The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-11-06
REV. DIR. TALMAGE.
rHE NOTED DIvINGs SUNDAY
DISCOURSE.
Subject "Armassddon."

topAh dnWn upon Esdfmlon, the greatest
battlefield thai The world has ever seen.
There hnrak fought tho canaaultos, there
Ntdeon bought the Midlnnites; there Josiah
fought the invading Eypiiana The whole
region stands Tor BATTLE and the Armaged-
don Ok my text b0ulws i.s name from q,
Nna O. here used, not geographically, but
ngnraiively, while setting forth the idea
mat there Is % be- a worlds closing battle
The greatest Of Oh battles. compared with
when the conflicts fthls century aud al
olher centuries were insiRnihcent. heeauas
OF The greater number OF combatants en-
gageli the greater Victory and the greater
ceieut. The exact date Of that battle wo DO
NOT Know, and the exact locality "a unonr-
tain. may be IA Asia. Europe, Africa, OF
Americas bat the fact that such battle will
take place is a. certain as Gods eternal
Nrulh. When use the superHtive degree 10
feRard 20 that coming conflict / do not forget
that there have been wars an along on
hupendous scale. As when At Marathon Mil
uades brought on his men. not Ia ordinary
hhfcbi but Ia full run, upon the horse
men Of Persia and the black archers Of
ETHIOPIA. aud scattered them. and crying.
Bring IRE! Bring nre" set into fame the
ships Of the invaders As when Pzarro over
came Peru. A. when Philip the Second
Uiumphed over Portugal. As when the Huns
met the Cloths As when three hundred
bpartans sacrificed themselves at Thermo-
pyae. As when the Carthagenlans took Ae-
rigentum. As when Alexander headed the
Macedonian phalanx. As when Hannibal in
yafed Italy. Battle Of Hastingsl Battle OF
Nalmy. Battle Of Arbslal Battle Of Toursl
Battle OF B0rodinol Battle OF Lucknow Bat
tie Of solierino! Battle OF Fontenoy where
100000 wera slanl Battle OF Chalons whore
100000 were massacred Battle OF Herat
where Genghls Khan destroyed 900 900
lives! Battle OF Neishor where i,7i70O0
went down 10 DEATH $4,000 slain at Troy
Aud American battles. too near US now to
allow usto appreciate their awful grandeur
ana significance, eXceptyou who We're there.
facing the North or facing the South But
all the battles I have named put together
viii not equal in numbers enlisted, or fierce
ness, or grandeur. or triumph. or rout the
coming ArmageddOn contest. Whether II
shall be fought with printers type or keen
steel, whether by brain or muscle, whether
by pen or carbine, whether by booming can
non or thunders OF Christian eloquence, do
not know, and you may take what l say az
hguratlve or literal, but take as certain what
81. John, Ia bis vision on the rocks OF the
Grecian archipelago, is pleased to call CAR
mageddon."
BY sermon will first mention the regiments
that will be engaged IN the conflict; then
will say something Of the commanders on
both sides: and then speak Of the battle
itself and the tremendous issues. Begin
ming with those who will fight on the wrong
SIDE first mention the Regiments Dia-
bollc. In this very chapter from which my
text is taken we are told that the spirits OF
devils will DO there. How many millions
OF them no one can tell for the statistics Of
the satanic dominions have never been re-
ported and the roll OF that host has never
on earth been called; but from the direful,
and continental, and planetary work they
have already done, and the fact that every
man and woman and child on earth has
tempter. there must be at least sixteen hun
dre1 millions Of evil spirits familiar with
our world. Perhaps as many more are en-
gagged on especial enterprises OF abomina-
ton among the Nations and empires Of the
earth. Beside that there must be an incon-
ceivable number OF inhabitants In realms
pandemoniae, staying there 10 keep the
great capitals Of sin going from age TO age.
Many Of them once lived in heaven, but
engaging in conspiracy 10 put Satan on the
throne. they were hurled out and down, ana
they are now among the worst thugs OF the
universe. Having been in three worlds, -
Heaven, earth and ell,-they have all the
advantages OF great experience. Their power,
their speed, their cunning, their hostility
wonderful beyond all statement! In the Ar
mageddon they will. doubt not be present
in full array. They will have no reserve
corps, but all will be ut the front. There will
not only be soldiers in that battle who can
be seen aud aimed at, but troops intangible
and without corporeity, and weapons may
strike clearthrough them without giving them
hurt. With what shout Of defiance will they
climb up the ladders of fire and leap from
the batlements OF asbestos into the last CAM
paign OF hell Paul, the bravest OF all men,
was impressed with their miGhLIOr evil when
he said, awe wrestle not against flesh and
blood, but against prinelp alittes and against
powers, and against the rulers Of the dark
ness in this world, against spiritual wicked
ness in high places" Oh, what an agitating
moment. when the ranks diabolie move up
and take their places for conflicts in the Ar
mageddonl
Other regiments who will march into the
fight will be the Regiment Alcoholic. They
will be made of the brewers companies, dis
iil,ery owners and liquor bearers associa,
tious, and the hundreds OF millions of their
patrons. These millions OF victims of alco-
ho Joined by the millions OF the victims OF
arrack, the sprituous liquor Of China and
India, and Arabia, and Egypt, and Ceylon
and am.
Other regiments who will march into the
n0nr on the wrong side will be the Regi'
ments Inhdel. God gave but one revelation
10 the human race and these men have beer
irving to destroy it. Many OF the books
magazines and newspapers, through per
.netual SCOT mt Christianity, and some OF the
for those regimen s. The greatest Brigade
OF all those regiments, Voltaire, who closeC
his life Of assault upon Christianity by writ
ing: "Happiness is dream, and only pain /
real l have thought so Tor eighty-tou
years. and know no better plan than to re
Sign myself 10 the inevitable and to rehec
that flies are born to be devoured by spider
ana man to be consumed by care. wis.,
I had never been born" Oh. the God-for
eaken regiments of inadels, who, after hav
ing spent their life antsgoniHng the only N
0uenee that could make the earth better
gather with their low wit and their vile snee
and their learned idiocy and their horrIbl
basphemy to- take part against God an
Righteousness in the great Armageddonl
other regiments who will march In on IN
the wrong side in the battle will be the Reg
ments Mohammedan. At the present tim
there are about one hundred and seventy
Ave million Mosems. Their plain missio
is 10 kill Christians, demean womanhood
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