The Forrest City times., 1891-07-31

the church of God would wake up to an adaptability of work! We must ad- init the simple fac. that the churches of Jesus Christ in this day do not reach the great masses. There are fifty thousand people in Edinburgh who | never hear the gospel. There are one million people in London who never hear the gospel. There are at least three hundred thousand souls in the city of Brooklyn who come not under the immediate ministrations of Christ's truth; and Che church of God in this day, instead of being place full of living epistles, read and known of all men, is more like dcad-letter'' post office.
 An, my friends, there is work for you and mo to do in order to gain this grand accomplishment Here is pull pit and clergyman breaches in it. Your pulpit is the bank. Your pulpit is the store. Your pulpit is the editorial chair. Your pulpit is the anvil. Your pulpit is the house scaffolding. Your pulpit is the mechanics shop. I may stand in this place and, through cowardice or through self-scek- ing, may keep back the word 1 ought to utter, while you, with sleeve rolled up and brow besweated with toll, may utter the word that will jar the foundation of heaven with the shout of n great victory. Oh, that to- day this whole audience might feel that the Lord Almighty is putting upon them the hands of ordination. Every one, go forth and preach this Gospel You have as much right to preach as have, or as any man has. Only find out the pulpit where God will have you preach, and there preach Hedley Wears was a wicked man in the English army. The grace of God came to him. He became an earnest and emi- nent Christian. They scoffed at him, and said You are hypocrite; you are as bad as you ever were" Still he kept his faith in Christ, and after awhile, finding that they could not turn him aside by calling him a hypocrite, they said to him: "Ch, you are nothing but a fanatic" " TEat did not disturb him. He went on performing his Christian duty until he Nad formed all his troop into a Bible class, and the whole encampment was shaken with the presence of God. So Havelocl went into the heathen temple in India while the English army wa S there, ard put candle in the hand of each of the heathen gods that stood around in the heather temple, and by the light of those candles, held up by the idols General Havelock preached righteousness. temperance and judg- ment to come And who will say on earth that Havelock had not the right to preach?
 I think that before the sun of this century shall set the last tyranny may fall, and with splendor of demonstra- tion that shall be the astonishment of the universe God will set forth the brightness and pomp and glory and perpetuity of his eternal government Out of the starfy flags and the embla- zoned insignia of this world, God will make q path for his own trium ph. and, returning from universal conq uest, he will sit down, the grandest. strongest, highest throne of earth his footstool.
 Then shall all nations song ascend
 Tn thee. our Ruler, Father. Erie i'd.
 I'll heavcp's high arch re~ounds again
 With Peace en earth, good will to men.
 I preach this sermon because I want to encourage all Christian workers in every possible department. Hosts of the living God march on. march onl His spirit will bless you. His shield will defend you. His sword will strike for you. March on march on! The last despot; ism will fall, and organism will burn its idols, and Mohammedanism will give up its false prophet, and the great walls of superstition will come down in thunder and wreck at the long, loud blast of the Gospel trumpet. March on. march on. The pesiegement will soon be en ded. Only n few more steps on the long way; only few more stur- dy blows; only a few more battle-cries, then God will put the laurel upon your brow, and from the living fountains of heaven will bathe off the sweat and the heat and the dust of the conflict. March on. march on. For you the time of work will soon be passed and amid the outhashings of the judgment throne, and the trumpet ing of resurrection angels. and the up heaving of world of graves, and the hosanna of the saved and the grooming of the lost, we shall be rewarded for our faithfulness or punished for our stupidity. Blessed be the Lord God of Israel from everlasting to everlasting, and let the whole earth be filled with his glory. Amen and Amen.
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