The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-10-24
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Presbyterians. headed by some John
Knox yet to arise. The Episcopalians.
headed by some Bishop Charnock yet
to be enrolled. The Baptists, headed
by some Missionary Carey yet to bless
the world. The Congregational
church. headed by some DIR. Kirk
OF pentecostal power yet to take
tongue of fire. 1 see them NOV
ing into the ranks, carrying
standard striped and starred; striped
as suggesting Him by whose stripes
we are healed, and starred as with the
| promise that those who turn many to
righteousness shall shine as the stars,
forever and ever. Into that battle on
our side will roll those mighty engines
OF power, the printing presses Of
Christendom. Into thai battle will
also move the mightiest telescopes,
that shall bring the stars in their
courses to fight for our God.
Again, the regiments elemental will
come into that battle on the right side.
The windsl God showed what He could
do with them when the splintered
timbers of the ships of the spanish
Armada were strewn on the rocks OF
Scotland, Norway and the Hebrides.
The waters! He showed what He could
do with them when He put the whole
earth under them, leaving it subaq ue-
GUS $50 days. The earthquakes! He
showed what He could do with
them when He let Caracas drop
into the open mouth of horror
and the islands of the sea went into
entombment. The lightnings! HE
showed what He could do with them
when He wrapped Mount Sinai in
flame, and we have all seen their
flashing lanterns moving with the
chariots of the midnight hurricane.
All the regiments elemental will come
in on our side in the great Armaged-
don. Come aud let us mount and ride
along the line, and review the troops
of Emanuel, and find that the regi-
ments terrestrial and celestial that
come into that battle on the right side
are, as compared with those on the
wrong side, two to one, hundred to
one, u thousand to one.
But who is the commander-in-chief
on this side? Splendid armies have
been ruined. caught in traps, flung over
piSSipiSNS ahN thAOuB a.
the incompetence or reachery of their
general. Who commands on our side?
ACKNOWLEDGMENT so-called in one place.
"Captain of Salvation, so-called in an
other place. King of kings. Lord Of
lords. Conqucror of couqucrors. His
eve omniscient. His arm omnipo-
tent. lie will take the lead. lie will
draw the sword. He will give tie
command. And when He plants HIS
foot for the combat the foundations OF
the earth will quake, and when lie
shall give the battle-shout, all the
gates of hell will tremble.
But do not let us shout until after
we have seen the two armies clash in
the last struggle. Oh, my soul! The
battle of all time and all eternity
opens. Forward" Forward" is the
command on both sides given. The
long lines of both armies waver, and
swing to and fro. Swords of truth
against engines Internal. Black
horse cavalry of perdition against
white-horse cavalry of Heaven. The
redemption of this world and the
honor of the throne of God to vindi
cate, how tremendous is the battle
The army of Righteousness seems Civ
ing way; but no! 1t is only part o.
the maneuver of the infinite tght. Ii
is a deploy of the host celestial. What
a meeting in this field of splendor and
wrath, of the angelic and the dia DO lie
of hosanna and blasphemy, of song
and curse, of the divine and the sa'
tanic. The thunderbolts of the AL
mighty burst and blaze upon the foe.
Boom! Booml BY the torches oi
lightning that illuminate the scene
l see that the crisis of the AR
mapeddon has come. 1t Is the turn.
ing-point of this last battle The
next moment will decide all. Aye! the
forces of Apollyon are breaking ranks.
See! See! They fly. Some on foot,
some on wing; they fly. Back over the
battlements of perdition they go down
with infinite crash, all the regime nts
diabolic Back to the mountains and
caves the armed hosts of earth, crying
as they retreat to the rocks and
mountains: Fall on us and hide us
from the face of Him that sitteth up
on the throne, and from the wrath OF
the Lamb, for the great day of His
wrath has come, and who shall be able
to stand"
And while Apollyon, the prisoner OF
war, is being dragged in chains TO his
dungeon, and our Conqueror Is re
mounting His throne, look off upon
the battlefield, and among the slain
: find the carcasses of Mohammedanism
and paganism, and atheism, and in
fidelity, aud dissipation, and fraud
and multitudinous wrong, strew
. ing the plain, and hear the
: angel that standeth in the sun
crying, in the words of Revelation
to all the fowls that fly in the midst o.
heaven-the eagles, and the vultures
and the hawks, and the albatrosses-
Come and gather yourselves together
unto the supper of the great God, thai
We may eat the flesh of kings, and the
: flesh of captains, and the flesh o.
mighty men, and the flesh of horses
: and of them that sit on them"
TIE prophesied Armageddon of the
text has been fought, and Christ ant
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