Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1896-10-15

think all the angels OF God will join in
1t. The ons that stood with sword of
flame at the gate of paradise. The one
that pointed Hagar to the fountain in
the wilderness The one that halted
Balaam ON the highway. The one that
warned Lot to flee the doomed city.
The one that took part with Joshua
against the Canaanites. The one that
informed Mary of the approach OF
the Nativity. The one that wres-
tied with Jacob at the brook Jabbok.
The one that swung open the gate for
the incarccrated Apostle Peter. The
one that strengthened Christ in His
last paroxysm. All. think, will be
thcre-their velocities inconceivable,
so that when Daniel was in prayer,
Gabriel, we are told, came from lleav-
en- to speak to him, and il Heaven be
at the center OF the universe, that angel
must have travelled thousands of mill
ions 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 com
mand of the archangel, Down to
earth! Forward into the battle"'
those regiments angelic, lightning
winged, rainbow-girdled, fire-footed,
shall sweep into the great Arranged
don.
The next regiments that see march
ing into the fight will be the regiments
ccclesiastic. According to the last ac-
count and practically only in the be-
ginning of the great Gospel movement
which proposes tn take the whole earth
for God, there are 1900, 900 Methodists,
}, III, 900 Baptists, l,2sO,3 1873 Presbyter-
ians, l,230, ZOO Lutherans and go, 900
Episcopaliaus. But tho present statis-
tics of churches will be utterly 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 Chris
tendon. You see by that time an
Atheist or an infidel will be a curiosi-
ty, and he will be looked at as we look
at a man with long hair reaching be-
low his shoulders, and long tingernails
that are never cut, and q stare in the
eyes indicating incipient lunacy-not
to be argued with, but to be pitied;
while it will not be any unusual 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 so nations
and baptizing over a million souls.
And the great hosts of believers will
fill the earth, making the 3,3i7, 900
combatants that Xerxes reviewed a
corporal's guard in comparison. / see
them, the regiments ecclesiastic, NOV
ing into that last battle. The Luther
ans headed by some great Martin Luz
ther yet to be born The Metho lists
headed by some George Whitefield yet
to come. The Presbyterians headed by
some John Knox yet to arise. The
Episcopalians headed by some Bishop
Charnoc,S yet to be enrobed. The
Baptists headed by some Mission
airy Carey yet to bless the world.
The Congregational church, headed by
some Doctor Kirk, of pentecostal power,
yet to talec tongue of fire. see them
moving into the ranks, carry ing a
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 Chris
tendon. Into that battle will also
move the mishtiest telescopes, that
shall bring the stars in their courses to
fight for our God.
Again, the regiment elemental will
come into that battle on the right side.
The winds. God showed what He
could do with them when the splint-
cred timbers of the Spanish Arm ada
were strewn on the rocks of Scotland,
Norway and the Ilibrides. The wa
tiers! lie showed what he could do
with them when he put the whole
earth under them, leaving it subaque-
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 island of the
sea went into entombment. The light
nings! lie showed what He could do
with them when he wrapped Mt. 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 Armageddol-
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
compared with those on the wrong
side, two to one, n hundred to one, q
thousand to one.