chronologies. That last ten years .•f the nineteenth century, may wo all live to see them 1 Does any one say that this divieiou of time is arbitrary ? 011, no ; in other ages tho division of time may have bean arbitrary, but our years date from Christ. Does any one say that the grouping of ten together is an arrangement ar bitory ? 012 no ; next to the figure seven, ten is with God a favorite number. Abraham dwelt ten years in Canaan. Ten righteous men would have saved Sodom. And the commandments written on the gran- ite of Mount Sinai wore ten, and the kingdom of God was likened to ten virgins, and the reward of thegreat• jr faithful ie that they shall reign over ten cities. So I Dome to look toward the closing ten years of the nineteenth century with an intensity of interest I can hardly describe. I have also noticed that the fav rite tette in many of the centuries for great event was the CLOSING FRAGMENT OF TUE CENTURY. Is America to be discovered, it must be in the last decade of the fifteenth century, namely 1492. Was free constitutional government to he well eatablishel in America, the last years of the 18th century must achieve it Were three cittes to be submerged by one pitch of sconce, Heronlan gum and strabiie and Pompeii in the letter part of the first century must go under. The fourth century closed with the meet agitating ecclesiastical war of (his- tory, Urban the Sixth against Ole meat the' Seventh Alfred the Great closes the ninth century and Edward Ironeidee the eleventh ceet tury with their resounding deeds. The sixteenth oeutury closed with the establishment of religious iu dependence in the United Nether lands. Aye, almost every century has had its peroration cf overtow. r• ing achievements. As t11e closing Yeats of the centuries seem a favor ite time for gr at scenes of omencip ation or disaster, and as tho num ber ten times seems n favorite num- ber in the Scriptures, written by divine direction, and as wo are soon to enter on the last ten years of the nineteenth oeutury, what dons the world propose ? Whet does the church of Christ propose ? What do Reformers propose ? I know not : but now in the presence of thus consecrated assembly I pro Pete that we make ready, march up and take this round world for God When I say we, I mean the five million Christians now alive. But, ae many of them wilt nit have enough heart for the work let us Dopy Girleon'e military order say. ing : "Whosever Is fearful and afraid let flim return and depart early from Gilead," and twenty two of the thirty two thousand went home and only ten thousand were left and God told them that even this reduced number was too large for they might think they had tri• umpired independent of divine help, and an the number must be still ',either reduced and only those kept in the rinks who in passing the riv er should be en in haste for victory over their enemies that, though very thirety, they would with stopping It second lint scoop tip the water in the palm of their right hand and scoop up the water in trio palm of their left land and only three hurl. died mita did that atni those three hundred ieeu, with the battle shout, 61Tno sword of the .Loris and of Gid cern," scattered the Mitltanitos like breves in au ognieue, so out of the five hundred million nominal Chris- tian of today let all unbelievers and cowards go home and get out of the way. And suppose we have only four hundred million left, suppose only tsvO hundred million left, sup, pose Daly one hundred million loft, yea, suppose wo have only fifty Mile lion left, with thorn we shall tinder• Wm the divine crusade, and each et • Just scooping np a palm full of 11e river of God's mercy in etre hand crud a palm fall of the river of Gel's strength in the other, let us with the cry, "The sword of the Lord and of Gideon," the sword of tho Lnrd and of John Kum:, the sword of the Lord and of Matthew Simpson, the sword of the Lord and of Bishop Mellvaine, the sword of the Lord mud of Atluniram Judson, the eworti of the Lord and of Mar tit: Lather, go 1010 the last decade of the uineteeuth century. Ie there anythiug in prophecy to hinder this speedy consummation? No. Suppose the Bible had an• nouueal the millennium to begin the year »883, that would be no biudrsuce. In one semis elm NEVIN; CHANGES lin etoso, being the seine yesterday, today, and forever. But in another sense IIo does change His mind and that is when His people pray. Didn't he change his mind about Nineveh ? .By God's eemmand Jonah, At the top of his voice, whsle standing on the steps of the Merchants' Ex ohangh of that city, cried out, "Yet forty days and Nineveh shall be overthrown," Was is overthrown in forty days ? No. Tho people gave up their sins and cried for mercy, and "God saw their works that they turned from their evil way and God repented of the evil that He had said He would do unto them and Hoe did it not," God is a fath- er, and some of us know what that means, and some time when we have promised chastisement and the child deserved it, the little darling has put her arms around the neck and expresses such sorrow and such promises of doing better that her tears landed ou the lips of our !cies, and we held her a half hour after on our knee and would as soon think of slapping an angel in the face a8 of even shriking her with the weight of ear little finger. God is a father, and while He has promised thi• world soourgings, though they w re to be for a thousand years or five thousand years, he would if the world repented substitute benedic tion and divine caress. God chang- ed His mind. about Sodom six thine. Eigbt times does the Bible say thee God repented when he had prorate ed pnniehments and withheld the stroke. Was it a slip of Paul's pen when He spoke of God'•, cutting short the work in righteousness 2 No. Paul's pen never skipped There is nothing in the way of prophecy to hinder the crusade I have proposed for the last decade of the nineteeth century. Some man with his eyes half