Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1896-10-15
ARMAGEDUON.
The Powers of the Good and the Evil
VIII Wage a War.
LcGionS WIN Rush to Battle In the Great
Struggle, and the Cause of Righteous
NiiI frsyIu sermon by Rev.
4. Dewitt TalmHgU.

In his Srrmoa Sunday Rev. Dr. Tai
mage discussed the great conflict which
prophecy fore shadows ut the climax of
the worlds ugglcs-Arma geldon.
His text was Rev. xvi, Ii: And he
gathered them together in place
called in the Hebrew tongue Arranged
don"
Mcgiddo is the name of a mountain
that looks down upon distraction. the
greatest battlefield that the world has
ever seen. There I:arall fought the
Canaanitc>; there Gideon fought the
Midianitc>; there Josiah fought the i'm
vading Egyptians. The whole region
stands for battle, and the Arranged
don of my text borrows its name from il
and is here used. not geographically, but
iiguratiyrly, while setting forth the
idea that there is to bc "A worlds clos
ing 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 comhatants en-
gagged, 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 he in
Asia, Europe, Africa or America; but
the fact that such 4 battle will take
place is as certain as Gods eternal
truth. When | use the superlative
degree in regard to that coming CON
hict do not forget that there have
been wars all along on stupendouS
scale. As when at Marathon Miltiadcs
brought on his men, not in ordinary
march, hut in full run, upon the horse
men of Persia and the black archers of
Ethiopia, and scattered them, and cry
ing, bring fire, Bring fire. set into
flame the ships of the invaders As when
Pizarro overcame Peru. As when
Philip IL. triumphcd over Portugal.
As when the Huns met the
Cloths. As when 800 Spartans
sacrificed themselves at Thcrmopy-
he As when the Carthaginiaus
took Agrigentum. As when Alexander
headed the Macedonian phalanN. AS
when Hannibal invaded Italy. Battle
of Hastings, Battle of Valmy! Bat
tie of Pultowa. Battle of Arbela!
Battle of Tours, Battle of Borodino.
rino, Battle of Fontcnoy, where lOO,-
geo were slain, Battle of Chalons,
where 800, OO0 were massacrcd. Bat
tie of llcrat, where Genghis King de-
stroyed l,GOO,O lives! Battle of
Neishar, where l,7i7,O 900 went
down to death! 1,sl6, 900 slain at
Troy. And American battles, too,
near us now to allow us to appreciate
their awful grandeur and significance,
except You who were there, facing the
north or facing the south! But all the
battles | have named put together
will not equal in numbers enlisted, or
fierccness, or grandeur, or triumph, or
rout, the coming Armageddon contest.
Whether it shall be fought with print
ers' type or with keen steel. whether
by brain or muscle, whether by pen or
carbine. whether by booming can
non or thunders of Christian
eloquencc, ! do not know, and you
may take what l say as fgur-
ative or literal, but take as certain
what st. John, in his vision on the
rocks of the Grecian archipelago, is
pleased to call "Armageddon."
regiments that will be engaged in the
conflict; then will say something of
the Commanders 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 Regiments Dia-
bolic. In this very chapter from which
my text is taken we are told that tho
spirit of devils will be there. How
many millions of them no one can tell,
for the statistics of the satanic domin-
ions 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 man and woman and child
on earth has a tempter, there must be
ut least sixteen hundred millions of
evil spirits familiar with our world.
Perhaps as many more are engaged on
especial enterprises of abomination
among the nations and empires of the
earth. Beside that there must be an
inconccivable number of inhabitants
in realms pandemoniac, staying there
to keep the great capitals of sin going
from age to age. Many of them once
lived in Heaven, but engaging i'll con-
spiracy to put satan on the throne,
they were II rled out and down,
and they are now among the worst
thugs of the universe. Having been
in three worlds-Iicaven, earth and
hell-they have all the advantages of
great experience. Their power, their
speed, their cunning, their hostility
wonderful beyond all statement! In
the Armageddon they will, l doubt
not, be present in full array. They
will have no reserve corps, but all will
| be at the front. There will not only
be soldiers in that battle who can be
seen and aimed at. but troops intang-
! ible and without corporocity, 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 of asbestus into the
last campaign of hell! Paul, the brav-
est of men, was impressed with their
might for evil when he said, I'VE
wrestlc not against flesh and blood,
but against pripcipalitics and against
powers and against the rulers of the
| darkness in this world, against wicked
ness in high places" On, what an agi-
Eating moment, when the ranks dia-
bolic move up and take til cir places for
conflict in the Armageddon!
Other regiments who will march into
the fight will be the Regiments Alco-
holic. They viii! be made up of the
brewers companies, distillery owners
and liquor dealers associations, and
the hundreds of millions of their pa
irons. They will move into the ranks
with what the Bible calls the Song of
the drunkard." And what a bloated.
and soaked, and blcared, and blasted,
and hiccoughing, and nauseating
host. If now, according to a sci
enlist, in England there are So
900 deaths annually from strong
drink, and in the United States,
according to another estimate, 9S,-
900 deaths annually from strong drink,
what an army of living drunkards that
implies, coming up from the whole
earth to take their places in the last
battle, especially as the evil increases