The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-10-16

| Nv tCugnt the Mldlan-
ties: there Josiah
fought the invading Egyptians. The
whole region stands for battle and the
| Armageddon of my text borrows its
name from it, and is here used, not
geographically, but fguratively, while
setting forth the idea that there is to
be worlds closing battle, the greatest
of all battles, compared with which the
conflicts of this century and all other
centuries were Insignificant, because
OF the greater number of combatants
engaged, the greater victory and the
greater defeat. The exact date of that
battle we do not know, and the exact
locality Is uncertain 1t may be in
Asia, Europe, Africa or America, but
the fact that such battle will take
place is as certain as Gods eternal
truth. When use the superlative de-
gree in regard to that coming conflict,
do not forget that there have been wars
all along on stupendous scale. AS when
at Marathon Miltiades brought en- 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, and crying, Bring fire.
Bring firer' set into fame the ships
of the invaders. AS when Pizarro
overcame Peru. AS when Philip the
Second triumphed over Portugal. AS
when the Huns met the Goths. As
when three hundred Spartans sacrificed
themselves at Thermopylae. AS when
the Carthaginians took Agrigentum.
AS when Alexander headed the Mace
DOMAIN phalanx AS when Hannibal
invaded Italy. Battle of Hastings!
Battle of Valmy! Battle of Pultowa!
Battle of Arbelal Battle of Tours Bat
tie OF Borodinol Battle of Lucknow
Battle of Solferino. Battle of Fontenoy
} where 100000 were slain Battle OF
Chalons, where 300, 900 were massacred!
Battle of Herat, where Genghis Khan
, destroyed 100000 lives! Battle OF
, Neishar, where 1,747, 600 went down to
death! $4,000 slain at Troy! And
American battles, too near us now to
allow us to appreciate their awful gran
deur and significance, except you who
were there, facing the North or facing
, the SOUTH But all the battles l have
named put together will not equal in
numbers enlisted, or fierceness, OF
> grandeur, or triumph, or rout, the com
ing Armageddon contest. Whether II
shall be fought with printers type oil
keen steel, whether by brain or muscle
l whether by pen or carbine, whether
by booming cannon or thunders Of
4 Christian eloquence / do not know
and you may take what l say as figur'
q alive or literal, but take as certain
t what st. John, in his vision on the
: rocks Of the Grecian archipelago, /!
o pleased to call "Armageddon."
My sermon will first mention the reg
iments that will be engaged in the con
g fiict; then will say something of The
S commanders on both sides; and theI
G speak of the battle itself and the tire
4 mendous issues. Beginning with thost
e who will fight on the wrong side,
y first mention the regiments Diabolic
n In this very chapter from which m!
y text is taken we are told that the spir
= it's of devils will be there. How man!
r millions of them no one can tell, TO
: the statistics of the satanic dominion
s have never been reported and the roi
). of that host has never on earth beer
d called: but from the direful, and con
: tinental, and planetary work they hay
8 already done, and the fact that ever,
: man and woman and child on eartl
+" has a tempter, there must be at leas
sixteen hundred millions of evil spirit
familiar with our world. Perhaps a
many more are engaged on especia
: enterprises of abomination among tn
Z nations and empires of the earth. BE
/ side that there must be an inconceiv
II able number of inhabitants in realm
N pandemoniac, staying there to keep tn
e great capitals Of sin going from age t
II age. Many of them once lived in heav
e en-, but engaging in conspiracy to pu
8 Satan on the throne, they were hurle'
> out and down, and they are now amonl
l. the worst thugs OF the universe Hav
. ing been in three worlds-heaven
n earth and hell-they have all the ad
: vantages of great experience. Thei
t. power, their speed, their cunning, thei
g hostility wonderful beyond all state
a mentl In the Armageddon they will
a ] doubt not, be present in full array
l. They will have no reserve corps. bu
all will be at the front There vii
y not only be soldiers in that battle VIII
d. can be seen and aimed at, but troop
" Intangible and without corporelty, an
l. weapons may strike clear through Their
ID without giving them hurt. With wha
ID shout of defiance will they climb u
j. the ladders of fire and leap from tn
Z battlements OF asbestos into the las
10 campaign OF hell Paul. the bravest c
men, was impressed with their Nigh
for evil when he said, I'VE wrestl
} not against flesh and blood, but agains
:. principalit!es, and against powers. ar
"a against the rulers of the darkness j
~ this world. against spiritual wicked
lg necs in high places" Oh. what an agl
3 tating moment. when the ranks diabol
4. ic move M ond take their places TO
A conflict in the Arr1poeddon!
Re other regiments who will march in
&c 20 the fight will he the req mems Alec
re- holic. They will be made up Of In