The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1894-01-27

Niagara abysm OF fnebriety than at any time
since the first grape was turned into wine
and the first head of rye began to soak I'm
brewery. When people touch this subject.
they are apt to give statistics as to how many
millions are In drunkards' graves, or with
quick tread marching on toward them. The
land is full of talk of high tariff and low
tariff but what about the highest of all tariffs
in this country, the tariff OF $500, ,000, 900
which rum put upon the United States In
1891, for that is what II cost us? You do not
tremble or turn pale when say that. The
fact is we have become hardened by sta
tistics, and they make little impression.
But IL some one could gather into one
mighty lake all the tears that have been
wrung out of orphagage and widowhood, or
into one organ diaPas0n all the groans that
have been uttered by the suffering victims
of this holocaust. or into one whirlwind sll
the sighs of centuries of dissipation. or from
the wicket OF one immense prison have look
upon us tho glaring eyes OF all those whom
strong drink has endungeoned, we might
perhaps realize the appalling desolation.
But, no, no, the sight would forever blast
our vision the sound would forever stun
our souls. Go on with your temperance
literature; go on with your temperance plat
forms go on with your temperance laws.
But we are all hoping for something from
above, and while the bare arm OF suffering,
and the bare arm of invalidism. and the bare
arm of poverty, and the bare arm of domes-
tic desolatlon, from which rum hath torn the
sleeve. are lifted up in beggary and suppl
cation and despair. let the bare arm OF God
strike the hreweries. and the liquor stores.
and the corrupt politics, and the license
laws, and the whole inferno Of grogshops all
around the world. Down, thou accursed
bottle, from the throne! Into the dust, thou
king Of the demijohn Parched be thy lips,
thou wine cup, with fires that shall never be
quenched
But have no time to specify the manifold
OWLS that challenges Christianity. And
think have seen in lsome Christians, aud
read III sane news apers, and heard from
some pulpits disheartenment, as though
Christianity were so wo. sted that II is hardly
worth while to ntten1TT no win this world for
God, and that all Christian work would col
lapse, and that IL is no use for you to teach u
Sabbath class. or distribute tracts, or exhort
In prayer meetings. or preach in a pulpit, rs
satan il gaining ground. To rebuke that
pessimism the gospel Of smashup, | preach
this sermon, showing that you are on the
winning side. Go ahead Fight on. What
| want to make out today is that our ammu
milton is not exhausted that all which has
been accomplished has been only the skirm-
shing before the great Armageddon that
not more than one OF the thousand fountains
OF beauty in the Kings park has begun to
play that not more than one brigade OF the
innumerabie hosts to bs marshaled by the
rider on the white horse has yet taken the
field that what God has done yet has been
with arm folded in flowing robe, but that
the time IL coming when He will rise from
His throne, and throw of that robe. and
come out OF the palaces of eternity, and come
down the stairs of heaven with all conquer
ing step. and halt i'm the presence Of expec-
tant Nations, and flashing His omniscient
eyes across the work to be done will put
back the sleeve of His right arm to the shout
der and roll IL up thrre, and for the worlds
final and complete rescue make bare His
arm. Who can doubt the result when ac-
cordng to my text Jehovah doss His
hest when the last reserve force OF omnipo-
tence takes the field. when the last sword
of eternal might leaps from its scab-
bard2 Do you know what decided
the battle of sedan The hills II thousand
feet high. Eleven hundred cannons on the
hills, Artillery on the heights of Givonne,
and twelve German batteries on the heights
of La Monceilo. The Crown Prince Of Sax
ony watched the scene from the heights OF
Marry. Between a quarter to O'Clock I'm
the morning AMI o'clock in the afternoon
of September 2. 1870 the hills dropped Che
shells that shattered the French host In the
valley. The French Emperor and the 81, 600
OF his army capture by the hills. so In this
conflict now raging between holiness and
sin "our eyes are unto the hills
Down here in the valleys Of earth we mus,
be valiant soldiers OF the cross. but the Com
mander OF our host walks the heights aut
views the scene far better than we can In the
valleys. and at the right dav and the righ
hour all heaven will open its batteries on our
sidc. and the Comma nier OF the hosts OF un-
righteousness with = his followers will sur
render. aud " viii ttCk. eternity TO fully celp-
hrato the universal victory through our LOrd
Jesus Christ. "Dur eyes are unto the hills -
II is 30 certain 10 be- accomplished that Isaiah
in mytcNt looks down through IN. field glass
, of prophecy and speaks OF II as already ac-
compshrd. ard | take my stand where the
prophet took his stand and loo, ut II IA all
done "HalIcluiah. tis done See Those
cities without tear Look These con
tin"nts without pang. Behold Thos.
hcmispheres without sin Why, those
deserts. Abrabian desert. American dos
irrigated into gardens where God walks In
the cool Of the hay. The atmosphere that
cncircles our globe floating not one groan.
All the rivers and lakes and oceans dimpled
with not one falling tear. The climates o,
the earth have dropped out OF them tho
rigors ofthe cold ami the blasts of the heat
| and II Is universal spring Let us chang,
| the old worlds name. Let IL no more ~,
called the Garth. "a when IL wns reeking with
let"d with battlen..Lis and gashed with
graves but now so changed. 80 aromatic
with gardens. and 50 resonant with song
aud so rubcscent with beauty, let MS call II
Immanuel's Land or Beulah or millenniaI
gardens or paraiis" regained or heaven
And to God, the only wise. the only good,
tho only great. be- glory forever. Amen.