Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1892-08-25

not be cloven with battle axes, but the
marching. and the onset, and the victory
viii be none the less decisive for that.
With Christ TO lead us, and heaven TO
look down upon us, 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 hats at Palestine.
SUPERSTITION AND lNFIDELITY OVERCOME.
The European wing will march out to
meet it, and Spanish superstition shall be
overcome and French infdelity 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
hibit bis love on Calvary. And then the
army will halt in front of the other wing,
the twain having conquered all the earth
for God.
History tells us that one day the armies
of Xerxes shouted all at once, and the Yo-
alteration was so mighty that the birds
flying through the air dropped as though
they were dead Oh, what a shout of tri-
umph when all the armies of the earth and
all the armies of heaven shall celebrate
the victory Of our king-all at once and
all together: "Halleluiahl for the Lord
God omnipitent 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 regi-
ment, in song, replied, telling over the
stories Of their conflicts and their victories.
Then they marchedin, and all the city WIS
full of gladness and triumph. But Oh.
the greater JOY when the army with BAL
ners shall come up to the gates of our
kingl
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 exelaim, This is she that looketh
forth as the morning, fair as the moon.
clear as the sun and terrible as an army
with bannersl"