The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1892-08-12

3 gteat army were seen coming over tn
5 hills with flying ensigns, then you would
t be able to get some idea of the terro
/ that will strike the hearts of the enemie
| of God when the church at last marche
/ on like ian army with banners"
! You know there is nothing that ex
| cites a soldiers enthusiasm so much al
an old flag. Many man almost dead
catching glimpse of the national en-
, sign, has spreng to his feet and started
again into the battle. Now, my friends
} don't want you to think of the church
OF Jesus Christ as a defeated institu
ton, as the victim of infidel sarcasm
something to be kicked and cuffed and
trampled on through all the ages of the
world. 1t is IAN army with banners
1t has an inscription and colors such as
never stirred the hearts of an earthly
soldiery.
We have our banner of recruit and
on it is inscribed, "Who is on the Lords
side?' Our banner of defiance, and on
it is inscribed, 1.-THE gates of hell shall
not prevail against u.s." Our banner of
triumph, and on it is inscribed, "Vic-
tory through our Lord Jesus Christi
and we mean to plant that banner on
every hilltop and wave it at the gate of
heaven.
With Christ to lead us we need not
fear | will not underrate the enemy.
They are tremendous host. They come
on with acutest strategy. Their weapons
by all the inhabitants of darkness have
been forged in furnaces of everlasting
fire. We contend not with flesh and
blood, but with municipalities and powers
and spiritual wickedness in high places;
but if God be for us who can be against
us? Come on, ye troops of the Lord!
Fall into line! Close up the ranks! On,
through burning sands and over frozen
mountain tops, until the whole earth
surrenders to God! He made it; he re-
deemed it; he shall have it. They shall
not be trampled with hoofs, they shall
not be cut with sabers, they shall not be
crushed with wheels, they shall not be
cloven with battle axes, but the march
ing, and the onset, and the victory will
be none the less decisive for that.
With Christ to lead us, and heaven to
look down upon us, and angels to guard
us, and martyr spirits to bend from their
thrones, and the voice of God to bid us
forward into the combat, our enemies
shall fly like chaff in the whirlwind.
and all the towers of heaven ring be-
cause the day is ours. | divide this
army with banners into two wings-the
American wing and the European wing.
The American wing will march on across
the wilds of the west, over the table.
lands, and come to the ocean, no more
stopped by the Pacific than the Israelites
were stopped by the Red sea, marching
on until the remaining walls of China
will fall before this army with banners,
and cold Siberia will be turned to, the
warm heart of Christ, and over lofty
Himalayan peaks shall go this army
with banners until it halts at Palestine.
The European wing will march out to
meet it, and Spanish superstition shall
be overcome, and French infdelity shall
be conquered, and over the Alps, with
more than Hannibal's courage, shall |
march that army with banners, and up
through the SHOWS of Russia, vastes
than the hosts that followed |
Napoleon into the conflict. And Hun |
gary and Poland, by the blood of their |
patriots and by the blood of Christ,
shall at last be free. And crossing into |
Asia the law shall again be proclaimed |
on Sinai, and Christ in the person of his
ministers will again preach on Olivet |
and pray in Gethsemane and exhibit
his love on Calvary. And then the
army will halt in front of the other
wing, the twain having conquered all
the earth for God.
A SHOUT OF TRIUMPH.
History tells us that one day the
armies of Xerxes shouted all at once
and the vociferation was so mighty tlAat
The birds flying through the air dropped
Is though they were dead Oh, what a
shout of triumph when all the armies of
earth and all the armies of heaven shall
celebrate the victory of our king-all at
Jnce and all together: "Halleluiah! for
he Lord God omnipotent reigneth
for the kingdoms of this
world have become the kingdoms of our
Lord Jesus Christ"
When the Prussian army came back
rom their war they were received in
866 at the gates of Berlin, and a choir
TODD above the gates, and as the first
egiment advanced and came to the
rates the choir, in music, asked them
What right they had to enter there. And
hen the first regiment, in song, replied
cling over the stories of their conflicts
nd victories. Then they marched in
nd all the city was full of gladness and
riumph. But oh! the greater joy when
he army with banners shall come up to ,
he gates of our king! sf
1t will be choir to choir, music to
music, hosanna to hosanna, halleluiah 4:
o halleluiah. Lift up your heads, We
verlasting gates, and let them come in. :.
hen will be spread the banquet of eter- :
al victory, and the unfallen ones of
eaven will sit at it, and all the ran :
omed of earth will come in and cele- I,
rate the jubilee with unfading gar
ands on their brows telling of earthly
All the walls of that celestial mansion =,
l.