Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-09-19

your court houses, for the J1dge of all the
earth may appear. Let all your legislative
halls be gilded. for the great Lawgiver
may be about to come Drive OF the
thrones of despotism 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 clouds, and the lilies REDEEM
ing into the roses of stronger day-ft
garlands, whether white or red, for Him
on whose head are many crowns. THE
day is at hand"
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 Diabo!us? Is this
world going TO be all garden or all desert?
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 it is going to be all garden. But let
US have it settled Let US know whether
we are working on toward a dead failure.
II 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 II you are in q
cyclone of the Florida coast and the cap
tain assures you the vessel is staunch
and the winds are changing for better
quarter, and he is sure he will bring you
safe into the harbor, you patiently submit
to present distress with the thought of
safe arrival. Now Iwant to know whether
we are coming on toward dismay, dark
ness and defeat, OIL on toward light and
blessedness. You and l believe the lat
ter, and il 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
memorable in chronology and mathemat.
les l commend you to good cheer and
courage. II there is any thing in arith-
metic, if you subtract two from five and
leave three, then by every rolling sun we
are coming on toward a magnificent ter
minus. Then every winter passed is one
severity less for our poor world. Then
every summer passed by brings US nearer
unfading arborescence. Put your algebra
down on the top of your Bible and rejoice.
There is class of phenomena 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 things to a
climax. Now, l 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
awhile, from the spiritual and heavenly
world there may be demonstration upon
our world for its betterment We call it
magnetism, or we call it mesmerism, or
we call it electricity because we want
some term to 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
vail between this and the next is getting
thinner and thinner, and that perhaps
after awhile at the call of God-not at the
call of the Davenport brothers or Andrew
Jackson DaYis-some of the old scriptural
warriors, some of the spirits of other days
mighty for Coda Joshua, or a Caleb, or
a David, or Paul-may come down and
help US in This battle against unrighteous-
ness. o, how l would like to have them
here-him of the Red sea, him of the VAL
ley of Ajalon, him of Mars hill History
says that Robert Clayton, of the English
cavalry, at the close of the war. bought up
all the old cavalry horses lest they be
turned out to drudgery and hard work
and bought piece of ground at Navers-
mire heath and turned ihese 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 a
thunder storm came up, and these
war horses mistook the thunder 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 l doubt me whether, when the
last thunder of this battle for God and
truth goes booming through the heavens,
the old scriptural warriors can keep their
places on the thrones. Methinks they will
spring into the fight and exchange crown
for helmet and palm branches for weapons,
and come down out of the Kings gallery
into the arena, crying. Make room! l
must fight in this great Arma geddon."
Ny beloved people, preach this sermon
because l want you to toll with the sun
! ght in your face. want you old men to
understand before you die that all the
work you did for God while yet your ear
was alert and your foot feet is going to be
counted up in the final victories. want
all these younger people to understand
that when they toll for God they always
win the day; that all prayers are an.
swered and all Christian work is in some
way effectual and that all Heaven is on
our side-saintIy, cherubic, seraphic.
arch-angelic omnipotent. chariot and
throne, doxology and procession. princi-
palities and dominion, He who hath the
moon under His feet and all the armies of
Heaven on white horses.
Brother! brother! all am afraid of is.
not that Christ will lose the battle, but
that you aud vii! not get into it quick
enough to do something worthy of our
blood bought immortality. o, Christ
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 l have no scars or
no wounds gotten in Thy service? 1t shall
not be so. l step out to-day in front of
the battle. Come on, you FOES of
God. l dare you to the combat
Come on, with pens dipped in malig-
nancy. Come on, with tongues forked
and viperins and adderous, Come on,
with types soaked in the scum OF tue eter-
nal pit 1 defy you! Come on! 1 bare
my brow, 1 uncover my heart Strike
l can not see my Lord until l have been
hurt for Christ. If we do not suffer with
Him on earth we can not glorify with Him
in Heaven. Take good heart On! On
On! See! the skies have frightened
See! the hour is about to come! Pick out
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