Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-17

bad for Israel No account is given Of the
bedstead Of Moses, except that one in
| which he first slept-the cradle of aquatic
| vegetation on the Nile, where the wife of
| Chenephres, the king, found the floating
| babe and, having no child OF her own,
adopted him. Moses OF ordinary size
against Og OF extraordinary dimensions.
| fortified cities. Moses was backed up
| seemingly by nothing but the desert that
/, had worn him and his army into Z group Of
! undisciplined and exhausted Stragglers
But the Israelites triumphed
If you spell the name of Og backward,
| you turn it into the word $50, - and o.
| was turned backward and made to go
With Og's downfall all the sixty cities sur
rendered. Nothing was left of the giant
| except his iron bedstead, which was kept
in museum at Rabbath to show how tail
and stout he once was. So shall the last
giant of opposition in the church's march
succumb. Not sixty cities captured, but
all the cities. Not only on one side of Jor-
dan, but on both sides of all the rivers The
day is coming Hear it, all We who are do
ing something for the conquest of the
world, for God and the truth, the time will
come when, as there was nothing left OF
Or, the giant but the iron bedstead kept at
Rabbath as curiosity, there will be moth
ing left OF the giants OF iuiquity except
something for the relic-hunters to examine
Which Of the giants will be the last slain
know not, but there will be museum
somewhere to hold the relics of what they
once were. A rusted sword viii be hung
up-the only relic Of the giant of War A
demijohn-the only relic of the giant of
Inebriation. A roulette ball-the only relic
of the giant OF Hazard. A pictured certifi-
cate Of watered stock-the only relic OF the
giant Of Stock Gambling. a broken knife
tho only relic Of the giant of Assassina-
ton. A yellow copy Of Tom Paine--the
only relic of the giant of Unbelief. And
that museum will do for the latter ages OF
the world what the iron bedstead at Rab-
bath did for the earlier ages. Do you not
see it makes all the difference in the world
whether we are fighting on toward miser-
able defeat or toward final victory?
All the Bible promises prophesy the
latter, and SO 1 cheer you who are the
troops of God, and though many things are
dark now, Ike Alexander, l review the
arm.y by torchlight, and ! give you the
watchword which Martin Luther pro-
claimed: ''The Lord of hosts ~ 1.-THE
Lord of hosttr" and I cry out exultingly
with Oliver Cromwell at the battle of Dun
bar: ''Let God arise; let his enemies be
scattered" Make all the preparations for
the worlds evangelization. Have the faith
of Robert and Mary Moffntt. the mission
aries, who, after preaching in Bechuana-
land for ten years without one convert,
were asked what they would like to have
sent them by way of gift from England,
said: ''Send communion service, for it
will be surely needed and sure enough
the expected in-gathering of many souls
was realized and the communion service
arrived in time to celebrate it. Appropri-
ately did that missionary write in an album
when his autograph was requested:
My album is the savage breast,
Where darkness reigns and tempests wrest
Without one ray Of light,
To write the name Of Jesus there
-eAnd point TO worlds both bright and fair,
And see the savage bowed in prayer,
Is my supreme delight,
work for God-forwardl You in your way |
and l in my way. With holy pluck fight on |
with something of the strength of Thomas |
who at fisherman had one leg |
shot off and the foot of the other leg, and |
when they proposed to carry him off the |
field replied: mo. I do not move until |
the battle is wonn Whatever be the rock |
ing Eof the church OF state, have the calm |
ness of the aged woman in an earthquake
that frightened everybody else, who, when
asked If she was not afraid. said: mo, 1 |
am glad have got God who can shake
the world"
Whether your work be to teach Sab
bath class, or nurse an invalid, or reform q
vanderer. or print q tract, or train house,
lold, or bear the querulousness of senility,
)r cheer the disheartened or lead soul to
Christ, know that by fidelity you may help
hasten the time when the world shall be
showed under with white lily aud incar-
ladined with red rose. And, now, 1 bar
gain with you that we win come back some
lay from our superstellar abode to see how
he world looks when it shall be fully en-
Iaradised-its last tear wept,its last wound
lealed, its last shackle broken, its last
lesert gardenized. its last giant of iniquity
And when we d. may it be
near this spot of earth where
We have together toiled and struggled for
he kingdom of God, and may it be about
his hour in the high noon of some glorious
Sabbath, looking into the upturned faces of
ONE great audience radiant with holiness
md triumph.