The Dickinson press., 1892-03-26

not enough. They must meet Og, The
giant of the iron bedstead. Not one
OF you but meets a giant who would
like to hew you in twain. Higher than
eleven feet this Og darkens the sky
and the rattle of his buckler stuns
the a r But, you are going to get the
victory, as did the Israelites.
Brethren, | have made up my mind
that we will have to fight all the way
up to the promised land. used to
think that after a while l would get
into a time where it would be
SMOOTH n EASY,
but the time does not come, and it
will never come in this world. BY the
time King Og is used up so that he
cannot 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 OF war, or sixty years.
war, or a hundred years. war, if we
live SO long.
Do you know the name OF the big
and you will meet him? He is not
IL feet high, but 100 feet high. His
bedstead is as long as the continent.
His name is Doubt. His common food
is intidel books and sceptical lectures
administers whodonot knowwheth-
er the Bible is inspired at all or in
spired in spots, and Christians who
are more intidel than Christian. You
will never reach the promisedIa land I'M
less you slay that giant. Kill Doubt
Or Doubt will kill you.
Another impression from my SUBJ
iect. The march OF the church cannot
be impeded by gigantic opposition.
That lsraelitisl 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 bedstead OF Moses, except that
one in which he first slept-the cradle
OF aquatic Vegetation on the Nile,
where the wife OF Chenephres, theking,
found the floating babe and, having
no child OF her own. adopted him.
Moses OF ordinary size against Os OF
extraordinary dimensions, Besides
that
oG WAS BACKED Up
by 60 fortified cities. Moses was
backed up seemingly by nothing but
the desert that had worn him and his
army into q group OF undiseiplined
and exhausted s~tragglers. But the
1sraelites triumphed. Ii you spell the
name OF Og backward y%outurn it into
the word go" and Og was turned
backward and made to 60. With Og's
downfall all the 60 cities surrendered,
Nothing wasleft ofthe giant except his
iron bedstead, which was kept in q
museum at Rabbath to show hoy" tai.
and stout he once was. So shall the
last giant ofopposition in the church's
march succumb.
Whatever your work and wherever
your work for God-forward! You ii
your way and | in my way. Will
holy pluck fight on with something O
the strength of Thomas Troubridg &c
who ut Hermann had one leg shot Off
and the foot OF the otherleg and wher
they proposed to carry him off the
field, replied: "No l do not move un
til the battle is Won" Whatever bt
the rocking OF the Church or State
have the calmness of the aget
woman in an earthquake that
frightened everybody else, anc
who, when asked if she was not
afraid, said: "No, l am glad that
have a God who can shake the world
Whether your work be to teach G
Sabbath class, or nurse an invalid, OF
reform q wanderer, or print q tract
or train q households or bear the
que%rulousness OF senility, or cheer the
disheartened or lead soul to Christ
know that by fidelity you may helI
hasten lifetime when the world shallbe
showed under with white lily and in.
carnadined with red rose. And now,
I bargain with you that we will come
back some day from II superstellal
abode, to see how the world looks
when it shall be fully unparalleled
it's last teal wept, it's last wound heal
ed, its last shacle broken, it's last de-
sert gardenized. its last giant of in
iquity decapitated. And when we
land, may it be somewhere near this
spot OF earth where we have together
toiled and struggled for the kingdom,
OF God, and may it be about this
hour in the high noon OF some glori,
GUS Sabbath, looking in the upturned
faces of some great audience radiant
with holiness and triumph.