Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-09

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now, do not let US do another stroke Of work
until we have settled one matter. What is
going to be the final issue of this great con-
test between sin and righteousnessf Which
is going to prove himself the stronger, God
or Diabolus? Is this world going to be all
garden or all desert? Now let US have that
matter settled. If we believe Isaiah and
Ezekiel and Hosea, and Micah and Mala-
chi, and John and Peter, and Paul and
| Christ, we believe that it is going to be all
garden. But let us have it settled. Let us
know whether we are working on toward
success or toward a dead failure. IT there
| is a child in your house sick, and you are
sure he is going to get we'll, You sympathize
with present pains, but all the foreboding is
gone. If you are in cyclone off the
Florida ceast. and the captain assures you
the vessel is stsnch and the winds are
changing for better quarter, and he is
sure he will bring you safe into the harbor,
you patiently submit to present distress
with the thought of safe arrival.
CLEAR SUBTRACTION FROM WOE.
Now want to know whether we are COM
ing on toward dismay, darkness and defeat,
or on toward light and blessedness. You
and believe the latter, and If so, every
year we spend is enc year subtracted from
the worlds woe, and every event that passes,
whether bright or dark, brings US one event
nearer a happy consummation, and by all
that is inexorable in chronology and mathe-
mathics 1 commend you to good cheer and
courage If there is anything in arithmetic,
if you subtract two from five and leave
three, then by every rolling sun we are COM
ing on toward a magnificent terminus. Put
your algebra down on the top of your Bible
and rejoice.
If 1t is nearer morning at o'clock than
it is at 2, if it is nearer morning at O'Clock
than it is at g. then We are nearer the dawn
of the worlds deliEerance. Gods clock
seems to go very slowly, but the pendulum
swings and the hands move, and it will yet
strike noon. The sun and the moon stood
still once; thev will never stand still again
until they stop forever. II YOU believe
arithmetic as we'll as your Bible, you must
believe we are nearer the dawn. "The day
is at hand"
There is a class of phenomena which
makes me think that the spiritual and the
heavenly world may, after a while, make
demonstration in this world which will
bring all moral and spiritual things to
climax. Now, I am no spiritualist; but
every Intelligent man has noticed that there
are strange and mysterious things which in
cieate to him that perhaps the spiritual
world is not so far off as sometimes we con-
lecture. and that after while, from the
spiritual and heavenly world there may be
a demonstration upon our world for its bet
terment We call it magnetism, or we call
1t mesmerism, or we call it electricity, be-
cause We want some term to cover up our
Ignorance. l do not know what that
is. 1 never heard an audible voice from the
other world. am persuaded OF this, how
ever: that the veil between this world and
the next Is getting thinner and thinner, and
that perhaps after a while, at the call of
God-net at the call of the Davenport
brothers, or Andrew jackson DaYis-seme
of the old scriptural warriors, some of the
spirits of other days mighty for Coda
Joshua, or a Caleb, or a David, or Paul
NAV come down and help us in this battle
against unrighteousness. Oh, how would
like to have them here-him of the Red Sea,
him of the valley of Ajalon, him of Mars
Hill.
A SPLENDID ILLUSTRATION.
History says that Robert Clayton, of
the English cavalry, at the close of
a war bought up all the old cavalry |
horses lest they be turned out to |
drudgery and hard work, and bought a |
piece of ground at Nsversmire heath and |
turned these old war horses into the thiokest |
and richest pasture to spend the rest of their |
days for what they had done in other days.
One day thunder storm came up. and |
these war horses mistook the thunder OF the |
skies for the thunder of battle, and they
wheeled into line-no riders on their backs
they wheeled into line ready for the fray.
And / doubt me whether, when the last |
of this battle for God and truth
goes booming through the heavens, the old
scriptural warriors can keep heir places on
their thrones. Methinks they viii spring
into the fight and exchange crown for he'll
met, and palm branch for weapon. and come
down out Of the Kings galleries into the
arena, crying: "Make room! / must fight
in this great Armageddon."
My beloved people, preach this sermon
because want you to toll with the sunlight
in your faces. Brotherl brotherl all am
afraid of is, not that Christ will lose the
battle, but that you and will not get into
it quick enough to do something worthy of
our blood-pought immortality. Oh, Christi
how shall l meet Thee, Thou of the sacred
brow and the SCARED back and the SCARED
hand and the SCARED foot and the SCARED
breast, if 1 have no scars or wounds gotten
in Thy service? 1t shall not be so. / step
out to-day in front of the battle. Come on,
you foes of God, I dare you to combat.
Come on, with pens dipped in malignancy.
Come on. with tongues forked and viperine
and adderous. Come on, with types soaked
in the scum of the eternal pit. defy you'll
Come onl bare my brow, uncover my
heart. Strikel I cannot see my Lord until
have been hurt for Christ.
Ii we do not suffer with Him on earth we
cannot glorify with Him in heaven. Take
rood heart. Onl Onl On! See! the skies
nave frightened Seel the hour is about to
,ome! Pick out all the eheeriest of the an
hens. Let the orchestra string their best
Instruments. THE night is far spent, the
lay is at hand"