Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-08-08

ret, and all islands of the sea be crowned
with apocalyptic vision like Patmos, and
all cities be sacred as Jerusalem, and all
| gardens luxuriant as paradise, with God
walking in the cool of the day. Then the
chorals of grace will drown out all the an
thems of earth. Then the throne of Christ
will overtop all earthly authority. Then
the crown of Jesus will outfame all other
coronets. Sin destroyed. Death dead.
| He'll defeated The church triumphant.
All the harnesses of sin, all the dark
nesses of trouble, all the darknesses of
earthly mystery hieing themselves to their
dens. "Clear as the SUM Clear as the
| sunl'
Further, "Terribe as an army with ban
ners" l take one more step in this sub
ject and say that if you were placed for
the defense of a feeble town and great
army were 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 banners"
You know there is nothing that excites
a soldiers enthusiasm SO much as an old
flag. Many man almost dead, catching
a glimpse of the national ensign, 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 defeated institution, as the victim of
infidel sarcasm-something to be kicked
and cuffed and trampled on through all
the ages of the world. 1t is ian army
| with banners" 1t has an inscription and
colors such as never stirred the hearts of
any earthly soldierY.
| We have our banner of recruit, and on it
is inscribed, "Who is on the Lords sideP
Our banner of defiance, and on it is in
scribed, 'The gates of hell shall not pre-
vail against u.s." Our banner of triumph,
and on it is inscribed, Victory through
our Lord Jesus Christr' and we mean to
plant that banner on every hilltop and
wave it at the gate of heaven.
| CHRIST OUR LEADER.
With Christ to lead us we need not fear.
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
municipalities and powers and spiritual
wickedness in high places; but if God be
for us, who can be against us9 Come on,
We troops Of the Lord! Fall into linel
Close up the ranksi On, through burning
sands and over frozen mountain tops, until
the whole earth surrenders to God. He
made it, he redeemed 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
marching, 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 u.s. 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 because the day is
ours. divide this army with banners in
to two wings--the American wing and the
| European wing. The American wing will
| march on across the wilds of the west,
| over-the tablelands, 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 ban
ners, 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.
| SUPERSTITION AND INFIDELITY OVERCOME.
The European wing will march out to
meet it. and Spanish superstition shall be
| overcome and French lnfidellty shall be
conquered; and over the Alps, with more
than Hannibal's 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 Hungary and Poland, by
the blood of their patriots and by the blood
of Christ, shall at last be free. And cross
ing into Asia the law shall again be pro-
claimed on Sinai, and Christ in the person
of his ministers will again preach on
Olivet and pray in Gethsemane and ex-
hibft 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.
1t will be choir to choir, music to music,
hosanna to hosanna, halleluiah to hallelu
iah. Lift up your heads, ye 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 ransomed of earth will come in
and celebrate the jubilee with unfading
garlands on their brow telling of earthly
conquests.
All the walls of that celestial mansion
will be aglitter with shields won in vic
torious battle and adorned with the ban
ners Of God that were carried in front of the
host, harp shall tell to harp the heroism in
which the conquerors won their palm, and
the church that day will sit queen at the
banquet. Her wanderings over, her vic
tories gained, Christ shall rise up to intro
duce 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 is she that looketl
forth as the morning, fair as the moon
clear as the sun and terrible as an army
with bannersp
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