The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-11-06

Government. aud with d MohammeAahlsm.
mHy ne wiped gai ui existence The TufkHh
power of the lnat four hundred years has
been the mighilsst hindutneB on earth to re-.
hg.nus llbHrly and moml Improvement Hr
determination g propnesled ln che Book %
Revelation iH the figure oi tho drying up Of
the River Euphrhtes. aud Hhe b going rapid.
IS, thank Cod BOT ~ The Elhle prophecy
concerning the drying up % the Euphutei
is not iulnIled before thr battle mentioned
in my text. hohammalAnIsm VIII mnreh if
With sword, and poison, rnd torch 90 take
hrr part lu ihe great AfmAgB ld0u.
veal 60 show ire magnitude oi the forces
on thH wrong side, ! hhyu 90 tell you what i
lrIt OF hrHihrnlam at Tint tilae will march
into ihe conflict. There's HrH ono hunfraA
and iuty million fetish idolat0rs, two hun.
bred and twenty million Bahmlna foul
hundred million Buddhigts. Through the
suolimest movement Of this century, the
missionary movement al the time gather.
inc in momentum, believe all. OF nenrlg
al. OF that seven hundred and seventy mill.
ions OF heaihendom win be converted %
God. But that which IL not converted will
come Into the Armageddon on the wrong
side
Other regiments on that wrong eide VIII
bo made up Of offenders OF an sorts the de.
frauders, the libeu nes this dynamltora, the
Anarchists, the opprossors aud the foes OF
society, the criminals Of all Nations. by
whatever name they arc nov called or
shall then be called They may not before
that have openly taken sides. but then they
will DO compelled 10 take Sides With what
venom, with what violence, with what des-
peration they will fan into line NJ the great
Armageddonl Is IL not appalling, those
uncounted regiments Of the earth, 20 be-
Joined by the uneounted regiments from
periitlonY Can any power cope with them2
Especially when tell you who their COM
mander IS, for so much In an wars depends
upon the chleitain. Their leader viii not
be political accident or a military chap
pom So" BY talent, and adroitness and
courage, and unceasing industry he has
come 10 the bad eminenee. He disputed the
throne Of heaven with the Almighty, but
no one has ever disputed the throne Of eter-
nal night with this monarch who will ia the
last battle take the field In person. Milton
calls him Luciier, Goethe calls him Mephls-
tophees, the Hebrew call him Abnddon, the
Greek calls him ADollvon He Is tho inner
sOnauOn OF MI malevolence, OF ali oppres-
sion, OF all cruelty. The summing up Of all
fnlsehood. In his makeup nothing bad was
left out and nothing good was put IN, and
he IL 10 be the General, the COMMANDMENTS
Chief Of all the forces on the wrong side Of
the great Armageddon. He has been In
more battles than you have ever read about,
and he has gained more victories than have
ever been celebrated in this world. But /
guess this old warrior OF Pandemonium
will not have an undisputed field. / guess
there will be an army TO dispute with his
forces. have mentioned the supremacy Of
this world. l guess our troops will not
nave 10 run when. on the day mentioned
in my text, all the internal batteries shall be
a hnW Rnxgfn frrfa ha
troops diabolic. We have been measuring
the calibres o'their guns. We have been ex-
| aiming their ammunition wagons Now
| lot us look at the forces to be marshalled in
the Armageddon on the right side.
First Of all. l mention the Regiments
| Angelic. Alas! that the subject of demon
! ology seems better understood than the
subject Of angelology. But the glorious
| spirits around the throne and all the bright
| immortals that till 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 some
thing Of an angels power, ask you to
! consider that just one OF them slew one
| hundred and eighty-1ve thousand of Sem
nacherib's hosts In a night, and it is not a
tough arlthmetical question to solve, II one
| angel can Stay one hundred and eighty-hve
/
five hundred millions OF them slay2 The
! old Book says that "TheY excel in
strength" 1t is not a celestial mob, but a
| discipled host, aud they know their rank.
/ CherHbim. seraphim. thrones. princ{nali-
ties and powers! And the leader Of those
! regiments In Michael the Archangel. David
saw just one group OF angels sweep past,
and they were twenty thousand charloted.
| Paul, who in the Gamaliun college had his
faculties SO wonderfully developed, con.
fesses his tncapacity to count them by say
ing, Eye are come to Mount Zion and an
innumerable company OF angels" II each
soul on earth has a guardian angel, then
| there must be sixteen hundred million
angels on earth to-day. Beside that.
heaven must be full of angels, those who
stay there; not only the twelve angels who
we are told, guard the twelve gates, bui
those angels who help In the worship, aud &c
on mission from mansion to mansion, and
help to build the hosannas and enthrone the
halleluiahs and roll the doxologies Of the
service that never ends. But they all, II re.
quired, will be in the last fight between
holiness and sin. Heaven could afford t
adjourn, Just one day, and empty all III
temples and mansions, and palaces ant
bouevards into that one battle.
The next regiments that / see marching
into the fight will be the Regiments Ecclesl
hSllCs AcCOIuluB 10 Lue idSI HCtOuutS, Hn1
practically only In the beginning Of the COS
pei movement which proposes to take tn
whole earth for God, there are four million
six hundred thousand Methodists, tire
million seven hundred and twenty-five thou
sand Baptists, one million two hundred anC
eighty thousand three hundred and thirty
three 9resbyterians one million two hundre
and thirty thousand Lutherans. aud s
hundred and forty thousand Episcopalians
But the present statistics of churches will b
utterly swamped when, after all the grea
denominations have done their best worH
the slowest OF all the sects will have NOR
numbers than the present enrolment OF Il
denominations throughout Christendom.
see them moving into the ranks, carrying
standard striped and starred; striped as suo
costing Him by whose stripes we are healec
and starred as with the promise that thos
who turn manyto righteousness shall shine q
the stars, forever and ever. Into that battl
On our side will roll those mighty engines
power, the printing presses OF Christendon
Into that battle will also move the mighte
telescopes, that shall bring the stars In the
: | courses TO fight for our God