Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-09-20

| Son of God from Il hoS elinS .aou"
should descend upon these cities.
Would not that fact be known III Wv
world over in twenty four hours: Sup
nose he should present his Gospel in
fars wor1s saving: Il am the Son of God;
como To nardon all your sins and to
beol ali vour sorrow; to prove that am
q snnernatural being. | have just de-
scemded from the clouds; do you be-
! love me. and do YOU believe me now?'
| Why. all the telegraph stations of the
earth would be crowded as none of them
were ever crowded Just after a ship
| wreck. | tell you all these things to
show you it is not among the lmpossl-
| bilities or even the improbabillties that
Christ will conquer the whole
earth. md do it instanter
when the time comes. There
are foretokenings in the air. Some-
thing great is going to happen. l do
not think that Jupiter is going to run us
down or that the axle of the world is
going to break: but l mean something
great for the worlds blessing and not
| for the worlds damage is going to hap
pen. l think the world has had it
hard enough. Enough, the Lon
don plaques. Enough. the Asiatic chol-
eras Enough. the wars. Enough, the
shipwrecks. Enough. the conhagra-
tions. l think our world could stand
right we'll procession of properties
| and triumphs. Better be on the look
out. Better have Your observatories
| opened toward the heavens, and the
lenses of your most powerful telescopes
we'll polished. Better have all your
Leyden jars ready for some new pulsa-
! ton of mighty influence. Better have q
/ few new fonts of type i'll your printing
Offices to set up some astounding good
/ a%k eo,,
that has never been carried. ready for
sudden professions. Better have the
bells in your church towers we'll 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 despo
tism 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 red
dening into the roses of stronger day
tit garlands, whether white or red. for
! Him on whose head are many crowns.
The day is at hand!"
If it is nearer morning at 3 O'clock
than it is at 2, ii it is nearer morning at
4 o'clock than it is at 3, then we are
nearer the dawn of the worlds deliver
ance. 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
again until they stop forever. If YOU
believe arithmetic as we'll MS your Bible,
you must believe We are nearer the dawn.
| Tie day is at hand"
There is a class of phenomena which
makes me think that the spiritual and
heavenly world may, after while. make
dem onstration 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 the
spiritual world is not so far off as some
times we conjecture, and that after a
while, from the spiritual and heavenly
world there may be demonstration
upon our world for its betterment. We
call it magnetism, or We call it mesmer-
ism, or we call it electricity. because we
want some term to cover up our ignor-
ance. l do not know what that is. I
never heard an audible voice from the
other world. l am persuaded of this,
however; that the veil between this
and thinner, and that perhaps after a
while, at the call of God--not at the
call of the Davenports brothers. or An
drew Jackson Davis-some of the old
scrlptural warriors, some of the spirits
OF other days mighty for Coda
Joshua, or a Caleb, or David, or
Paul-may come down and
help us III this battle against upright
eousnesss. 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 cavalry, at the close Of a
war bought up all the old cavalry horses
lest they be turned out to drudgery and
hard work, and bought piece of ground
at Navresmire heath and turned these
old war horses into the thickest and
richest pasture tospend the rest Of their
days Tor what they had done in other
days. One day a Thunderstorm came up,
and those war horses mistook the thun-
der 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 1 doubt
me whether, when the last thunder of
TINS battle for God and truth goes BOOM
ing through the heavens. the old scrip
tural warriors can keep their places on
their thrones. Methinks they will
/ spring INT the fight and exchange crown
for helmet, and palm branch for weapon.
and come down out of the kings GAL
lerles into the arena, crying; Make
geddon."
My beloved people, preach this SER
mon because want you to toll with the
sunlight in your faces. I want you old
men to understand before you die that
all the work You did for God while vet
your ear was alert and your foot feet is
gong to be counted up in the final
victories. want all these younger
people to understand that when thew
.oll tor God they always win the day;
tnat az prayers are answered and all
CHRISTIAN work is in some way etfectual.
and that the tide is setting in the right
direction, and that all Heaven is on Our
SIDE naa5;ay cherubic, seraphic,
throne. doxology and procession. prin.
the moon under his feet, and ali Tia
armies OF Heaven on white horses.
Brother! brother! all l am afraid Of