National Republican., 1886-10-04

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Arm ofthe Lord, awake awakei
Put on Thy strength, the nations shake.
Having expounded the account OF Paul's
conversion as given in the twenty.second
chapter of Acts, the Rev. T. De Witt Tai
mage, d. D., took for his text the first
verse Of the sixty-eighth Psalm-''Let God
arise; let His enemies be scattered" from
which he preached the following sermon:
A procession was formed to carry the ark
or sacred box, which, though only 3
feet 0 inches In length and feet inches
in height and depth, was the symbol of
Gods presence. AS the leaders OF the pro-
cession lifted this ornamented and brilliant
tox 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 /, who forced upon them reli-
gious forms that were offensive, and by the
terrible persecution Of Drummond, Dali
ziel, and Turner, and by the oppressive laws
Of Charles and Charles III, 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
shout OF those glorious old Scotchmen was
the text have chosen; "Let God arise: let
His enemies be scattered.n
What a whirlwind of power was Oliver
Cromwell, and how with his soldiers
Isme, "The Ironsides," he went from Vic
tory to victory! Opposing armies melted
as be looked at them. lie dismissed pariia-
ment as easily as a schoolmaster school.
lie pointed his finger at Berkeley Castle,
and 1t 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 battle cry of ''The
IronBides," loud as storm aud solemn as a
death knell, standards reeling before II,
and cavalry horses going back on their
Moor, at Wincepy Field, at Naseby, at
Bridgewater, and Dartmouth-"Let God
arite; let His enemies be scattered ~
So you zee my text Ia not like q compli--
mentary and tasseled sword that you sec
sometimes hung up in q parlor, sword
that was never In battle, and only WAS to
be used on general training day, but more
like some weapon carefully hung up In
your home, telling It's story Of Chapultepec,
CeITo Gordo, and Cherubusco, and Thatch-
er's Run, and Malvern Hill; for my text
hangs In the Scripture armory, telling OF
the holy wars Of 1000 years, In which 1t has
been carried but as keen and mighty as
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To me whatin the Church OfGod and In all
stS les Of reformatory work, we most need
now is a battle cry. We raise our little
standard and put on It the name OF some
man who only a few years ago began -
live, and In lew years will cease to live
We go Into contest against the armies Of
iniquity depending too much on human
agencies. We use fora battlecry 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 tlme, Ierhaps,
we put the name of some one VINO plays
Arnold and sells out TO the enemy. What
We want for 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 aud wo-
men, but II weare going TO get the victory all
along the line We must put God first. We
must take the hint OF tho Gldeonltes, who
wiped out the Bedouin Arabs commonly
called Midianites. These Gideonites had a
glorious leader In Gideon, hut what was the
battle cry with which they fang their enc
mics into the worst defeat into which any