Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-08

fense OF feeble town, and a 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 ban
ners.n
You know there ia nothing that excites a
soldiers enthusiasm 30 much as an old nag.
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 cuned and
trampled on through ali the ages OF the
world. 1t is ian army with banners lt
stirred the hearts of any earthly soldiery.
We have our banner of recruit, and on 1t Is
inscribed, "Who is on the Lords slider"
Our banner of defiance, and ON It Is In;
scribed, "The gates of hell shall not prevail
against u.s." Our banner of triumph, and on
It is inscribed, "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 we need not fear.
/ will not underrate the enemy. They are
tremendous host; They com come =, on al, VIII 1ba
Inhabitants of darkness have been forged in
furnaces of everlasting fire. We contend
not with flesh and blood, but with princi-
palities and powers and spiritual wicked
ness in high places; but If God be for us who
can be against us? Come on, ye troops OF
the Lord! Fall into line! Close up the
ranks! On, through burning sands and over
frozen mountain tops, until the whole earth
surrenders to God.
An Army Composed of Two Wings
With Christ to lead u.s. 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 into two
wings-the American wing and the Euro
pean wing. The American wing Will march
on across the wilds of the West, over the
tableiands, and come to the ocean, no more
stopped by the Pacific than the 1sraelftes
were stopped by the Red Sea, marching on
until the remaining walls of China will fail
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 ont to
meet it, and Spanish superstition shall be
overcome, and French infldelity shall be
conquered: and over the Alps with more
than Hannibal's courage, shall march that
army with banners, and up through the
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 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 GOO.
History tells us that one day the armies of
Nerxes shouted all at once, and the vocifera-
ton was so mighty that the birds flying
through the air dropped as though they
were dead.
The Coming Victory of the King.
Oh, what 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: "Hallelujah! for
the Lord God omnipotent reigneth. Hal
lelujahI for the Kingdoms of this world
have become the kingdoms of our LORD
Jesus Christ"
1t will be choir to choir, music to music,
hosanna to hosanna, hallelujah to hallelu-
jah. 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 1t, and
celebrate the Jubilee, with uniading gar
lands on their brow telling of earthly con-
quests. All the walls OF that celestial man
sion will be aglitter with shields won in |
victorious battle, and adorned with the BAN |
ners of God that were carried in front of the |
host. Harp shall tell to harp the heruism 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 |
IS she pulls aside her veil and looks up into |
The face of her Lord the King, Christ shall |
e1claim: "This is she that looketh forth as |
the morning, fair rs the moon, clear as the |
sun, and terrible as an army with banners"