St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1885-06-27
tIemenUs you Will have to give the quick
command: forward! charged

tlements you Will have to give the quick
command: forward! Charge"
WORK FOR ALL.
| All, my friends, there is work for you to
| do and for me to do in order to secure this
grand accomplishment. Here is my pull
| pit, and preach in it. Your pulpit is the
bank. Your pulpit is the store. Your pull
pit is the editorial chair. Your pulpit is
the anvil. Your pulpit is the mechanics
shop. 1 may stand in this place and
through cowardice or through self-seeking
| may keep back the word ought to utter,
while YOU, with sleeve rolled up and Brow
besweated with toll, may utter the word
/ that will Jar the foundations of Heaven
with the shout of a great victory. Oh, that
this morning this whole audience might
feel that the Lord Almighty was putting
upon them the hands of ordination. l tell
you every one, go 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 will have you
preach, and there preach.
4 HeadIey Wears was wicked man in
the English army. The grace of God came
to him. He became an earnest and emf
nent Christian. They scoffed at him and
said: "You are a 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 call
ing him hypocrite, they said to him:
ooh, you are nothing but a Methodist"
That did not disturb him. He went on
performing his Christian duty until he
had formed all lis troops into a Bible
class, and the whole encampment was
shaken with the presence of God. So
HaveIock went into the heather temple in
India while the English army was there,
and put candle into the hand of each of
the heather Gods that stood around in the
heather temple, and by the light of those
candles held up by the idols Cen
eral Havelock preached righteous
ness, temperance and judgment to
come. And who will say on
earth or in Heaven that Havelock had not
the right to preach? In the minister's
house where prepared for college there
was a man who worked by the name of
Peter Croy. He could neither read nor
write; but he was a man of God. Often
theologians would stop in the house
grave. theologians-and at family prayer
Peter Croy would be called upon to lead;
and all these wise men sat around, won
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 un-
til the very heavens were bowed down,
into the sitting-room. Oh, if were dying
I would rather have plain Peter Croy kneel
by my bedside and commend my immortal
spirit to God than the greatest Archbishop
arrayed in costly canonicals. Go preach
this Gospel. You say you are not licensed.
In the name of the Lord Almighty this
morning license you. Go preach this
Gospel-preach it in the Sabbath schools,
in the prayer-meetings in the highways,
in the hedges. Woe be unto you if you
preach it notl
DARE NOT TO BECOME DISCOURAGED.
Iremark again that in order to be quail
fed to meet your duty in this particular
age YOU want unbounded faith in the tri-
umph of the truth and the overthrow of
wickedness. How dare the Christian
Church ever get discouraged? Have we
not the Lord Almighty on our side? How
long did it take God to slay the hosts of
Sennacherib or burn Sodom or shake down
Jericho? How long will it take God, when
He once arises in His strength, to over
throw all the forces of iniquity? Between
this time and that there may be long sea-
sons of darkness; the chariot-wheels OF
Gods Gospel may seem to drag heavily;
but there is the promise and yonder is the
throne, and when omniscience has lost
it's oversight and omnipotence falls
back impotent and Jehovah is
driven from His throne, then the
Church of Jesus Christ can afford to be
despondent-but never until then. Despots
may plan and armies may march, and the
congresses Of the nations may seem to
think they are adjusting all the affairs of
the world, but the mighty men OF the
earth are only the dust of the chariot
wheels of Gods providence. And think
that before the sun of this country shall
set the last tyranny will fall, and with a
splendor of demonstration that shall be
the establishment of the universe, God will
set forth the brightness and pomp and
glory and perpetuity of His eternal gov
eminent Out of the starry flags and en-
blazoned insignia of this world, God will
make a path for His own triumph, and
returning from universal conquest He will
sit down, the grandest, strongest, highest
throne of earth, His footstool.
ssThen shall all nations song ascend
To Thee, our Ruler, Father, Friend,
IT'LL Heavens high arch resounds again
With peace on earth, good will to men.
MARCH ON! MARCH ON!
Il / preach this sermon because want to
encourage all Christian workers in every
possible department.. Hosts of the living
God, march on! march on! His spirit
will bless you. His shield win defend you.
His sword will strike for you. March onl
march on! The despotisms viii fall ard