The herald., 1896-08-31

ecusness mighty to save. hath said 1t
will not break his covenant nor after
the thing that has gone out OF his
mouth.
Indeed, the fulfllment has already
begun. The strongholds where devils
held high carnival are giving way.
Spain, the arena of the inquisition. Is
now open to the Bible and her highways
are threaded by the feet of industrious
coloorteurs. Reasonings of righteous
ness. temperance and a judgment TO
come are thundered from Protestant
pulpits under the very walls of the Vat
lean Mohammedans are foregoing
their jorneys to Mecca, the murder of
infants in the DEVILS bushes of Africa
Is disappearing and the slaughter tables
are being demolished. Markets where
human bodies are sold for food are bolt
ed and barred and the crucified Jesus
preached from their threshold. Where
once children strangled their aged pa
rents with filth and mud and rolled them
into the barges now prayers to God for
sick fathers and mothers ascend from
offspring kneeling at their bedsides and
the crocodiles no longer feast on chill
dyen from maternal hands. Nor is the
shrek of the suttee heard again from
widows burning with the bodies of their
husbands.
Think not from this that all has been
accomplished. 'Tis but the gray dawn
of morning, ana there remaiEeth yet
riuch land to be possessed. Yet Gospel
influences have so far extended that
Irdia is honey-combed, the walls of
China are breeched. Africa is surround
ed. while the power of atheism, deism.
rationalism and Romanism and other
devilisms are broken in Europe, while
slavery. our own great curse, is gibbeted
in the land of the free and the home of
the brave
All this means something, and what is
its indication but that the fulfillment
of the prophecy shall be completed?
these are the dawn before sunrise, signs
OF the day, birth of nations, forerunner
Of empire. universal and divine. betok-
ening the conversion of the abundance
of the sea. the shining of the Lord in
His glory. the coming of the gentiles to
the light and kings to the brightness
of His rising. Tlien all languages shall
havmonza in the shout Of one Lord one
faith ana orc baptism. and all heaven 5
hosts shall shout the refrain. the king
doms Of this world have become the
Kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ.
Then prejudiceS shall be buried, ban
nCrs come down. nationalities be for
gotten. Then the cross, the cross. the
precious cross. the tyondrous cross Of
Jesus win become an international an
from the tree Of Golgotha and every
telescope look to the Calvary constella-
tion. Every kindred tribe and tongue
shall kiss the scepter Of the Prince of
Pe&ce and crown Him Lord cf all and
love. friendship and Kindness shall be
ba aptized with divine cmniprescence.
Then. when redeemed dominion is
bounded only by its own frontiers and
the fullness shall be of Christ $
kingdom realized 'thuo shalt
call thy walls salvation and
thy gates praise. The sun shall be no
more thy light by day. neither for
brightness shall the moon give light
unto thee. but the Lord shall be unto
thee an everlasting light and thy God
thy glory Thy sun shall no more go
down, neither for brightness shall thy
moon withdraw itself for the Lord shall
be thine everlasting light and thy God
thy glory. Thy sun shall no more go
down. neither shall thy moon withdraw
itself, for the Lord shall be thine ever
lasting light and the days of thy mourn
irg shall he ended. The people also
shall be all righteousness; they shall
Inherit the land forever, the branch Of
my planting, the work of my hands that
(ChrisD may be glorified.' For His
dominion shall be from sea even to sea
and from the river unto the ends of the
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