Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-05-26

Inspection ST. John saw the armies oi
heaven on white horses and / do not know
why many of the old cavalry horses .oi
earthly battle that were wounded and worn
out in the service may not have resurec-
ton. II would be only fair that raised up
and ennobled they should be resurrected for
The Grand Review
Of the Judgment Day. 1t would not take
any more power to reconstruct their poor
bodies than to reconstruct ours, and shonld
be very glad to see them among the white
horses of apocalyptic vision. Hark to the
trumpet blast, the reyeille Of the last judg-
ment; they come up, all the armies of all
lands and all centuries, on whichever side
they fought, whether for freedom or despot-
ism, for the right or the wrong They come!
they come! Darius, and Cyrus, and Senua-
cherib, and Joshua and David leading forth
the armies of scriptural times; Hannibal
and Hamilcar leading forth the armies of
the Carthagenians; Victor Emanuel and
Garibaldi leading on the armies of the ltal.
ians; Tamerlane and Ganghis Khan fol-
lowed BY the armies OF Asia; Gustayus
Adolphus and Ptolemy, Philopater and
Nerxes, and Alexander, and Semitharius,
and Washington leading battalion after ba-
tallion. The dead American armies
of &c and 1912, and the million
Northern and Southern dead in our civil
war They come up! they pass on in re,
view. The 10000 fallen in Napoleonic
battle The 100000 Germans fallen in
thirty years. The $4,000, 900 fallen in the
war under Sesostris. The 2O,000,0 900 fallen
in wars Justinian. The 25,000,O00 fallen
in Jewish wars. The s0,OO0,0OO fallen in
the crusadeS. The ls0,000,O00 fallen in
Roman wars with Saracens and Turks The
IS, ,0O0, 600 900 men estimated TO have fallen
in battle enough, according to one stats.
tician. if they stood four abreast 10 reach
clear around the earth I43 times But we
shall have time to see them pass in review
before the throne Of Judgment; the cavalry
men, the spearmen, the artillerymrn, the
infantry the sharpshootcs, the gunners,
the sappers, the miners, the archers, the
Skirmishers, men of all colorS, of all cpau-
lettes, of all standards of all wcaponry, of
all centuries Let the earth be especially
balanced TO bear their tread Forward
fOINAGut Let the OfcntSlGd Ol tue heavenly
galleries play
The Grand March,
Joined bv all the iifers, drummcrs and mill
tary bands that ever sounded victory or de-
feat at Eylau or Borodino, Marathon or
1hermopylae, Bunker Hill or Yorktown,
SplterinO or Balaclava, Sedan or Gettys
burg. from the time that Joshua haultcd as
tronomy above Gibeon and Ajalon till the
last man surrendered TO Garnet Wolsley at
Pelel-Kebir. Attention companies, battal-
ions, ages, centuries and the universe, For
ward in the grand review of the judgment!
Forv ard Gracious and eternal God On
that day NAV il be found that we were all
marching in the right direction and that ""
carried the right standard aud thai We fought
under the right commander. All heaven,
some on amethystine battlemcnt and Others
standing in shining gate, some an pearly
shore and others in turretcd heights, giving
us the resounding million.yoiced cheer
"To Him tha, overcomcth' And our com
mander and king having reviewed the troops,
all nations of heaven aud earth will salute
him as the one who, standing ~ hong in the
sky with the sword with mighty thrust
and cchoing clang into the sheath of uni
,crSn1 victory