Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1892-03-24

/ when he said TO Christ, IF thou be the
Son Of God" What a dastardly and in
famous 'If." Against that giant "If
hurl Jobs II know" and Pahl's Il know. "
II know that my Redeemer liveth." 81
know in whom / have believed" Down
with the "If' and up with II know"
oh, that giant Doubt is such cruel
giantl 1t attacks many in the last hour
IL could not let my mother alone even in
her dying moments. After a life Of holi
ness and conservation such as never heard
of in any one else, she sait to my father
Father, what il, after ali. our prayers
and struggles should go for nothing. u
Why could she not, after all the trials and
sicknesses and bereavements of a loae life
and the infrmities of old age, be allowed
to go without such a cruel stroke from
Doubt, the giant? Do you wonder have
a grudge against the old monsterf II I
could would give him bigger bounce
than Satan got when, hurled out OF
heaven, the first thing he struck was the
bottom of perdition.
THE CHURCH MUST PREVAIL.
Another impression from my subject:
The march of the church cannot be i'm
peded by gigantic opposition. That Israel.
itish host led on by Moses was the church,
and when Og, the giant (him of the iron
bedstead), came out against him with an
other host-a fresh host against one that
seemed worn out-things must have looked
bad for Israel. No account is given of the
bedstead of Moses, except that one in
which he first slept-the cradle of aquatic
vegetation on the Nile, where the wife of
Cheaephres, 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 a group
of undisciplined and exhausted stragglers.
But the Israelites triumphed. If you spell
the name of Og backward you turn it into
the word 60" and Og was turned back
ward and made to go.
With Og's downfall all the sixty cities
surrendered. Nothing was left of the giant
except his iron bedstead, which was kept
in museum at Rabbath to show how tall
and stout he once was So shall the last
giant of opposition in the church's march
srccumb. 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 it, all ye who
are doing something for the conquest of
the world for God and the truth, the time
will come when, as there was nothing left
of Og, the giant, but the iron bedstead
kept at Rabbath as 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
demijohn-the only relic of the giant of In
ebriation. A roulette ball-the only relic
of the giant of Hazard. A pictured certifi-
cate of watered stock-the only relic of the
giant of Stock Gambling. A broken knife
the only relic of the giant of Assassina-
tion A yellow copy of Tom Paine-the
only relic of the giant of Unbelief. And
that museum will 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 mis-
cradle defeat or toward final victory?
All the Bible promises prophesy the lat
ter, and so l 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 HostsP' 'The Lord of Hosts!'
and l cry out eXultingly with Oliver
Cromwell at the battle of Dunbar "Let
God ariset let his enemies be scattered"
Make all the preparations for the worlds
evangelization. Have the faith of Robert
and Mary Moffatt, the missionaries, who
after preaching in Bechuanaland for ten
years without one convert when asked
what they would like to have sent them by
way of gift from England, said, "Send a
communion service for it will be surely
needed" and sure enough the expected in
gathering of many souls was realized and
the communion service arrived in time to
celebrate it. Appropriately did that mis-
sionary write in an album when his auto
graph was requested:
My 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.
GO FoEwARDl
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 off and the foot of the
other leg, and when they proposed to carry
him off the field, replied mo. 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
that frightened everybody else,
and who, when asked if she was not afraid,
said, mo; | am glad that 1 have God
who can shake the world" Whether your
work be to teach a Sabbath class, or nurse
an invalid, or reform wanderer, or print
a tract, or train household, or bear the
querulousness of senility, or cheer the dis
heartened, or lead 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 l bargain with you that we
will come back some day from our super
stellar abode to see how the world looks
when it shall be fully emparadised-its
last tear wept, its last wound healed, its
last shackle broken, it's 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-
gether toiled and struggled for the king