The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-11-08

lion with one paw caught the com
batant's sword and with his other paw
caught his shield. The man took hi
: knife from his girdle and slew tn
beast. The king, sitting In the gal
lery, said: "That was not fair, til,
lion must be slain by a sword.
Other lions were turned out, ant
the poor victim fell. You cry
SHANE! shame!" at such mean
ness. But the liking, in this case, ii
our brother, and He will see that we
have fair play. He will forbid the
! rushing out Of more lions than we car
meet; He will not suffer us to be
: tempted above that we are able.
Thank God! The King is in the gal
.. lery! His eyes are on us. His heart
is with u.s. blessed are all they who
put their trust in Him.
look again, and / see the angelic
gallery. There they are; the angel
that swung the sword at the gate of
Eden, the same that Ezekiel saw up
holding the throne of God, and from
which look away, for the splendor is
insufferable Here are the guardian
angels. That one watched a patriarch;
this one protected child. That one
has been pulling a soul out of tempta-
ton! All these are messengers of light!
Those drove the Spanish Armada on
the rocks. This turned SIENNA
cherib's living hosts into a heap
of one hundred and eighty-fve
| thousand corpses. Those yonder
| chanted the Christmas carol over
| Bethlehem, until the chant awole the
shepherds These, at creation, stood
ed the newborn world wrapped in
swaddling clothes of light. And there,
holier and mightier than all is Michael,
the archangel. To command an earth
ly host gives dignity; but this one is
leader of leader of the twenty thou
sand chariots of God. and of the ten
thousand times ten thousand angels. l
think God gives command to the arch
angel, and the archangel to the sera-
phim, and the seraphim to the cher
ubim, until all the lower orders of
Heaven hear the command, and go |
forth on the high behest.
Now, bring on your lions. Who can
fear? All the specta tors in the angelic |
gallery are our friends HE shall
give His angels charge over thee, to
keep thee in all thy ways They shall
bear thee up in their hands, lest thou
dash thy foot against stone. Thou
shalt tread upon the lion and adder;
the young lion and the dragon thou
shall trample under foot"
Though the arena be crowded with
temptations, we shall, with the an
gelic help, strike them down in the
name of our God, and leap on their
fallen carcasses. Oh, bending throng
of bright, angelic faces, and swift
wings and lightning foot! hail you,
to-day, from the dust and struggle of
the arena!.
look again, and l see the gallery
of the prophets and apostles. Who are
those mighty ones up yonder? Hosea,
and jeremiah, and Daniel. and Isaiah,
and Paul, and Peter, and John, and
James. There sits Noah, waiting for
all the world to come into the ark;
and Moses, waiting till the last Red
ing for the Jews to return; and John,
Of the Apocalypse, waiting for the
swearing of the angel that Time shall
be no longer. Glorious spirits! Ye
we're howled at; We were stoned; We
we're spit upon! They have been in
he fight themselves, and they are all :
with us. Daniel knows all about lions.
Paul fought with beasts at Ephesus.
In the ancient amphitheater, the
people got so excited that they would
shout from the galleries to the men in
he arena: "At it again!" Forward" q
One more stroke!" "Look out!'!
Fall back" ''Huzzal huzza!" So in
hat gallery, prophetic and apostolic,
hey can not keep their peace Daniel e
'ries out: "The God will deliver thee I
rom the mouth of the lions!' David !
'xclaims: HE will not suffer thy foot
% be moved" Isaiah calls out: ''Fear /
lot! 1 am with thee! Be not dis
mayed" Paul exclaims: "victory
through our Lord Jesus Christr' That
hrong of prophets and apostles can d
lot keep still. They make the welkin
ing with shouting and hallelujahs. U
look again, and see the gallery of I
he martyrs Who is thatp Hugh Lat
mer, sure enough! He would not apol- 7
'Rize for the truth preached; and so v
le died, the night before swinging .
rom the bed post in perfect glee at n
he thought of emancipation. Who are 5
hat army of six thousand six hundred II
nd sixty-six? They are the Theban
egion who died for the faith. Here is
larger host in magnificent array
light hundred and eighty-four thou
and-who persisted for Christ in the
ersecutions of Diocletian. Yonder is
family group, Felicitas, of Rome,
nd her children. While they were