Connecticut western news., 1894-01-25

I want to make out today is that our ammunition is not exhausted; that all which has been accomplished has been only the skirnishing 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 innumerable hosts to be mar shaled 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 is
 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 conquering step, and halt in the
 presence of expectant nations. and fash
 ing his oinniscient eyes across the work
 to be done will put back the sleeve of
 his right arm to the shoulder, and roll
 it up there. and for the world $ final
 and complete rescue make bare his arm.
 Who can doubt the result when accord
 ing to my text Jehovah does his best;
 when the last reserve force of omnipo-
 tence takes the field; when the last
 sword of eternal might leaps from its scabbard? Do you know what decided the battle of Sedan? The hills a thousand feet high. Eleven hundred cannons on the hills. Artillery on the heights of Givonne, and l2 German batteries on the heights of La Noncello. The crown prince of Saxony watched the scene from the heights of Marry. Between a quarter to 6 o'clock in the morning and o'clock in the afternoon of Sept. ?, 1870, the hills dropped the shells that shattered the French host in the valley. The French emperor and the SC, 900 of his army captured by the hills. So in this conflict now raging between holi- ness and sin ''our eyes are unto the hills"
 A GREAT VICTORY.
 Down here in the valleys of earth we must be valiant soldiers of the cross, but the Commander of our host walks the hsights and views the scene saI better than we can in the valleys. and at the right day and the right hour all heaven will open its batteries on our side, and the commander of the hosts of nnrighteousness with all his followers will surrender. ard it will take eternity to fully celebrate the universal victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Our | eyes are unto the hills. It is so cer- tain to be accomplished that Isaiah in my text looks down through the field glass of prophecy and speaks of it as already accomplished. and l take my stand where the prophet took his stand and look at it as all done. "Halleluiah, | 'tis done.'' Seel Those cities without | tearl Look! Those continents with | out a pang. Behold! Those hemi- | spheres without a sin! Why, those
 deserts, Arabian desert, American des- | ert, and Great Sahara desert, are all | irrigated into gardens where God walks l in the cool of the day, The atmosphere that encircles our globe floating not one groan. All the rivers and lakes and
 oceans dimpled with not one falling tear. The climates of the earth have
 dropped out ot them the rigors of the | cold and the blasts of the heat, and ii
 is universal spring! Let us change the
 old worlds name. Let it no more be
 called the earth, as when it was reekine
 with everything pestiferous and malev.
 olent, scarleted with bsttlefields and
 gashed with graves, but now SC
 changed. SO aromatic with gardens, and
 so resonant with song, and so rubesceni 1 with beauty, let us call it Immanuel's
 Land or Beulah or millennial gardens
 or paradise regained or heavenl And
 to God, the only wise, the only good
 the only great, be glory forever. Amen