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be on,v REGIMENTS capable Of meeting the

the only regiments capable Of meeting the
Regiments Plutonic. To show you some
! thing of an angels power, I ask you to
consider that Just one of them slew one
hundred and eighty-five thousand of SEN
naohertb's hosts in a night, and it is not
tough arithmetical question to solve. if one
! angel can slay one hundred and eighty-dve
thousand troops In night. how many can
old Book says that ''Thev eycsl in
strength" 1t is not celestial mob, but
discipled host, and they know their rank.
| Cherabim, seraphim. thrones. principali-
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 eharloted.
Paul. who in the Canadian college had his
faculties 50 wonderfully developed. con-
fesses his incapacity to count them by say
ing. "Ye 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, but
those angels who help in the worship, aud go
! on mission from mansion to mansion, and
help to build the hosannas and enthrone the
hallelujahs and roll the doxologies of the
service that never ends. But they al. If re-
CURED, will be in the last fight between
| holiness and sin. Heaven could afford to
adjourn, just one day, and empty all its
temples, and mansions, and palaces, and
boulevards into that one battle.
The next regiments that I see marching
into the fight will be the Regiments Ecclesi-
astic According to the last accounts, and
practically only in the beginning of the gos-
| whit nh &ot-o &Io
whole earth for God, there are four million
six hundred thousand Methodists, three
million seven hundred and twenty five thou
sand Baptists, one million two hundred and
eighty thousand three hundred and thirty
three Presbyterans, one million two hundred
and thirty thousand Lutherans, and Fix
hundred and forty thousand Episcopalians.
But the present statistics Of churches will be
utterly swamped when. after all the great
denominations have done their best work,
the slowest OF all the sects will have more
numbers than the present enrolment of all
denominations throughout Christendom. I
see them moving into the ranks, carrying
standard striped and starred; striped as sug-
costing Him by whose stripes we are healed,
and starred as with the promise that those
who turn many to righteousness shall shine as
the stars. forever and ever. Into that battle
on our side will roll those mighty engines of
power, the printing presses of Christendom.
Into that battle will also move the miShtest
telescopes, that shall bring the stars In their
courses to fight for our God.
Again. the Regiments Elemental will como
into that battle on the right side. The
| winds! God showed what He could do with
them when the sp!intered timbers Of the
ships of the Spanish Armada were strewn
on the rocks of Scotland. Norway and the
Hebrides. The waters! He showed what He
could do with them when He put the whole
than,
hundred and fifty days. The earthquakes!
He showed what He could do with them
when He let Caracas drop into the open
mouth of horror and the islands of the sea
went into entombment. The lightnings! He
showed what He could do with them when
He wrapped Noun. Sinai in fame, and We
have all seen their flashing lanterns moving
with the chariots Of the midnight hurricane
All the Regiments Elemental will come In our
tide in the great Armageddon. Come and let
us mount and ride along the line, and review
the troops of Emanuel, and find that the
Regiments Terrestrial and Celestial that como
into that battle on the right side are, as COM
pared with those on the wrong side, two to
one, hundred to one, a thousand to one.
! But who is the Commander-in-Chief on
this side? Splendid armies have been
ruined, caught in traps, flung over precipices,
and annihilated through the incompetence
or treachery Of their general. Who COM
} mands on our side2 Jehovah-Jireh! So
called in one place. captain of Salvation, ="
} Lord OF lords. Conqueror of conquerors.
His eye omniscient. His arm omnipotent
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, aud
when He shall give the battle shout, all the
} gates of hell will tremble.
, But do not let US shout until after we have
7 seen the two armies clash in the last strus-
gle. Oh, my soul! The battle of all time and
all eternity opens. "Forward!' For
, ward!' Is the command on both sides given
| The long lines of both armies waver, 81
swing to and fro. Swords of truth aeain,,
, engines Internal. Black horse cavalry of per
Y dition against white horse cavalry of heaven
l the redemption of this world and the honor
7 of tie throne of God to vindicate, how ire
4 mendous Is the battle! The army of right
eousness seems giving away; but no! 1t i:
, only part of the man9uvre Of the infinite
. fight. 1t is dep!oy of the host celestial
i What meeting in this field OF splendo1
{ and wrath, of the angels. and Of tn,
: diabolic. of hosanna and blasphemy. o
: song and curse, of the divine and the satanic
: The thunderbolts of the Almighty burs
p and blaze upon the foe. Boom! Boom
: Ply the torches of lightning that illuminated
the scene see that the crisis OF the Arma
Q StUuOu HIS COuS IL Is tuo Dom
y OF this last battle. The next moment viii
j. decide all. Aye! the forces of Apollyol
l. are breaking ranks. See! See! They fly
If Some OH foot. some on wing; they fly
} Back over the battlements of perdition the,
If so down with infinite crash, all the Regi
d ments Diabolic! Back to the mountain
/, aud caves the armed hosts of earth. cryin,
as they retreat to the rocks and mountains
II "Fall on US and hide US from the face of Hin
= that stitch upon the throne, and from
10 the wrath of the Lamb, for the great da
ii of His wrath has come. and VINO shall b
y able to stand" Aud while Apollyon, tn
'r prisoner of war, is being dragged in chain
e to his dungeon, and our Conqueror is re
y mounting His throne, look off upon tn
It battlefield, and among the slain I find tn
s. earcasses of Mohammedanism, and Papan
It ism. and Atheism. and Infde1ity, and Dis
10 sipation, and Fraud, and mui,itudinou
70 Wrong, s.rewlng the plain. and 1 hear tn
N angel that standeth in the sun crying in tn
/? words of Revelation, to all the fowls tina
l. fly in the midst of heaven-the eagles. an
Is the vultures. and the hawks, and the alba
,t trosses-'Come and gather yourselves to
J. gsther unto the supper of the great God
ID that ye may eat the flesh of kings, and tn
Is nosh Of cantains and tha flesh Of MIGHT