Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-10-16


expounded the account Of Paul's con-
version as given in the twenty-second
Chaper Of Acts, the Rev. L. Dewitt
Talmage, ID. d., took for his text the
first verse of the sixty-sixth psalm:
'Let God arise, let His enemies be scat
tered"
He preached the following sermon
A procession was formed to 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 procession
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 Csmeronians of Scotland, out
ragged by James the First, who forced
upon them religious forms that were
offensive, and by the terrible persecu-
ton of Drummond, Dalziel and Turner,
and by the oppressive laws of Charles
the First and Charles the Second. were
driven to proclaim war againsttyrants,
and went forth to fight for religious
liberty; and the mountain heather be-
came red with carnage, and at Both
well Bridge and Ards Moss and
Dumcleg the battle hymn and the bat
lie shout Of those glorious old Scotch
men was the text | have chosen: ''Let
God arise, let His enemies be scat
tered"
So you see my text is not like a com-
plimcntary and tasselled sword that
you sometimes see hung up in a parlor,
a sword that was never in battle and
only to be used on general training
day, but more like some weapon care
fully hung up in your home, telling its
story of Chapultepec, Cerro Gordo, and
and Cherubusco, and Thatcher's Run,
and Malvern Hil; 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 as when David first I'M
sheathed it. 1t seems to me in the
church of God, and in all styles Of re-
formatory work,
WHAT WE MOST NEED NOW is A BATTLE
We raise our little standard and put
on il the name Of some man who only
a few years ago began to live, and in n
few years will cease to live. We 60
into contest against the armies of in
iquity depending too much on human
agencies. We use for a battle crv the
name of some brave Christian re-
former, but after a while that reformer
dies, or gets old, or loses his courage,
and then we take up another battle cry,
and this time perhaps we put the name
of some one who plays Arnold and sells
out 70 the enemy. What we want for
a battle cry is the name Of some leader
who will v 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
of the Gideonites, who wiped out the
Bedouin Arabs, commonly called Mid
ianites. These Gideonits had a glori-
Gus leader in Gideon, but what was the
battlecry with which they flung their
enemies into 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. If the army
of the Amer can revolution are to free
America, it must be 1.-The sword of the
Lord and of Washington" Ii the
Germans want to win the day at Sedan,
it must be 1.-the sword of the Lord and
Won Moltke." Waterloo was won for
the English, because not only the
armed men At the front but the wor-
shippers in the cathedrals at the rear,
were crying: The sword of the Lord
and Wellington" The Methodists
have gone in triumph across nation af-
ter nation with the cry: THE sword
of the Lord and of Wesley" The
Hresbyterians have gone from victory
to victory with the cry: 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 of Judson."
The American E~piscopalians have won
their mighty way with the cry: ''The
sword OF the Lord and of Bishop Nc