The morning news., 1892-03-14

and sicknesses aud bereavements Of long
/ life and the infirmities OF old age. be al
lowed to 60 without such a cruel stroke
/ from Doubt, the giants Do you wonder
/ have a grudge against the old monsterl II
/ / could would give him a bigger bounce
than Satan got when hurled out OF heaven
the first thing he struck was the bottom Of
| perdition.
Another impression from my subject:
/ The march OF the church cannot Be i'm
/ peded by gigantic opposition. That Israelit-
ish host led on by Moses was the church.
and when Og. the giant. him Of the iron bed
stead, came out against him with another
hoSt-a fresh host against one that seemed
worn out-things must have looked 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 ths:wifeof Chensphres, the
king. found the floating babe, and having
no child OF her own, adopted him. Moses
OF binary size against Og Of extraordinary
dimensions Besides that, Og was backed
up by sixty fortified cities Moses was
backed up seemingly by nothing but the
desert that had worn him aud his army
into group OF undisciplined aud sx-
hausted straRglers. But the Israeiites tri-
umphed. IL you spell the name Of Og back
ward, you turs it into the word "go," and
Og was turned back ward and made to go.
rendered. Nothing was left Of the giant
except his iron bedstead, which was kept In
museum at Rabbath to show how tall and
stout he once vas. So shall the last giant
OF opposition in the church's 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 ell 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 Rab.
bath as a curiosity, there will be nothing
left of the giants of iniquity
except something for the relic hunters to
examine. Which Of the giant will be the
last slain know not, but there will bs
museum somewhere to hold the relics Of
what they once were. A rusted sword will
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 pict-
Ured certificate of wetered stock-the only
relic OF the giant of stock gambling
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 bedsteed 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 a miser-
able defeat or toward final
prophesy the latter and so
cheer you who are the troops Of God, and
though many things are dark now, like
Alexander, review the army by torch
light, and give you the watchword which
Martin Luther proclaimed "The Lord of
Hosts" THE Lord of Hosts!n and cry
out exultingly, with Oliver Cromwell at the
haffIa nf nnnhar. "a a. - II
enemies be scattered" Make all the
preparations for the worlds evangelization.
Have the faith Of Robert and Mary Moffatb,
the missionaries. who, after preaching In
Bechuaualand for ten years without one
convert, were asked what they would like
TO have sent them by way of gift from
England, said: Send a communion servY
ice for 1t will be surely needed" and sure
enough the expected lngathering of many
souls was realized and the communion
service arrived In time to celebrate IL.
Appropriately did that missionary write
In an album when his autograph was re-
quested:
My album IS the savage breast
Where darkness relgns and tempests wrest,
Without one ray of light.
To write the name OF Jesus there,
And point to worlds both bright and fair,
And see the savage bowed in prayer,
Is my supreme delight.
Whatever your work and wherever Won
work for God-forwardl You in your
way and in my way. With holy pluck
fight on with something OF the strength Of
Thomas Troubridge, who at Inkermsn
had one leg shot off. and the foot of the
other leg, an when they proposed to
carry him of the field, replied: ''No, /
do not move until the battle is won.n
Whatever be the rocking of the church or
state, have the calmness of the aged woman
in an earthquake that frightened every-
body else, and who, when asked If she
was not afraid, sid: mo, | am glad
that have a God who can shake the
world" Whether your work be to teach
Sabbath class, or nurse an invalid, or re-
form wanderer, or pri1t a tract, or train
a household, or bear the querulousness of
senilitY. or 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 and
incarnadined with red rose And, now. |
bargain with you that we will come back
some day from our superstellar abode 60 see
how the world looks when it shall be fully
emparadised-its last tear wept, its last
wound healed, its last shackle broken, its
last desert garde lIzed, its last giant of
iniquity decapita ed. And when we land
may 1t be somewhere near his spot OF earth
where we have together toiled and strug.
gled for the kingdom Of God, and m y it be
about this hour in the high noon of some
glorious Sabbath, looking into the upturned
faces OF some great audience radiant with
holiness and triumph.