shut drones oat to me the Bible quota- tiou : A. thousand years are as oue day ;" that is, ten centuries are not long for the Lord. But why do you not quote the previous sentence, which says that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years ? Teat is, he could do the work of ten can turiea in twenty-four hours. The mightiest obstacle to Oh.istian work is the impression that the world's evaogelizatiou is away off. Aud we take the telescope ani look on and on through centuries until we see two objects near each other ane we strum oar vision and buses what they are, and we get dowu to our heavioet theological works and bol• auoe our telescope un the lid and leek and look and finally coneluau that they are two beasts that we see, and that one has hair and the other hae wool and we guess that it must be the lion and the lamb lying down together. In that great cradle of postponement and somnolence we rook the Church as though it were au impatient child and say : "Hush my dear, don't he impatieut I Don't get excited by revivals 1 Don't cry t Your Named Doming 1 Don't get uneasy I He will be here in two or three or ten or twenty thous- and years." And we act as though we thought that when Macaulay's famous No,v Zealander in the far distance is seated on a broken arch of London Bridge sketching the ruins of St. Paul's, his grandchild might break in and jolt hid pencil by agking hire if he thought the millenium over would appear. Men and women of the eternal God ! Sous and daughters of the Lord Almighty ! Wo inay have it start in the decade that Is soon to cam- meuec, and it will be done if we can persuade the people bebwecn now and then to get ready for rho work. What makes inn think its can he done 2 First, because God. is ready. Ho mode no longer persuasion to do His work, for if Ho is not willing that any should purist:, Ile is out willing that any of the people of the next decade shall perieli; and the whole Bible is a chime of bells ring• ing out, "Doran, come, come," and you need not go round tiro earth to find out how much Ho wants the worid to como, but jnat to walk arouni one striped and bare and leafless tree with two branches, net arched, but horizontal. But He is wafting, as He said Ile would, Ser the eo•oporation of the Church. THE BRUSSELS POST 'a'"', "�--'.'•1r.'NPR'". r rt. 113"74VTW411"7"w°r^'9.YSrRi�� +.1m,Sll4^.'7414:D.._4Me �• e•,f., ate " w.n.'r: When we are reedy Clot is ready. And Ile eor'aiuly has all the weap. onI•y roads to oapturo this wort l f. r the truth, all the weapone of ltintl- 00se or devastation. 1 If you coutinno to ask mo why I think that tiro world can be eaves} in the final decade of the nineteenth century, I reply because it ie not a great undortaliing, considering the number of worlsors that will go at it, if cuee persuaded it eau be done. We baro sifted the five hundred million of workers dowu to four huu• dred million and three hundred mil lion and two hundred million and one hundred million and to fifty million. I went to work to cipher out how many souls that number ootid bring to God 10 ten years, if each ono brought a soul every year, tool et eaoh emit so brought should bring another each succeeding year, I found out, aided by a professor of mathematics, that we did not need anything like emelt a number of workers enlisted. You see it is simply a question of mathematics and in geometrial progression. Then I gave the learned professor this problem ; How many pentane would it require to start with if each one brought a soul into the kingdom each year for ten year° and each one brought auether each succeed- ing year, in order to have fourteen hundred million people saved or the population of the earth at present. His anerver was two million seven hundred and fifty.four thoui-and three hundred and seventy five workers. So you see that when I sifted the five hundred million nom inal Obri.tiene of the earth down to fifty million and stopped there, I retained for this work forty.ssven million people too many. There it is in glorious mathematics 1 Thou you have never seen the Giant's Oausway where God shows his re Bard fur the hexagonal in whole ranges of rocky columns with •ix sides and six angles. Then you 'rave net -,tidied the geometry of a beo'e honeycomb ei 11 six -ides and nix angles: Then you have not noticed what re gard God has for the r•quare ; the altar of the ltncient taberonele four square, the breastplate four square, .ho court of the temple in Ezekiel's else,u four • game, e, the New Jerusa lom laid out four equare.. Or you !lave not noticed his regard for the circle by making it his throne, "sitting ou the circle of the earth," and fashioning sun and moon and stars in 11 circle attd sending out planetary system around other eye tems in a circle and the whole uui• verse s eeping around the throne of God in a circle. Another reason why I know it can be done is that we may divide the work up among the denomina tions. God does not ask any one denomination to do rho work or any dozen denominations. Tho work can be divided and is being divided up, not geographically but accord- ing to tit° tetnpertltllente of the human family. We cannot say to one denomination, You tape Persia, and another, You take China, and another, You take India, because there are all styles of temperaments in all n•ltions. And some denomin attune ate especially adapted to work ,lith people of sanguine tempera meet or phlegmatic temperament or choleric temperament or nervous temperament or lymphatic tempera- ment. The Episcopal church will do Its most effective work with those who by taste prefer the stately and ritualistic. 