Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-09-19

and the winds are changing for a better
qunrteT and he Is sure ne will bring
you safe into the harbor, you patient
ly submit to present distress with the
thought of safe arrival. Now | want TO
know whether we are coming ON toward dis
may, darkness and defeat, or on toward light
and blessedness. You aud | believe the lat
ter, and If 50, every year we spend is one
year subtracted from the worlds woe, and
every event that passes, whether bright
or dark brings us one event nearer
happy consummation, and by all that
is memorable in chronology and mathematics
l commend you to good cheer and courage.
If there is anything in arithmetic, if you sub
tract two from five and leave three, then by
every rolling sun we are coming ON toward
a magnificent terminus Then every winter
passed is one severity less for our poor world.
Then every summer gone by brings us nearer
unfading arborescence. Put your algebra
down ON the top of your Bible and rejoice.
If it is nearer morning at 3 O'Clock than It
is at 2 if it is nearer morning at O'Clock
than it is at 8, then we are nearer the dawn OF
the worlds deliverance. 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;
they will never stand still again until they
stop forever. If you believe arithmetic as
well as your Bible, you must believe we are
nearer the dawn. "rhe day is at hand"
There is class of phencmena which makes
me think that the spiritual and the heavenly
world may, after while, make a demonstra-
ton in this world which wiz bring all moral
and spiritual things TO a climax. Now, am
no spiritualist; bat every intelligent man has
noticed that there are strange and mys-
FERROUS things which indicate to him that
perhaps the spiritual world is not so far of
assometimes we conjecture, and that after
while, from the spiritual and heavenly world
there may be a demonstration upon our world
for its betterment. We call Il magnetism,
or we call it mesmersm, or we call 1t electric
ity, because we want some term to cover up
our ignorance do not know what that IS
i never heard al audible voice from the other
world l am pursuaded Of this, however:
that the veil between this world and the
next is getting thinner and thinner, and that,
perhaps after a while at the call OF Cod
not at the call of the Davenport brothers,
or Andrew jackson Davis-some of the old
scriptural warriors, some of the spirits OF
other days mighty for Coda Joshua, OF a
Caleb or a David, or a Paul--may come
down and helpus in this battle against UNI
Righteousness. oh, how 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 cav
airy, at the close of war bought up all
the old cavalry horses lest they be turnea0ut
to drudgery and hard work, and bought
piece of ground at Naversmire
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 thunder storm came up and these war
horses mstook the thunder of the skies Tor
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 thunder of this
battle for God and truth goes booming
/ through the heavens. the old scriptural war
/ riors can keep their places on their thrones.
! Methinks they win spring into the fight and
exchange crown for helmet and palm branch
\ for weapon and come down out of the Kings
| galleries into the arena. crying; Make
rooml must fight in this great Arranged
dom
NV beloved people, | preach this sermon
because want you To toll with the Sunlight
in your faces I want you old men to under
stand before you die that all the work you
did for God while vet your ear was alert and
| your foot fleet is going to be counted up IN
/ the final victories want all these younger
people to understand that when they toll for
I God they always win the day; that all
prayers are answered and all Christian work
Is in some way effectual and TINT the tide is
setting in the right direction and that all
heaven is on side-saintly, cherubic
serephic. archangelc. omnipotent, chariot
and throne doxology aud procession, princi-
palltleS and dominion, he VINO nAlu tac hiOOh
under His feet, and all the armies of heaven
on white horses.
Brotherl brother all l ana afraid Of
is. not that Christ viii lose the battle,
but that you and ] will not get into IT
quick enough to do something worthy
of our blood bought immortality. Oh,
1 Christ how shall / meet Thee, Thou Of
the SCARED brow. and the SCARED back
and the Scared hand, and the SCARED foot,
and the Scared breast, if | have no
scars or wounds gotten in Thy serv-
/ iceg It shall not be so. step out to-day in
| front of the battle Come on, you foes o.
| God. | dare you to the combat Come on,
with pens dipped in nahgnancy, Come on,
with tongues forlSed and viperine and adder
Gus. Come on with types soaked in thescum
of the eternal pit defy you Come on
bare my brow, i uncover my heart strike
/ 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 good heart. Oni On On!
/ See the skies have frightened See the
hour is about to GOMEZ Pick out all the
| cheeriest of the anthems. Let the orchestra
1 string their best instruments The night rs
I far snent the day is at hand"