The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-08-24

erdinpleu on through all the ages OF Inc
world. 1t is IAN army with banners"
1t has an inscription and color such as
never stirred the hearts of any earthly
soldiery. We have our banner of re-
] on the Lords side?" Our banner of de-
fiance, and on it is inscribed: "The
gates of hell shall not prevail against
us. Our banner of triumph, and on ii
inscribed: Victory through our Lord
Jesus Christi" and we mean to plant
that banner on every hilltop and wave
1t at the gate OF Heaven.
With Christ to lead us we need not
fear. will not underrate the enemy.
They are a tremendous host. They
come on with acutest strategy. Their
weapons by all the inhabitants of dark
ness have been forged in furnaces Of
everlasting fire We contend not with
flesh and blood, but with principalities
and powers and spiritual wickedness in
high places; but if God be for u.s. who
can be against us? Come on, We troops
of the Lord! Fall into line! Close up
the ranks! On through burning sands
and over frozen mountain tops, until
the whole earth surrenders to God. He
made it; He redeemed it; He shall have
it. They shall not be trampled with
hoofs they shall not be cut with sa-
bers, they shall not be crushed with
wheels, they shall not be cloven with
battle axes, but the marching and the
onset and the victory will be none the
less decisive for that.
With Christ to lead us, and Heaven
to look down upon us, and angels to
guard us, and martyr spirits to bend
from their thrones, and the voice OF
God to bid us forward into the combat,
our enemies shall fly like chaff in the
whirlwind, and all the towers of
Heaven ring because the day is ours. I
divide this army with banners into two
wings-the American wing and the Eu-
ropean wing. The American wing will
march on across the wilds of the west,
over the tablelands, and come to the
ocean, no more stopped by the Pacific
than the Israelites were stopped by the
Red sea, marching on until the remain
ing walls of China will fall before this
army with banners, and cold Siberia
will be turned to the warm heart OF
Christ, and over lofty Himalayan peaks
shall go this army with banners until
it halts at Palestine.
The European wing will march out
to meet it, and Spanish superstition
shall be over come, and French inidelity
shall be conquered; and over the Alps,
with more than Hannibals courage,
shall march that army with banners,
and up through the SHOWS of Russia,
vaster in multitude than the hosts that
followed Napoleon into the conflict,
and Hungary and Poland, by the blood
of their patriots and by the blood of
Christ shall at last be free. And cross
ing into Asia, the law shall again be
proclaimed on Sinai, and Christ in the
person of His ministers, will again
preach on Olivet, and pray in Gethse-
name, and exhibit his 10 We on Calvary,
and then the army will halt in front Of
the other wing, the twain having con.
quered all the earth for God.
History tells us that one day the
armies of Xerxes shouted all at once,
and the vociferation was so mighty that
the birds flying through the air dropped
as though they were dead. o, what a
shout of triumph when all the armies
of earth and all the armies of Heaven
shall celebrate the victory of our King
all at once and all together: Halle
lujah! for the Lord God omnipotent
reigneth. Hallelujah! for the Kingdoms
of this world have become the Kingdoms
of our Lord Jesus Christ"
When the Prussian army came back
from their war they were received in
1866 at the gates of Berlin, and choir
stood above the gates and as the first
regiment advanced and came to the
gates, the choir, in music, asked them
what right they had to enter there.
And then the first regiment, in song,
replied, telling over the stories of their
conflicts and their victo ries. Then they
marched in, and all the city was full of
gladness and triumph. But oh, the
greater joy when the army with ban
ners shall come up to the gates of our
| King!
1t will be choir to choir, music to
music. hosanra to hosan ma, hallelujah
to hallelujah. Lift up your heads, We
everlasting gates, and let them come in.
Then will be spread the banquet of
eternal victory, and the un fallen ones
of Heaven will sit at it, and all the ram
somed of earth will come in and cele-
brate the jubilee, with unfading gar
lands on their brow tell ng of earthly
conquests. All the walls of that celes-
! tial mansion will be aglitter with
shields won in victorious battle, and
adorned with the banne RS of God
that were carried in front of
the host Harp shall tell to harp the
heroism in which the conquerors won
their palm, and the church that day
will sit queen at the banquet. Her
wanderings over, her victory gained,
Christ shall rise up to introduce her to
all the nations of III eaven; and as she
pulls aside her veil and looks up into
the face of the Lord, the King, Christ
shall exclaim, "this is she that looketh
forth as the morning, fair as the moon,
clear as the sun an terrible as an army
with banners"
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