The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1885-02-05
The DAY or JUDGMENT :!

LII O0l VI OUUUm6U j
That awful day, 40 long predicte,
is at hand.
To-day the nations and powers o
the earth are being arraigned bcfor
the bar Of justice, to render an &C
count OF their stewardship.
The Judge who Is to hear, decide
and pass sentence il not the Jehoval
Of the Judean Seers, but the God ii
man. The Divinity in down-trod
den and crucificd humanity Is as
scrting Its God-hcad, and exceutin,
judgment upon the powers Of dark
ness. The arm OF earthly power i
paralyzed. The scepter Of kings Il
. broken reed. The despots thron.
is eIumbling to dust, while the Judge
reading from the docket OF age, pro-
claims the verdict:
i was An hungered and yc CAV,
me no meat.
I was thirsty and yc gave mo NJ
drink.
I WAS . stranger and ye took me
not In.
Naked and We clothed me not.
Sick and In prison, and ye visited
me not"
Therefore depart from me, into
everlasting fire, prepared for thu
devil and his angels"
Yes, The day Is come, aud the voice
Of the crucifled divinity in man, II
calling the ungodly powers Of both
the old and the new world to judg.
Ment.
After centuries Of outrage, tl,s
wrongs OF England are recoiling with
terrible vengeance upon her head.
For thousand years she has been
pilling up wrath against this day Of
wrath.
With nobility Of rob Der descent
= government founded on piracy and
briSandisnl, she has done more ia
degrade and dcmoralize human con
ditions, to make greed, nyarice and
rapinc respectable, than any other
nation on the globe since "Lenu,
Meme Tekel, Upharsinr was written
on the walls Of Babylon.
But the thnnders Of dynamite are
causing the knees Of her greatness
to smite together. Sitting over q
volcano Of her own kindling she mus,
not complain when the forces she
has so long held in chains seek re.
lief in explosion.
AS the icc.gorgcd stream, or the
Alpine drifts, in obedience to mex
orable law. ovcrleaps the strongest
barriers. regardless OF the dcstruct
ion which follows, SO will mans pent
up yearnings for liberty. aud his Coz
given hopes aud aspirations for bet
ter and better conditions, force hin
throug;i seas Of blood, and into til.
embrace Of torture and death, ii
obedience to that divinity which ha.
ordained him, ''conqueror Of all enc
miles,"
What is London Tower, the Hous,
Of Parliament, the Premiers Chair
or even the entire OF that modern
Babylon, when placed in the balanc,
with the millions OF degraded ant
enslaved victims Of England's rapac
ity.
Deprived Of every other means o
redress, they resort to the only mod,
within their reach. Whether dyna
mite is the proper remedy with which
to right the wrongs Of England, i
not the question; but that 1t il the
natural and inevitable result OF cnus.
es within the control OF those agains
whom 1t is aimed, there is no doubt
Having sovn the wind, they mus
reap the wilirlwind.
It Is Gods plan. therefore right.
1t Is SO ordained that sin and wick
edncss shall create and raise III
theil own Judge aud executioner.
The despots Of the old world, til,
royal pirate. Of Britain. and tn
MammOn worshipers OF America ar
being summoned to judgment, an
II is tho slain Lambs that will pas
sentence Of doom upon those VIII,
have crucified them.
Beware, oh, sc strong and might,
the Lambs OF God which We hav
slain are rising up in judgemeu
against you. and no power on cart
can stay the wrath which you hav
bottled up for your own destruction
The day Of judgement is upon til
earth, but like the coming OF til
Messiah, it IS not recognized b
those who have heralded It's ne,l
approach, hut 1t is here. The vote
Of the Lord hath gone forth. sayin
10 the destroying angels-"Go yo.l
ways and pour out the Walls of wrat
upon the earth. for her sins hav
reached unto heaven, and God hat
remembered her ini4nity.'
Reward cr,,evcn as she rewards"
you. and donbi,. unto her, double
according to her works. In the GU
which She hath filled, fill to he
double"
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