The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1889-09-11

mean something great for the worlds
blessings and not for the worlds damage y
going TO happen. Think the world has han
L hard enough. Enough, the London
olagues Enough, the Asiatic choieras.
Enough, the wars Enough, heshipwrecks.
Enough, the confagrations think our
world could stand right well procession OF
prosperitles and triumphs Better be on
the lookout Better have your observa-
tories open toward the heavens, and the
lenses Of your most powerful telescopes
well polished. Better have all your
Leyden Jars ready for some pulsations Of
mighty influence. Better havenew fonts OF
type In your printing offices TO setup 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
put the marriage Of the Kings Son. Cleanse
all your court houses, for the Judge OF all
the earth may appear. Let all your legis-
ative halls be gilded, for the great Law
ziver may be about to come. Drive OF the
thrones Of despotism all the occupants, for
LllO nix VI uCdNCH diiu Cui vi Ahoy W eSNer
10 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-ft garlands,
whether white or red, for Him on whose
head are many crowns. "The day Is at
handn
One more ray Of the dawn see In facts
chronological and mathematical. Come now,
DO not letus do another stroke Of work until
we have settled one matter What is going
10 be the final issue Of this great contest be-
tween sin and righteousnessi Which isgo-
ing to prove himself the stronger, God or
Diabolusl Is this world going TO be all
garden or all deserti Now let US have that
matter settled. II we believe Isaiah and
Ezekiel and Hosea, and Micah and Malachi,
and John and Peter, and Paul and Christ,
we believe that IL is going to be all garden.
But let US have IL settled. Let us know
whether we are working on toward sue
cess or toward dead failure. II there Is
,hild in your house sick, and you are sure
ne is going to get well, you sympathize with
present pains, but all the foreboding is gone.
IL you are in q cyclone of the Florida coast
and the captain assures you the vessel IL
,taunch and the winds are changing
Tor q better quarter, and he is sure
he will bring you safe into the harbor,
you patiently submit TO present dis
tress with the thought Of safe arrival. Now,
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 II so, every year we
spend Is one year substracted from the
worlds woe, and every event that passes,
whether bright or dark, brings US one event
nearer happy consummation, and by all
thatis iuexorable In chronology and mathe-
matics commend you 10 good cheer and
courage. II there is any thing is arith-
metic, II you subtract two from i've and
leave three, then by every rolling sun we
are coming on toward magnificent ter
minus. Then every winter passed In one
severity less for our poor world. Then ev-
cry summer gone by brings US nearer un-
fading arborescence. Put your algebra
down on the top Of your Bible and rejoice.
II Il is nearer morning at three. O'Clock
than It is at two, II II is nearer morning at
four o'clock than II Is at three, 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 II will yet strike noon. The sun and
the moon stood still once; they viii never
stand still again until they stop forever. II
you believe arithmetic 40 well as your
Bible, you must believe we are nearer tho
dawn. ''The day Is at hand"
There is class Of phenomena which
makes me think that the spiritual and the
heavenly world may, after awhile, make
demonstration in this world which will
bring all moral and spiritual things TO q eli
max. Now, am no spiritualist; but every
intelligent man has noticed that there art
strange and mysterious things which indi
cate 70 him that perhaps the spiritual world
Is not 80 far OF as sometimes we conjecture
and that after awhile from the spiritual and
heavenly world there may be demonstra
tion upon our world for It's betterment W,
call II magnetism, or we call 1t mesmer
ism, or We call II electricity, because W.
want some term 10 cover up our ignorance
do not know what that Is. / never heard
an audible voice from the other world.
am persuaded OF this, however, that the
veil between this world and the next II
getting thinner and thinner, and that per
haps after q while, at the call OF G0d-no
at the call OF the Davenport brothers, o.
Andrew jackson Davis-some Of the olt
Scriptural warriors, some OF the spirits O.
other days mighty for God-a Joshua, or
David, or q Paul-may come down ant
help us In this battle against un
righteousness. Q, how would Ike 70 hav,
|dAhem there = him Of the Red Sea
T. jhim Of the Valley Of Ajalon, him Of Mar
'fHill History says that Robert Clayton, ol
the English cavalry, at the close OF wal
bought up all the old cavalry horses lest thel
be turned out 70 drudgery and hard work
and bought q piece Of ground at Naversmir
heath and turned these old war horses int
the thlckest and richest pasture 10 spend tn
rest Of their days for what they had done II
other days. Ono day thunder storm cam
up, and these war horses mistook the thun
der of the skies for the thunder OF battle, AM
they wheeled into line-no riders on thei
backs-they wheeled into line ready for tn
fray. And Idoubt me whether, when tn
last thunder OF this battle for God an
truth goes booming through the heavens
the old scriptural warriors can keep thei
places on their thrones. Methinks the.
will spring into the fight and exchang
crown for helmet and palm branch 70
weapon, and come down out Of the King
galleries into the arena, crying: MAX
roomi must fight in this great Armaged
don.n
MY beloved people, ] preach this sermo
because I want you 10 toll with the sur
light In your faces. Iwant you old mon :
understand before you die that all the wor
you did for God while yet your ear wa
alert and your foot feet Il going 10 b
counted up In the final Victories.
want all these younger people 70 un
derstand that when they toll for God the
always win the day; that all prayers ar
answered and ali Christian work Is In som
way effectual, and that the tide II setting 1
the right direction, and that all Heaven
on our side sanity, cherubic, seraphis
arch angelic,, omnfpotent, chariot an