The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-03-30


and to the beasts OF the field" and
David looked up at the monster
of braggadocia and defiantly replied:
"Thou CONTEST to me with a sword
and with spear and with shield;
but como to thee in the name OF the
Lord of hosts, the God of the armies OF
Israel, whom thou hast defed. This
day will the Lord deliver thee unto
mine hand, and will smite thee and
take thine head from thee, and will
give the carcasses of the host OF the
Philistines this day unto the fowls OF
the air and to the wild beasts OF the
earth that all the earth may know that
there is God in Israel" Then David,
with probably three swirls of the sling
about his head, got it into sufficient
momentum and he let fly till the
Uranium of the giant broke in, and he
fell, and David leaped on his carcass,
one foot on his chest and the other on
his head, and that was the last of the
Philistine. But, be sure you get the
right battle shout, and that you utter
it with the right spirit or Og will roll
over you as easily as at night he rolled
into his iron bedstead.
Brethren, l have made up my mind
that we will have to fight all the way
UP to the Promised Land. l used to
think after while would get into
time where it would be smooth and
easy, but the time does not come, and
it will never come in this world. By the
time King Og is used up so that he can
not get into his iron bedstead, some
other giant of opposition looms up to
dispute our way. Let us stop looking
for an easy time, and make it thirty
years war, or sixty years war, or
hundred years war, if we live so long.
Must be carried to the skies
On fowery beds Of case,
While others fought to win the prize,
And sailed through bloody seas.
! Do you know the name of the biggest
giant that you can possibly meet-and
YOU will meet him? He is not eleven
feet high but one hundred feet high
His bedstead is as long as the continent,
his name is Doubt. His common food is
infidel books and skeptical lectures,
and ministers who do not know whether
the Bible is inspired at all or inspired
in spots, and Christians who are more
infidel than Christians. You will never
reach the promised land unless you Stay
that giant Kill doubt or doubt will
kill you. How to overcome this giant?
Pray for faith, go with the people
who have faith, read everything that
encourages faith, avoid as you would
ship fever and smallpox the people
who lack faith. In this battle against
King Og use not for weapons the crutch
of limping Christian or the sharp pen
of controversialist, but the sword OF
the truth, which is the word of God.
The word IF" is made up of the same
number of letters as the word "Og," and
it is just as big giant If the Bible be
true. If the soul be immortal If Christ
be God. If our belief and behavior
here decide our future destiny. IT. IT.
IT. hate that word IF" Noah Web
ster says it is conjunction; say 1t is
an armed giant. Satan bfeathed' upon
II % curse when he said to Christ: III
thou be the Son of God" What das
tardly and infamous ''if" Against that
giant IF" hurl Jobs II know
and Paurs 81 know" 81 know that
My redecmer liveth." II know in
whom have believed" Down with the
"if' and mp with the II know" o,
that giant Doubt is such a cruel giant.
1t attacks many in the last hour. II
could not let my mother alone even in
her dying moments. After q life OF
holiness and conservation such as
never heard OF In any one else. she
said to my father: Father, what it,
after all. our prayers and struggles
should go for nothing" Why could she
and bereavements Of long life and the
infr,nities of age. be allowed to &c
without such cruel stroke from
Doubt, the gia~s? Dcyou wonder I have
a grudge against the old monster? If
could would gre aim sbigger bounce
than Satan got when, hurled out Of
heaven. the first thing he struck wal
the bottom of perditlon.
Another impression from my subject
The march of the church cannot be i'm
peded by gigantic opposition. THAI
Israelitish host led on by Moses was
the church. and when Og, the giant
him of the iron bedstead, came ou
against him with another host-a fresh
host against one that seemed worn ou
things must have looked bad fol
Israel No account is given of the bed
stead of Moses, except that one in which
he first slept-the cradle of aquatic veg
citation on the Nile, where the wife o
Chenephres, the king, found the floating
babe and, having no child of her own
adopted him. Moses Of ordinary siz,
against Og of extraordinary dimen
sions Besides that Cg was backed
up by sixty fortified cities Moses wa
backed up seemingly by nothing but tn,
desert that had worn him and his army
into group of undisciplined and ex
hausted stragglers. But the Israelite
triumphed. If you spell the name O
Og backward. you turn it into the wor,
Go" and Og was turned backward ant
made to go. With Og's downfall al
the sixty cities surrendered. Nothin,
was left of the giant except his iron bed
stead, which was kept in museum a
Rabbath to show how tall and stou
he once was So shall the last giant o
opposition in the church's march sue
cumb Not sixty cities captured but al
the cities Not only on one side Of Jor
dan. but on both sides of all the rivers