Connecticut western news., 1891-07-30

shall it be taken? An army comes and sits around about it, cuts off the SUD- plies and says. Now we will just wait until from exhaustion and starvation they will have to give up." ..
 Weeks and months and perhaps a year, pass along, and finally the fortress surrenders through that starvation and exhaustion. But my friends, the for tresses of sin are never to be taken in that way If they are taken for God it will be by storm. You will have to bring up 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 con- front the battlements you will have to give the quick command, "Forwardl Charge"
 EVERY PLACE MAY BE PULPIT.
 An, my friends, there is work for you to do and for me to do in order to achieve this grand accomplishment! Here is a pulpit, and clergyman breaches in it. Your pulpit is the bank. Your pulpit is the store. Your pulpit is the edi- torial 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 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 8 great vic tory. Oh, that today this whole audi ence might feel that the Lord Almighty is putting upon them the hands of or. dhation. Every one, go forth and preach this Gospel. You have as much right to preach as I have, or as any man has. Only find out the pull pit 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 eminent Christian. They scoffed at him, and said: You are hypo- crite. 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 hypocrite, they said to him, "Oh, you are nothing but a fanatic." That did not disturb him. He went on per forming his Christian duty until he had formed all his troop into Bible class, and the whole encamplnent was shaken with the presence of God.
 So Havelock went into the heathen 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, General Havelock preached righteousness, temperance and judgment to come. And who will say, on earth or in heaven, that Havelock had not the right to preach2
 In the minister's house where pre- pared for college there was man who worked, by 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 theo- logians-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 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 commend my immortal spirit to God than some heartless eccle siastic ar,ayed in costly canonicals. Go preach this Gospel 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.
 FAITH NECESSARY TO EFFECTIVE WORK.
 I 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
 
 the Christian church ever get discour- aged9 Have we not the Lord Almighty on our side? Howlong did it take God to slay the hosts of Sennacherib or burn Sodom or shake down Jericho2 How long will it take God, when he once arises in his strength, to overthrow all the forces of iniQuity?
 Dol hat may be long seasons of darkness-the chariot wheels of Gods Gospel may seem to drag heavily; but here is the promise and yonder 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 Respondent, but never until then. Despots may plan and armies may march, and the congresses of the nations may seeln to think they are ad iusting all the affairs 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 cen tury shall set the last tyranny may fall. and with :. splendor of demonstration that shall be the astonishnent of the universe God will set forth the bright ness and pomp and glory and perpetu ity of his eternal government. Out Of the starry flag and the emblazoned insignia of this world, God will make path for his own triumph, and, returning from universal conquest, he will sit down. the grandest, strongest, highest throne of earth his footstool.
 Then shall all nations song ascend
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