Connecticut western news., 1896-10-15

closed his life of assault upon Christian ity by writing: Happiness is dream, and only pain is real. l have thought so for S4 years, and know no better plan than to resign myself to the inev- itable and to reflect that flies are born to be devoured by spiders and man to be consumed by care. l wish 1 had never been born" Oh, the God forsaken regi- ments of infidels, who, after having spent their life in antagonizing the on- ly influence that could make the earth better, gather with their low wit, and their vile sheer, and their learned idio- cy, and their horrible blasphemy, to take part against God and righteous ness in the great Armageddonl
 To Kill Christians.
 Other regiments who will march in on the wrong side in the battle will be the regiments Mohammedan. At the present time there are about 175, 900, 900 Moslems. Their plain mission is to kill Christians, demean womanhood and take possession of the earth in the in- terest of ignorance, superstition and moral filth. The massacre of 50, 900 Ar menians in the last two or three years is only one chapter in their effort to de- vastate the earth of everything but themselves. So determined are they in their bad work that all the nations of the earth put together dare not say to them, "Stop, or we will make you stopp My hope is that long before that last battle of which I speak the Turkish government, and with it Mohammedan- ism, may be wiped out of existence. The Turkish power for the last 400 years has been the mightiest hindrance on earth to religious liberty and moral inn provement. Her extermination is proph- esied in the book of Revelation in the figure of the drying up of the river Euphrates, and she is going rapidly, thank God. In 1920, by the Greek in- surrection, she received the first destruc- tive blow. In 1928 the Turkoman army of 80,O0O was destroyed and the cause of liberty advanced. In 1927 England, France and Russia, not so cautious as they have since been, at Navarino hu- initiated the Turkish fleets, and Greece was free. Weaker and weaker the Turk ish power has become, and it has lost Algiers and Wallachia, and, more than all, during the past decade, through her cruelty, has lost the sympathy of every good man and woman in all the earth, and if William E. Gladstone were prime minister of England the Turkish government would very soon either quit her outrages or go down under the bom- bardment of the men -of-war from many nations now lowering near the Bospor- us. But if the Bible prophecy concern ing the drying up of the Euphrates is not fulfilled before the battle mention ed in my text Mohammedanism will march in with sword and poison and torch to take her part in the great Ar mageddon.
 On the Wrong Side.
 Yea, to show the magnitude of the forces on the wrong side, I have to tell you that what is left of heathenism at that time will march into the conflict. There are 150, 900, 900 fetish idolators, 22O, 900, 900 Brahmins, 400, 900, 900 Buddhists. Through the sublimest move ment of this century, the missionary movement, all the time gathering in momentum, I believe all or nearly all of that ITO, 900, 900 of heathendom will be converted to God. But that which is not converted will come into the Ar mageddon on the wrong side.
 Other regiments on that wrong side will be made up of offenders of all sorts -the defrauders, the libertines, the dy- namiters, the anarchists, the oppressors and the foes of society, the criminals of all nations, by whatever name they are now called or shall then be called. They may not before that have openly taken sides, but then they will be compelled to take sides. With what venom, with what violence, with what desperation they will fall into line at the great Ar mageddon! Is it not appalling, these uncounted regiments of the earth, to be joined by the uncornted regiments from perdition? Can any power cope with them? Especially when I tell you who their commander is, for so much in all wars depends upon the chieftain. Their leader will not be political accident or a military "happen so." By talent | and adroitness and courage and un- | teasing industry he has come to the bad eminenoe. He disputed the throne of heaven with the Almighty, but no one has ever disputed the throne of eternal | night with this monarch, who will in | the last battle take the field in person. | Milton calls him Lucifer, Goethe calls | him Mephistopheles, the Hebrew calls | him Abaddon, the Greek calls him Apollyon. He is the impersonation of all malevolence. of all oppression, of all cruelty, the summing up of all false- hood. In his make up nothing bad was | left out and nothing good was put in, and he is to be the general, the con- mander in chief of all the forces on the wrong side in the great Armageddon. | He has been in more battles than you l have ever read about, and he has gain | ed more victories than have ever been celebrated in this world. But I guess
 this old warrior of pandemonium will
 not have an undisputed field. I guess
 there will be an army to dispute with
 his forces. have mentioned the su- premacy of this world. I guess our
 troops will not have to run when on
 the day mentioned in my text all the
 internal batteries shall be unlimbered.
 We have been reviewing the troops dia-
 bolic. We have been measuring the cal
 ibers of their guns. We have been ex-
 amining their ammunition wagons.
 Now let us look at the forces to be mar
 shaled in the Armageddon on the right
 side.
 The Regiments Angelic.
 First of all, mention the regiments
 angelic. Alas, that the subject of de-
 monology seems better understood thar
 the subjects 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 regi
 ments capable of meeting the regiments
 plutonic. To show you something of al
 angels power, I ask you to conside,
 that just one of them slew 1855, 900 oi
 Sennacherib's host in night and 1t ii