The Penn's Grove record., 1896-10-23

peration they will fall into line at the great
Armageddoni Is It not appalling, these
uncounted regiments of tho earth, to be
Joined by the uncounted regiments from
perlition2 Can any power cope with themP
Especially when / tel you who their com
mander is, for so much In all wars depends
upon the ohieftain. Their leader will not
/ be q political accident or n military HAP
pen So" BY talent, and adroitness and
cOura &c, and unceasing industry he has
come to the bad eminence. He disputed the
throne Of heaven with the Almighty, but
no one has ever disputed the throne OF eter-
nal night with this monarch who will in the
last battle take the field In person. Milton
calls him Luctfer, Goethe calls him Mephis-
topheles, the Hebrew call him Abaddon, the
Greek calls him Apollyon. He is the impeE-
s~onation Of all malevolence. OF all oppres-
sion, OF all cruelty. tn summing up Of all
falsehood. In his makeup nothing bad was
left out and nothing good was put In, n
he is to be the General, The Commander-in.
Chief of all the forces on the wrong side OF
the great A~rnageddon. He has been in
more battles than you have ever read about,
and he has gained more victories than have
lever been celebrated in this world. But I
tguess this old warrior of Pandemonium
Twill not have an undisputed field. l guess
there will be an army to dispute with his
forces. / have mentioned the supremacy OF
hhis world. / guess our troops will not
have to run when. on the day mentioned
lin my text, all the internal batteries shall be
Iunlimbered. We have been reviewing the
troops diabolic. We have been measuring
the calibres o:their guns. We have been ex-
laminin9 their ammunition wagons Now
let US look at the forces to be marshalled In
the ~Armageddon on the right side.
First of all, I mention the Regiments
angelic. Alas, that the subject Of demon
iology seems better understood than the
Subject of angelology. But the glorious
spirits around the throne and all the bright
immortals that ill the galleries and levels
Of the universe are to take part In that last
great fight, and the Regiments Angelic are
the only regiments capable Of meeting the
Regiments Plntonic. TO show you soms-
thing of an angels power, / ask you to
consider hat Just one Of them slew one
hundred and eighty-ave thousand Of Sem
nacherlb'S hosts In a night, and IT is not a
tough arithmetical question to solve, II one
angel can slay one hundred and eighty-1ve
thousand troops In Il night, how many can
Ave hundred millions of them slay2 The
old Book says that ''They excel In
strength" 1t is not a celestial mob, but a
diseipled host, aud they know their rank.
OnerSbin, seraphim. thrones, principals
ties and powers! And tns leader OF those
regiments in Michael the %Archangel. David
saw just one group of angels sweep past,
and they were twenty thousand eharioted.
Paul, who in the Canadian college had his
faculties so wonderfully developed, con-
fes5es his incapacity to count them by say
ing. ''Ye ure come to Mount Zion and an
innumerable company of angels" II each
soul on earth has a guardian angel, then
thers must be sixteen hundred million
angels IN earth to-day. Beside that,
heaven must be full of angels, those who
stay there; not ouly the twelve angels who,
we are told. guard the twelve gates, but
those angels who help in the worship, aud go
on mission from mansion to mansion, and
help to build the hosanpas and enthrone the
hallelujahs and roll the doxologies OF ths
service that never ends. But they all, II re-
luirei, will be in the last fght between
holiness and sin. Heaven could afford to
adjourn, just one day, and empty all its
temples, and mansions, and palaces, and
bou!evards into that one battle.
The next regiments that I see MARCHING
Into the hght will BIZ the Regiments EccIesl-
astic. According to the last accounts, and
practically only in the beginning Of the gos-
pei movement which proposes to take the
whole earth for God, there are four million
six hundred thousand Methodists, three
million seven hundred and twenty-five thou
sand Bapttsts, one million two hundred and
eighty thousand three hundred and thirty.
three Presnyterians, one million two hundred
and thirty thousand Lutherans, and six
hundred and forty thousand Episcopalians.
But the present statistics OF churches will be
utterly swamped when, after all the great
denominations have done their best work,
the slowest OF all the 5ects will have more
number than the present enrolment of all
denominations throughout ~Christendom. ]
see them moving into the ranks, carrying q
standard striped and starred; striped as sug.
costing Him by whose stripes we are healed,
and starred rs with the promise that those
who turn many to righteousness shall shine IS
the stars. forever and ever. Into that battle
on our side will roll those mighty engines Of
power, the printing presses Of Christendom.
Into that battle will also move the mightest
telescopes, that shall bring the stars In their
courses to fight for our God.
Again, the Regiments Elemental will CONF
into that battle on the right side. The
winds! God showed what BE could do with
them when the sptntered timbers Of the
ships of the Spanish Armada were strewn
on the rocks of Scotland, Norway and the
Hebrtdes. The watsrsl He showed what He
could do with them when He put the whole
earth under them, leaving 1t subaqueous one
hundred and fifty days. The e~arthquakesl
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 ~hghtningsl He
showed what He could do with them when
He wrapped Noun. Sinai In fame, and We
have all seen their flashing lanterns moving
with the chariots of the midnight hurricane.
All tuc ncklLuCIto LtcLucAtdl Wll GomG IN 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 right side are, as COM
pared with those on the wrong side, two to
one. a hundred TO one, a thousand to one.
But who Is the Commander-in-Chief on
this side? Splendid armies have been
ruined, caught In traps, flung over precipices,
and annihtlated through the Incompetence
or treaehery of their general. Who COM
mands on our side? Jshovah-Jirehi So
called In one place. Captain of Salvation"
so-called in another place. King OF kings.
His ego omnisoient. His arm omnipotsnt.
He will take the lead, He will draw the
sword. He viii! give the command. And
when He plants His foot for the combat, the
foundations Of the earth Will quake, aud
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 strug-
gle. Oh, my soul. The battle OF all time and
all eternity opens. Forward For
wardI' Is the command on both sides given.
The long lines of both armies waver, E, 1
swing to and fro. Swords of truth against
engines Internal. Black horse cavalry Of per-
dition against white horse cavalry OF heaven,
The redemption of this world and the honor
OF tie throue OF God to vindicGte. how ire
mendous is the battlel The army of right
eousness seems giving away; but mol It is
only a part OF the Of the inRuils
fight. 1t is a depIoy of the host CELESTIAL.
What a meeting in this heli OF sp.endor
and wrath, of the angels, and of the
diabolic, OF hosanna aud blaspheny, of
song and curse, OF the divine aud the satanic,
The thunferbults OF the Almighty burst
and blaze upon the Zoe. Boom! BoomJ
By the torches of lightning that Illuminated
the scene l see that the crisis Of the Arma-
geddon has come. 1t is the turning point
OF this last battle. The next moment will
decide all, AYei the forcas of Apellyon
are breaking ranks. Seel Seel They fyl
Some IN foot, some on wing; they fly.
Back over the battlements OF perdition they
so down with infinite crash, all the Regi-
ments Dlabolici Back to the mountains
and caves the armed hosts of earth, crying
as they retreat to the rocks and mountains,
"Fall on US n 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 10 r..