The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1892-03-16

and heylet ly till the
Uranium Of the CANT broke in, and ne
fell, aad Dav,l leloed on his carcass,
one foot on hiSchest and the other on
his head, an that was the last OF the
Philistinc. Bat, be sure you get the
right battle shout, aud that you utter |
it with the right spirit, or og will roll
over you as easily as at night he rolled |
into his iron bedstead. Pf8
Brethren, have made up my mind
that we will have to tight all the way
up to the Promised Land. l used to
think after while would get into
time where it would be smooth and
easy but the time does not come, and
1t will never come in this world BY the
time King Og is used up SO that he can
not get into his iron bedstead, some
other giant OF opposition looms up to
dispute our way. Let us stop looking
for an easy time. and make it thirty
years war, or a sixty years war, or
hundred years war, il we live so long.
Must be cGrr!cd to :hc skies
On fiowery beds OF case,
While others fought 10 win the prize
And sai,ed tl-ou9h bloody seas.
Do you know the name of the biggest
giant that you can possibly meet-and
you. will meet him? He is not eleven
feet high but one hundred feet high.
His bedstead is as long as the continent,
his name is Doubt. His common food is
infidel books aud slteptical lectures,
and ministers who do not know whether
the Bible is inspired at all or inspired
in spots, and Christians who are more
infidel than Christians, You will never
reach the promised land unless you slay
that giant. Kill doubt or doubt will
kill you. How to overcome this giant?
Pray for faith, go with the people
who have faith, read everything that
encourages faith, avoid as you would
ship fever and smallpox the people
who lack nth. In this battle against
King Og use not for weapons the crutch
Of limping Christian or the sharp pen
of controversialist, but the sword OF
the truth, which is the word OF God.
The word "If'' is made up of the same
number OF letters as the word "Og," and
| Il Is Just as big giant II the Bible be
true. II the soul be immortal. II Christ
be God II our belief and behavior
here decide our future destiny. H. IL
IL hate that word III" Noah Web
ster says 1t is.a conjunction; say. 1t is
an armed giant Satan breathed upon
it curse when he said to Christ: III
thou be the Son Of God" What a das.
tardly aad infamous III" Against that
giant "if" hurl jobs II know"
and Paurs 81 know 81 know that
Ny redeemer liveth" II know in
whor, have believed Down with the
"if' snd MP with the II know" o,
that giant Doubt is such u cruel giant
1t attacks many in the last hour. 1t
could not let my mo her alone even in
her dying momeats. After n life Of
holiness and conservation such as
never heard OF IA any one else she
said to my father; Father, what il.
after all, our prayers and struggles
should 60 for nothing" Why could she
lot, after al the trials aud siclsnesses
and bereavements Of q long life and the
infirinities Of TO-, be allowed TO 90
without such =. cruel stroke from
Doubt, the giant? loyo6 yyonder have
a grudge against the old monster? II ]
could would give him bigger bounce
than Satan got when, hurled out OF
heaven, the first thing he struck was
the bottom OF peraiiloh. jia a
Another impression from my subject:
The march Of the church cannot be inn
peded by gigantic opposition. That
Israelitish hos. led on by Moses was
the church. aud when 0g. the giant,
him OF the iron bcdstead, came out
against him VITA aAotkcr host-a fresh
host against one that seemed worn out
things must have looked bad for
Israel No account is given Of the bed.
stead Of Moses, except that one In which
he first slept--ihe cradle OF aquatic veg.
citation on the Nile, where the wife OF
chenephrts theking, found the floating
babe aud, having no child of her own,
adopted him. Moses OF ordinary size
against or OF extrIorl nary dimen.
sions. Bca.jes that o.; was backed
up by sixty fortified cities. Moses was
backed up seemingly by nothing but the
desert that hal worn him and his army
into group Of unlisciplincd and ex.
haus;cd sLrag1lers Int the lsraelite,
tri,inphei. /, you spell the name Of
Og backward, you turn it into the word
go" and o. was turned backward and
made TO 20 With Og's downfall all
the sixty cities surrendered. Nothing
was les OF the eg,altsxcept his iron bed.
stead, wh.eA was kept in n museum al
Rabbath to show how tall and stout
he once was. SO shall the last giant OF
opposition in the ehurch's march sue
cumb. Not sixty cities captured but all
the cities. Not only on one side OF Jor
dan, but on both sides OF all the rivers
The day Is coming. Hear II all ye who
are doing something for the conquest oi
the world for God and the truth, the
time will come when, as there was noth
ing left of 0g, the giant, but the iror
bedstead kept Mt Rabbath as curios
ity, there will be nothing left OF the
giants of iniquity except something
for the relic hunters to examine. 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 viii
be hung up-the only relic Of the gian
Of war A demijohn-the only relic o.
the giant Of inebriation. A roulette
ball-the only relico I the giant o.
hazard. A pictured certificate of wateret
stoclt-the only relic OF the giant oi