The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-12

angel must have travelled thousands Of
! millions of miles in an instant. Talk Of
| earthly regiments on double-quick march!
! What will be the speed Of the regiments
angelic. when. at the command of the
archangel. Down to earth! Forward
| into the battler those regiments angelic,
| lightning winged, rain bow-girdled fire
footed, shall sweep into the great Ar
mageddon
The next regiments that l see marching
into the fight will be the regiment Eccle
siastic. According to the last account,
and practically only in the beginning of
the great gospel movement which proposes
to take the whole earth for Cod there
are four million six hundred thousand
Methodists, three million seven hundred
and twenty-five thousand Baptists, one
million two hundred and eighty thousand
three hundred and thirty-three Presbyte-
rians, one million two hundred and thirty
thousand Lutherans, and six hundred and
forty thousand Epscopalians. But the
present statistics Of churches will be ut
tery swamped when, after all the great
denominations have done their best work,
the slowest of all the sects will have more
numbers than the present enrolment of
all denominations throughout Christen-
dom You see by that time an Atheist or
an infidel will be a curiosity, and he will
be looked at as we look at a man with
long hair reaching below his shoulders,
and stare in the eyes indicating Incl
pent lunacy-not to be argued with but
to be pitied; while it will not be any unu-
sual thing to see men as much devoted to
their religion as Francis Xavier was
devoted to his religion, when he went
through the streets asking all to come to
hear his faith expounded. in ten years
planting the Gospel in fifty nations and
baptizing over a million souls. And the
great hosts of believers will fill the earth.
making the two million three hundred and
seventeen thousand combatants that
AerXes reviewed a corporaPs guard in
comparison. see them, the regiments
ecclesiastic. moving into that last battle.
The Lutherans headed by some great
Martin Luther yet to be born. The Meth
odists headed by some George Whitefeld
yet to come The Presbyterians headed
by some John Knox yet to arise. The
Episcopalians headed by some Bishop
Charnock yet to be enrobed. The Bap-
lists headed by some Missionary Carey
yet to bless the world The Congrega-
tional church headed by some DIR. Kirk of
pentecostal power yet to take tongue of
fire. l see them moving into the ranks,
carrying a standard striped and starred;
striped as suggested him by whose stripes
we are healed, and starred as with the
promise that those who turn many to
RICH teousness shall shine as the stars, for
ever and ever. Into that battle on our
side will roll those mighty engines of
power, the printing presses of Christen-
dom. Into that 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 wlnds God showed what he could
do with them when the splintered timbers
Of the ships of the Spanish Armada were
gt on ha Of
and the Hebrides. The waters! He showed
what he could do with them when he put
the whole earth under them, leaving it
subaqueous one hundred and fifty 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 entomb-
ment. The lightnings! He showed what
ne could do with them when he wrapped
Mount Sinai in flame, and we have all seen
their flashing lanterns moving with the
charlots of the midnight hurricane All
the regiments elemental will come in on
our side in the great Armageddon Come
and let us mount and ride along the line
and review the troops of Emanuel, and
find that the regiments terrestrial and
celestial that come into that battle on the
rightside are, as compared with those on
the wrong side, two 10 one, a hundred to
one, thousand to one.
this side? Sple1kiid armies have been
ruined, caught in traps. flung over prec-
ipices, and annihilated through the in
competence or treachery of their
general. Who commands on our
side? Jehovah-Jireh! so-called in
one place. Captain of Saliva
ton" so-called in another place. King OF
Kings Lord of Lords. Conqueror Of
Conqueror. His eye omniscient. His arm
omnipotent. He will take the lead. He
will draw the sword. He will give the
command. And when he plants his foot
for the combat, the foundations of the
earth will quake, and when he 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. For
ward!' 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.
Blaek-horse cavalry Of perdition against
white-horse cavalry of heaven. The re-
demption of this world and the honor of
the throne of God to vindicate, how ire
mendous is the battle! The army of
Righteousness seems giving way: but MOI
1t is only a part of the manoeuvre of the
infinite fight 1t is a deploy of the host
celestial. What a meeting in this field
of splendor and wrath, of the angelic
and of the diabolic, or hosanna and bias
phemy of song and curse, of the divine
and the satanic The thunderbolts of the
Almighty burst and blaze upon the foe.
Boom! Boom! BY the torches of Light
ming that illumine the scene l see that
the crisis of the Armageddon has come.
II is the turningpolnt of this last battle.
The next moment will decide ALL Ave!
the forces of Apollyon are breaking
ranks. See! Seei They fly. Some on
foot, some on wing; they fly. Back over
the battlements of perditlon they go down
with infinite crash. all the regiments dia-
bolic! 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 stitch upon 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 1 find the
carcasses of Mohammedanism, and Par-
anism, and Atheism, and Infidelity. and
dissipation, and fraud. and multitudinous
wrong, strewing the plain. and hear the
angel that Standeth in the SIM crvipe, a.,