The Progress., 1894-01-27

I]hln- steady progress for hundreds
OF years, and notwithstanding all the
splendid work done by the Jr~~up-
and the Gopdcus aud the Eli~s.- aud
'hc Van Dykes and the Posts and the
/ Ni,.c- Bowen and tine Ni--", Ihomp-
SON. and scores OF Other men and
women of whom the world Wa, not
worthy, There IT. stands. the giuut of
, SIN, 'iohuumc.sus~Iu. vItp one foot
ON the heart Of woman aud the other
on the heart of Christ. while IL mum
hlc~ from It's miuar,t~ this ~tupoulou~
. h.a,phcmy. "God is great and Mo-
, damned is hi, prophet" Let the
/ Christian printing presses AT Hcyrout
and tonstau.inoplc keep ON with their
work, and the men and women OF God
iu ihc mission fields toll until the LORD
/ crowns tnc.u, but y. hat We are all hop .
| ing for is somcthin" supernatural FROM
/ the heavens as vet unseen something
stretched down out of the skies. some
thin like an arm uncovered, the bare
arm. II the God of Nations
/ Eut / have no time 10 specify the
manifold evils that challenge Chris
] tiauity. And ! thiul, ! hav, seen in
some Christians. and read in some
/ newspapers, and heard from some
/ TuipitS. a diShCartmcnt. aS though
/ 'hri,tianity were So woratcd that il is
/ hardly worth while to attempt to win
this world for cod. and that all Chris
tian wori, would collapse and that it
is no use for YOU To teach a sabbath
class ur distribute tracts or CShort i'm
/ prayer meetings. or preach m pulpit,
as Satan l. Gaining ground. To rchul,c
that pceNimism, the gospel of >ma-hup,
| ] preach this sermon, showing that
you are ON the winning side Gao
ahead, FigE, on, What | want t.
ma kc ont to-day is that our aWmuui-
tion is not exhausted: that all which
has been accomplished has been
only the sllirmishiug before the great
Armagcdduu: 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 in
Vulnerable hosts to be marShalcd by
the rider on the white horse has yet
taken the field: that what God has done
yet Las been with arm folded in flow
! tIlI lbbts bul llldl lilt NllilN IL ''Aaliilrr
when he viii rise from his throne, ana
throw OIL that robe, and come out OF
the palaces Of eternity, and come dowIa
the stairs of heaven with all conquer
ing step, and halt in the presence ot
cXpectant nations, and flashing his ON
niScicnt eyes across the work to bc done,
will put back the sleeve of his right arm
to the shoulder. and roll it up there, and
for the worlds final and complete
rescue make bare his arm. Who can
doubt the result when according to my
text Jehovah does his best: when the
last reserve force of Omnipotcucc takes
the field: when the last sword of eternal
might leaps from its Scabbard? Doyou
know what decided the battle of
Sedan? The hills thousand feet high.
Eleven hundred cannon on the hills.
Artillery on the heights of Givonne,
and twelve German batteries on the
heights of La Moncello. The crown
prince of Saxony watched the scene
from the heights of Marry. Between
a quarter to six o'clock in the morning
and one o'clock IN the afternoon
of Sept I'd. 1876, the hills
dropped the shells that shattered the
French host in the valley. The French
emperor and the $1,000 of his army
; captured by the hills. So in this con-
l hct now raging between holiness and
. sin ''our eyes are unto the bills.
= Down here in the valleys of earth we
, must be valiant soldiers of the cross,
e but the commander of our host walks
the heights, and views the scene far
| better than we can in the valleys, and
+ at the right day and the right hour all
e heaven will open its batteries on ouT
Y side. and the commander of the hosts
t of unrighteousness with all his follow
$ ers will surrender, and 1t VII
c take eternity to fully celebrate
the universal victory through oui
It Lord Jesus Christ. "Our eyes are
# unto the hills" 1t is so certain TO be
>, accomplished that Isaiah in my text
l looks down through the iicld-glass of
'' prophecy. and speaks of it rs already
, accomplished, and | take my stand
u where the prophet took his stand, anC
/ look at il as all done. "Ilallelujah
d tits done" See. Those cities without
l. a tear, Look. Those continents with
II out a pang. Behold! Those nemi
y spheres without sin! Why, thos'
deserts, Arabian desert American
desert, and Great Sahara desert, arc al
irrigated into gardens where Goo
u = walks in the cool of the day. The at
mosphere that encircles our glob'
floating not one groan. All tn
H. rivers and lakes and oceans dimple'
ie with not one falling tear. Th
g climates Of the earth have drop
Z ped out of them the rigors of the coli
~ and the blasts of the heat, and 1t
;, universal spring! Let us change tn
III old worlds name. Let it no more b
CT called the earth, as when it was reek
ne ing with everything pestiferous ant
w. malevolent, scarleted with battle
81 fields and gashed with graves but nov
40 so changed. so aromatic with gardens