Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1894-02-07

ng ot tie deniiohn Parched bs thy HPs,
| lou vince cup, with fires that shall never be
( yuenchedl
But I have no time to specify the manifold
evils that challenge Christianity. And !
think have seen in some Christians, and
read in some newspapers, and heard from
tome pulpits a disheartenment, as though
| Christianity were so worsted that 1t IS hardly
! worth while TO attempt TO win this world Tor
| God, and that all Christian work would col
lapse, and that it is no use for you to teach a
| Sabbath class, or distribute tracts, or exhort
| in prayer meetings, or preach in pulpit, as
| satan is gaining ground. To rebuke that
] pessimism, the gospel OF snashup, preach
| this sermon, showing that you are on the
| winning side. Go aheadl Fight on! What
J I want to make out to-day is that our ammu-
milton is not exhausted that all whlcn mas
! been accomplished has been only the skirm-
| lshing before the great Armaseddon that
] net 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
| innumerahle hosts to be marshaied by the
! rider on the white horse has yet taken the
| aeld that what God has done yet has been
| with arm folded in flowing robe, but that
! the time is coming when He viii 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 in the presence OF expec-
tant Nations, and flashing His omntscient
eyes across the work to be done VIII put
hack the sleeve ofHis right arm to the shoul-
der, and roll IT up there, and for the worlds
dnal and complete rescue make bare His
arm. Who can doubt the result when ac-
eording to my text Jehovah does His
best when the last reserve force OF omntpo-
tence takes the field; when the last sword
Of eternal might leaps from its scab-
the battle OF Sedan? The hills 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 Grown Prince OF Sax
ony watched the scene from the heights OF
Marry. Between a quarter to O'Clock in
the morning and l O'Clock in the afternoon
of September 9, 1870, the hills dropped the
shells that shattered the French host in the
valley. The French Emperor and the $4,000
Of his army captured 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 must
be valiant soldiers of the cross, but the Com
mander of our host walks the heights and
views the scene far better than we can in the
valleys. and at the right day ana the right
hour all heaven will open its batteries on our
side, and the Commander of the hosts of un-
righteousness with all his followers will sur
render, and 1t will take eternity to fully ceie-
brate the uniYersI a. v.stoyE t'r"u n our Ior
Jesus Christ "Our eyes are unto the hills"
II
In my text looks down through the field glass
Of prophecy and spsaSs OF it IS already ac-
complished. and l take my stand where the
prophet took his stand and loo at it as all
done. "Halleluigh, tits done" See! Those
cities without a tearl Look! Those con-
tinents without pIng. Behold! Those
hemispheres without a sin Why, those
deserts. Abraham desert, American des~
ert, AMI Great Sahara desert, are all
irrigated into gardens where God walks in
the cool Of the day. The atmosphere that
encirclss 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 OF them the
riCors ofthe cold and the blasts OF the heat,
ana il is universal spring! Let us change
the old worlds name. Let it no more De
called the earth, as when it was reekinS with
everything pestiferoUs and malevolent, scar
isted with bgttlehelds and Cashei with
graves, but now so changed, 50 aromatic
with gardens, and so resonant with song,
and so rubescent with beauty, let US call it
Immanueps Land or Baulah or millennial
gardens or paradise resained or heaven
And to God, the only wise, the only good,
the only great, be glory forever. Amen.