Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1892-08-08

hills with flying enslSEs, then you would /
be able 10 get some idea Of the terror
that will strike the hearts Of the enemies
of God when the church at last marches /
on like ian array with banners
You know there is nothing that ex-
cites a soldiers enthusiasm so much as
an old flag. Many man almost dead,
catching a glimpse CT the national en-
sign, has sprung 0 his feet and started
again into the battle. Now. my friends,
don't want you t. think Of the church
CT Jc-.1s Christ as & defeated institu-
ton. is tho victim OF iafdel sarcasm
some hing to be lzic.:ed and cuffed and
tralI1DIe;i on throU n all the ages Of the
world. e is IAN army with banners.
It has an inscription and colors such as
never stirred tie hearts of an earthly
soldiery.
We have our banner of recruit, and
on it is i-2acri5ed s.Who is on the Lords
side:'' Our banner Of defiance, and on
it is inscribed, The gates Of hell shall
not prevail against U.s." Our banner of
triumph, and on it is inscribed, Vic
tory through our Lord Jesus Christi
and we mean to plant that banner on
every hilltop and wave it at the gate Of
heaven.
With Christ to lead us we need not
fear. I will not underrate the enemy.
They are a tremendous host. They come
on with acutest strategy. Their weapons
by all the inhabitants of darkness 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 us 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
s11rrenders to God! He made it; he re-
deemed it; he shall have it. They shall
not be trampled with hoofs, they shall
not be cut with sabers, they shall not be
crushed with wheels, they shall not be
cloven with battle axes, but the march
ing, 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 be-
CGuSC UlIC Octy 10 OltIo' Ni4f1NtN cA1-S
army with banners into two wings-the
American wing and the European wing.
The American wing will march on across
the wilds OF the west, over the table
lands, and come to the ocean, no more
stopped by the Pacific than the Israelites
were stopped by the Red sea, marching
on until the remaining walls of China
will fall before this army with banners,
i l. 10 10
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 10
meet it, and Spanish superstition shall
be overcome, and French infdelity shall
be conquered, and over the Alps, with
more than HannibaFs courage. shall
march that army with banners, and up
through the SHOWS of Russia, vaster II
multitude than the hosts that followed
Napoleon into the conflict. And Hun
gary and Poland, by the blood of their
patriots and by the blood of Christ,
shall at last be free. And crossing into
Asia the law shall again be proclaimed
on Sinai, and Christ in the person of his
ministers viii again preach on Olivet
and pray in Gethsemane and exhibit
his love on Calvary. And then the
army will halt in front Of the other
, wing, the twain having conquered all
the earth for God.
SHOUT OF TRIUMPH.
History tells us that one day the
armies OF Xerxes shouted all at once.
and the vociferation was SO mighty tia
the birds flying through the air dropped
! as though they were dead. Oh, what a
shout of triumph when all the armies OF
, earth and all the armies Of heaven shall
celebrate the victory Of our king-aH at
once and all together: ''Halleluiah! fol
, the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.
Halleluiah! for the kingdoms of this
J. world have become the kingdoms of ou1
Lord Jesus Christ
! When the Prussian army came back
from their war they were received IL
1866 at the gates of Berlin, and a choil
, stood above the gates, and as the first
I regiment advanced and came to the
q gates the choir, ia music, asked them
, what right they had to enter there. Ano
q then the first regiment, III song, replied
e telling over the stories of their conflicts
and: victories Then they marched in
:. and all the city was full of gladness an6
p triumph But oh! the greater joy wher
: the army with banners shall come up tC
. tlfe gates of our king!
a It will be choir to choir, music tx
: music, hosanna to hosanna, halleluial
to halleluiah. Lift up your heads, "
q everlasting gates, and let them come in
f Then will be spread the banquet of eter
q nal victory, and the unfallen ones o.
! heaven will sit at it, and all the ran
a somedsof earth will come in and cele
o. brate the jubilee with unfading gar
lands on their brows telling of earthl,
= .conquests.
All the walls Of that celestial mansion
= will be a-glitter with shields won in vic