The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1891-08-06


as much right to preach as have,
or as anyone has Only find out the
pulpit where God will have you preach
and there preach. Hedley Wears was
wicked man in the English army.
Fhe 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 be kept his faith in Christ,
and after awhile. finding that they coulo
not turn him aside by calling him q
hypocrite, they said to 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 pres
encc of God. So Havelock went into
the heather temple in India while tho
English army was there, and put a
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 idles Gen.
Uavelock preached righteousness, tenn
perance and judgment to come. And
who will sag, on earth CT in Heaven,
that Havelock had not the right to
| preach?
| In the minister's house where I pre-
pared for college there was a man who
worked, ty the name of Peter Croy.
| He could neither read nor write, but he
was a man of God Often theologians
would stop in the house-grave theolo-
gians-.nd at family prayers Peter
Croy would be called upon to lead;
and all those wise men sat around,
wondcr-struck at his religious eff
cheney. 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. Oh, if
were dying | would rather have plain
Peter Croy kneel by my bedside and
command my immortal spirit to God
than some heartless ecclesiastic ar
rayed in costly canonicals Go preach
this Gospel. You say you are not
| licensed. In the name of the Lord AL
mighty, this morning, l license you.
W. pOopSi piSoSh ~ Al
| Sabbath-schools, in the prayer-meet-
ings in the highways, in the hedges.
Woe be unto you if you preach it not.
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 not the Lord Almighty
on our side? How long did it take God
| to slay the hosts of Sennacherib or burn
Sodom or shake down Jericho? How
| long will it take God, when He once
arises in Ills strength, to overthrow all
the forces of iniquity? Between this
time and that there may be long seasons
of darkness-the chariot-wheelS of
Gods gospel may seem to drag heavi-
ly; but there is the promise, and wonder
is the throne; and when Omniscience
has lost it's eyesight, and Omnipotence
falls back impotent, and Jehovah is
driven from His throne, then the church
of Jesus Christ can afford to be de-
spondent, but never until then Despots
may plan and armies may march, and
the congresses of the nations may seem
to think they are adjusting all the af
fairs of the world, but the mighty men
of the 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 and pomp and glory and per-
petuity of His eternal government. Out
of the starry flags and the emblazoned
insignia of this world God will make a
path for His own triumph, and, return
ing from universal conquest, He will
sit down, the grandest, strongest, high
est 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,"
preach this sermon because l 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
shield will defend you. His sword will
strike for you. March on! March on!
The last despotism will fail, and pagan
ism will burn its IDOLS and Moham-
mechanism will give up it's false prophet,
and the great walls of superstition will
come down and wreck at the long, LOUD
blast of the Gospel trumpet March
on! march on! The besiegement will
soon be ended. Only few more
steps on the long way; only a few
more sturdy blows; only a few
more battle-cries, then God will put the
laurel upon your brow, and from the
living fountain of Heaven will battle
off the sweat and the heat and the dust
of the conflict. March on! march on!
For you the time for work will soon
be passed, and amid the outfashings of
the Judgment throne, and the trumpet
ing of resurrection angels, and the
upheaving of a world of graves, and
the hosanna of the saved and the groan-
ing 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 filed with
His glory. Amen and amen.
EnoI lah