The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-03-18

In the name of the God of Moses
and David and Joshua and Paul
charge on him, and you will leave
his carcass in the wilderness, You
want a battle shout Take that with
which David, the five footei, assailed
Goliath, the nine footer, when that
giant cried, with singing contempt
both in manner and intonation,
Come to me, and l will give thy
flesh unto the fowls of the air
and to the beasts of the field, v
and David looked up at the mon
ster of braggadocio and defantly
replied "Thou contest to me with
a sword and with spear and with a
shield; but / come to thee in the
name of the Lord of Hosts, the God
of the armies of Israel, whom thou
hast defied, This day will the Lord
deliver thee unto mine hand, and Twill
smite thee and take thine head from
thee, and l will give the carcasses of
the host Of the Philistines this day
unto the fowls of the air and to the
wild beasts of the earth, that all the
earth may know that there is God
in Israel"
Then David, with probably three
swirls of the sling about his head, got
it into sufficient momentum and let
fly till the Uranium of the giant broke
in and he fell, and David leaped on
his carcass, one foot on his chest and
the other on his head, and that was
the last of the Philistine. But be
sure you get the right battle shout
and 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
VIZ wurBHAvE TO FIGHT ALL THE WAY
Brethren, have made up my mind
that we will have to fight all the way
up to the Promised Land. l used tC
think that after awhile would get
into timo where it would be smooth
and easy, but the time does not come,
and it will never come in this world
BY the time King Og is used up SC
that he cannot get into his iron bed
stead; some other giant of opposition
looms up to dispute our way Let us
stop looking for an easy time and
make it a thirty years war, or sixty
years war, or hundred years war,
IL we live so long
Must be carried to The skies
On howery beds of ease,
While others fought to win the prize
And sailed through bloody seas?
Do you know the name of the big
gest giant that you can possibly
meet-and you will meet him7 He
is not eleven feet high, but one hun
bred feet high: His bedstead is as
long as the continent, His name is
Doubt. His common food is infide]
books and skeptical lectures and min
listers who do not know whether the
Bible Is inspired at all or inspired in
spots, and Christians who are more
infdel than Christian. You will
never reach the Promised Land I'M
less you Stay that giant. Kill Doubt
or Doubt will kill you. How to over,
come this giant? Pray for faith, go
with people who have faith, read
everything that encourages faith,
avoid as you would ship fever and
smallpox the people who lack faith.
In this battle against King Og use
not for weapons the crntch of o limp
ing Christian or the sharp pen of a
controversialist, but the sword OF
truth, which is the word of God. The
word IF" is made up of the same
number of letters as the sword "Og,'
and it is just as big giant IF" the
Bible be true. 'If' the soul be i'm
mortal. "If'' Christ be God eff
our belief and behavior here decide
our future destiny. IF" eff" eff
! hate that word eff" Noah Webste,
says it is conjunction; say it is an
armed giant. Satan breathed Upon
it curse when he said to Christ; IT
thou be the Son Of God" What q
dastardly and Infamous IF" Against
that giant IF" hurl Jobs II know
and Paul's Il know" II know that
my Redeemer liveth." Il know in
whom l have believed" Down with
the ''1f'' and up with Il know"
Oh, that giant Doubt is such 6
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 holiness and consecra
ton such as l never heard of in any
Dne else, she said to my father
Father, what if, after all, oul
prayers and struggles should go fol-
nothing" Why could she not, after
all the trials and sickIesses and be
reavements of long life and the in
firmities of old age, be allowed to &C
without such a cruel stroke from
Doubt, the giant? Do you wonder
have grudge against the monster
If l could l would give him bigger
bounce than satan got when, hurled
out of heaven, the first thing h,
struck was the bottom of perdition.
OPPOSITION CANNOT HINDER TIL
CHURCH.
Another impression from my sub
ject-the march of the church can
not be impeded by gigantic opposi
ton. That Israelitish host led on by
Moses was the church, and when Os
the giant, him of the iron bedstead
came out against him with anothe
host-a fresh host against one tina
seemed worn out-things must hav'
looked bad for Israel. No account i
given of the bedstead of Moses ex
cept that one in which he first slep
the cradle of aquatic vegetation OF
the Nile, where the wife of Che
nephres, the king, found the floatin!
babe, and having no child of he
own adopted him. Moses of ordi
nary size against Og of extraordi
nary dimensions.
Besides that Og was backed up b,
sixty fortified cities. Moses wa