The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-05-12

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will just wait until, from exhaustion and
starvation, they will have to give it up"
Weeks and months, and perhaps a year,
pass along, and finally the fortress sur.
renders through that starvation and eX
haustion. But, my friends, the fortress
es of sin are never to be taken in that
way. If they are taken for God, it will
be by storm. You will have to bring up
the great seige.guns of the gospel to the
very wall, and wheel the flying artillery
into line, and when the armed infantry
of heaven shall confront the battlements,
you will have to give the quick CON-
mand--"Forwardl Chargem
AA, my friends, there is work for you
to do and for me to do in order to this
grand accomplishment. Here is my pull
pit and my preaching. Your pulpit is
the bank; your pulpit is the store; your
pulpit is the editorial chair; your pulpit
is the anvil; your pulpit is the house
sCaffolding; YOUR pulpit is the mechanics
shop. l may stand in this place, and
through CowardiCe, or through self seek
ing, may keep back the word l ought to
utter; while you, with sleeve rolled up
and brow besweated with toll, may utter
the word hat will jar the foundations Of
heaven with the shout Of great victory
Oh, that this whole audience might feel
that the Lord Almighty was putting
upon them the hands of ordination.
tell you, every one, 60 forth and preach
this gospel. You have as much right to
preach as have, or as any man has.
Only find out the pulpit where God wO'd
have you preach, and there preach,
Headley Wears was a wicked man in
the English army. The grace of God
came to him, and he became an earnest
and eminent Christian. They sCoffed at
him and said: "You are hypocrite; you
are as bad as ever you were." Still he
kept his faith in Christ, and after awhile
finding that they could not turn him
aside by calling him hypoCrite, they
said to him: "Oh, you are nothing but a
Methodistp That did not disturb him.
He went on performing his Christian
duty until he had formed all his troop
into a Bible.Class, and the whole en-
campment was shaken with the pres
ence of God. So Havelock went into
the heathen temple in India, while the
English army was there, and put can.
die into the hands of each of the heath.
en- gods that stood around in the heather
temple, and by the light of those can.
dies, held up by the idols, Gen. Have
lock preached righteousness, temperance
and judgment to come. And who will
say, on earth or in heaven, that Have
lock had not the right to preach? In
the minister's house where l prepared
for college there was a man who worked
by the name of Peter Croy. He could
neither read nor write, but he was man
of God, Often theologians would stop
at the house-grave thologians and at
family prayer Peter Croy would he call
ed upon to lead; and those wise men sat
around, wonder-struCk at his religious
efficiency. When he prayed he reached
up and seemed to take hold of the very
throne of the Almighty, and he talked
with God until the very heavens were
bowed down into the sitting room. Oh,
if we're dying would rather have plain
Peter Croy kneel by my bedside, and
commend my immortal spirit to God
than the gre test archbishop arrayed in
costly CanoniCals. Go preach this COS.
pei. You say you are not licensed. In
the name of the Lord Almighty license
you. Go preach the gospel-preach it
in the Sabbath'sChoolg, in the prayer
meetings, in the highways, in the he'd.
ges. Woe be unto you If you preach it
not.
l preach this sermon because I want
to encourage all Christian workers in
every possible department. Hosts of
the living God, march onl March on!
His Spirit will bless you. His shield
will defend you. His sword will strike
for you. March on! March on! The
despotlsm will! fall, and paganism will
burn it's idols, and Mohammedanism
will give up its false prophet, and Juda.
ism confess the true Messiah, and the
great walls of superstition will come
down in thunder and in wreck at the
long, loud blast of the gospel trumpet.
March on! March on The besiegement
will soon be ended. ONLY a few more
steps on the long way; only a few more
sturdy blows; only a lew more battle
cries, and tE en- God will put the laurel
upon your brow, and from the living
fountains Of heaven will bathe off the
sweat, and the heat, and the dust of the
conflict. March on march on For
you the time for work will soon be past
md amid the ou fashings of the judg. |
nent throne, and the trumpeting of res.
lrreCtion angels, and the upheaVing of |
world of raves, and the hosanna, and
he oaning of the saved and the lost, |
We shall be rewarded for our faithful |
less or punished for our stupidity. |
3les'ed be the Lord God of Israel, from |
to everlasting, and let the
Whole world be filled with his glory.