The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-10-06

city OF Churches.
BRooKLYa. ~ y. OFT a-The opening
hymn "a t.is Tabarnacle this morning begins:
Arm Of the Iori awake awake
Put % ty strength, the nations shake
Having expoundsd the account of Paurs
conversion as given Ia Acts xxi, the Rev.
Do Witi Iahuag a, j. D., took for his text
Palms xvii. J Let Cod arise, Let His enc
mics he szlttergd;7 from which he preached
the following sermon:
procession was formed 70 carry the Ark
or sacred box which, though only three feet
nine inches ia height and depth, was the
symbol oi Coils presence. As the leaders
Of the profession Eftsd tbs orna1nented asd
brilliant box fytwO golden poles run through
four g0ilH rings, and started for Mount
Zioa, al The people chaatod the battle hymn
Of my text: "Lct God nrise, let His enemies
be scattered
The Canaronians OF Scotland, outraged by
Jame5 l. Who forced upon them religious
forms thar were offensive md by the ter
rble pers rltion Of Drummond, Dalzial and
Turner and By the oppressive laws Of Charles
| aud Charles ii, were driven to proclaim
war against tyTauts and went forth 20 fight
for religion. liberty, and the mountain
heather became red with carnage, and at
B0thwei bridge aud Ards moss and Drum
clog the baitl. hymn and the battle shout Of
tnO-e glorious Old Scotchmen was the text
have chosen. lei God ari7e, Jet His enemies
be scattered
What O whirlwiud % power was Oliver
Cromwell, and how with his sosier's name,
"thc lrOuJdes.' he went from victory TO vic
tory, Opp1slng armies melted as he looked
at them lie dismissed parliament as easily
a. a sehoolmaster at school lie pointed his
-l.sIf - l-or,
lie ordered Lord HopJoH, the general, 20 dis
mount, and he dlsmounted See Cromwell
marching on with lis army, and hear the
battle cry Of the lronsdes' loud as a storm
and solemn death knell standards reel
ing before 10, and cavalry horses going back
on their Launches, aud armies flying at
Marston moor, 90 Wincepy field. at Naseby,
al Erilyewlter and DartmOutb-"Iet God
si5e. ilt liz enemies be scattered"
So yon sae my text is not like a compli-
Tnont.Iy and tasseled sword that you some
times see hing up ia "a parlor, sword that
was never in battle, and only 10 be used on
general training day; but more like some
weapon carefully hung rp in your home. tell
ing It's story If Chspultepec, CerrO Gordo, and
Chsrubus.u, and Th1tcher's run, and Malvern
hill for Hy text hangs IN the Scripture arm
Dry, telling of Tho holy war, Of 5000 years in
which ~ had bacu carried, but as keen and
mighty as whom David first uusheatbed it, 1t
seems 90 ui. what u the church Of God and
ia all -jyl.- 90 rgfurmatory work, we most
need now rs "a battle cry. We raise our little
standard and put ON it the name of some man
WHO only "a few years AGO began To live, and
in a few years viii cease TO live. We go into
contest against the armies of iniquity depend
ing too much on human agencies. We use for
n battle cry the n1me Of some brave Chris
tan reformer, but after a while that reformer
dies, or gets OLD, or loses his courage, and then
wo take another bntte cry, and this time per-
h1pe we put the name OF some one who plays
Arnold and sells out 20 the enemy. What we
want Tor q battle cry is the name Of some
leader who win never betray rs and win
never surrender, and wiz never die.
All respect have ! for brave men and wo-
men, but IF we are going 10 get the victory
All along the line we must put God first We
NUT take the hint of the Gideonites, who
wiped ont the Belouin Arabs, commonly
called Mdiamto-. These GiIeouites had a
glorious leader la Gideon, but what was the
battle cry with which they flung their enc
mics into the worst tefcat into which any
army was ever tumhedi 10 was "Fhe sword
OF the Lord and of Gideon Put God first,
whoever yol put second If the army of the
American revolution are to free America, it
must be- tIia sword of the Lord and Of Wash
ingtou II the Germans want to win the
day at Sedan il must be ''the sword of the
Lord and Won Noltkc." Waterloo was
won for tine English because not only
the armed men at the front but the wor-
shippers IN the cath,drals at the rear were
crying, "Ihe sword Of the Lord and Wei
lington The Netnodists have gone in tri.
