The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-09-18

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your observatories open toward the
heavens, and the lenses of your most
powerful telescopes well polished. Better
have all your Leyden jars ready for some
new pulsation of mighty influence. Better
have new fonts OF type in your printing
offices to set up some astounding good
news. Better have some new banner that
has never been carried ready for sudden
professions. Better have the bells in your
| church towers well hung and rope within
reach that you may ring out the marriage
/ OF the kings son. Cleanse all your court
| houses, for the judge of all the earth may
! appear. Let all your legislative halls be
/ gilded, for the great lawgiver may be
about to come. Drive off the thrones OF
] despotism all the occupants, for the king
of heaven and earth may be about to
reign. The darkness OF the night is
! blooming and whitening into the lilies of
morning cloud, and the lilies reddening
into the roses of stronger day-fit gar
| lands, whether white or red, for Him on
whose head are many crowns. THE day
| is at handr'
| One more ray of dawn 1 see in facts
| chronological and mathematical. Come
| 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 contest between sin and righteous
/ ness? 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 Malachi and John and
| Peter and Paul and Christ we believe that
| it is going to be all garden. But let us
| have 1t settled. Let us know whether we
are working on toward a success or toward
/ dead failure. If there is a child in your
| house sick and you are sure he is going to
| get well YOU sympathiZe with present
| pains, but all the foreboding is gone. If
| you are in a cyclone off the Florida coast
and the captain assures you the vessel
is stanch and the winds are changing for
a better quarter and he is sure he will
bring you safe into the harbor, you pa
| tiently submit to present distress with the
! thought of safe arrival. Now / want to
| know whether we are coming on toward
| dismay, darkness and defeat, or on to-
/ ward light and blessedness. You and /
/ believe the latter, and if so, 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 a happy consummation, and
| bv all that is memorable in chronology
and mathematics l 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 roll
| ing sun, we are coming on to a magnii-
| cent terminus. Then every winter passed
is one severity for our poor world. Then
| every summer gone by brings US nearer
unfading aborescense. Put your algebra
| down on your bible and rejoice.
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| it is at ,, if it is nearer morning at
| o'clock than it is at 3, then we are nearer
| the dawn of the worlds deliverance.
Gods clock seems to 60 very slowly, and
| 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. H-you believe arithmetic as well
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 a
| 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
| far off as sometimes we conjecture, and
| that after while from the spiritual and
| heavenly world there may he a demon
| stration upon our world for its betterment.
| We call it magnetism or we call it mes
merism or we call it electricity, because
we want some term to cover up our
| ignorance. l do not know what that is.
| | never heard an audible voice from the
other world. 1 am persuaded OF this,
| however: that the veil between this world
| and the next is getting thinner and thin
ner, and that perhaps after while at the
call of God-not at the call of the Daven-
| port brothers or Andrew Jackson Davis
| some of the old scriptural warriors. some of
| the spirits of other days mighty for God
a Joshua. or Caleb, or a David, or Paul
may come down and help us in this bat
| tie 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. History saws that Rob-
| ert Clayton of the English cavalry, at the
! close of a war bought up all the old cav
| airy horses, lest they be turned out to
! drudgery and hard work, and bought a
| piece of ground at Naversmire heath and
| turned these old war horses into the thick
| est and richest pasture 10 spend the rest
| of their days for what they had done in
| other days. One day thunderstorm
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 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 galleries into the
arena, crying: MAKE room 1 must
fight in this great Armageddon."
My beloved people, 1 preach this SER
mon because / want you to toll with the
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 fleet is going
10 be counted up in the final victories. l
want all these younger people to under
stand that when they toll for God they
always win the day; that all prayers are
answered and all Christian work is in
some way eflectual, and that the tide is
setting in the right direction, and that all
heaven is on our side-saintly, cherubic,
seraphic, archangelic, omniDotent, chariot
and throne, doxology and procession,
principalities and dominion, he who hath
the moon under His feet, and all the