Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-10-04

In carry the Ark or sacred box which,
though only three feet nine inches in
length, and four feet, three inches in
height and depth, was the symbol Of Gods
presence. As the leaders Of the process
sion lifted this Ornamented and brilliant
box by two golden poles run through four
golden rings, and started for Mount Zion,
all the people chanted the battle hymn OF
my text: 'Let God arise, let His enemies
| be scattered.
The CamerOnians of Scotland, outraged
by James the First, who forced upon them
religious forms that were offensive, and
by the terrible persecution Of DrummOnd,
| Dalziel and Turner, and by the oppressive
laws of Charles the First and Charles the
Second, were driven to proclaim war
against tyrants, and went forth to fight
| for religious liberty; and the mountain
heather became red with carnage, and at
Boutwell, Bridge and Ards Moss and
DrumclOg the battle hymn and the battle
shout of those glorious old cSOtChmen was
! the text have chosen: "Let God arise,
| let His enemies be scattered"
/
| Cromwell, and how with his soldiers
name, 1.-THE IrOnSides," he went from vic
tory to victory! Opposing armies melted
as he looked ut them. He dismissed Par
! Lament as easy as a schOOlmaster school.
He pointed his finger at Berkeley Castle,
! and it was taken. He ordered Lord Hop
ton. the General, to dismOunt, and. he dis
mounted. See Cromwell marching on
with his army, and hear the BATHS cry OF
1.-THE IronSides,n loud as a storm and sol
emn as a death knell, standards reeling
before it, and cavalry horses going back on
their launches, and armies flying, at Mars
ton Moor, at Wincepy Field at Naseby,
at Bridgewater and DartmOuth-"Let God
arise. let His enemies be scattered
! So Won see my text is not like Il COM
plimentary and tasselled sword that you
sometimes see hung up in the parlOr, II
sword that was never in battle and only
TO be used on general training day, but
more like some weapon hung mp in your
| home. telling its story of ChapultepeC,
Cerro GordO, the CherubuscO, and Thatch-
er's Run, and Malvern Hill; for my text
| hangs
IN THE SCRIPTURE ARMORY
telling of the holy wars of three thousand
| years in which it has been carried, but as
keen and mighty rs when David first un-
| sheathed it. Ii seems to me what in the
| Church of God, and in all STYLES of reform
| atory work we most need now, is u battle
| cry. We raise our little standard and
put OH it the name of some man who only
| a few wears ago began to live, and IN few
wears will cease to live. We 90 into con-
test against the armies of iniquity depend
! ING too much on human agencies. We
use for battle cry the name Of some brave
Christian reformer, but after while that
reformer dies. or gets old, or loses his
courage. and then we take another battle
cry, and this time perhaps we put the
name of some one who plays Arnold and
| sells out to the enemy. What we want
| for a battle cry is the name of some leader
who will never betray us, and will never
surrender, and will never die.
All respect have | for brave men and
women, but if we are going to get the
victory all along the line we must put God
first We must take the hint OF the
| GideOnites, who wiped out the BedOuin
Arabs, commonly called Midianites.
| These GideOnites had glorious leader in
| Gideon, but what was the battle cry with
which they flung their enemies into the
the worst defeat into which any army was
ever tumbled? 1t was "the sword Of the
Lord and of Gideon
PUT GOD FIRST,
whoever you put second. II the army of
the American Revolution are to free Amer
lea, it must he s'the sword Of the Lord
and of Washington" If the Germans
want to win the day at Sedan, it must be
''the sword of the Lord and Won Motlke.'
| Waterloo was won for the English, be-
cause not only the armed men at the front
but the worshippers in the Cathedrals at
/ the rear, were crying: The sword Of the
| Lord and Wellington" The MethodiStS
have gone in triumph across nation after
nation with the cry: THE sword Of the
Lord and Wesley" The Presbyterians
have gone from victory to victory with the
cry: 1.-The sword of the Lord and OF John
Knox" The Baptists have conquered
millions after millions for Christ with the
cry: The sword of the Lord and Jud-
son. " The American EpiScOpalians have
won their mighty way with the cry: THE
sword of the Lord and of Bishop Nell
vaine." The victory is to those who put
God first. But as we want battle cry
suited TO all sects of religioinists, and to
all lands,9I nominate rs the battle cry of
Christendom in the approaching Arma-
geddon the words of my text, sounded be-
fore the ark as it was carried to Mount
Zion: LET God arise, let His enemies be
scattered" "
As far as our finite mind can judge it
seems about time for God to rise. Does it
not 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 so many fists lifted
toward God, telling Him to come on If He
dare? Look at the blasphemy abroad!
What towering profanity! Would it be
possible for any one to calculate the num-
bers of times that the name Of Almighty
God and of Jesus Christ are every day taken
irrevently on the lips? So common has
blasphemy become that the public mind
and public ear have got used 10 it, and a
blasphemer goes up and down this country
in his lectures defying the plain law against
blasphemy, and there is not q Mayor IN
America that has backbone enough to in
terfere with him save one, and that, the
Mayor of Toronto. Profane swearing is as
much forbidden by the law as theft, or
arson, or murder; yet who executes 1t?
Profanity is worse than theft, or arson, or
murder. for these crimes are attacks on
humanity-that is an attack on God.
THIS COUNTRY Is PRE-EMINENT FOR BIAS
PHEMY.
A man travelling in Russia was supposed to
be clergyman. ''Why do you take me
TO be clerygyman?" said the man. oh"
said the Russian, 'all. other Americans
swear" The crime is multiplying IN in
tensity. God very often shows what He
thinks of it, but for the most part the IA
tality is hushed up. A few summers ago
among the Adirondaeks met the funeral
procession of man who, two days before,
had fallen under flash Of flightning while
Boosting, after Sunday of work in the
fields; that he had cheated God out o. one
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