'The Me hodiet church will do its best 'work among the emotional and demonstrative. The Presbyterian church will do its beet work among those wbo like strong doctrine and the stately service' softened by the emotional. So each denomination will have oertnin kinds of people whom it will espec• Tally affect. So let the work bo divided up. There are the seven hundred and fifty thousand Chris. blares of the Presbyterian church north, and other hundreds of thous- ands in the Presbyterian church south, and all foreign Presbyterian, more especially Scotch, English and Irish, making, 1 gueee, about two million Presbyterians ; the Metho- dist church Is still larger ; the church of England on both sides the sea still larger ; and many other tlenotnt)latbond as inaoh, if not more, consecrated than any I have men- tioned, Divide tip the world's even gelization among those denomina- tions after they are persuaded 'bean be dorso before the nineteenth eon - tory i.l dead, and the last Hottentot, the !net Turk, the last Japanese, the }tett American, the hast Euro- pean, the last Asiatic, the loot Afri- can will nee the salvation of Clod be- fore bo sees the opening gate of the twentieth cautery. Again, Ilea elle whole world can be saved in the time specified, be. cause we have all manner of ma. °binary requieite, It is not as though we had to build tiro priuting proems; they are all built and run- ning day and night, tlioeo printing religions papers (925 of those rolig- i ions mere in this anuntry), those printing religious [note ind those I printing rcligioue bouke, Avid than• Ngndb of printing presses now 11) the eerviee of the devil could be brought l and sot to work in the service of C C ad. Witt' was the printing prose invented ? To turn out billheads and cireulare of patent medicines and toll the trews which in three weeps will be of no importance, From the old-time Franklin priuting pre se8 on top to the Lord eltenhop's press and the Washington press and the Viotoria prow to Hand perfect - in printing press, that Innehinf, has been improving for its bast work and Be final work, namely, the publlcntion of the glad tidings of graft joy which shall be to all people. We have the presses, or can have them before the first of January, whin ilia now decade is to begin, to put a Bible in the hand of every son mud daughter of Adam and Eve now living, and tf such persons cannot read 0'O 000 have a colporteur, au evangelist or miseionary to road it to him or her, But this brings me to the adj au ing thouglat; namely, we have tli mousy to do the wo'k I Incite the fifty millions of Christians have it. Aye, the two million seven hundred and fifty four thomeind Chris,iuns have it ; and the dam, which is bo ginning to leak, will soon break and there will be rushing floods; of hum dreds and millioue and billione of dollars in holy contribution when you persuade the wealthy mon of the kingdom of God that the speedy colt version of the world is a possibility and that Isaiah and Ezekiel and Daniel and St John will not stand in the way of it but help it on. I have no sympathy with this bombard• meat of rich meu. We would each one be worth five million dollars if we could, and by hard persuasion might perhope be induced to tette fifteen roilliene Almost every paper I take up tette of some wo'n'ky man who has endowed a college or built a church or a hospital or a free library, anti that thing is going to multiply until the treasury of all our dencimivatioue and reformatory Organizations trill be overwhelmed eith munificence if we 000 persuade our mon of .vealth that the world's evangelization is possible and that they may live to sec it with their own eyes. Again, I think that the world's evangelization can be achieved in the time specified because we have already the theological institutions necessary for this work. We do not have to build them, they are built and they are filled nith mens of ubousaude of young men, and there will be three sate of students wiio will graduate into the ministry be fore the Diose of this century, and at once have them understand that in stead of preaching thirty or forty years and taking into the kingd tin of God a few hundred souls, debt before them is the Sedan, is the Armageddon, and these young men, instead of entering the ministry timid and wits apologetic air, will fool like David, who came np just as rho armies were 551 in array and he left his carriage and shouted fur the battle and cried : "Who ie this un- circumcised Philistine that he should defy the armies of the liviag God?" and with five gravel stones skilfully flung sent sprawling the bragging ten -footer, his mouth into the dust and his heels into the air. • My friends, what but such a non - summation could be a fit climax to this century. You notice a tendency in history and all about us to a climax. The creation weak, rising from herbs to fish and from fish to bird and from bird to quadruped and from quadruped to immortal man. Tile New Testament rising from quiet genealogical table in Matthew to Apocalyptic doxology in Revelation. Now, what can be an appropriate climax to this century, winch has heard true puff of the first steamer and the throb of the first stethoscope and the clink of the first telegraph and the clatter of the first sewing machine, and sate the flash of the first electric light and the revolution of the first steam plow, and the law of storms was written and the Amer- ican Bible Society and American Tract Society wore born ; and Instead of an audience laughing down Dr, Carey for advocating foreign mis- sions, as was done at Northampton in England in the last century, now all denotninatioua viting with each other as to who shall go 111e farthest and the soonest into the darkness of the New Hebrides ; and throe hum dyed thousand souls have been boru to God be the South Sea Islands, aud Micronesia and Melanesia and Malayan Polynesia have boon set in the crown of Christ, and David Liv- ingstone has tunveiled Africa and the last bolted gate of barbaric nations has swung wads open to let the gospel in, What, I ask, with n thousand interrogation points up• lifted, eau be 0 111, an trnpropriate gild euflicieet climax excoxt it bo a World redeemed 2 I.�i YORK Tole tl, lift i itt 111(3 13argaima. 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