Last Decade Of The Century
T. DeWitt Talmage
Rev., 19: 4
The nineteenth century is departing. After it has taken a few more steps, if each year be a step, it will be gone into the eternities. In a short time we shall be in the last decade of this century, which fact makes the solemnest book outside the Bible the almanac, and the most suggestive and the most tremendous piece of machinery in all the earth, the clock, The last decade of this century, upon which we shall soon enter, will be the grandest, mightiest, and most decisive decade in all the chronologies. I am glad it is not to come im- mediately, for we need by a new baptism of the Holy Ghost to prepare for it. Does any one say that this division of time is arbitrary? Oh, no; in other ages the divisions of time may have been, but our years date from Christ. Does any one say that the grouping of ten together is an arrangement arbitrary? Oh, 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. In the an- cient tabernacle were ten curtains, their pillars ten and their sockets ten. In the ancient temple were ten la- vers and ten candlesticks and ten tables and a molten sea of ten cubits. And the Commandments written on the granite of Mount Sinai were ten, and the kingdom of God was likened to ten virgins, and ten men should lay hold of him that was a Jew, and the reward of the greatly faithful is that they shall reign over ten cities, and in the effort to take the census of the New Jerusa- lem the number ten swings around the thousands, cry- ing "ten thousand times ten thousand." So I come to look toward the closing ten years of the nineteenth century with an intensity of interest I can hardly de- scribe. I have also noticed that the favorite time for great events in many of the centuries was the closing fragment of the century. There is apt to be at such a time a concentration of downfalls or enthronements, of splen ...
T. DeWitt Talmage
Rev., 19: 4
The nineteenth century is departing. After it has taken a few more steps, if each year be a step, it will be gone into the eternities. In a short time we shall be in the last decade of this century, which fact makes the solemnest book outside the Bible the almanac, and the most suggestive and the most tremendous piece of machinery in all the earth, the clock, The last decade of this century, upon which we shall soon enter, will be the grandest, mightiest, and most decisive decade in all the chronologies. I am glad it is not to come im- mediately, for we need by a new baptism of the Holy Ghost to prepare for it. Does any one say that this division of time is arbitrary? Oh, no; in other ages the divisions of time may have been, but our years date from Christ. Does any one say that the grouping of ten together is an arrangement arbitrary? Oh, 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. In the an- cient tabernacle were ten curtains, their pillars ten and their sockets ten. In the ancient temple were ten la- vers and ten candlesticks and ten tables and a molten sea of ten cubits. And the Commandments written on the granite of Mount Sinai were ten, and the kingdom of God was likened to ten virgins, and ten men should lay hold of him that was a Jew, and the reward of the greatly faithful is that they shall reign over ten cities, and in the effort to take the census of the New Jerusa- lem the number ten swings around the thousands, cry- ing "ten thousand times ten thousand." So I come to look toward the closing ten years of the nineteenth century with an intensity of interest I can hardly de- scribe. I have also noticed that the favorite time for great events in many of the centuries was the closing fragment of the century. There is apt to be at such a time a concentration of downfalls or enthronements, of splen ...
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