Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1896-10-17
AC1yOMAC G r. VA, SATURDAY. OCTOBER II 1896

church headed Ly some Doctor Kirk Of
pentecostal power yet to take tongue Of
fire. see them moving into the ranks,
carrying 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
tho stars, forever and ever. Into that
battle on our side will roll those mighty
engines of power, the printing presses
of Chistendom. 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 windsl God showed what he could
do with them when the splintered tim
bers of the ships of the Spanish armada
were strewn on tie rocks of Scotland,
Norway and the Hebrides. The waters
He showed what he could do with them
when he put tho whole earth under
them, leaving it subaqueous $50 days.
The earthquakesl He showed what he
could do with them when be lot Cara
Gas drop into the open mouth of horror
and the islands of the sea went into en-
tombment. The ightnings He showed
what he could do with them when he
wrapped Mount Sinai in fame, and we
have all seen their flashing lanterns
moving with the chariots of the mid
night hurricane All the regiments ele-
mental will come in On our side in the
great Armageddon. Come, and let us
mount and ride along the line and re-
view the troops of Emanuel and find
that the regiments terrestrial and &C.
lestial that come into that battle on the
right side are, as compared with those
Oh the wrong side, . to 1, 100 TO l,
1000 to 1.
The King of Kings In Command.
But who is the commander in chief
on this side? Splendid armies have been
ruined, caught in traps. flung over prec-
ipices and annihilated through the in
competence or treachery of their gener-
al. Who commands on our side? Jeho-
Yah-Jipeh, SO called in one place. Gap
tain of salvation, go called in another
place. King Of kings, Lord of lords,
Conoueror of conquerors. His eye ON
niscient, his arm omnipotent. He will
take the lead. He will draw the sword.
He will give the command. And when
be plunts 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 opensl "For-
wardP' "ForwardW is the command
Oh both sides given. The long lines of
both armies wayer and swing to and
fro Swords Of truth against engines in
fernal Black horse cavalry of perdition
against white horse cavalry of heaven.
The redemption of this world and the
honor of the throne Of God to yindicate.
How tremendous is the battle. The army
Of righteousness seems giving way. But
no. It is only part of the vancouver OF
the infinite fight. 1t is deploy of the
host celestial. What meeting il this
field of splendor end wrath, of the an
gclio and of the diabolic, Of hosanna
and blasphemy, of song and curse, of
the divine and the satanic. The thun-
derbolts of the Almighty burst and blaze
upon the foe. BoomI Boom! By the
torches of lightning that illLA4ine the
scene 1 see that the crisis of the Anna
geddon has come. 1t is the turning
point of this last battle. The next mo-
ment will decide all. Aye, the forces Of
Apollyon are breaking ranks. See, see!
They fly Some on foot, some on wingl
They fly! Back over the battlements of
perdition they 60 down with infinite
crash, all the regiments diabolic. Back
to the mountains and caves the armed
hosts of earth, crying as they retreat to
the rocks and mountains, "Fall on us
ana QlQO u6 1IClll tl-C 4tSNC VI n1i1A oAAoo
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?'
After the Battle.
And while Apollyon, the prisoner OF
war, is being dragged in chains TO his
dungeon and our conqueror is remount-
ing his throne I look off upon the bat
tlefeld, and among the slain l find the
oarcasses of Mohammedanisn and pa
ganism and atheism and infdelity
and dissipation and fraud and multi
tudinous wrong strewing the plain,
and hear the angel that standeth in
the sun crying in the words of Revela-
ton to all the fowls that fly in the
midst of heaven-the eagles, and the
vultures, and the hawks, and the alba
trosses Come and gather yourselves
together unto the supper Of the great
God, that ye may cat the flesh of kings,
and the flesh of captains, and the flesh
of mighty men, and the flesh Of horses,
and of them that sit OH them. %