umph across nation after nation with the cry,
THE sword OF the Lord and of Wesley
The Presbytcriaus have gone from victory to
victory with the cry. "rhe sword OF the Lord
and of John Knox Tho Baptists have con-
quered millions after millions for Christ with
the cry "fhe sword Of the Lord and Of judi
SON The American Episcopalians have won
their mighty way with the cry. "The sword
Of the Lord and Of Bishop Mcllvaine" The
victory is 20 those who put God first But as
we want battle cry suited to all sccts of re-
ligiouists aad to all lands, / nominate as the
battle cry OF Christentlom in the approaching
Armageddon the words Of my text sounded
before the ark as it was carried to Mount
Zion: "Let God arise, let His enemies be seat
tered"
As far os our finite mind cHn Judge, it
seems about time for God TO rise. Does it mot
seem to you that the denominations of this
earth have gone far enough, Was there ever
time when sin was so defiant! Were there
ever before 30 many fists lifted toward God,
telling Him % come on IL He darei Look at
the blasphcmy abroad! What towering pro-
family Would it be possible for any one to
calculate the numbers Of times that the name
of Almighty Cod and of Jesus Christ, are
every day taken irreverently on the lips So
common has blasphemy become that the pub
lie mind, and public ear, have got used to it,
and a blasQhemer goes up and down this
country IN his lectures defying the plain law
against blasphemy, and there is not O mayor
in America that has backbone enough TO In
tcrfere with hiiu save one, and that the mayor
OF Toronto Proiane swearing Is as much
forbisden by the law as theft, or arson, or
murder; yet who executes it, Profanity is
worse than theft, or arson, or murder, for
these crimes are attacks on humanity--that
is an attac,, 81 Cod
This country i, pre- eminent for blasphemy
4 Inau tgl0line IN Russia was supposed to
he a clergyman. why do you take me TO
be aclergynnn" said the man. "Oh," said
the Russian ~all other Americans swear.n
The Grimm Is multiplying in intensity. God
very ofucn shows what lie thinks Of it. but
fer the most part the fatality is hushed up
A few summers 70 among the Adhondaclzs
met the funeral procession Of a man who.
two DAYS before. had fallen under fash of
lightning while Boosting, after n Sunday OF
work in the fields, that he had cheated God
out OF one day anyhow, and the man who
worked With l.iin on the same Sabbath is stir
living, hut 81 b, Rifss invalid under the same
FLASH. On the road from Margate 70 Rams
gate, Eu-iana you may find rough nionu-
rnent vf,l r'ttt i~S.riptiOn. ~ boy WAS struck
deal helg r IN The act OF swearing
Years age pis,sburg prison two men
were talking shout the Bible and Christianity,
and one OF them, Thompson by name. APP
Piled 70 Jesus Christ a very low ard
villainous epithet, and as he was
pttering 1t he fell. A physician was called,
but no help could be given. After day lying
with distendcd pupils and palsied tongue. he
passed out OF this world. In a cemetery in
Sullivan county in this state, are eight head
stones in line and all alike, and these a1sa the
facts: In 1851 diphtheria ragged in the village,
and a physician was remarkably successful in
curing his patients. So confident did he be-
come that he boosted that no case of diphthe-
ria could stand before him, and finally defed
Almighty God 70 produce a case of dlphtheria
that be could not cure. His youngest child
soon after took the disease and died. and one
child after another until all the EIGHT had
died of diphtheria. The blasphemer chal-
lenged Almighty God, and God accepted the
challenge
But / come later down and give You a fact
that is proved by scores of witnesses This
last August of 1885 a man got provoked at
the continued drought and the ruin Of his
crops, and IN the presence Of his neighbors he
cursed Col, saying that he would cut His
heart out II lie would come down, calling
Him har and a coward. aud flashing
knife And while be was speaking his lower
jaw dropped, smoke issued from mouth and
nostrils, and the heat OF his body was SO in-
tense ii drove back those who would come
near. Scores of people have visited the scene
and saw the blasphemer in awful process of
expiring.