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out the pulpit where God will have You
preach, and there preach.
| Headley Wears was a 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 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 a hypocrite, they said to him:
| sob, you are nothing but Methodist"
| That did not disturb him. He went on
performing his Christian duty until he
| had formed all his troops into a Bible
| class, and the whole encampment was
! shaken with the presence of God. So
| Havelock went into the heather temple in
India while the English army was there,
and put a 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 Gen
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
|
was 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-aud at family prayer
Peter Croy would be called upon to lead;
and all these wise men sat around, Won
der-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 I'M
| til the very heavens were bowed down
into the sitting room. Oh, if were dying
l would rather have plain Peter Croy kneel
by my bedside and commend my immortal
| spi it to God than the greatest Arch bishop
arrayed in costly canonicals. Go preach
this Gospel. You say you are not licensed.
In the name of the Lord Almighty this
morning l license you. Go preach this
Gospel-preach it in the Sabbath schools,
in the prayer meetings, in the highways,
i'll the hedges. Woe be unto you if you
| preach it not!
| 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 STAY 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 omuiscience has lost
its 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 I 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 q path for His own triumph, and
returning from universal conquest He will
sit down, the grandest, strongest, highest
throne of earth, His footstool
Z" Then shall all nations song ascend
| To Thee, our Ruler, Father, Friend,
| Till Heavens high arch resounds agafa
With pence on EARTH good will to men,"
/ MARCH ON! MARCH ON!
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 on |
march on! The despotisms will fall and
paganism will burn its idols, and Moham-
mechanism will give up its false prophet,
and Judaism will confess the true Mes
slab, and the great walls of super
stition will come down in thunder
and 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 few more battle cries, then
God will put the laurel upon your brows,
and from the fountains of Heaven will
battle 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, and, amid the outflashngs of the
Judgment Throne, and the trumpeting of
resurrection angels, and the upheaving of
a world of graves, and the hosanna and
the grooming of the saved and the lost, we
shall be rewarded for our faithfulness or
punished for cur stupidity. Blessed be the
Lord God of Israel from everlasting to
everlasting, and let the whole earth be
filled with His glory. Amen and amen.