The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1889-09-25

mean oomethlnR Rfeot Tor tne Worlus
blessings and not for the worlds damage il
going 70 hppen. Think the world has had
it hard enough. Enough, the London
plaques. Enough, the Asiatic choleras.
Enough, the wars. Enough, the shipwrecks.
Enough, the CONGREGATIONS. think our
world could stand right well procession OF
properties 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 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 q 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 legis-
lative halls be gilded, for the great Law
giver may be about to come. Drive off the
thrones of despotism all tina 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 garlands,
whether white or red, for Him on whose
head are many crowns. 1.-THE day is at
handp' fI.
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
to be the final issue Of this great contest be-
tween sin and righteousness Which is go.
ing to prove himself the stronger, God or
garden or all desert2 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 letfus have it settled. Let US know
whether we are working on toward sue
cess 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 q cyclone of the Florida coast,
and the captain assures you the vessel is
staunch and the winds are changing
for a 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,
l 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 IL 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
that is memorable in chronology and mathe-
MATES commend you to good cheer and
courage. II there is any thing is arith-
metic, if you subtract two from five 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 it is nearer morning at three O'Clock
than 1t is at two, if it is nearer morning at
four o'clock than it is at three, then we are
nearArthe dawn Of the worlds deliverance
i Nc pck seems to go very slowly, but
~, 11alnn swings and the hands move,
dfid 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 arithmetic as well a. your
Bible, you must believe we are nearer the
dawn. 1.-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 q
demonstration in this world which will
bring all moral and spiritual things to eli
max. Now, am no spiritualist: but every
intelligent man has noticed that there are
strange and mysterious things which indi
cate to him that perhaps the spiritual WORLD
is not so far of as sometimes we conjecture
and that after awhile from the spiritual ani
heavenly world there may be demonstra
ton 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 ignorance
/ do not know what that Is. never hearC
an audible voice from the other world.
am persuaded of this, however, that the
veil between this world and the next i!
getting thinner and thinner, and that per
haps after while, at the call of God-no
at the call of the Davenport brothers, OF
Andrew jackson Davis-some of the ole
Scriptural warriors, some OF the spirits o.
other days mighty for Coda Joshua, or {
David, or a Paul-may come down ant
help us in this battle against un
righteousness o, how would like to have
them there - him of the Red Sea
him OF the Valley of Ajalon, him of Mar
Hill. History says that Robert Clayton, OF
the English cavalry, at the close of a wal
bought up all the old cavalry horses lest the,
be turned out to drudgery and hard work
and bought piece Of ground at Naversmir'
heath and turned these old war horses int
the thickest and richest pasture to spend tn
rest of their days for what they had done il
other days. One day thunder storm CAM
up. and these war horses mistook the thun
. der of the skies for the thunder Of battle, ant
thew wheeled into line-no riders on theil
bocks-they wheeled into line ready for tn,
; fray. And Idoubt rue 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
weapon. and come down out Of the King
galleries into the arena, crying: MAX
: rooml must fight in this great Arranged
Nv beloved people, preach this sermon
, because want you to toll with the sun
, light in your faces lwant you old men :
: understand before you die that all the worl
YOU did for God while yet your ear wa
alert and your foot feet Is going to b
| counted up in the final victories.
9 want all these younger people to un
derstand that when they toll for God the
always win the day; that all prayers ar
answered and all Christian work is in som
way effectual, and that the tide is setting i
the right direction, and that all Heaven /
3 on cur side sanity, cherubic, seraphiC
t arch angelic, omnipotent chariot an
, tiles and dominion, he who. hath the moo
: under his feet, and all the armies of heave
; on white horses.
Brtherl brotherl all / am afraid Of Il