The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1892-03-23

Oh, that giant Doubt is such a cruel
giant 1t attacks many In the last hour.
1t could not let my mother alone even in
her dying moments. After a life OF Holt
ness and conservation such as never heard
of in any one else, she said to my father,
"Father, what II. after all, our prayers
and struggles should go for nothing"
Why could she not, after all the trials and
siclnesses and bereayements of a long life
and the infirmities of old age, be allowed
10 go without such a cruel stroke from
Doubt, the giant? Do you wonder / have
grudge against the old monsterp Ii
could would give him a bigger bounce
than Satan got when, hurled ont Of
heaven, the first thing he struck was the
bottom of perdition.
TIE CHURCH MUST PREVAIL
Another impression from my subject:
The march OF the church cannot be inn
peded by gigantic opposition. That Israel
itish host led on by Moses was the church,
and when Og, the giant (him of the iron
bedsteadD, came out against him with an
other host-a fresh host against one that
seemed worn out-things must have looked
bSd for Israel No account is given of the
bedsteGd of Moses, except that one in
which he first slept-the cradle OF aquatic
vegetation on the Nile where the wife Of
Chelephres, the king, found the floating
babe and, having no child of her own,
adopted him. Moses of ordinary size
against Og of extraordinary dimensions.
Besides that Og was backed up by sixty
fortified cities. Moses was backed up
seemingly by nothing but the desert that
had worn him and his army into n group
Of undisciplined and exhausted stragglers.
But the Israelites triumphed If you spell
the name of Og backward you turn it into
the word Go" and Og was turned back
ward and made To 90.
With Og's downfall all the sixty cities
surrendered Nothing was left of the giant
except his iron bedstead which was Kept
in "A museum at Rabbath TO show how tall,
and stout he once was. So shall the last
giant of opposition in the church's march
succumb Not sixty cities captured, but
all the cities. Not only on one side of Jor-
dan. bat on both sides of all the rivers.
The day is coming. Hear it, all ye who
nre doing something for the conquest Of
the world for God and the truth, the time
viii come when, as there was nothing left
of Og, the giant, but the iron bedstead
kept at Rabbath as n curiosity. there will
be nothing left of the giants Of iniquity ex-
cept something for the relic hunters TO ex-
anime.
Which of the giants Will be the last slain
know not, but there will be museum
somewhere to hold the relics of what they
once were. A rusted sword will be hung
up-the only relic of the giant of War. A
demiiohn-the only relic Of the giant of In
ebriation. 4 roulette ball-the only relic
Of the giant OF Hazard. \ pictured certif-
cate of watered stock-the only relic of the
giant of stool. Gambling A broken knife
the only relic of the giant of Assassina-
ton. \ yellow copy of Tom Paine-the
- 4.
that museum viii do for the later ages of
the world what the iron bedstead at Rab-
bath did for the earlier ages. Do you not
see it makes all the difference in the world
whether we are fighting on toward a mis-
cradle defeat or toward a final victory?
All the Bible promises prophesy the lat
ter. and SO I cheer YOU who are the troops
of God. and though many things are dark
now like Alexander ] review the army by
torchlight, and l give you the watchword
which Martin Luther proclaimed, The
Lord Of Hostsw The Lord of Hosts"
and I cry out exultingly with Oliver
Cromwell at the battle of Dunbar, let
God arise; let his enemies be scattered"
Make all the preparations for the worlds
eyangelization Have the faith of Robert
and Mary Notfatt, the missionaries, who
after preaching in Bechuanaland for ten
what they would like 10 have sent them by
way OF gift from England. said, "Send a
communion service, for it win he surely
needed and sure enough the expected in
gathering of many souls was realized and
the communion service arrived i'm time to
celebrate it. Appropriately did that mis-
sionary write in an album when his auto
graph was requested:
Ny album is the savage breast,
Where darkness reigns and tempests wrest,
Without one ray OF light.
To write the name OF Jesus there
And point TO worlds both bright and fair
And see the savage bowed in prayer,
Is my supreme delight.
co FoI:YARpi
Whatever your work and wherever you
work for God-forward! You in your way
and l in my way. With holy pluck fight
On with something of the strength of
Thomas Troubridge who at Inkermann
had one leg shot of and the foot of the
other leg, and when they proposed to carry
! him off the field, replied NO. | do not
move until the battle is won" Whatever
be the rocking OF the church or state, have
the calmness of the aged woman in an
earthquake that frightened everybody else,
/ and who when asked if she was not afraid,
said, No; l am glad that I have a God
who can shake the world" Whether your
/ work be to teach a Sabbath class, or nurse
an invalid, or reform u wanderer, or print
a tract or train household or bear the
! querulousness Of senility, or cheer the dis
/ heartened, or lead a soul to Christ, know
that by fidelity YOU may help hasten the
/ time when the world shall be showed un-
der with white lily and incarnadined with
red rose.
And now ] bargain with you that we
/ viii come back some day from our super
stellar abode 10 See how the world looks
4 when it shall be fully emparadised-its
/ last tear wep5, its last wound healed, its
/ last shackle broken. its last desert garden
/ lied, its last giant of iniquity decapitated.
/ And when we land, may it be somewhere
/ near this spot of earth where we have to-
! gcther toiled and struggled for the king
| dom of God, and may it be about this hour
/ in the high noon of some glorious Sabbath,
/ looking into the upturned faces of some
great audience radiant with holiness and
triumph.
| Cats in Egypt.
The first people known to have domesti-
Gated cats were the ancient Egyptians, on
whose monuments representations of these
animals are found as early as 1000 Il. @. 1t
is on tomb erected about 1900 B. G. that
| puss first appears Enthusiastically as a do
| mesticated creature, being shown seated
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