The Monitor-register., 1896-09-25

o~DsefVatOrles open toward the heavens
and the lenses of your most powerful
telescopes well polished. Better have all
your Leyden jars ready for some new
pulsation Of might influence. Better
have new fonts of type in your printing
offices to set up some astounding good
news. Better have some new banner
that has never been carried ready for
sudden professions. Better have the
bells in your church towers we'll hung
and rope within reach, that you may
ring out the marriage Of the Kings
Son. Cleanse all your oourthouses, for
the Judge of all the earth may appear.
Let all your legislative halls be gilded
for the Great Lawgiver may be about to
come. Drive off the thrones of despotism
all the occupants, for the King of heav-
en- and earth may be about to reign. The
darkness of the night is blooming and
whitening into the lilies of morning
cloud and the lilies reddening into the
roses of stronger day-ft garlands,
whether white or red, for him on whose
head are many browns. "The day is at
hand"
From Desert to Garden.
One more ray of the dawn I see in
facts chronological and mathematical.
Come now, do not let us do another
stroke of work until we have settled one
matter. What is going to be the final
Issue OF this great contest between sin
and righteousness? Which is going to
prove himself the stronger, God or
Diabolus? Is this world going to be all
garden or all desert? Now, let us have
that matter settled. If we believe Isaiah
and Ezekiel and Hosea and Micah and
Malachi and John and Peter and Paul
n the Lord himself, we believe that it
is going to be all garden. But let us
have it settled. Let us know whether
we are working on toward a success or
toward a dead failure. If there is a
child in your house sick and you are
cure he is going to get well, you SYM
pathize with present pains, but all the
roreboding is gone. If you are in a cy-
clone off the Florida coast and the p
tain assures you the vessel is stanch,
and the winds are changing for a better
quarter, and he is sure he will bring
you safe into the harbor, you patiently
submit to present distress with the
thought of safe arrival. Now I want to
know whether we are coming on toward
dismay, darkness and defeat or on to-
ward light and blessedness. You and I
believe the latter, and if so every year
we spend Is one year subtracted from
the worlds woe, and every event that
passes, whether bright Or dark, brings
ng ono nUpnt nnQrQr O hannv nNncy1rn.
nation, and by all that is memorable in
chronology and mathematics I commend
you to good cheer and courage. If there
is anything in arithmetic, if you sub
tract two from five and leave three, then
by every rolling sun we are coming on
toward a magnificent terminus. Then
every winter passed is n severity less
for our poor world. Then every summer
gone by brings us nearer unfading
arborescence. Put your algebra down on
the top of your Bible and rejoice.
If it is nearer morning at 8 O'Clock
than it is at Q, if it is nearer morning
at 4 o'clock than it is at 8, then we are
nearer the dawn of the worlds deliver
ance. Gods clock seems to go very
slowly, but the pendulum swings, and
the hands move, and it will yet strike
poon. The sun and the moon stood still
once. They will never stand still again
until they stop forever. II you believe
arithmetic as we'll as your Bible, you
must believe we are nearer the dawn.
"The day is at hand"
Physical and Spiritual.
There is a class of phenomena which
makes me think that the spiritual and
heavenly world may after awhile
make a demonstration in this world
which will bring all moral and spiritual
! things to a climax. Now, I am no
spiritualist, but every intelligent man
has noticed hat there are strange and
mysterious things which indicate to
him that perhaps the spiritual world is
not so far off as sometimes we conjeo-
ture, and that after awhile from the
spiritual and heavenly world there may
be a demonstration upon our world for
its betterment. We call it magnetism,
or we call it mesmerism, or we call it
electricity, because we want some term
to cover up our ignorance. I do not
know what it is. Inever heard an audi
BILE voice from the other world. I am
persuaded of this, however: That the
veil between this world and the next is
getting thinner and thinner and that
perhaps after awhile, at the call of God
NOT at the call of the Davenport
brothers or Andrew jackson Davis
some Of the old Scriptural warriors,
some of the spirits of other days mighty
for Coda Joshua, or a Caleb, or a
David, or a Paul-may come down and
help us in the battle against unright-
eousness. Oh, I how I would like to
have them here-him Of the Red sea,
him of the valley of Ajalon, him of
Mars hill English history says that
Robert Clayton of the English cavalry
at the close of the wal bought up all the
old cavalry horses lest they should be
turned out to drudgery and hard work
and bought a piece of ground at Knaves-
mire heath and turned out these old
warehouses; into the thickest and richest
pasture to spend the rest of their days
as compensation for what they had done
in other days. One day a thunderstorm
came up, and these warehouses; mistook
the thunder of the skies for the thunder
of battle, and they wheeled into line,
no riders on their backs-they wheeled
into line ready for the fray. And doubt
me whether, when the last thunder of
this battle for God and truth goes
booming through the heavens, the old
Scriptural warriors can keep their places
on their thrones. Methinks they will
spring into the fight and exchange crown
for helmet and palm branch for weapon
and come down out of the Kings gal
leries into the arena, crying: "Make
room! I must fight in this great Arma-
geddonl" The old warehouses; mingling
in the fight.
Beloved people, I preach this sermon
because 1 want you to toll with the
sunlight in your faces. I want you old
men to understand before you die that
all the work you did for God while yet
your ear was alert and your foot feet is
going to be counted up in the final victo-
ries. l want all these younger people to
understand that when they toll for God
they always win the day; that all pray
ers are answered and all Christian work
Is in some way effectual. and that the
LOOK OUT FOR BREAKERS AHEAD
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