Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-03-09

save" and behind whom we fall into
line to-day and march in the campaign
that is TO take America for God. Hos
anna. Hosanna! Wave all the palm
branches AT his feet put down your
silver and your gold, as in heaven you
may cast before him your coronets.
But now what are the weapons by
which. under our Omnipotent Leader,
the real obstacles in the way of our
country's evangeliZation, the ten thou
sand mile SebastOpols, are to be level
ed? The first columbiad, with range
enough TO sweep from eternity to eter-
nifty. is the Bible millions OF its cop
les going out, millions on millions
this. the monarch OF books. that has
made all the difference between China
and the United States, between Africa
and America: a book declaring in every
STYLE Of phraseOlOgy that all nations are
to be converted, and does not that in
clude our nation? II the Apocalyptic
angel is to fly across the continents
will he not fly across this continent?
The worst insult l could offer you
would be to doubt your yeracity, and
shall we doubt Gods promise? Then
there are all the Gospel batteries, man
ned by seventy thousand pastors and
home missionaries over the head OF
each one of whom is the
SHIELD OF DIVINE PROTECTION
and in the right hand of each one the
cleaning, two-edged sword Of the In
finite Spirit, Hundreds of thousands
OF private soldiers for Christ, march
Ing under the One-starred, blood-striped
flag of Emanuel! On our side, the
great and mighty theologians Of the
land the heavy artillery. and the hun
dreds of thousands of Christian chill
dren The infantry. They are marching
on EpiscOpacy. with the sublime roll
Of it's liturgies; Methodism, with its bat
tle-cry of The sword OF the Lord and
John Wesley" the Baptist Church, with
its glorious navy sailing up our Ore
CONS and SacramontOs and Mississlppls;
and byterianism. moving On with
tho battle-cry o. The sword OF the
Lord and John Knox. And then, al
ter awhile viii come the great tides Of
revival sweeping over the land, the
five hundred thousand conversions IN
1857 eclipsed by the salvation OF mil
limos in a day, and the four American
armies of the Lords hos- marching to-
ward each other, the Eastern army
marching West, the Western army
marching East, the Northern army
marching South. the Southern army
marching North: shoulder 10 shoulder!
Trampl Tramp, Tramp! Until they
meet mid-cOntinent, having
TAKEN AMERICA FOR GOD!
The thunder of the bombardment is
already in the air, and when the last
bridge of opposition is taken, and the
last pOrtcullis OF Satan is lifted, and the
last gun spiked. and the last tower dis
mantled, and the last charger Of in
iQuity shall have been hurled back up
on its launches, what a time of rejoic-
ing. We will see it, not with these
eyes. which before that will be closed
in blessed sleep, but with strong and
better vision. when the Lord once in
awhile gives us a vacation among the
dovologies to come down and see the
dear old land which pray may always
be the lamb of the text, mild and peace
fuI inoffensive. but in case foreign ma
lions assail it, having two horns Of
army and navy strong enough to hook
them back and hook them down, and
voice louder than dragon, Yea louder
than ten thousand thunders, saying to
the pillows of Asiatic superstition and
European arrogance, Thus far shalt
thou 90. and no farther, and here shall
thy, proud waves be stayed