Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1896-10-17
All ut the rroni.

Ny sermon will first mention the regi
mcnts that will he engaged in the conflict,
then will say something of the command
ers on both sides, and then speak OF the
battle Itself and the tremendous issues.
Beginning with those who will fight on
the wrong side, first mention the rcgi-
ments diaboiic. In this very chapter from
which my text is taken we are told that
the spirits Of devils will be there How
many millions of them no one can tell,
for the statistics of the satanic dominions
have never been reported, and the roll Of
that host has never on earth been called,
but from the direful and continental and
planetary work they have already done
and the fact that every mBn and woman
and child ON earth has temper there
must he Mt least 600. 000, 900 Of evil
spirits familiar with our world Perhaps
rs many more are engaged on especial en-
terpriscs of determination among the nations
and empires of the earth. Besides that
there must he an inconcciN able number of
inhabitants in realms pandcmoniac, stay
ing there 10 Keep the great capitals Of sin
going from age TOT gc Many Of them once
lived in heaven; but, engaging in conspira-
cy to put satan ON the throne, they We're
hurled ont and down, and they are now
among the worst thugs of the universe.
Having been i'm three worlds-hcavcn,
earth and hcll-thcy have all the advan-
tagcs of great experience. Their power,
their speed, their cunning, their hostility,
wonderful beyond all statement. In the
Armagcddon they will. l doubt not, he
present in full array They will have no
reserve corps. but MI will he AT the front.
There will not only be soldiers in that bat
sa1es. stasr III NJ hut
troops intangible and without corporcity,
and weapons may strike clear through
them without giving them hurt With
what shout Of defiance will they climb up
the ladders al fire and leap from the bat
Elements Of asbcstus into the last cam
paign Of hell Paul, the bravest of men,
was impressed with their might for evil
when he said, We wrcstlc not against
flesh and blood, but against principalitics
and against powers and against the rulers
81 the darkness in this world, against spir-
itual wickc,lness in high places" Oh,
what an agitating moment, when the
ranks diabolic move up and take their
places for conflict in the Arnagcddonl
Other regiments who will march into
the iigh; VIII be the regiments alcoholic.
They will he made up of the brewers com
panies. distillcry owners and liquor deal
erS associations ana the hundreds Of mil
lions OF their patrons. They will move
into the ranks with what the Bible calls
the song OF the drunkard " And what a
bloated and soaked and hlcared and blast
ed and hiccGughing and nauscating host.
II now, according Ia II scientist, in Eng
land there are 81. O00 deaths annually from
strong drink. and in the | nited states,
according to another estimate rs, 900
deaths annually from strong drink, what
an army of living drunkards that implies,
coming up from the whole earth 10 take
their places in the last battle. especially as
the evil increases and the millions now
staggering on their WAY may he Joined by
other millions Of rc-cnforccmcnts, brigade
after brigade, with drunkardS homes
drumming on the heads nf beer barrels the
dead march Of souls, These millions II
victims of alcohol, joined by the millions
Of the victims of arrack, the spirit aous
liquor Of China and India and Arabia and
EgvDt and Cevl0u and Sian