Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-10-12

engines OF power, the printing presses
Of Chistendom. Into that battle will
also move the mightiest telescopes, that
/ shall bring the stars in their courses to
fight for our God.
Again, the regiments elemental will
come into that battle on the right side.
The winds! God showed what he could
] do with them when the splintered tim
bers Of the ships Of the Spanish armada
were strewn on the rocks of Scotland,
Norway and the Hebrides. The watersl
He showed what he could do with them
when he put the whole earth under
them, leaving it subaqueous $50 days.
| The earthquakes! He showed what he
! could do With them when be let Cara
cas- drop into the open mouth of horror
| and the islands of the sea went into en-
! ointment. The lightnings! He showed
what he could do with them when he
wrapped Mount Sinai in fame, and we
! have all seen their flashing lanterns
moving with the chariots of the mid
night hurricane. All the regiments ele-
mental will come in on our side in the
great Armageddon. Come, and let us
mount and ride along the line and re-
view the troops OF Emanuel and find
that the regiments terrestrial and &C.
lestial that come into thet battle Oh the
right side are, as compared with those
on the wrong side, 2 to 1, 100 TO l,
1000 to 1.
The King of Kings In Command.
But who is the commander in chief
on this side? Splendid armies have been
ruined, caught in traps, flung over prec-
ipices and annihilated through the in
competence or treachery Of their gener-
al. Who commands Oh our side? Jeho-
YAH Jireh, SO called III one place. cap
tain of salvation, so called in another
place. King Of kings, Lord of lords,
Conqueror Of conquerors. His eye om-
niscient, his arm omnipotept. He will
take the lead. He will draw the sword.
He will give the command. And when
he plants his foot for the combat the
foundations of the earth will quake, and
when he shall give the battle shout all
the gates of he'll will tremble.
But do not let Us shout until after we
have seen the two armies clash in the
last struggle. Oh, my soul! The battle
of all time and all eternity opensl 'For-
ward!'' "ForwardP' is the command
on both sides given. The long lines of
both armies waver and swing to and
fro. Swords Of truth against engines in
fernal. Black horse cavalry of perdition
against white horse cavalry of heaven.
The redemption of this world and the
honor of the throne Of God to vindicate.
How tremendous is the battle. The army
of righteousness seems giving way. But
no. 1t is only part of the maneuver Of
the infinite fight. 1t is q deploy Of the
host celestial. What q meeting in this
field of splendor and wrath, of the an
gelic and of the diabolic, of hCsanna
and blasphemy, of song and curse, of
the divine and the satanic. The thun-
derbolts of the Almighty burst and blaze
upon the foe. Boom Boom By the
torches of lightning that iIlumine the
scene see that the crisis OF the Arma-
geddon has come. 1t is the turning
point of this last battle. The next mo-
ment will decide all. Aye, the forces of
Apollyon are breaking ranks. See, see!
They fly! Some ON foot, some on wing!
They fly! Back over the battlements of
perdition they go down with infinite
crash, all the regiments diabolic. Back
to the mountains and caves the armed
hosts of earth, crying as they retreat to
the rocks and mountains, Fall on US
and hide us from the face Of him that
sitteth upon the throne and from the
wrath of the Lamb, for the great day Of
his wrath has come, and who shall be
able to stand?"
After the Battle.
And while Apollyon, the prisoner of
war, is being dragged in chains to his
dungeon and cur conqueror is remount-
ing his throne L look off upon the bat
tlefield, and among the slain find the
carcasses of Northumberland and pa
ganis1n and atheism and infdelity
and dissipation and fraud and multi
tudinous wrong strewing the plain,
and I hear tho angel that standeth III
the sun crying III the words of Revela-
ton to all the fowls that fly in the |
midst of heaven-the eagles, and the |
vultures, and the hawks, and the alba
trosses.t ''Come and gather yourselves |
together unto the supper Of the great |
God, that ye may eat the flesh of kings,
and the flesh of captains, and the flesh
Of mighty men, and the flesh of horses,
and Of them that sit on them.
The prophesied Armageddon of the
text has been fought, and Christ and
his followers have won the day. The
kingdoms of this world have become
the kingdoms qS our Lord and his
Christ All the Christian workers of
our time, you, my hearers, and you, my
readers, and all the Christian workers
of all the ages have helped on the mag
nificent result, and the victory is ours
as much as theirs. This moment iLvit-
ing all outsiders, through the ranso7ned
blood of the everlasting covenant, to get
into the ranks Of the conquerors and IN
der the banner of our leader, shall not
close the service with prayer, as we
usually do, but Immediately give out