Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1894-02-01

decency, attempt TO report. Inc pres
ence of the missionaries with their pure
and noble households in those heather
ports is a constant rebuke to such lie
bauchees and miscreants. If Satan
should visit heaven, from which @ was
once roughly, but justly, expatriated,
and he should write home to the realms
pandemoniac, his correspondence pub
lished in Diabolos Gazette, or Apolly-
onic News, about what he had seen, he
would report the Temple Of God and
the Lamb as a broken1down church,
and the house of Many Masions as a
disreputable place, and theCherubim as
suspicious Of morals. Sin never did like
Holiness and you had better not de-
pend upon Satanic report Of the sub
lime and multipotent work of our mis-
sionaries in foreign lands. But not
outstanding all that these men and wo,
men of God have achieved, they feel,
and We all feel that If the idolatrous
lands are to be Christianized, there
needs to be n power from the heavens
that has not yet condescendad, and we
feel like crying ont in the words OF
Charles Wesley:
Arm of the Lord, awake, awake.
Put on thy strength, the nations
shake!
Aye, it is not only the Lords arm
that is needed, the holy arm, the out
stretched arm, but the bare arm
Much good has been accomplished by
the hGroism and fidelity of Christian re
formers, bit the fact remains that
there are more splendid men and mag
niicent women this moment going over
The Niagara abySln of inPbriety than
at any time since the first crane was
turned into wine, and the first head Of
rye began to soak in a brewery. When
people touch this subject they are apt
TO give statistics as to how many mil
lions 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 high
est of all tariffs in this country, the
tariff Of 5000, 900 which rum put up.
on the United States in 1891. for that
is what it cost us. You do not tremble
or turn pale when / say that. The fact
is we have become hardened by Stats
tics and they make little impression.
But If some n would gather into one
mighty lake all Of the tears that have
been wrung out Of %orphanage and wild
oWhood; or into n organ diapason all
the groanS that have been uttered by
the suffering victims Of this holocaust:
or into one whirlwind all the signs of
centuries Of dissipation, or from the
wicket of one immense prison have
look upon us the glaring eyes of all
those whom strong drink has endun-
geoned. we might perhaps realize the
appalling desolation. But no.. no. the
sight would forever blast our viSon.
the sound would forever stun our souls.
on with your temperance literature:
90 on with your temperance platforms:
go on with your temperance laws. But
we are all hoping for something from
above, and while the bare arm of suf-
fering, and the bare arm of inyali;lism.
ana the bare arm of poverty. and the
bare arm of domestic desolation,, from
Which rum hath torn the sleeve. IRE
lifted uD in beggary and supplication
n despair. let the bare arm of God
strike the brewerieS, and the liouOr
stores, and the corrupt politics. and
the license laws, and the whole inferno
of Srog-shops all around the world.
Down. thou accursed Bottle. from the
Into the dust. thou king of the
DemijOhn! Parched he thy Iips. thou
Wine cup. with fires that shall never be
quenched.
But have no time to specify the
manifold evils that challenge Christian
ity. And / think | have seen in some
Christians, and read in some news pa-
pers, and heard from some p%ulpits.
a disheartenment. as though Christian
lily were so worStod that it is hardly
worth while to attempt to win this
world for God. and that all Christian
work would collapse, and that 1t is no
use for you TO teach q Sabbath class,
or distribute tracts, or eXhort in PRAYER
meetings, or preach in a pulpit. as Sa-
is gaining ground. To rebuke that
pessimism. the gospel Of Smashup, |
preach this sermon, showing that you
are on the winning side. Go aheadl
Fight on! What l want to make out
to-day is that our ammunition is nor
exhausted: that all which has been ac-
has been only the skirmish-
ing before the great Armageddon; that
not more than one of the 1000 foun-
tains OF beauty in the kings park has
to play; that not more than one
brigade Of the innumerable hosts to
be m~arshaled 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
is coming when he will rise from
his throne, and throw off that robe,
and come out of the palaces of eternity,
and come down the stairs of heaven
with aH-c0nGuering step. and halt In
presence of expected nations, and
flashing his omniscient eyes across the
work to be done, will put back the
Of his right arm to the shoulder.
ana roll 1t up there, and for the worlds
and complete rescue make bare his
Who car doubt the result when
according to my text, Jehovah does his
best: when the last reserve force of
1mnipOtence takes the field: when the
sword Of eternal might leaps from
Is scabbard. Do you know what decid-
I'd the battle of Sedan? The hills 1000
feet high. Eleven hundred cannon on
he hills. Artillery on the heights OF
ilvonne, and twelve German batteries
IN the heights Of La Moncello. The
;rown prince of Saxohy watched the
from the heights of Marry. Be
q quarter TO u o'clock in the
morning and l o'clock i'm the afternoon
II Sept. ,, 1871, the hills dropped the
,hells that shattered the French host
II the valley. The French emperor and
he $4,000 of his army captured by the