The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-12-05

Especiaily when fell you who their COM
mander is. for SO much in all wars depends
upon the chieftain. Their leader will not
be political accident or military map.
pen so." By talent, and adroitness ana
courage and unceasing industry he has
come to the bad eminence. He disputed the
throne OF heaven with the Almighty, put
no one has ever disputed the throne Oh eter-
MAJ night with this monarch who will IN the
last battle take the field in person. milton
calls him Luctfer, Goethe calls him Mephis-
tophees, the Hebrew call; him Abaddon, the
Greek calls him Apollyon. He is the imper-
sonation Of all malevoIence. OF all oppres,
sion, of all cruelty. The summing up OF All
falsehood. In his makeup nothing BAD was
left out and nothing good was put IN, ana
he is to be the General, the Commanuer-ln.
Chief of all the forces on the wrong size OF
the great Armageddon. He has oean III
more battles than you have ever read about,
and he has gained more victories than have
ever been celebrated in this world. But L
guess this old warrior of Paudemonium
will not have an undisputed field. L guess
there will be an army to dispute with MS
forces. have mentioned the supremacy OF
this world. l guess our troops Will not
have TO run when. on tbs day mentloned
in my text, all the internal batteries shall be
unlimbered We have been reviewing the
troops diabolic We have been measuring
the calibres ottheir guns. We have been ex-
| amining their ammunition wagons. Now
| LET us look at the forces to be marshalled in
| the Armageddon on the right side.
First of all. l mention the Regiments
| Angelic. Alas! that the subject Oh demon
olopv seems better understood than the
| subject of angelology. But the glorious
| shirts around the throne aud all the bright
4 immortals that fill the galleries and 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 ange,s power, ! ask you 80
consider that just one OF them Slew one
hundred and eighty-flve thousand - Sen
| nacherib's hosts in night, and 1t Is not q
| tough arithmetical question to solve, II one
angel can STAY one hundred and eighty-fve
| thousand troops in a night, how many can
five hundred millions OF them slay9 Inc
old Book says that ''They excel in
strength" 1t is not a celestial mob, but
discipled host, aud they know their rank.
Chersbim, seraphim. thrones, principals
ties and powers! And tns leader OF those
regiments in Michael the Archangel David
saw Just one group OF angels sweep past,
and they were twenty thousand charioted.
\ Paul, who in the Canadian college had his
faculties SO wonderfully developed, con-
fesses his incapacity to count them by say
ing, 'fYe are come to Mount Zion and IA
innumerable company Of angels" II each
soul on earth has guardian angel, then
there must be sixteen hundred million
angels on earth to-day. Beside that,
heaven must be full of angels, those who
stay there; not only the twelve angels who,
we are told, guard the twelve gates, but
those angels who help in the worship, aud go
on mission from mansion to mansion, and
help to build the hosannas and enthrone the
hallelujahs and roll the doxologies of the
service that never ends. But they all, II re-
! quired, will be in the last fight between
holiness and sin. Heaven could afford TO
! adjourn, just one day, and empty all its
temples, and mansions, and palaces, and
boulevards into that one battle.
The next regiments that / see marching
into the fight will be the Regiments Ecclesi-
7 astic According to the last accounts, and
practically only in the beginning of the gos-
pei movement which proposes to take the
whole earth for God, there are four million
l six hundred thousand Methodists, three
million seven hundred and twenty-five thou
: sand Baptists, one million two hundred and
eighty thousand three hundred and thirty
: three Presbyterians one million two hundred
; and thirty thousand Lutherans, and si1
hundred and forty thousand Episcopalians
| But the present statistics Of churches will b
/. utterly swanped when. after all the grea
: denominations have done their best work
! the slowest of all the sects will have NOR
numbers than the present enrolment OF al
: denominations throughout Christendom.
see them moving into the ranks, carrying
, standard striped and starred; striped as sug
, costing Him by whose stripes we are healed
/ and starred as with the promise tnat tnos'
{ who turn many to righteousness shall shine a
9 the stars. forever and ever. Into that batt
! on our side will roll those mighty engines o
power, the printing presses OF Christendom
9 Into that battle will also move the mightes
y telescopes, that shall bring the stars In thei
!, courses to fight for our God.
Again. the Regiments Elemental will com
: into that battle on the right side. Tn
winds! God showed what He could do will
!, them when the splintered timbers of tn
4 ships of the Spanish Armada were strew
= on the rocks of Scotland, Norway and tn
7 Hebrides. The waters! He showed what II
Z could do with them when He put the Who'll
o earth under them, leaving it subaqueous on
9 hundred and fifty days. The earthquakes
He showed what He could do with ther
when He let Caracas drop into the ope
!, mouth of horror and the islands of the Sc
!, - went into entombment. The lightnings! Fl
y showed what He could do with them whe
He wrapped Noun. Sinai in flame, and W
i have all seen their flashing lanterns movin
!. with the chariots of the midnight hurricane
- All the Regiments Elemental will come in on
= side in the great Armageddon. Come and IL
- MS mount and ride along the line, and revie
~ the troops OF Emanuel, and find that tn
Repiments Terrestrial and Celestial that com
- into that battle on the right side are, as CON
!, pared with those on the wrong side, two
= one, a hundred to one, thousand to one.
/. But who is the Commander-in-Chief o
= this side? Splendid armies have bee
= ruined, caught in traps, flung over precipice
70 and annihilated through the Incompetence
I. or treachery Of their general. Who con
= mands on our side2 Jehovah-Jirehi sc
= called in one place. "Captain of Salvation,
10 so-called in another place. King Of king
70 Lord of lords. Conqueror of conqueror;
: His eye omuiscient. His arm omnipoten
:. He will take the lead. He will draw th
:. sword. He viii. give the command. An
n when Elephants His foot for the combat, til
- foundations of the earth will quake, an
= when He shall give the battle shout, all th
y. gates of hell will trembie.
: But do not let US shout until after we ha,
=, seen the two armies clash in the last stru,
70 gle. Oh, my SOUL The battle of all time an
"A all eternity opens. Forward" sFo
~ ward!' Is the command on both sides give
"a The long lines of both armies waver, C
!. swing to and fro. Swords of truth again
"a engines internal. Black horse cavalry of pc
y. dition against white horse cavalry of heave
N The redemption of this world and the hon,
- of tie throne of God to vindicate, how In
:, mendous is the battle The army of RICH
al eousness seems giving away; but no! 1t
= only part of the manRuvre of the infDi
lv fight. 1t is depoy of the host celestis
"a What meeting In this field of spiend
"a and wrath, of the angels, and of Il
| diahoIio of hosanDa and hlaSnhamv