The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-10-22
TAhMAoE's SERMON
"And he gathered them together in a
plain called in the Hebrew tongue
Armageddon."-Rev. xvi. 1G.

"And he gathered them together in a
plain called in the Hebrew tongue
Armageddon."-Rev. xvi, 1G.
MeSiddo is the name of a mountain
that looks down upon Esdlaelon the
greatest battlefield that the world has
eVer seen. There Barak fought the
Canaanttes *;there Gideon fought the
MldlaniteS; there }osiah fought the in
vading Egyptians. The whole region
stands for battle and the .ArmaSeddon
OF my text borroWs it's name from it,
and is here used, not geographically,
but figlratively while setting forth the
idea that there is to be a worlds clos
ing battle, the greatest Of all battles,
compared With the conflicts CT this
century and all other countries were
insignificant. because of the greater
number OF combantants engaged. the
greater victory and the greater sdefeat.
The exact date Of that battle we do
not know, and the exact locality Is I'M
certain. It lmay be in Asia, Europe,
Africa, or America; but the fact that
such a battle will take place lis as GER
tain as Gods eternal truth. When I
use the superlative degree in-regard to
that coming conflict, i do not forget
that there have been wars:all along on
's~tupendous scale. AS when ait -Mara-
thon Miltiades brought on his men,
not in ordinary march, but in full run,
upon the ,hOrSemen of Persia and the
black ;archers of Ethiopia, and scat
tered them, n 'crying, Bring fire!
Bring tire!' set into flame the ships of
the invaders. AS when Pizarro over
came Peru. AS when Philip III. til
'umphed over Portugal. AS when the
Huns met the <Goths. AS when 300
.Spartans; sacrificed themselves, at Their
mopylae. AS when the Carthagenians
took Agrigentum. AS when Alexander
headed the Macedonian phalanX. AS
when Hannibal invaded Italy. Battle
Of Hastings! Battle of Valmy! Battle
of -Pultowa! Battle of .Arbela! Battle
of Tours! Battle of :Borodino! Battle
of lucknow! aBattle of Solferino. Bat
tie of FontenQy, where 100000 were
slain! Battle of 'Chalons, where 3OO,-
900 were mastered! Battle of Herat,
where Genghis han destroyed $780,
600 lives! Battle Of .Neisbar, where
1,747, O0Ovwent down to death! .And:at
Troy, where $4,000 were%slain! And
American battles, too near us to lilo
us to appreciate their lawful grandeur
md Significance, except you who were
there, facing the North or facing the
South! But all the battles II have
named put together will not tequal in
numbers enlisted, or ~tierceneSs, or "tri-
'umph, or rout, the coming Arma g eddon
contest. Whether it shall be fought
with printers type or keen steel;
whether by brain or muscle; whether
by pen or catbine; whether by BOOM
ing cannon or thunders of Christian
,eloquence,'I do not know, and may
take what I" saga figuratiye or literal,
but take as certain what st. John, in
EiS vision on t1,n pOt1xc nf tho lt1.ooior
archipelago, lis pleased to call HArma-
:gedHon."
Beginning with tthose who will fight
ON the wront' side, Il first mention the
Regiments Diabolic. In this very chap
ter from Which my text is taken we
are told that the spirits of devils will
be there. How many milliOns:of.them
n one can tell, for*the sstatistics"of the
Satanic domains nave never been re-
ported and the roll of that host has
new Oh earth been called; but from
the 'direful, and continental, and plan
.etary work theyIhaveralready done and
the fact that every zmun and woman
n child on earth:has a temper, there
must be at least sixteen hundred mill
lions of evil spirits familiar with our
world. Perhaps as a more are en-
gagged on especial<enterprises Of -abom-
:inatiOn among the:natiDns and empires
of searth. Besides that, there must be
an Uncomfortable number of inhab-
itants 10 realms ipanhemoniac, staying
there ITO keep the great capitals of sin
going from age to page. Many of them
once lived in heaven, but engaging in
conspiracy to put Satan on the throne,
they were hurled cou and down. and
they are now among the worst thugs
,of the universe. Having been in three
worlds-.heaven, earth and hell--they
have all the advantages of great eNpe-
1rience. Their power, their speed, their
cunning, their hostility, wonderful be-
You'd all statement! TN the Arranged
don they will, 1 doubt not, be present
in full array. They will have no re-
,serve corps, but all will be at the front.
There will not only be soldiers in that
ibattle who can be seen and aimed at,
but troops Intangible and without COZ
poreity, and weapons may strike clear
Through them without giving them
hurt. With what shout of defiance will
they >climb up the ladders of fire and
leap from the battlements cof asbestos
into tthe lastscaEapaign of hell!
fOther regiments who Will march into
the fight will be the Regiments Alco-
h6lic. They will be mMde up of the
brewers companies, distillery owners
and lliquor dealers associations, and
the Hundreds Of millions mf their pat
I roTs. They WIFI move into the ranks
with what the fGble calls Song of the
d%runkard.' Aid what a 1loated and
soaked and bieared n BLASTED and
hiecougiing and nauseating host! If
now, according to a scientist, in Eng
land lthefe are $4,000 deaths annually
from >stlGmg drink, and in the limited
StaHes, according 10 another estimate,
$500 deaths annually from strong
drink, what an army of living dunk
ards sAlat implies, coming up from the
whole earth to take their places in sthe
last battle, especially as the evil in
creaseS and the millions now ~stagger
ing III their way may be joined !by
other millions of reinforcements; brig
AIDE after brigade, With drunkar ls'
bones drumming on the head of beer
barrels the Death march Of souls.
Ihese millions of victims of alcohol.
Joined by the millions OF the victims Of
arrack, the spirituous liaN1or of China
and india and Arabia and Egypt md
Cny1On and Si9 mn