The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-10-24

They will move into the ranks with
what the Bible calls the ''Song OF the
Drunkard." And what a bloated, and
soaked. and bleared, aud blasted, and
hiccoughing, and nauseating host! If
now, according to a scientist, in Eng
land there are $4,000 deaths annually
from strong drink, and in the
United States, according to an
other estimate, $4,000 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 battle, especially as the
evil increases and the millions now
staggering on their way may be joined
by other millions of reinforcement;
brigade after brigade, with drunkards'
bones drumming on the head of beer.
barrels the dead march of souls.
These millions of victims of alcohol
Joined by the millions of the victims of
arrack, the spirituous liquor of China,
and India, and Arabia, and Egypt, and
Ceylon, and Siami
Yea! to show the magnitude of the
forces on the wrong side, l have to
tell you that what is left of heathen-
ism at that time will march into the
conflict. There are $50. 1000, 900 fetish
idolaters, 20,000,00 Brahmins, AGO.
100000 Buddhists. Through the sub
limist movement of this century, the
missionary movement, all the time
gathering in momentum, l believe all,
or nearly all, of that 77O,OO0 900 of
heathenism will be converted to God.
| Rnt ha ;ol, ;.
come into the Armageddon on the
wrong side.
First of all, l mention the Regiments
Angelic. Alasl that the subject of
demonology seems better understood
than the subject of angelology. But
the glorious spirits around the throne
and all the bright 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
something of an angels power, |
ask you to consider that just one
of them slew $4,000 OF Sem
pacherib's hosts in night, and 1t is
not tough arthmctical question to
solve, if one angel can Stay ls5,00C
troops in night. how many can 800
900, 900 of them slav? The old Book
says that They excel in strength" 1t
is not a celestial mob, but n disciplined
host, and they know their rank Cher.
ubim, seraphim, thrones, principals
ties and powers! And the leader of
tose regiments is Michael the Arch
angel. David saw just one group oi
angels sweep past, and they were 22
900 charioted. Paul, who in the Ga
malian college had his faculties so won
derfully developed, confesses his inca
pacity to count them by saying: "Yt
are come to Mount Zion and an innun
cradle company of angels" If each
soul on earth has guardian angel
then there must be 1.600, 600, 900 angels
on earth to-day. Beside that, HEAVIER
must be full of angels, those who stay
there; not only the ~ angels who, W,
are told, guard the IL gates, but those
angels who help in the worship, ant
go on mission from mansion to man
sion and help to build the hosannas
the doxologies Of the service that
never ends. But they ALL if required
will be in the last fight between
holiness and sin. Heaven could af
ford to adjourn just one day, ant
empty all it's temples, and mansions
and palaces, and boulevards into that
one battle. / think all the angels oi
God will join in it. The one that stood
with sword of flame at the gate of par
adise. The one that pointed liagar t.
the fountain in the wilderness. The
one that halted Balaam on the high
way. The one that warned Lot to flee
the doomed city. The one that took part
with Joshua against the Canaanites
The one that informed Mary of the APP
proach of the Nativity The one that
wrestled with Jacob at the brook Jab
box. The one that swung open the
gate for the incarceratcd Apostle Peter
The one that strengthened Christ in
His last paroxysm. All, think, will
be thcre-their velocities ipconceiv
able. so that when Daniel was in
pra ger, Gabriel, we are told, came from
Heaven to speak to him, and If HEAVIER
be at the center of the universe, thai
angel must have travelled thousand:
of millions of miles in an instant
Talk of earthly regiments on double
quick march! What will be the speed
Of the regiments angelic when, at the
command of the archangel, down t.
earth! Forward into the battle!
those regiments angelic, lightning
winged, rainbow-girled, fre-footed
shall sweep into the great Arranged
don!
The next regiment that / see ma rch
ing into the fight will be the Regimen
Ecclesiastic. According to the last &c
count, and practically only in the be
ginning of the great gospel movement
which proposes to take the whole earth
for God, there are 4,600,0 600 Methodlsts
J 3,725, 900 Baptists, l,2s0,333 Presbyte
rians, 1,23O,0O0 Lutherans, and 6f0,0OI
Episcopalians. But the present sta
tistics of the churches will
be utterly swamped when af
ter all the great denomination:
have done their best work, the slow
est of all the sects will have more mum
, bers than the present enrolment o
, ti%po fbrauuhout Chris