Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1896-09-25
MILFORD, DEL, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25. l896

I Better be on the lookout. Better have your
observatories open toward the heavens
and the lenses of your most powerful tele-
scopes well polished. Better have all your
Leyden jars ready for some new pulsation
Of mighty influence. Better have new
fonts of type In your printing offices to set
up some astounding good news. Better
have some new banner that has never been
carried ready for sudden PROFESSIONS Bet
ter have the bells in your church towers
well hung and rope within reach, that
you may ring out the marriage of the
! Kings Son. Cleanse all your courthouses,
for the Judge of all the earth may appear.
I Let all your legislative halls be gilded, for
the Great Lawgiver may be about TO come.
Drive off the thrones of despotism all the
occupants, for the King of heaven and
earth may be about to reign. The dark
ness of the night is blooming and whiten-
ing into the lilies OF morning cloud and
] tho lilies reddening into the roses of stron-
/ ger day-ft garlands, whether white or
red, for him on whose head are many
crowns. "The day is at hand. !"
/ Rays of Dawn.
One more ray Of the dawn SEQ In facts
chronological and mathematical. Come
now, do not let us do another stroke of
1 MOIk ulAblA VIC AANG HGlAAGu DAlG AAAAtAcI
What is going to be the final issue OF this
great contest between sin and righteous
nesss Which is going to prove himself the
stronger, God or Diabolus? Is this world
going to be all garden or all desertS Now,
let US have that matter settled. II we be-
lieve Isaiah and Hosea and Micah and
Malachi and John and Peter and Paul
and the Lord himself, we believe that it is
going 70 be all garden. But let us have 1t
settled. Let us know whether we are
working on toward success or toward q
dead failure If there Is child in your
house sick and you are sure he Is going
to get well, you sympathize with present
pains, but all the forebOding is gone. II
YOU are in a cyclone OFF the Florida coast
and the captain assures you the vessel Is
stanch, and the winds are changing for a
better quarter, and he is sure he will bring
you safe into tho harbOr, you patiently
submit to present distress with the thought
of safe arrival. Now l want to know
whether we are coming ON toward dismay,
darkness and defeat or on toward light
and blessedness. You and believe tho lat.
ter, and If so every year we spend is one
year subtracted from the worlds woe, and
every event that passes, whether bright OF
dark, brings US one event nearer u happy
contamination, aud by all that Is inexora-
BILE in chronology and mathematics COM
mend you to good cheer and courage. II
there is anything in arithmetic, If you sub
tract two from five and leave three, then
by every rolling sun we are coming on to-
ward magnificent terminus. Then every
winter passed is one severity less for our
poor world. Then every summer gone by
brings US nearer unfAding arborescence.
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Bible and rejoice.
If it is nearer morning at 8 o'clock than
It is at 2, If It is nearer morning at 4
O'Clock than it is at 3, then we arc nearer
the dawn of the world S deliyerance. Gods
clock seems to go very slowly, but the pen
dulum swings, and the hands move, and
it will yet strike noon. The sun and the
moon stood still once. They will never
stand still again until they stop forever,
If you believe arithmetic as well as your
Bible, you must believe We are nearer the
dawn. 1.-THE day is at hand, "
There Is q class of phenomena which
makes ne think that the spiritual and
heay emily world may after awhile make
a demonstration in this world which will
bring all moral and spiritual things to a
climax. Now, am no spiritualist, but
every intelligent man has noticed that
there are strange and mysterious things
which indicate to him that perhaps the
spiritual world Is not so far off as some
times we conjecture, and that after awhile
from the spiritual and heavenly world
there may be q demonstration upon our
world for its betterment. We call it mag
netism, or we call it mesmerism, or we
call 1t electricity, because we want some
term to cover up our Ignorance. do not
know what it is. l never heard an audi
bic voice from the other world. / am per-
suaded Of this, however: That the veil be-
tween this world and the next is getting
thinner and thinner, and that perhaps nft
er awhile, at the call Of God-ppt at the
call Of the Davenport brothers or AM
drew jackson Davis-sQn-e Of the old
Scriptural warriors, some Of the spirits Of
other days mighty for Coda Joshua, or
a Caleb, or u David OF u Paul-mAy come
down and help US in the battle against up
righteousness. Oh, how l would like to
have them here-him Of the Red sen, him
Of the valley of AialOn, him of Mars hill!
English history says that Robert Clayton
of the English cavalry, at the close of the
war, bought up all the old cavalry horses
lest they should be turned out TO druagerF
md hard work and bought piece Of
ground at KnaYesmiFe heath and turned
sut these old warehouses; into the thickest
md richest pasture to spend the rest Of
their days as compensation for what they
had done in other days, One day thUAs
derstorm came up, and these warehouses;
lnistook the thunder Of the skies for the
thunder OF battle and they wheeled into
line, no riders ON their backs-they wheel
ed into line ready for the fray, And
doubt me whether, when the last thunder
of this hattie for God and truth goes BOOM
ing through the heavens, the old ScriptuF-
al warriors can keep their places on their
thrones. Methinks they will spring into
the fight and exchange crown for helmet
and palm branch for weapon and come
down out of the Kings galleries into the
arena, crying: MAKE rOoml must fight
In this great ArmageddonP' The old war
horses mingling In the fight
In the Sunlight:
Beloved people, preach this sermon be-
cause ! want you to toll with the sunlight
in your faces. want you old men to un-
derstand before you die that all the work
YOU did for God while yet your ear was
alert and your foot feet Is going to be
counted up in the final victories. want
all these younger people to understand
that whom they toll for God they always
win the day; that all prayers are answered
and all Christian work is In some way Of
fectual and that the tide is setting in the
right direction, and that all heaven is on
our side-saintly, cherubio, archangelic,
omnipoNnt, chariot and throne, doxolngy
and procession principalities and domin-
ion, he who hath the moon under his feet
and all the armies of heaven on white
horses.
Brother, brother, all I am afraid of is not
that Christ will lose the battle, but that
you and will not get into 1t quick enough
10 do something worthy Of our blood
bought Immortality. Oh, Christ, how shall
meet thee, thou of the SCARED brow, and
the scared back, and tho SCARED hand,
and tho scarred foot, and the SCARED
breast, ii have no scars or wounds gotten
in thy scrviccs 1t shall not be so. step
out today In front of the battle. Come on,