The Globe-republican., 1894-01-26
one side of that throne of skull. lsneels.

one side of that throne of skulls lneels,
in obeisance and worship. Democracy,
and on the other side Republicanism.
and the one that kisses the cancerous
and gaugrened foot of this despot tho
oftenest gets the most benedictionS
There is Hudson river. an Ohio. q
! Mississippi of strong drink rolling
through this nation, but as the rivers
from which l take my figure Of
speech empty into the Atlantic or the
Gulf. this mightier flood of sickness and
insanity. and domestic ruin, and crime.
and bankruptcy, and woe, empties into
the hearts, and the homes, and the
churches, and the time and the eternity
of a multitude beyond all statistics to
number or describe. All nations are
mauled and sacrificed with baleful
stimulus or killing narcotic. The
pulque of Mexico the cashew of Brazil,
the hasheesh of Persia, the opium of
China, the guavo of Honduras, the
wedro of Russia, the soma of India, the
| aguardiente of Morocco, the arak of
Arabia, the mastic of Syria. the raki of
Turkey. the beer of Germany, the
whisky of Scotland the ale of England,
the all-drinks of America, are doing
their best to stupefy, infiame, dement,,
impoverish, brutalize and slay the
human race. Human power, unless re-
enfoced from the heavens. can never
extirpate the evils mention.
Much good has been accomplished by
the heroism and fidelity Of Christian
| reformerS. but the fact remains that
there are more splendid men and mag
nifcent women at 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 in a brewery.
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 tar
iff of 1900. 900, 900 which rum put upon
| the United States in 1891. for that is
what it cost us. You do not tremble
or turn pale when l say that The
fact is we have become hardened by
statistics and they make little impress
| sion. But if some one could gather
into one mighty lake all of the tears
that have been wrung out of orphan
age and widowhood; or into one organ
diapason all the groans that have been
uttered by the suffering victims of this
holocaust; or into one whirlwind all
the sighs 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 en-.
dungeoned, we might perhaps realize
| ha IAc01, R,,f
all hoping for something from above,
| and while the bare arm of suffering,
and the bare arm of invalidism, and
the bare arm of poverty, and the bare
arm of domestic deSolation, from which
rum hath torn the sleeve, are lifted up
in beggary and supplication and de.
| spair, let the bare arm of God strike
the breweries, and the liquor stores,
and the corrupt politics, and the license
laws, and the whole inferno of grog.
shops all around the world.
But l have no time to specify the
manifold evils that challenge Christian.
ity. And think have seen in some
Christians, and read in some newspa-
pers, and heard from some pulpits, a
disheartenment, as though Christianity
| were so worsted that it is hardly
| worth while to attempt to win this
world for God, and that all Christian
work would collapse, and that it is nc
use for you to teach a Sabbath class, or
distribute tracts, or eXhOrt in prayer
meetings, or preach in a pulpit, as
Satan is gaining ground. To rebuke
that pessimism, the gospel of Smashup,
preach this sermon show ing that you
are on the winning side. Go ahead! Fight
on. What l want to make out to-day
is that our ammunition is not ex.
hausted; that what God has done vet
has been with arm folded in flowing
robe: but that the time is coming when
He will rise from His throne. and throw
off that robe. and come out of the pal.
aces of eternity, and come down the
stairs of H aven with all-conquering
step. and halt in the presence of ex.
pectant nations, and flashing His ON.
niscent 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 worlds final and
complete rescue make bare His arm
Who can doubt the result when, ac.
cording to my text. Jehovah does His
best: when the last reserve force of
omnipotence takes the field: when the
last sword of eternal light leaps from
its scabbard.
So in this conflict now raging be-
tween holiness and sin ''our .eyes are
unto the hills" Down here in the
valleys of the earth we must be valiant
soldiers of the cross but the Command
er OF our hoSts walks the heights, and
views the scene far better than we can
in the valleys, and at the right day and
at the right hour all Heaven will open
its batteries on our side, and the COM
mander of the hosts of unrighteousness
with all of his followers will
surrender, and it will take eter.
nifty to fully celebrate the uni
versal victory through our Lord
Jesus Christ Our eyes are unto the
hills" 1t is so certain to be accom-.
plished that Isaiah in my text looks
down through the field-glass of proph.