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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.
we will have to fight all the way up to the
Promised Land. used to think that after
awhile would get into a time where 1t
would be smooth and easy, but the time does
not come and 1t will never come In this
world. BY the time King Og is used up so
that he cannot get into his iron bedstead,
some other giant Of opposition looms up to
dispute our ways. Let us stop looking for
an easy time and make it thirty years
war, or a sixty years war, or hundred
years war, If we live long.
Must be carried to the skies
On fowery beds Of ease,
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 inddel 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 Christian. You will never
reach the Promised Land unless you slay
that giant. XIII Doubt or Doubt will kill
you. How to overcome this giantf Pray
for faith, go with 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 imping Christian or
the sharp pen Of controversialist but the
sword Of truth, which Is tho word Of God.
The word ''If' is made up Of the same num-
Der of letters as the word 'Og" and 1t is
Just as big q giant. II the Bible bs true.
il the soul be immortal. II Christ be God.
II our belief and behavior here decide our
future destiny. II. IT. II. I hate that
word 'If." Noah Webster says 1t is con-
junction; say it Is an armed giant Satan
breathed upon it a curse when he said to
What q dastarily and infamous "f."
know" and PauFs "l know" II know that
my Redeemer Iivsth." "I know in whom
have believed Down with the "If' and up
with II know"
Oh, that giant Doubt is such a cruel
giantl It attacks many in the last hour.
It would not let my mother alone even in
her dying moments. After q life Of hoi.
ness and conservation such as never heard
Of in any one else she said to my father,
FEATHER, what IL after all our prayers and
struggles should 20 for nothing" Why
could she not after all the trials and sick
nesses and bereavements Of long life and
without such cruel stroke from Doubt the
giante Do you wonder have a grudge
against the old monsteri IF could would
give him bigger bounce than Satan got
when, hurled out Of heaven, the first thing
he struck was the bottom Of perdition.
With Ogs downfall all the sixty cities
surrendered. Nothing was left OF the giant
except his iron bedstesd, which was kept in
a museum at Rabbath to show how tall and
stout he once was. So shall the last giant
of opposition in the churchs march sue
cumb.. Not sixty cities captured, but all
the cities. Not only on one side Of Jordan,
but on both sides Of all the rivers. The
day Is coming. Hear it all ye who are
doing something for the conquest of the
world for God and the truth, the time will
come when, as there was nothing left Of Og.
the giant but the iron bedstead kept at
Rabbath as curiosity, there will be moth
ing left of the giants Of iniquity except
something for the relic hunters to examine.
Which Of the giants will be the last slain I
know not but there will be a museum some
where to hold the relics Of what they once
were. A rusted sword will be hung up-ths
the only relic Of the giant Of lnebriaion.
A roulette ball-the only relic OF the giant Of
Hazard. A pictured certificate Of watered
stocks-the only relic Of the giant Of Stock
Gambling. A broken knife-the only relic
Of the giant of Assassination. A yellow
copy Of Tom Paine-the only relic Of the
giant of Unbelief. And that museum will
do for the later ages of the world what the
iron bedstead at Rabbath did for the earlier
ages. Do you not see it makes all the differ
ence In the world whether we are fighting
on toward miserable defeat or toward q
final victory?
All the Bible promises prophesy the latter,
and so I cheer you who are the troops Of
God, and though many things are dark now,
like Alexander Ireview the army by torch
light, and I give you the watchword which
Martin Luther proclaimed, THE Lord OF
HostsF' "rhe Lord of Hostsp and cry
out exultingly with Oliver Cromwell at the
battle of Dunbar, "Let God arise: let His
enemies be scattered" Make all the prep
arations for the worlds evangelization.
Have the faith OF Robert and Mary Mofatt,
the missioners who after preaching in
Bechuanaland for ten years without one
convert when asked what they would like to
have sent them by the way OF gift from
England. said, "Senda communion service
for it will be surely needed" and sure
enough the expected iugathering Of many
souls was realized and the communion SER
vice arrived in time to celebrate it. Ap-
propriately did that missionary write in an
album when his autograph was requested:
Ny album is the savage breast.
Who're darkness reigns and tempests wresh
Without one ray of light
To write the name or Jesus there
And point TO worlds both bright and fair,
And see the savage bowed in prayer,
Is my supreme delight
Whatever your work aud wherever you
work for God-forward! You in your way
and in my way. With holy PLUCK fight on
with something OF the sire ngth Of Thomas
Troubridge, who at Inkermaun had one leg
shot of and the foot Of the other leg. AMI
when they proposed to carry him of the
field, replied: mo. do not move until the
battle is won" Whatever be the rocking Of
the church or state, have ths calmness of the
aged woman in an earthquake that fright
ened everybody else, and who, when
asked If she was not afraid, said,
mo: I am glad that I have q God
who can shake the world" Whether your
work be to teach Sabbath class, or nurse
an invalid, or reform a wanderer, or print a
tract or train household, or bear the
querulousness Of senility, or cheer the dis
heartened, or lead 6. soul to Christ, know
that by fidelity you may help hasten the
time when the world shall be showed under
with white lily and incarnadined with red
rose.
And now bargain with you that we will
come back some day from our supersteller
abode to see how the world looks when IL
shall be fully emparadised--its last tear
wept its last wound healed, its last shackle
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