The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-09-23

news. have all INC Dblin III youI OhulOh
towers we'll hung and the rope within
reach, ready to ring out the marriage OF
the Kings Son. Make all your Court
Houses clean, for the Judge of all the
earth may come. Keep your Legislative
halls garnlshed, for the great law giver
may appear. Drive from the thrones OF
despotism all their occupants, for the
King of earth and heaven may come to
leipnl Yea, the blackness of the esrth's
night ia blossoming into lilies of morn
ing cloud, and the lilies are reddening
into roses of stronger day-ti. garlands,
whether white or red, for him on whose
head are many crowns. The day is at
hand.
Another ray of the dawn is facts chro-
nological vnd mathematical. Before you
and | do another stroke of religious
work, let us have one thing settled, what
is to be the final issueP Whois to prove
the stongest, God or Diabo us2 Is the
world fiually to be all garden or all des'
ertP We must believe the former if we
believe Isaiah and jeremiah, and John
and Paul and Christ. Settle this ques,
ton now. We want to know whether
we are at Bull Run or Austerlitz, If,
when a child is sick, the doctor says
there Is no possible doubt about its final
recovery, we sympathize with present
pain, but the awful foreboding vaHishes.
If we are in cyclone off Newfoundland,
and the captain can assure us the boat is
stsunch and the wind is changing for
the better, and we will surely reach the
harbor, we patiently suffer present dis
tress in our certainty of arrival; l Will
not preach another sermon or offer an
other prayer, until know what is the
finality. The matter being decided that
the world is filally to be saved, then ev.
cry year we spend is to be subtracted
from the worlds use; then each event
that transpires brings us near he happy
consummation, and by all that is inexo..
rable in chronology or mathematics,
commend you to good cheer and courage.
Every winter passed, we have one Sc
verify less, every summer gone, one sea-
son nearer unfolding arborescence. Put
your algebra on top ofyour Bible and re-
ioiCe If it is nearer morning at three
than at two o'clock, then we are coming
nearer the worlds dawn. Gods clock
may go slowly, but the pendulum swings
and the hands move, and 1t will yet
strike noon. The sun and moon stopped
once, but they will never stop again till
they stop forever. If you believe your
arithmetic as we'll as your Bible, then
we are nearer the dawn. The Gay is at
hand.
There is large class of phenomena
that makes me think the spiritual and
heavenly world may yet break upon us
with some great demonstration, and
bring moral and religious things to cli'
max. am no Spiritualist, and yet there
are strange and mysterious happening
which make me think that ,h9 spiritual
world may be nearer than we sometimes
think, and may yet make mighty inva'
sion for this worlds advancement. We
call it magnetism or electricity, because
we want some term to cover our ignor'
anCe. have never heard any audible
voices from the other world, but | will
not say others may not have heard them.
| think the veil between this world and
the next is getting thinner and thinner,
and perhaps, at the call of God-not at
the demand of the Ddvenports, and the
Andrew Jackson Davises-the spirits of
Joshua and David and Caleb and Paul
may come to our help in the battle
against unrighteousness, Oh, would
like to have them down here few day
to show US him of the Red Sea, him of
the Valley of Ajelon, him of Mars Hill.
History tells us that Sir Robert Clay OIL,
OF the English calvary, at the close of a
war, bought up the old cavalry horses,
because he could not bear to have them
used as drudges in the field. He bought
ground, and turned the oil servants of
the nation into rich pasture to spend the
rest OF their days. One day there came
up thunder storm, and the h Jrses, is-
taking the thunder for Cannonade,
without human direction, formed into
lines of battle as of old. So 1 doubt,
whether, when the last boom of heaven
shall sound, the old Bible veterans can
keep their places ON the hills of heaven
Methinks they must spring into the are
ma, saying: "Give me room in this arma'
geddon!
l preach this morning because / want
you to work with the sunligh in your fa'
ces. l want you all to have the enthu'
siasm of knowing you are going to win,
and that no prayers are wasted, no earn
est efforts Intellectual, that the tides are
setting in right direction, that all hea,
ven is on our side, sanity CherubiC, SER
aphic, archangeliC, 0mnipotent, chariot
and throne, doGology and procession,
prinCipality and dominion. Brother,
all am afraid of is, not that Christ may
lose the battle, but that you and | may
not get into the battle quick enough to
do something worthy of our blood bout,
immortal nature. Oh, Christ, how can
meet thee thee of the SCARED cheeks,
SCARED hands, SCARED feet SCARED head,
scared breast, if have no wounds or
scars got for theel will not have it 30.
l step right out into the front Of the
battle to day. Come on, ye foes of God;
come on, ye enemies of his church; We
despisers of his truth, l dare you to the
combat Come on with pen sharpened
with Carcature! Come with types pois
oned with sin! Come with tongues for
ked, yiperine and adderine! Come on,
with lances dipped in the foam of the
pill | bare my brow; l uncover my
heart; strike if thou wilt; can not enter
heaven as now, unhurt for Jesus, We
must suffer for him on earth, if we ex.
pect to be gloTif5d with him in heaven.
Oil obi oil Look at the skyl 1t brigh'
ems. Look at the clock The hour is
come. Pick ont the cheeriest of all the
anthems; let the orchestra string their
Instruments The day is at hand,