The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1889-04-20

calculate only on the forces we can see.
The mightiest army Is in the air. NY
brethren, so much of sellishness and pride
and rivalry and bad motives of all kinds
get into our work here thatswe are hind
dered. But the mighty souls that have
gone up to the flying armies of the sky
have left all imperfections behind; and
these souls are with us and withouta fault
and with perfect natures on our side. You
can not make me believe that after toillhg
here for long years for the redemption of
the world until from exhaustion some of
them fall into their graves they have
ceased their interest in the stupendous
conflict now raging, or that hey are go
ing to decline their help. IreuBus Prime
Honored on earth but now glorif1ed in
Heaven, have you forgotten the work
toward which you gave for more than half
a century your gracious life, your loving
voice and your matChless pen? No. Then
com down and help. Alexander Duff? Have
you forgotten the millions of India for
whose salvation you suffered in Hindoo
jungle aud Numbered on missionary plat
form? No! Then come down and help.
David Brainard! Have you forgotten the
aborigines to whom you preached and for
whom you prayed until you could preach
and pray no more, lying down delirous
INV nv "o"il VI IL b"dIlp NOI
Then come down and help. Mon
Grief and Freeman and Campbell
Have you forgotten Lucknow and
Cawnpore2 No! Then come down
and help. l rub out of my eyes the stupid
ity and unbelief, and |, the servant of
these great Elishas in the Gospel, see the
mountains all round about are full of
horses Of fire and chariots Of fire; and they
head thisw way. lowered over are we by
great clouds of witnesses and helpersl
Clouds of apostles in the air led on by
PAUL. Clouds of martyrs in the air led on
by Stephen! Clouds of prophets In the
air led on by saiah Clouds of patriarchs
in the air led on by Abrahaml Clouds of
ancient warriors in the air led on by
Joshua, and that Bible war; Tor ut whose
prayer astronomy once halted over Ajalon
and Gideon seems now to lift one hand
toward the descending SUI of this century
and the other hand toward tho moon of
the last decade, saying: 'Stand thou still
till the Church of God gets the final VIC
tory!"
Then let us take what remains of this
decade to get ready for the final decade of
the nineteenth century. You and l may
not live to see that decade or may not live
to see its close, but that shall not hinder
me from declaring the magnificent pos
sibility. l confess that the mistake of my
life has been. not that | did not work hard
for l could not have worked harder and
lived, as God knows and my family know
but that l have not worked under the
realization that the salvation of this world
was n nearby possibility. But whether
we see 1t, the beginning or the
closing of hat decade, is of no
Importance, if only that decade can get the
coronation, and then all decades shall
kneel before this enthroned decade, and
even the gray-grown centuries will cast
their crowns before it aud it will he the
most IGNORED decade between the time
when the morning stars sang together as
the libretto of worlds wa opened and the
time when the mighty angel, robed In
cloud and garlanded in rainbow, shall
with one foot on the sea and the other foot
on the land. swear by Him that liveth for
ever and ever that time shall be no longer.
Alleluiai Ameni