Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1889-09-26

that matter settled. If We believe
Isaiah and Ezekiel and Hosea, and
Micah, and Malachi, and john. add
Peter, and Paul, and Christ, We believe
let us have it settled. Let us know
whether We are working on toward .
success or toward . dead failure. II
there is . 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 q cyclone of the Florida coast, and
the captain assures you the vessel is
stanch and the winds are changing for
better quarter, and he is sure he wi4
bring you safe into the harbor, you pa
tiently submit to present distress with
the thought of safe arrival. Now l want
to know whether We are coming 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 one year sub
tracted 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 mex
orable in chronology and mathematics
y
age. If there is anything in arithmetic,
if You subtract two from five and leave
three. then by every rolling sun We are
coming on toward u magnificent termi-
nus. Then every winter passed is one
severity less for our poor world. Then
every summer gone by brings us nearer
unfading arborescence. Put your alge-
bra down on the top Of your Bible and
rejoice.
There is q class of phenomena which
makes me think that the spiritual and
heavenly world may, after a while, make
demonstration in this world which will
bring all moral and spiritual things to a
climax. Now, am no spiritualist; but
every intelligent man has noticed that
there are strange and mysterious things
which indicate to him that perhaps the
spiritual world is not SO far off as some-
times We conjecture. and that after a
while, from the spiritual and heavenly
world there may be q demonstration
upon our world for its betterment. We
call it magnetism, or We call it mesmer-
ism, or We call it electricity, because We
want some term to cover up our ignor-
ance. I do not know what that is. /
never heard an audible voice from the
other world. l am persuaded of this,
world and the next is getting thinner
and thinner, and that perhaps after a
while, at the call of God-not at the
call of the Davenports brothers, or An
drew Jackson Davis-some of the old
scriptural warriors, some of the spirits
of other days mighty for Coda
Joshua, or o Caleb, or a David, or
Paul-may come down and
help us in this battle against unright-
eousnesss. Oh, how l would like to
have them here-him of the Red Sea,
him of the valley of Ajalon, him of Mars
Hill. 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 piece of ground
at Navresmire heath and turned these
old war horses into the thickest and
richest pasture to spend the rest of their
days for what they had done in other
days. One day a thunderstorm came up,
and those war horses mistook the thun-
der 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 I doubt
me whether, when the last thunder of
this battle for God and truth goes BOOM
tural warriors can keep their places on
their thrones. Methinks they will
spring into the fight and exchange crown
for helmet, and palm branch for weapon,
and come down out of the kings gal
leries into the arena, crying; Make
room! l must fight in the great Arma-
geddon."
My beloved people, preach this SER
IN IN hoeauso I nf Won n toll with fho
sunlight in your faces. l want you old
men to understand before you die that
all the work you did for God while yet
your ear was alert and your foot feet is
going to be counted up in the final
victories. 1 want all these younger
people to understand that when they
toll for God they always win the day;
that all prayers are answered and all
Christian work is in some way effectual,
and that the tide is setting in the right
direction, and that all Heaven is or our
side-saintly, cherubic, seraphic,
archangelic, omnipotent, chariot and
throne. doxology and procession, prin-
CAPABILITIES and dominion, He who hath
the moon under his feet, and all the
armies of Heaven on white horses.
Brother! brother! all I am afraid of
is, not that Christ will lose the battle,
but that you and l will not get into it
quick enough to do something worthy
of our blood bought Immortality. Oh,
Christ! how shall / meet Thee, thou of
the SCARED brow and the scared back
and the ecarred 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, dare you to the 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! Come on! l bare my
brow, 1 uncover my heart. Strike. 1
cannot see my Lord until 1 have been
hurt for Christ. If We do not suffer
with him on earth We cannot glorify
with him in Heaven. Take good heart.
On! On! On! See! the skies have bright
ened! See! the hour is about to come!
Pick out the cheeriest of the anthems.
Let the orchestra string their best in