The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-08-12

that way. II they are taken for God n
viii be By storm; you will have 10 bring
mp the great siege guns Of the Gospel to
the very wall and wheel the flying
artillery into line, and when the armed
infantry Of Heaven shall confront the
battlements you will have TO give the
quick command: Forward! Charged
All, my friends, there is work for you
to do and tor y me to do
in order to this grand &C
complishment! Here is pulpit, 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 / may stand in this
place. and, through cs~ardice, or
through self-seeking, may keep back
the word ought to utter; while you,
with sleeve rolled up. and brow be-
sweated with toll, may utter the word
that will jar the foundation Of Heaven
with the shout of a 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, 60 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 wicked man in
the English army. The grace Of God
came to Him. He became 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 hypo-
critic, they said to him: .'Oh, you are
nothing but a fanatic" That did not
disturb him. He went on performing
his Christian duty until he had formed
all his troops into Bible class, and
the whole encampment was shaken
with the presence Of God So Have
lock went into the heather temple In
India while the English army was
there, and put candle into the band 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 the
righteousness, temperance and judg-
ment to come And who will say, on
earth or in Heaven, that Havelock had
not the right to preach.
In the minister's house where l pre-
pared for college there was man who
worked, by the name of Peter Croy.
He could neither read nor write, but he
was man of God. Often theologians
would stop at 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 efficiency. When
he prayed he reached up and seemed to
take hold Of the very throne Of the
Almighty, and he talked with God un-
til the very Heavens were bowed down
into the sitting-room. Oh, if were
dying would rather have plain Peter
Croy kneel by my bedside and com.
mend my immortal spirit to God than
some heartless ecclesiastic, arrayed in
costly canonicals Go preach this Cos
pei You say you are not licensed. In
the name of the Lord Almighty, this
morning ! license you. Go preach this
Gospel-preach 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 10 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 discou2-
aged? Have we not the Lord Almighty
on our side? How long did it TAX.
God to Stay the hosts of Sennacherib Or
burn Sodom or shake down Jericho?
How long will it take God, when He
once arises in His strength, to over
throw all the forces of iniquity?
Between this time and that there
may be long seasons of darkness-the
chariot-wheels, of Gods Gospel NAV
seem to drag heavily; but there is the
promise, and yonder is the throne; and
when Omniscience has lost its eyesight
and Omnipotencc falls back impotent
and Jehovah is driven from His throne
then the Church Of Jesus Chriat can af.
ford to be Respondent but never until
then. Despots may plan and armie,
may march, and the congresses of tts
nations may seem to think they are al
justing all the affairs of the world, III,
the mighty men of the earth are on!,
the dust of the chariot-wheels of God
providence la atl
think that before the sun of IN,
century shall set the. last tyranny ma
fall, and with splendor of demonstra
ton that shall be the establishment o.
, the universe, God will set forth the
brightness and pomp and glory ant
perpetuity of his eternal government
Out of the starry flags and the einblaz
oned insignia of this world, God will
make path for His own triumpe. and,
returning from universal conquest, HI
will set down, the grandest, strongest,
| highest throne of earth has foot-stool
, l preached this sermon because
want to encourage all Christian work
/ ers in every possible department
Hosts of the diving God, march on
/. march on! His spirit will bless you
} His shield will defend you His sword
y will strike for you. March on. march
on! The last despotism wilr fall, and
} paganism will burn its idols, and Mo
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