Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-03-14

/ armed giant. satan Drpathed upon
it a curse when he said to Christ If
thou be the Son Of God. What a
dastardly and infamous IF" " Against
that giant ''If" hurl Jobs Il know"
and Paul's II know" Il know that
my Redeemer liveth." Il know in
whom have believed" Down with
the ''If' and up with Il know"
Oh, that giant Doubt is such a
cruel giant 1t attacks many in the
last hour. 1t could not let my mother
alone even in her dying moments.
After life of holiness and conse. IA
tion such as / never heard of in 8ny
one else. she said to my father,
Father. what if, after all, our
prayers and struggles should go for
nothing" Why could she not, after
all the trials and sicknesses and be-
reavements of long life and the in
frmities of old age, be allowed to go
without such a cruel stroke from
Doubt, the giantl Do you wonder l
have a gTudge against the monsterl
If | could | would give him a bigger
bounce than satan got when, hurled
out of heaven, the first thing he
struck was the bottom of perdition.
OPPOSITION CANNOT HINDER THE
CHURCH
Another impression from my sub
iect-tho march of the church can
not be iinpeded by gigantic opposi-
tion. That Israelitish host led Oh 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 ex-
cept that one in which he first slept
the cradle of aquatic vegetation on
the Nile, where the wife of Che
nephres. the kim, found the floating
babe, and having no child Of her
own adopted him. Moses of ordi-
nary size against Og of extraordi-
nary 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 undisci-
plined and exhausted stragglers. But
the Israelites triumphed. If spell
the name of Og backward you turn
it into the word Go" and Og was
turned backward and made to go.
With Ogs downfall all the sixty cities
surrendered. Nothing was left Of
the giant except his iron beds.oad,
which was kept in a museum at Esab-
bath to show how tall and stout he
once was.
So shall the last giant of opposition
in the church's march succulnb. Not
sixty cities captured, but ali the cit
les. Not only on one side of jordan,
but on both sides of all the rivers.
The day is coming. Hear it ali ye
who are doing something for the con
quest 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
Rabhath as a curiosity, there win b.
nothing left of the giants of iniquiy
except something for the relic hlut-
ers to examine.
Which of the giants will bo the last
slain know not, but there Will be q
museum somewhere to hold the relics
Of what they once were. A rUstod
sword will be hung up-the only relic
of the giant of war. A dellijohn-
the only relic of the giant of Inebria-
ton. A roulette ball-the only r5lic
of the giant of Hazard. A pictured
certificate Of watered stock the only
relic of the giant of Stock Gambling.
A broken knife-the only rei:c OF the
giant of Assassination. A yellow
copy of Tom Paine-the only relic of
the giant of Unbelief. And that mu-
scum will do for the later ages Of the
world what the iron bedsten! ut Rab-
bath did for the earlier ages.
Do you not see it makes ali the diff
ference in the world whether we are
lighting on toward amiseraiIe defeat
or toward a final victory! All the
Bible promises prophesy tho 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 watchword which Martin
Luther proclaimed, The Lord of
Hosasw "Nhe Lord of Hos@l" and
l cry out eXultingly, with Oliver
Cromwell at the battle of Dunbar,
Let God arise; let his enemies be
scattered
Make all the preparations for the
worlds evangelization. Have the
faith of Robert and Mary Moflat, 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
communion service for it viii be
surely needed" and sure enough the
expected mgathering of many souls
was realized and the communion serv-
ice arrived in time to celebrate it. |
Appropriately did that missionary
write in an album when his auto |
graph was requested;
My album Is the savage breast,
Where darkness roigns and tsmpests Wrest, i
Without one ray OF light.
To write the name Of Jesus there,
And point TO worlds both bright and fair,
And soc the savage bowed in prayer,
Is my supreme delight.
FORwARpl
Whatever your work and wherever |
you work for God-forward! You |