Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-02-02

Russia. the soma OF india. the aguardielts
of Morocco the arak Of Arabia. the mastic
of Syria, the raki of Turkey, the beer of Ger
many. the whisky Of Scotland, the ale Of
England, the all drinks of America. are do
ing their best TO stupefy. infame. dement,.
impoverish, brutalize and slay the human
race. Human power, unless re-entorced
from the heavens. can never extirpate the
evils | mention. Much good has beer ac-
complished by the herois and fidelity of
Christian reformers. but the fact remains
that there arc more splendid men and mag
nificent women this moment going over the
Niagara abysm of inebriety than at any time
since the first grape was turned into wine
and the first head of rye began to soak III a
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 ofall tariffs
in this country, the tariff Of 5000, 900 ,0OO
which rum put upon the United States III
| 1891, for that is what it cost us? You do not
| trembe or turn pale when | say that. The
| fact is we have become hardened by sta
tistics. and they make little impression.
But if some one could gather into one
mighty lake all the tears that have been
wrung out of orphanagC and widowhood, or
into one organ diapasOu all the grOans that
have been uttered by the suffering victims
of this holocaust. or into one whlriwlnd all
the sghs 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 endungeOned, we might
perhaps realize the appalling de5oiatlon.
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 Jaws
But We are all hoping for something from
above, and while the bare arm of suffering,
and the bare arm of invaIidlsm, andthe baro
arm of poverty, and the bare arm o. domeS-
tic desolation, from which rum hath torn the
sleeve. are lifted up in beggary AMI supph-
cation and despair, let the bare arm OF God
strike the breweres, and the liquor stores
and the corrupt politics, and the license
laws, and the whole inferno of gro2shops all
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
evils that challenge Christianity. And
think have soen in some Christians. and
read in some newspapers, and heard from
some pulpits a disheartenment, aS though
Christianity were so WOrStei that 1t IS hardly
worth while to attempt to win this world for
Col, and that all Christian work would col
lapse, and that it is no use for you TO teach
Sabbath class, or distribute tracts, or exhort
in prayer meetings, or preach i'll pulpit, as
satan is gaining ground. 10 rebuke that
pessimism, the gospel of smashup, preach
this sermon, showing that you are on the
winning side Go ahead Fight on What
l want to make out to-day is that our ammu-
milton is not exhausted that all whicn has
been accomplished mas been only the skIrm-
ishing before the great Armaged don; ; 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 marshaIe1 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 Ho will rise from
His throne, an throw off 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 Omnscient
eyes across the work to b9 done will put
back the sleeve ofHis right arm to the shout
der, and roll it up there, AMI for the worlds
final and complete rescue make bare HIS
arm. Who can doubt the result when ac-
cording to my text Jehovah dos His
best when the last reserve force or Omutpo>
tence takes the field when the last sword
Of eternal might leaps from its 1cab-
the battle of Sedan? Toe hills thousand
feet high. Eleven hundred cannons on tho
hills Artillery on the heights of Givonne,
and twelve German batteries on the heights
of La Moncelo. The Crown Prince Of Sax
ony watched the scene from the heights Of
MH1ES. DtI"Ctn ii iu tLlCl ~ " " CivJn la
the morning and 1 O'Clock in the afternoon
of September 2, 1870. the hills dropped the
shells that shattered the French host in the
valley. The French Emperor and the $4,000
of his army captured by the hills. So in this
conflict now raging between holiness and
sin ''Our eyes are unto the hills.
Down here in the valleys of earth We must
be valiant soldiers of the cross, but the Com
mander of our host walks the heights and
views the scene far better than we can in the
.ir~I,k 4 fhn rISpE$
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 it will take eternity to fully cele-
brate the universal victory through our Lord
Jesus Christ. "Our eyes are unto the hills"
1t is 50 certaintO be accomplished that Isaiah
in my text looks down through the field glass
of prophecy and speaks of it as already ac-
complished, ard l take my stand where the
prophet took his stand and look at it as all
done. "Haleuiah, It's done" See! Those
cities without tear Look! Those con.
tinents without pang. Behold! Those
hemispheres without a sin. Why, those
deserts, Abraham desert, American des-
ert, and Great Sahara desert, are all
irrigated into gardens where God walks in
the cool OF tho day. The atmosphere that
encircIes 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 th9m the
rigors Ofthe cold and the blasts OF the heat,
and it is universal spring! Let u change
the old worlds name. Let it no more De
called the earth, as when it was reeking with
everything pestiferous and malevOlent scar
leted with battletields and gashed with
graves, but now 50 changed, so aromatic
with gardens, and SO resonant with song,
and so rubescent with beauty, let call it
ImmanuePs Land or Beulah mtllennial
gardens paradise reganed or heaven!
And to God, the only wise, the only good,
the only great, be glory forever. Amen.