Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-08-11
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-'Clear as the sum-" After a season
of storm or fog, how you are thrilled
| when the sun comes out at MONDAY!
The mists travel up hill above hill,
mountain above mountain, until they
are sky lost. The forests are full
| of chirp and buzz and song;
honey-makers ON the log, birds
beak pounding the bark, the chatter Of
the squirrel on the rail, the call of a
| hawk out of the clear sky, make you
| thankful for the sunshine which makes
all the world SO busy and SO glad. The
same sun which in the morning kindled
confiagrations among the castles Of
clouds, stoops down TO paint the lily
white, and the buttercup yellow, and
the forget-men blue.
| What can resist the sun? Light for
voyager on the deep: light for shep-
herds guarding the focks atield; light
| for the poor who have no lamps to burn;
| light for the downcast and the weary;
light for aching eyes and burning
brain and consuming captive; light for
! the smooth brow of childhood and the
dim vision of the octogenarian; light
| for queens coronet and sewing girls
needle. ''Let there be light
Now, says my text, "Who is she that
| looketh forth clear as the sun?' Our
answer is, the church. You have been
going along road before daybreak,
and ON one side you thought you saw a
| lion, and on the other side you thought
| you saw a goblin of the darkness, but
when the sun came out you found these
were harmless apparitions. And it is
the great mission of the church
of Jesus Christ to come forth
''clear as the sun" to illumine
all earthly darkness, to explain, as
far as possible, all mystery, and to
| make the world radiant in its bright
ness; and that which you thought was
an aroused lion is found out to be a
| slumbering lamb; and the sepulchral
gates of your dead turn out to be the
opening gates of heaven! and that
which you supposed was n flaming
sword to keep you out of paradise is
an angel of light to beckon you in.
Further, Terrible as an army with
banners" take one more step in this
| subject and say that if you were placed
| for the defense of a feeble town. and a
great army We're seen coming over the
hills with flying ensignS, then you
would be able to 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 army with ban
| ners.'
You know there is nothing that eX-
cites soldiers enthusiasm SO much as
an old flag. Many q man almost dead,
catching a glimpse of the national en-
| sign, has sprung to his feet, and started
! again into the battle. Now, my friends.
| don't want you to think of the church
| of Jesus Christ as a defeated institution,
| as the victim of infidel sarcasm, some
thing to be kicked and cuffed and
| the world 1t is IAN army
with banners" It has an in.
| scription and colors such AS never
stirred the hearts of any earthly sol.
! diery. We have our banner of recruit,
and on 1t is inscribed, "Who is on the
| Lords sideY' Our banner of defiance,
and ON it is inscribed, "The gates OF
hell shall not prevail against us. Out
banner of triumph, and ON it is in'
scribed "Victory 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; and heaven
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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 because the day is
ours. l 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 Israel.
ties were stopped 10y the Red Sea,
| marching on Until tile 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
History tells us that one day the ar,
mics of Nerxes shouted all at once, and
the vociferation was so mighty that
the birds flying through the air dropped
as though they were dead Oh. what
| Il shout of triumph when all the ar
mics of earth and all the armies of
heaven shall celebrate the victory of
our King-all at once and all together;
''ilallelujah! for the Lord God omnipo-
tent reigneth. llallelujah. for the
kindoms of this world have become the
Kingdoms of our Lord Jesus Christ"
1t will be choir to choir, music to
music, hosanna to hosanna, hallelujuh
to hallelujah. Lift up your heads, We
! everlasting gates and let them come in.
Then will be spread the banquet of
eternal 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 brow telling of earthly
| conquests All the walls of the celes.
ial mansion will be aglitter with
shilds won in victorious battle, and
| adorned with the banners of
God that were carried in
| front of the host. Harp shall tell to
harp the heroism in which the con-
( querors 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 her veil
and looks up into the face of her Lord,
the King, Christ shall exclaim, This
1 is She that looketh forth as the morn.
! ing, fair as the moon clear as the sun,
and terrible as an army with ban
ners."
An Indian Belle.
! Tuesday the Indian woman Nellie