Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-10-04
What the Church Most Needs at the
Present Time is a Battle Cry--A
Leader Who viii Never Die.
Blnsphemy One Of the Gigantic Grimes
Of this Land People Who Died
with Oaths on Their Lips.
The saloons Growing out Of Proportion ''
the Increase Of tho Popuiniion--I
Army In Reserve.
rAnrRSAcLE SERMON.

DEOOhL1 ~ ~ - CNrs ~ A"N 49,
ing hymn at the tabernacle this morning
begins:
Arm Of the Lord, awake awake
Pat on thy strength, the pationa shakei
Having expounded the account o
Paul's conversion, as given In the twenty
second chapter Of Acts, the Rev Il. ID
witt Talmage, DID, took for his text the
first verse OF the sixty-eighth Palm
f1et God arise, let His enemies be
scattered" from which he preached the
following sermon:
A procession was formed 10 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 aud brilliant box by two gold
enpoles run through four golden rings and
started for Mount Zion, all the people
chantod the battle hymn OF my text;
net God arise, let His enemies be
scattered"
The Cameronians Of Scotland, outraged
by James l., who forced upon them re-
ligi0us forms that were offensive, and by
the terrible persecution OF Drummond,
Dalziel and Turner, and by the oppressive
laws Of Charles ]. and Charles H., were
driven 10 proclaim war against tyrants,
and went forth TO light for religious liber-
ty and the mountain heather became red
with carnage, and az Boutwell, Bridge,
and Ards Moss and DrumclOg, the
battle hymn and the battle shout Of those
glorious old Scotchmen was the text |
have chosen: "Let God arise, let His
enemies be scattered"
What a WhrWipd OF power was Oliver
Cromwell, and how with his soldiers
name,
"THE lRoNsIpRs,n
he went from victory 20 victory Oppos-
ing armies melted as he looked at them.
lie dismissed parliament as easily as
schoOlmaster a school He pointed his
finger az Berkeley castle and It was taken.
He ordered Lord HOpton, the general, TO
dismount and be dlsmounted. See CTom-
well marching on with his army and hear
the battle cry of "The Ironsides, "loud as
q storm and solemn as death knell,
standards reelng before il, and cavalry
horses going back on their launches, and
armies flying, at Marston Moor, nt Win.
cepy Field, ~ Nasehy, at Brldgewater and
Dartmouth--"Le God arise, let His enc
niles be scattered"
SO you see my text Is not like g com
pllmentary and tssselled sword that YOU
sometimes see hung up In parlor, a
sword that was never In battle aud only
70 be used on general training day, but
more Ike some weapon carefully hung up
In your home, telling it's story OF Chapul-
tepec, CerrO GOrdO, and Cherubnsco, and
Thatcher's Run, and Malvern Hill, for
my text hangs In the Scripture Grmory,
telling OF the holy wars OF three thousand
years In which 1t has been carried, but as
Keen aud mighty as when David first un.
sheathed II, II seems TO me what In the
church Of God, and IN all styles OF re
formatory work we most need now, Is
BATTLE CRY.
We raise our little standard and put on
II the name Of some man who ONLY n few
years ago began 10 live, and In a few years
viii cease 10 live. We 20 into contest
against the armies OF nlqulty depending
too much on human agencies. We use
for battle cry the name OF some brava
Christian reformer, but after awhile that
rcformer dies. or sets old, or loses his
courage, and then we take another battle
cry, and this time perhaps we nut the
name OF some one who plays Arnold and
sells out TO the enemy. What we want
for Il battle cry Is the name Of some
leader who will never betray us, and will
never surrender, and win never die.
All respect have l for brave men and
women, but II we are going to yet the
victory oil along the line we must pu,
God FIRST. We must take the hint of the
Gideonltes, who wiped out the Bedouln
Arabs, commonly called Midanites.
These Gideonites had glorious leader IN
Gideon, but what was the battle cry
with which they flung their enemies into
the worst defeat into which any army was
ever tumbled? IL was ''the sword of the
Lord aud OF Gldeon.n Pat God arst.
whoever you put second. II the army of
the American revolution are TO free
America, II must be "the sword OF the
Lord and OF Washington" II the Ger.
mans want to win the day at Sedan, II
must be ''the sword OF the Lord and Won
Moltke." Waterloo was won for the
English, because not only the armed men
~ the front but the worshipers 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; dThe
sword OF the Lord and OF Wesley The
Presbyterlans have gone from victory 10
victory with the cry; "rhe sword OF the
Lord and OF John Knox The Baptiats
have conquered millions after millions
for Christ with the crys "The sword OF
the Lord and OF Judson.n The American
Episcopalians have won their mighty wav
with the cry "The sword OF the Lord
and OF Bishop MoIlvaino." The victory
Is TO those who
ruT GOD FIRST.
But as We want battle cry suited To all
seets OF religionlsts, and TO all lands,
nominate as the battle cry Of Christeu-
dom In the approaching Armageddon the
words Of my text, sounded before the
srk as II was carried to Mount Zion,
"Let God arise, let His enemies be scat.
tered.n
AS FAR as our lnite mind can Judge. II
seems about time for God TO rise. Does
II not seem 10 you that the denominations
Of this earth have gone far enoughg
was there ever a time when sin was SO
dohanN Were there ever before so many
hats lifted t1ward God, telling Him 10
come on II lie dareP Look at the bias.
nnemy abroad What towering profanity
Would It be possible for any one to calcu.
iate the numbers Of times that the name