The morning times., 1896-10-12


So taundcred Rev. T. De Witt Talmase
from tGc pulpit of the First Presbyterian
Cmrch yesterday morning.
rr TaIElagc lad taken for his ext tRevela-
tiuus xvi i6-"And lie gathered them to-
gcticr in a place called III the Hebrew
tongue. Arnla geddon.' Hedescribcd arina-
ecdGop as the type of the worlds closing
battle, the greatest of all battles, conf
pared with which the conflicts ofthiscentury
ans. al oiher centuries were insignificant,
because of ;he greater number ofcombatants
engaged the greater victory and the greater
defeat.
He had pictured the marshaiing of the
hosts nf sln for the great struggle. First the
.Rcgiincuts Diabolic," then the "kesi-
IncnFs Alcol.ohc,' - and Regiments !nfidel.
Thenhccime 10 e Regiments Mohamme edan,'
and IF tLcsc he said.
THEIR ONLY MISSION.
AT the present time there are aheTt
cr.,. hundred and seventy-iivc million Mos-
lens Tfe,r plain mission is 10 Kill Christ
ians, dcmcan womaniIOod. and take posses
sion uf Ike Garth in the interest ofiSnorance,
superstition, and moral fifth.
Tie massacre of fifty thousand Ar
InCniaIis III jhe last two or three years is
orlS one chapter III their effort "a deyaStatc
the earth of everything but themselves.
50 determined are they i'll their bad work
that all the nations of the earth put to-
gctncr dare not say to them, Stop! or we
wall make you STOP My hope is that long
hcIurc that last battle of which | speak,
tie Turkish government and with II Mnham-
mechanism, may be wiped ou; Of existence.
The turkish power for the last four
hundred years has been the inightiest
liudral.ve On earth to religious liberty and
IL fa4FN fls.Tn -
pruphcsied in the Book Of Revelations in
the figure # the drying up Of the river
f.,,g,iirajcS and She is gong RAPIDLY, thank
Gud, In see by the Greek instruction,
she received the first destructive tlow.
H. 1923, the Turkcman army of thi't thou
sand wa destroyed and the cause If Ill erty
GyauCed. In 1897, England, France. and
Russia. not so cautious as they have since
hecn at Navarinu humiliatcd the Turkish
fleets aud Greece was free.
"Wr;,i,er and weaker tie Turkish power
has hoCrue, and it has lost AlcinrS and
Waila, I,ia and more than all. during the
past decade through her cruelty. 'ias lost
The sympathy Of every man and woman
in All the earth and if William Z. Glad
stone were Prime minister OF England the
Turki>h government would very suou either
quit her uutrages, or go down under the
h,mbardmcnt OF the mcn-ofwar from
many nations now towering near Bosporus.
But if tie Fitle prophecy coEcrrning the
| drsiug ~ of the Euphrates is not fuinilcd
before the battle mentioned in my text,
AGuiiaIrmedanism viii march in with sNvoid,
ana =, iSon. aud torch to take her part in
the great Anna geddon.'
ON TUE WRONG SIDE.
Continuing DR. Talmagc said: a''otlicr
regiments OF that wrong side will be made
up of offenders OF all sortS-thc dcfraudcrs,
the hhrHincs, the dynamiters, the an
archiStS the uppreSsUrS and the foes uf
! society, The criminals Of all nations, by
whatever name they are now called, or
shall then he called. They may not before
that nave openly taken sides. but then
they viii be compelled to take sides. With
| what venom. with " hat violence, with
what desperation they will fail into line
at the great Arnia geddon, 1t is not ap-
pa:in-. these uncuunted regiments If the
/ earth. to he joined by the uncounte,l rcci-
n.ents from pcrtiitiun? Can any power cope
/ with them? Especially when ! tell you
who their commander is, for So much in
ali wars depends upon the chieftain.
Their lrader will not he a political acci-
! dent ur military happen So By talent,
| and adruitness, and courage, and unceasing
/ Industries he has come to the bad eninrnce.
| lie disputed the throne Of heaven with the
Almighty, but no one has ever disputed
| the throne Of eternal night with this mon
| arch who will in the last battle take the
| field in person. Milton calls :iim Lncifer,
Guethe calls him Mephstophclcs. and He
| brew calls him Abaddon, the Greek calls
| him Apoilyun.
But | guess this old warrior Of Pande-
Inuniun Will rot have an uudisputed field.
guess there will be an army to dispute
| with his forces the supremacy nf This world.
! guess our troops will not have to run when,
| on the DAY mentioned in MY text. all the
| Internal batteries shall be unliinhcFed.
| We have been reviewing the troops dia-
| boiic We have been measuring the cali
bers of their guns. We have been eNam:n.
| ing their wagons. Now let us look ut the
| forces to be marshaled in the Arnageddon
OH the right side.
| FIGHTING FOR RIGHT.
First of all. / mention the Regiments
Angelic. Alas! that the subject uf demon
| ology seems better understood than the
subject of angeloiogy. But the glorious
spirits around the throne aud all the bright
immortals that fill the galleries ana 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 plutonic. To show you some
| thing of an angels power. I ask YOU To
| consider that just one of them slew one
! hundred and eighty-fiyc thousand OF Sen
l
tough arithiEetical question 10 solve. if enc
angel can slay one hundred and eighty
| five thousand troops in a hight. how many
can five hundred million OF them slay?
The old book says that They excel In
| strength 1t is not a celestial mob, but
disciplined host, and they know their
rank Cberubui, serapbim, thrones, prin
| cipali.ics, and powers! And the leader
of those regiments is Michael, the Arch.
angel David saw Just one group of angels
sweep past, aud the ywcre &c, 90 q cbarioted
Paul who in the Canadian college, had his
faculties so wonderfully developed, con
resses his incapacity to count them by
| saying, 'Ye are come to Mount Zion
and an innumerable company OF angels
If each soul on earth has a guardian
angel, then there must be 100000, ,00G
angels on earth today. Beside that, HEAVIER
d must lie full of angels, those who stay
there: not only the twelve angels. who, W,
are told, guard the twelve gates, but those
angels who help in the worship, and go or
missions from mansion to mansion. ant
help to build the hosannas and enthron,
the halleluiahs and roll the doxologies o.
The service that never ends. But they all
if required will he in the last fight be
tween holiness and sin. Heaven coul'
afford to adjourn just one day, and empty
all its temples. and mansions, and palaces
and bouleyards into that one battle.
think all the angels of God will join in 1t
ARMY OF THE CHURCH.
THE next regiments that see ma archin,
into the fight will be the Regiment Eccle
siastic. According to the last account
and practically only in the beginning o
the great Gospel movement which pro
poses to take the whole earth for God
| there are fou r million six hundred thousanl
Methodists, three million seven hundred ant
| ttyn q. five thnuGann RlntiStS mil
lion two hundred and eighty thousand thre
| hundred and thirty-three Presbyt erians