The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-08-12
FRIDAY MORNING, AUG 10. 1892

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-
cause the day is ours. ! divide this
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,
and cold Siberia will be turned to the
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 to
meet it, and Spanish superstition shall
be overcome, and French infidelity shall
DO conquered, and over the Alps, with
more than Hannibals courage, shall
march that army with banners, and up
through the SHOWS of Russia, vaster In
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 will 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 that
the birds flying through the air dropped
as though they We're dead Oh, what d
shout of triumph when all the armies of
earth and all the armies of heaven shall
celebrate the victory of our king-all at
once and all together: "Halleluiah for
the Lord God omnipotent reigneth
Halleluiah! for the kingdoms of this
world have become the kingdoms of our
Lord Jesus Christ"
When the Prussian army came back
from their war they were received in
1866 at the gates of Berlin, and a choir
stood above the gates, and as the first
regiment advanced and came to the
gates the choir, in music, asked them
what right they had to enter there. And
then the first regiment, in song, replied,
telling over the stories of their conflicts
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and all the city was full Of gladness and
triumph. But oh! the greater joy when
the army with banners shall come up to
the gates of our kingl
1t will be choir to choir, music to
music, hosanna to hosanna, halleluiah
to halleluiah. Lift up your heads, We
everlasting gates, and let them come in.
Then will be spread the banquet of eter-
nal victory, and the unfallen ones of
heaven will sit at it, and all the ran
somed of earth will come in and cele-
brate the jubilee with unfading gar
lands on their brows telling of earthly
conquests.
All the walls of that celestial mansion
will be a-glitter with shields won in vic
tolious battle and adorned with the
banners of God that We're carried in
front of the host. Harp shall tell to
harp the heroism in which the conquer
ors won their palm, and the church that
day will sit queen at the banquet. Her
wanderings over, her victories gained,
Christ shall rise up to introduce her to
all the nations of heaven, and as she
pulls aside herveil and looks up into the
face of her Lord the king, Christ shall
exclaim, 'This is she that looketh forth
as the morning, fair as the moon, clear
as the sun and terrible as an army with |
banners!"