The southern argus., 1891-07-30

| tlllery into line, and when the armed
| infantry of Heaven shall confront the
battlements you will have to give the
quick command, Forward! Charger
All, my friends, there is work for you
to do and for me to do in order to this
grand accomplishment Here is pull
| pit, and a clergyman breaches in it
Your pulpit is the bank. Your pulpit
is the store. Your pulpit is the edito-
rial 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 seeking. may
keep back the word l 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 a great
victory. o, that to-day this whole audi
ence 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 l have, or as any
man has Only find out the pulpit
where God will have you preach,
and there preach. HedIey Wears
was a wicked man in the English army.
The grace of God came to him. He be-
came an earnest and eminent Christian.
They scoffed at him and said: You are
hypocrite; you are as bad as ever you
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 unto him: 'Oh,
you are nothing but fanatic"
That did not disturb him. He went
on performing his Christian duty until
he had formed all his troop into Bible
class. and the whole encampment was
shaken with the presence of God. So
| Havelock went into the heather temple
in India while the English army was
there, and put candle into the hand of
each of the heather gods that stood
around in the heather temple, and by
| the light of those candles, held up by
the idols, Gen. Havelock preached
| righteousness, temperance and judg-
ment to come. And who will say on
| earth or in Heaven that Havelock had
not the right to preach?
pared for college there was man who
worked. by the name of Peter Croy.
He could METER read nor write but he
was n man Of God. Often theologians
would stop in the house-grave theolo-
gians-and at family prayers Peter
Croy would be called upon to lead; and
| all those wise men sat around, wonder
struck at his religious efficacy. When
he prayed he reached up and
seemed to take hold of the
very throne of the Almighty, and he
talked with God until the very heavens
were bowed down into the sitting
room 0, if | were dying l would
rather have plain Peter Croy kneel
by my bedside and commend my i'm
mortal spirit to God than some heart
less ecclesiastic array in costly
canonicals. Go preach this Gospel.
You say you are not licensed. In the
name of the Lord Almighty, this morn
ing, ! license you. Co. preach this
Gospel-prcach it in the Sabbath
schools, in the prayer meetings. in the
highways, in the hedges. Woe be unto
you if you preach it not.
l remark again that in order to be
qualified to meet your duty in this par
ticular age you want unbounded faith
in the triumph of the truth and the
overthrow of wickedness. How dare
the Christian church ever get discour-
aged? Have we notthe Lord Almighty
on our side? How long did it take God
to Stay the hosts of Sennacherib, or
| hal M
How long will it take God, when He
once arises in His strength, to over
throw all the forces of iniquity? Be
tween this time and that there
may be long seasons of darkness-the
chariot wheels of Gods Gospel may
seem to drag heavily; but there is the
promise and yonder is the throne; and
when Omnisciencc has lost it's eyesight
and Omnipotence falls back impotent,
and Jehovah is driven from His throne,
then the church of Christ can afford to
be respondent. but never until then.
Despots may plan and armies may
march, and the congresses of the ma
tons may seem TO think they are adj
iusting all the affairs of the world but
the mighty men of earth are only the
dust of the chariot wheels of Gods
providence.
think that before the sun of this
century shall set the last tyranny may
| fall and with a splendor of demonstra-
ton that shall be the establishment of
! the universe God will set forth the
brightness of pomp and glory and per-
petuity of His eternal government.
Out of the starry flags and the emblaz-
oned insignia of this world. God will
make a path for Ills own triumph, and
returning from universal conquest, lie
will sit down, the grandest. strongest
highest throne of earth His footstooL
| Then shall all nations song ascend
| To Thee. our Ruler. Father, Friend,
! Till Heavens high arch resounds again
! With Peace on earth, good Will to men. y
| preach this sermon because ! want
to encourage all Christian workers IN
| every possible department Hosts of
the living God. march on! march on!
/ His spirit will bless You his sword