Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1892-03-23

think tnat after while 1 would get
into a time 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 so tina.
he can not get into his iron bedstead
some other giant of opposition looms up
to dispute v-tr way. Let us stop LOOKING,
for an easy lime and make it a thirty
years war, or a sixty years war, or a
hundred years war. if we live Sc leup.
Do you know tine name OF the big, =,
giant that you can possibly meet-ar4
you will meet him? lie is not clever
feet high, but one hu,ytred feet high
His bedstead is as Ions as the conti-
nent His name is Doubt His com.
mon food is infidel books and skeptical
lectures and ministers who do not know
inspired in spots, and Christians who
are more infidel than Christian. You
will never reach the Promised Land un-
less you slay that giant Kill Doubt or
Doubt will kill you How to overcome
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 peo-
pie who lack faith
In this battle against King Og use
not for weapons the crutch of limpin1
Christian or the sharp pen of n contro.
versionalist, 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 word "Og." and it is ius,
as big n giant If the Bible be true. I,
the soul be immortal II Christ he
God If our belief and behavior here
decide our future destiny. II. IT. IL
l hate that word IF" Noah Webster
says it is n conjunction. l say it is an
armed giant Satan breathed upon /,
a curse when he said to Christ; III
thou be the Son of God" What a tas-
tardly and infamous "If" Against
that giant IF hurl jobs ~ know"
and Paurs ~ know" 81 know that
my Redeemer liveth." az know in whom
have believed" Down with the .If'
and up with II know" Oh, that
giant doubt is such "A cruel giant! 1t
attacks many in the last hour. II
could not let my mother alone even in
her dying moments. After life OF
holiness and conservation, such as I
never heard of in. any one else, she said
to my father: Father. what if, after
all our prayers and struggles should 90
for nothing" Why could she not, after
all the trials and sickness, and bereave.
ments of n long life and the infirmities
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 monster? If / could
would give him bigger bounce than
Satan got when, hurried out of Heaven.
the first thing he struck was the bottom
of perdition.
Another impression from my subject
The march of the church can not be i'm
peded by gigantic opposition. That
Israelitish host led on by Moses was
the church, and when Og, the giant
(him of the iron bedstead) came out
against him with another 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-the cradle of aquatic
vegetation on the Nile, where the wife
of Chenephres, the king, found the
floating babe and, having no child of
her own, adopted him. Moses of ordi-
nary 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 group of unds.
ciplined and exhausted stragglers. But
the Israelites triumphed. If you spell
the name of Og backward you turn it
into the word Go" and Og was turned
backward, and made to GO With Og's
downfall all the sixtycities surrendered.
Nothing was left of the giant except
his iron bedstead, which was kept in
a museum at Rabbath to show how
tall and stout he once was. So shall
the last giant of opposition in the
church's march succumb. Not sixty cit.
les captured, but all the cities. Not only
on one side of Jordon, but on both
| sides of all the rivers. The day is com.
ing Hear it all We who are doing some
thing 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 a curiosity 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 a museum some where TO hold
the relies of what they once were.
A rusted sword will he hung up
the only relic of the giant of war
a demijohn-the only relic of the
| giant of inebriation. roulette ball
the only relic of the giant Of
Hazard. A pictured certificate of wat
cred stocl<-the only relic OF the giant
of stock gambling. A broken knife
the only relic of the giant of assassina-
ton 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 bed
stead of Rabbath did for the earlier
/ ages. DO you not see it makes all the
| difference i'm the world whether we arc
/ fighting on toward a miserable defeat
or toward a final victory? All the BiOle
promises prophesy the latter. and so
cheer you who are the troops Of God
and. though many things are dark now
like Alexander. ] review the army by
torchlight, and / give you the watcn'
word which Martin Luther proclaimed.
1.-THE Lord of hosts!" "Thc Lord OF
Hostsr and ] cry out exultingly win
Oliver Cromwell at the battle Of Dun
] "a II IL