Milford chronicle., 1896-10-16

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} pelago IS pleased to call AFmagedaoG.
All at the Front.
My sermon will first mention the regi
ments that viii be engaged in the conflict,
thsp yyill say something Of the command
eFs on both sides, and theH speak Of tht
battle itself and tho tFemendQpS issues.
beginning with those who will fight or
the wrong side, firsb mention the Fegis
ments diabolic. In this very chapter from
which my text is taken we arc told that
ttiy SPIRITS of devils will be there How
many millions " ;hnm no one can tell,
for the statistics of the Hatani3 dQHligiQps
have never been reported and the roll o.
that host has never on earth been called
! buE Fom the direful and continental and
planetary work they have already done
| and tho fact that every mag and WomaR
/ and child on Garth has q temper there
must DO at ieast LOCO, 000,00g Of evil
/ spirits familiar with bup world Perhaps
as many more are engaged on especial en-
terprises determination among tho nutions
! and empires of tho earth. Besides that
there must DO an inconceiyable number Of
Inhabitants in realms pandemoniac, stay
| ing there to Keep the great capitals of sin
| going nom ago tqpgg. Many Of them once
AtlSR ~ ANttNN PttN1 -
cy to put satan on the throne, they were
hurled ont and down, and they are now
among tho worst thugs Of the universe
Having been in three w0pids-hraYen
earth and heIl-they have all the Hdvan,
tages of great experience. Their power,
their speed, their cunning, their hostility,
wonderful beyond all statement. In the
AFmngeddon they will, ! doubt not be
plesent in full ariaF. They VIA have no
reserve corps, but MI viii DO at the front.
There will not only be soldiers IN that bat.
tie who can be seen and aimed ut, but
troops intangible and without eoFpoFeity,
and weapons may strike clear through
them without giving them hurt With
what shout of defiance will they climb up
the ladders Of fire and leap from the bat |
tlements Of asbestus into the last cam
paign Of hell Paul, the hrayest Of meR 1
was impressed with their might faF evil
when he said, "We wrestle not against
flesh and blood, but against principalities
and against powers and against the rulers
of the darkness in this world, against spir-
itual wickedness in high places. Oh, /
what an agitating moment, when tho
fInks diqboliG move up and take theit
places for conflict in the AFmageddgni
Other regiments who viii MARCH into
the fight will DO the regiments alcoholic.
They will be made up Of the brewers CONF
pRnies, distiilery OwncFs end liquor deal.
ers' associations and tho hundreds Of mil.
lions Of their patrons. They win move
into the ranks with what the Bible calls
the song Of the drunkard. And what a
bloated ard soaked and bleared and blast
ed and hiccoughing and nauseating hostl
# now, according to a scicntist in Eng
land there arc $4,000 deaths annually frgH
strong drink, and in the llnitcg SpuFss
to another estimate, 9S,gQ0
deaths annually from strong drink, what
an army Of living drunl'aTds that implies
coming up from the whole earth 70 take
their places in the last battlp especially M
the evil increases and the millions now
on their way may be Joined by
other millions of re-enforcements, brigade
after brigade with drunkards' bones
drumming on the heads of beer barrels the
dead march of soulsl These millions Of
victims of alcohol, Joined by the millions
of the victims of arrack, the spirituous
liquor Of China and India and Arabia and
Egypt and Ceylon and Siam.
On the Wrong Side.
Other regiments who will march into .
the fight on the wrong side will be the ,
regiments in1del God give but one reve-
lation to the human race, and these men
have been trying to destroy it Many Of !
he books, magazines ana newspapers,
through perpetual scott at Christianity,
nd some Of the universities have hecome
ecruiting agencies for these regiments !
The greatest brigadieF Of all those regis
nents, Voltaire, who closed his life Of as. +,
ault upon Christianity by writing; Hap
,iness is "A dream, and only pain is real !
ave thought so for "a years, and know /,
10 better plan than to resign myself to the
Inevitable and to reflect that flies are born
o be devoured by spiders and man to be I
Consumed by care. | wish l had never I
zen born. = oh, the God forsaken fegis 4
nents Of inadcls, who, after having spent
heir life IN antagonizing the only influ- =
nee that could make the earth better, \
ather, with their low wit, and their vile !
neer. and thcir learned idiocy, and their