Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-03-19


that there is goi il Israeli
Then David, with PROBABLY three swirls OF
the sling about his head got it into suffi eieat
momentum and let fly till the craniu OF
the giant broke in ami he fell and David
ieapei on his carcass one foot on his chest
ami the other on his heal. and that was the
last OF the Philistine But BE- sure YOU get
the right battle shout and thai You utter it
with the right spirit. or o. will roll over
you as easily as at night he rolled into his
iron bedstead.
Brethren, have made up my mind that
we will have to fight all the way up to the
Promised Land. 1 used to think that after
awhile would get into time where it
would be smooth and easy, but the time does
not come AMI it will never come in this
world. BY tae time King Og is used up so
that be cannot get into mis- iron bedstead,
some other giant of opposition looms W to
| dispute our WAYS. Let us stop looking for
an easy time and mako it thirty years
war, or a sixty years war, or hundred
years war, if we live so long.
Must be carried to the skies
On howery beds of ease,
While others fought to via the pr,zs
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 higa His beistead
is as long as the continent. His name is
! Doubt. His common food is infide 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 lnfidel than Christian. You will never
reach the Promised Land unless you slay
that giant. Kill DOUBT or Doubt will kill
/ you. How TO overcome this giants Pray
/ Tor faith, go with people who have faith,
read everything that encourages faith, avoid
/ as you would s,4.5 fever anG smallpox the
( people who lack faith.
In this battle gainst King o. use not for
/ weapons the crutch of limpin Christian or
the sharp pen OF a coatroversialist, but the
sword of truth which is the word of God
/ The word IF is made up of the same num-
/ her of letters as the word "Og,n and it is
! just as big giant. If the Bible De true
/ II the soul be immortal. IT Christ be God.
I Ii our belief and behavior here decide cur
future destiny If. IT, If. L hate that
word ST" Noah Webster says it is a CON
! junction; say it is an armsi giant. Satan
| breathed upon it a lrSe when he said to
/ Christ. IF Thou be the Son of Col. !"
| What dastarIly and infamous "If. ~
I Against that giant "It' hurl joss II
know" AMI PauPs 81 know II know that
my Redeemer iiveth" 81 know i'll whom I
have Believed Down with the nItu ami M
with II know"
/ Oh, that giant Doubt is such cruel
giantl 1t attacks many in the last hour.
1t would not let my mother alone even in
her dying moments. After life of ho!i-
/ ness and conservation such as | never heari
/ of in any one else, she said to my father,
/ Father, what if after all our prayers ami
struggles should go for nothing" Why
/ could she not, after all the trials and sick
nesses and bereavements of long life and
the infirmities of oil age, be allowed to go
without such cruel stroke from Doubt, the
] giants Do you wonder | have a grudge
/ against the old monster? If [ could l would
| give him a bigger bounce than Satan got
when, hurled out of heaven, the first thing
! he struck was the bottom of perdition.
( With Og's downfall all the sixty cities
surrendered. Nothing was left of the giant
except his iron badstead, which was kept in
a museum at Rabblth to snow how tall and
stout he once was. So shall the last giant
of opposition in the caurch's march sue
/ cumo. Not sixty cities captured, but all
the cities. Not only on one side of Jordan,
but on both sides of all the rivers THIS
day is coming. Hear it, all We who ara
doing something for the conquest of th9
world for God and the truth, the time viii
come when as there was nothing left OF o.
/ the giant, but the iron bedstead kept al
| Rabbath as a curiosity, Jherejtyill be noth
| ing left of the giants OF iniquity except
something for the relic hunters to examine
I
know not, but there will be museum some
where to hold the relics of what they one:
were. A ruste / sword will be hung up-tht
! only relic of the giant of War A deinijohr
/ the only relic of the giant of Inebriation
A roulette ball-the only relic of the giant Of
Hazard A pictured certificate OF watered
stocSs-the only relic OF tue giant of Stocs
Gambling. A broken knife-the only relic
! of the giant of Assassination. A yellow
I copy OF Tom Palmetto only relic of tn,
! giant of Unbeli9f. And that museum will
! do for the later ages of thu world what tin
iron bedstead at Rabbath did for the earle
! ages. Do You not see it makes all the differ
/ ence in the world whether We are fightin!
/ on toward miserable defeat or toward
! final victorv2
/ All the Bible promises prophesy the latter
AMI so cheer you who are the troops O.
God, and though many things are dark now
/ like Alexander review the army by torch
light, AMI give you the watchword whic:
/ Martin Luther proclaimed The Lord o
! Hostsw The Lori of Hostsl" and l or,
out exutingly with Oliver Cromwell at TIL
battle of Dunbar, Let God arise; let Hi
enemies be scattered" Make all the prep
arations for thu worlds evangelization
Have the faith OF Robert and Mary Motfatt
I the m;sSioners who after preaching il
Bechuanaand for ten years without on
/ convert when asked what they would like t
have sent them by the way of gift fror
England, said, ''Senda communion service
for it will be surely needed" and sur
| enough the expected iugathering OF man,
7 souls was realized and the communion ser
wee arrived in time to celebrate it. An
proprlaJely did that missionary write in al
album waen his autograph was requested:
Ny album is the savage breast,
where darkness reigns and tempests wrest,
Nlthous one ray of light.
TO write the name of Jesus thera
ANA point to worlds both bright and fair
And see tue savage bowed in prayer
Is ny supreme delight
Whatever your work and wherever Va,
"oTK Tor Go1-torward! You in your way
and | in my way. With holy pluex figbt IN
with something of the siren 9Th of T6omas
Iroubrldge, who at Inkermann had one Isy
shot off and the foot of the other leo an
when they proposed to carry him Off thu
( nell, replied: NO l do not move until the
battle is won" Whatever be the rockinr Of
the church or state, have thu calmnass of the
aged woman IN au earthquake that fright
ehed everybody else and who, when
asSet if she was not afraid, said
/ NO; | anu glat that have God
/ VINO can slaSe t19 world" VIII .Gnar y5ur
work be to teach a Sabbath class, or nurs
an invalid, or reform a wauderer, or print
tract or train a household or bear tn
/ queruiouSness of sanility or cheer the dis
heartened, or lead soul to Christ, know
that 10y fidelity you may help hasten tn
time when the world shall be showed unde
with white lily and incarpadined with re,
/ rose.
And now bargain with you that we viii
come BACK some day from our superstalel
aboie to see how the world looks yhen i
Shall be fully emparadisei--its last teai
wept, its last wound healed, its last shackl
broken. its last desert gardenizsd, its las
giant of iniquity decapitated' And whei
we land, may it be somewhere near the spo
of earth where we have together toiled an
struggled for the kingdom of God, and ma
it be about this hour in the high noon o
some glorious Sabbath, looking into the uo
turned faces OF some great auiience radiant
with holiness and tri= npE-
RAMS HORN WRINKLES.