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intonation: 'Come to me, and | will
give thy flesh into the fowls of the
cir and to the beasts Of the tield;" and
David looked up at the monster of
braggadocio, and defantly replied
''Thou colnest TO me with a sword
and with spear and with 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 l
will smite thee and take thine head
from thee, and | will give the carcasses
of the host of the Philistints this day
| unto the fowls of the air, and to the
| wild beasts Of the earth, that ill 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 dead, and David
leaped on the carcass, one foot on his
chest and the other on his head, and
that was the last of the Philistine
Do you know the name of the biggest
giant you can possibly meet-and you
will meet him? He is not eleven feet
high, but hundred feet high. His bed
stead is as long as the continent His
name is Doubt. His common food is in
tidel books, and slkeptical lectures, and
ministers who do not know whether
the Bible is inspired at all or inspired
in spots, and Christians who are more
intidel than Christian. You will never
reach the promised land unless 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 encour-
ages 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 cruteh of a
limping Christian, or the sharp pen OF
eontroversalist, but the sword of
truth, which is the word of God. The
word 'lf' is made up of the same num-
Der of letters as the word 'Og,'' and it
is just as big giant. If the Bible be
true. If the soul be immortal. If
Christ be God. If our belief and be-
havior here decide our future destiny.
If. If. If. l hate that word ''if."
Noah Webster says it is a con-
junction; I say it is an armed
giant. Satan breathed upon it a
curse when he said to Christ: 'If
thou be the Son of God" What das-
tardly and infamous ''if" Against that
giant ''if'' hurl Jobs Il know" and
Paufs Il know" Il know that nv
Redeemer liveth." 81 know in. whom
have believed" Down with the 'if,''
and up with II know" Oh, that paint
doubt is such cruel giant. 1t attacks
many in the last hour. 1t could not let
my mother alone even in her diving
moments. After a life of holiness and
conservation, such as / never heard of
in anyone else, she said to nv ia
ther: 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 long life and the infirmities
of old age, be allowed to go without
such cruel stroke from Doubt, the
giant? Do you wonder I have grudge
against the old monster? If l could |
would give him bigger bounce than
Satan got when, hurled out of Heaven,
the first thing he struck was the bot
tom of perdition.
Another impression from my subject:
The march of the church can not be in
peded by gigantic opposition That
lsraelitish 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-tha
cradle of aquatic vegetation of the
Nile, where the wife of Ghenepbres.
the king, found the floating babe, and
having no children of her own, adopted
him. Moses of ordiaary size, against
Og of extraordinary dimensions. Be-
sides 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 armv
into group of undisciplined and
exhausted stragglers But,the Israel
ties triumphed. If you spell the name
of Og backward you turn it into the
word go" and Og was turned back
ward and made to go. With Og's
downfall all the sixty cities surren- |
dered 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 OPPOSE
ton in the clurch's march suecumb |
Not sixty cities captured, but all the |
cities. Not only on one side of Jordan, |
but on both sides of all tile rivers,
The day is coming. Hear it all We who
are doing something 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
there will be nothing
left of the giants of iniquity, except
something for the relic hunters to ex-
anime. Which of the giants will be the
ast slain | know not but there will be
l museum somewhere to hold the relics
IF what flau nnoo rr-o,o |