The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-09-19
ness of the night is blooming and whit,

ness OF tno night u DlOOmlng ana Witt
ening 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 handw
One more ray of the dawn 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 Diabolusl Is the
world going to be all garden or all des-
ert? ow let us have that matter settled.
II we believe Isaiah and Ezekiel and Ho-
sea, aud 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 this settled. Let us know
whether we are working on toward a sue
cess or toward dead failure If there Is
a child in your house sick, and you are
sure he is going to get we'll, you symra-
thize with present pains, but all the fore
boding is gone. If you are in a cyclone
off the Florida coast, and the captain as.
sures you the vessel is stanch and tbs
winds are changing for a better quarter,
and he is sure he will bring you safe into
the harbor, you patiently submit to pros
ent distress with the thought OF safe ar
rival.
Now, I want to know whether we are
coming on toward a dismay, darkness
and defeat, or on toward light and
blessedness. You and believe the lat
ter, 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 contamination, and by
all that is inexorable in chronology and
mathematics, | 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 roll
| ing sun we are coming on toward
magnificent terminus. Then every
winter passed is one severity lesi
| for our poor world. Then every
summer gone by brings US nearer unfad-
! ing arborescence. But your algebra down
on the top of your Bible and rejoice. II
| 1t is nearer morning at three O'Clock than
| it is OF two, if it is nearer morning atfo
| O'Clock than it is at three, then we ara
nearer the dawn of theaworld's deliver
ance. Gods clock seems to go very slow.
ly, but the pendulum swings and tho
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. II you believe arith-
metic as we'll as your Bible, you must be-
lieve we are nearer the dawn. ''The day
| is at hand"
! There is a class of phe nomena which
makes me think that the spiritual and
the heavenly world may, after awhile,
make a demonstration in this world
which will bring all moral and spiritual
! tn anlir
ualist; but every intelligent man has
noticed that there are strange and mys-
| terious things which indicate to him
that perhaps the spiritual world is not so
| far off as sometimes we conjecture, and
| that after awhile from the spiritual and
| heavenly W orld there may be demonstra
| ton upon our world for it's betterment. We
call it magnetism, or we call it mesmer-
ism, or we caH it electricity, because we
want some term to cover up our igno-
rance. l do not know what that is.
never heard an audible voice from tho
other world. / am persuaded of this,
however, that the vail between this world
and the next is getting thinner and thin
ner, and that perhaps after awhile, at tho
call of God-not at the call of the Dav-
export brothers or Andrew Jackson Da-
vis-some OF the old scriptural warriors,
for Coda Joshua, or Caleb. or David,
or a Paul-may come down and help us
in this battle against unrighteousnesS.
Oh, how 1 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 least they be
turned out to drudgery and hard work and
bought piece of ground at Naversmire
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 war
horses mistook the thunder of tho
skies for the thunder Of battle, and
they wheeled into line-no riders on THEN
backs-they wheeled into line ready foI
the fray. And l doubt me whether,
when the last thunder of this battle lfol
God and truth goes booming Through tho
Heavens, the old scriptural warriors can
keep their places on their throne. Me-
thinks they will spring into the fight land
exchange crown for helmet, and palm
branch for weapon, and come down out
of the Kings galleries into the arena,
crying: "Make room! / 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 yous
ear was alert and your foot feet is GO
| ing to be counted up in the final vic
| tories. want all these younger people
| to understand that when they toll for
! God they always win the day; that all
prayers are answered and all Christian
work is in some way effectual, and thai
the tide is setting in the right direction,
and that all Heaven is on our side
sanity, cherubic, seraphic. arehangelic,
omnipotent chariot and throne, doxology
and procession, principalities and do-
| minion, He who hath the moon under lis
feet and all the armies of Heaven on
| white horses.
Brother! brother! all l am afraid of is,
not that Christ will lose the battle, hui
that you and will not get into it 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 i have no scars or wounds got
ten in Thy service? 1t shall not be so.
I step out to-day in front of the battle
Come on. you foes of God, l dare yoI
to the combat Come ON with pens dip
ped in maIignancy. Come on, with
| tongues forked and yiuerine and ad :