Daily Yellowstone journal., 1889-09-15

every event that passes, whether bright
or dark, brings us n event nearer q
happy consummation, and by all that
is memorable in chronology and ma
thematics | commend you to good
cheer and courage. II there is any
thing in arithmetic, if you subtract
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 IN.
fading arborescence. Put your alge-
bra down on the top Of your Bible and
rejoice.
NEAR TO THE DAY OF DELIvERASCE.
If it is nearer morning at 3 o'clock
than it is at 2, if it is nearer morning
at A o'clock than it is at 3, then we are
nearer the dawn of the worlds deliv
france. 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
J again until they stop forever. If you
believe arithmetic as well as your
Bible, you must believe we are nearer
the dawn. THE day is at hand"
There is class of phenomena which
makes me think that the spiritual and
the heavenly world may, after while,
make a demonstration in this world
which will bring all moral and spirit
ual things to a climax. Now, / am
no s%piritualist; 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 sometimes We CON
lecture, and that after a while. from
the spiritual and heavenly world
there may be a demonstration upon
u world for its betterment. We call
1t magnetism, or we call il mesmer-
ism, or we call it electricity, because
we want some term TO cover up our
ignorance. do not know what hat
is. | never heard an audible voice
from the other world. / am persuaded
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 God-not
at the call Of the Davenport brothers.
or Andrew Jackson Davis-some of
the old s%criptural warriors, some Of
the spirits of other days mighty for
Coda Joshua, or a Caleb, or a Da-
vid, or Paul-may come down and
help us in this battle against UPRIGHT
eousness. Oh, how | would like to
have them here-him of the Red Sea,
him of the valley of Ajalon, him
of Mars Hill. History say hat
Robert Clayton. OF the English cav.
airy, at the close of a war bought up
all the old cavalry horses lest they be
turned out todrudgery and hard work,
and boughta piece of ground at Naver-
smire 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 thunder storm came up, and
these wal horses mistook the thunder
of the skies for the thunder of battle,
and they wheeled into line-no riders
on their b~acks-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
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
lericS into the arena. crying: Make
room! must fight in this great Ar.
magcddon.'
Toll WITH SUNLIGHT IN YOUR FACES.
Ny beloved people, | preach this
sermon because | want you to toll
with the sunlight in your faces. i
want you old men TO understand be.
fore you die that all the work you did
for God willie yet your ear was alert
and your foot fleet is going TO be ,
counted up in the final victories. ]
want all these younger people 10 un-
dersland that when they toll for God
they always win the day; thHt all
prayers are answered and all Christian
work is in some way elfectual, and
that The tide is setting in the right
direction, and hat all heaven is on
our side sanity, cherubic, scruphic. |
archangglic. omnipotent, chariot and
throne, doXology and procession. prin-
cipalitics and dominion, lac who hath
the moon under his feet, aud all the
armies OF heaven on white horses.
Brother! brotherl all | am afraid of
is, not that Christ will lose the battle, !
but that you and | will not get into il
quick enough TO do something worthy |
of our blood bought Immortality. Oh, |
Christi 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-
icel 1t shall not be SO. l step out TO.
day in front of the battle. Come on,
you foes Of God, l dare you TO the
combat. Come on, with pens dipped
in malignancy. Come on, with
tongues forked and viperine and adj.
derous. Come on, with types soaked
in the scum of the eternal pit.
defy you'll Come on | bare my brow,
i uncover my 5sayt 6trikel l can.
not see my Lord until ! have been
hurt for Christ. II we do not suffer
with him on earth we cannot glorify |
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