Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-09-20

r1ors can Keep their places on their thrones.
Methinks they will spring into the fight and
exchange crown for helmet and palm branch
for weapon, and come down out Of the King $
galleries into the arena crying: Make
rooml must fight in this great Arranged
dom
My beloved people, I preach this sermon
because want you 70 toll with the sunlight
in your faces / want you old men TO under
stand before you die that all the work you
did for God while yet your ear was alert and
your foot fleet 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 answered and all Christian work
is in some way effectual, and that the tide is
setting in the right direction, and that all
heaven is on our side-saintly, cherubic,
seraphic archangelic, omnipotent, chariot
and throne, dOXology aud procession, princi-
palities and dominion He who hath the moon
under His feet, and all the armies of heaven
on white horses.
Brotherl brother! all / am afraid Of
is, not that Christ will lose the battle
but that you and / will not get into it
quick enough to do something worthy
of our blood bought immortality. Oh,
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 wounds gotten in Thy serv-
ice? 1t shall not be so. | step ont to-day in
front of the battle. Come ON, you foes o.
God, / dare you to the combat. Come on
with pens dipped in malignancy. Come on,
with tongues forked and viperine and adder
GUS. Come on, with types soaked in the scum
of the eternal pit. | defy you! Come on!
uown ana help us in this battle against I'M
Righteousness. Oh, how would like to have
them Eere-him of the Red Sea. Kim of tho
valley Of Aialon, him of Mars Hill. History
says that Robert Clayton, of the English cav
airy, at the close of war bought up all
the old cavalry horses lest they be turned out
to drudgery and hard work, and bought
a 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 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 | doubt
me whether, when the last thunder of this
battle for God and truth goes booming
through the heavens, the old scriptural war
noticed that there are strange and mys-
FERROUS things which Indicate to him that
perhaps the spiritual world is not so far off
as sometimes we mcclure, 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 mesmerism, or we call it electric
lty, 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 pursuaded of this, however:
that the veil between this world and the
next is getting thinner and thinner, and that,
perhaps after while, at the call of God
not at the call of the Davenport brothers,
or Andrew jackson Davis-some of the old
scriptural warriors, some of the spirits of
other days mighty for Coda Joshua, or
Caleb or a David, or a Paul-may come
bare my brow, uncover my heart Striker
| cannot see my Lord until | have been
hurt for Christ. If we do not suffer with
Him on earth we cannot glorify with Him in
heaven. Take good heart. On! On! Onl
Seel the skies have frightened See! the
hour is about to come! Pick out all the
cheeriest of the anthems. Let the orchestra
string their best instruments 1.-THE night is
far spent, the day is at hand.n