The morning times., 1896-10-12

the sloweSt OF all the sects will have more
numbers than the present enrolment OF
all denominations Throughout Christen-
dom.
You see by that time an atheist or an
iniidel will be a curiosity, and he viii
be looked at as We look at a man with
long hair reaching below his shoulders
and long finger nails that are never cut,
and stare in the eyes Indicating in,
cipient lunacy-not to lie argued with,
bat to be piticd: while il will not be an
un usual thing to see men as much devoted
TO their religion as Francis Xavier was
devoted TO his religion, when he went
through the streets asking all to come to
hear his faith cxpounded, in ten years
planting the Gospel in fifty nations and
baptizing over million Souls.
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 splintcrcd tinhers
of the ships of the Spanish Armada We're
strewn on the rocks of Scotland, Norway
and the Hebrides. The waters. He Sho wed
what He could do with them wheu He put
tie whole earth under them, leaving 1t
subdqueous 100 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 entoIDbment The lightuings,
He showed what He could do with them
when He wrapped Mount Sinai in flHme,
and we have all seen thcir flashing Ian
terms moving with the charints OF TIE
midnight hurricane. All the Regiments
Elemental VIII come in ON oar side III the
great ArnagedGoD. Come and let us mount
and ride along the line, and review the
troops OF Emanuel, aud find that tke
Regiments Terrestrial and Celestial that
come into that battle on the right siGc
are. compared with those on the wrong
side, two To one, hundred TO one,
thousand to one"
THE BATTLE.
But " ho is the Commander-in-C Chief on
this side" Splendid armies have been
ruined, caught III traps, flung over precipi-
.eS, and HuGIlIllatcd Ghroush the incompe
tence or treachery OF their gc2cral. Who
Commands on our side? Jehovah -.Iireh!
so-calicd in one place. Captain of Saliva
ton so-cailed III another place. King
of Kings Lord of Lords. Conqueror OF
ConQuerors. His eye umnisCient. His arm
omnipotent- He Will take the lead. He
will draw the sword. He Will give the
command And when he T!ants 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 " III
trembie.
after we have seen the two armies clash
in the last struggle. Oh. my soul! The
battle OF all time and all eternity opens.
Forward Forward is the command on
both sides given. .Charge.' .Chargc! The
long lines of both armies waver. and swing
to and fro. Swords of truth against engines
Internal Blackhorse cavalry Of perdition
against whitehorSe cavalry Of heaven. The
redemption of this world nd the honor of
the throne of God to vindicate, how ire
mendous is the battlel The army of right
eousness seems giving way; but no! 1t
is only part of the maneuver of the In
| finite fight 1t is a deploy of the host
| celestial. What a meeting in this field of
| spIendor and wrath. of the angelic and of
| the dia bolic, of hosanna and blasphemy, Of
| song and curse, Of the divine and the
satanic.
1.-The thurderbolts of the Almighty burst
| and blaze upon the foe. Boom! HOum! BY
| the torches of lightning that illumiue the
scene l see that the crisis Of the ArIna-
| geddon has come. 1t is the turning point
| Of this last battle. The next moment will
! decide all. Aye! the forces of Apoilyon
are breaking ranks. See! See! They fly
| Some Oh 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 cty-
ing as they retreat to the rocks and noun
| tains, Fall OH 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 nf his wrath ha come, and who
| shall be able to stand
"And while Apoliyon, the prisoner Of war.
| is being dragged in Chains to his dungeon,
| and our Conqueror is rem ounting His throne,
look off upon the battlefield, and among
| the slain l find the carcasses of Moharn-
mechanism, and paganism, and atheism and
| infidelity, and dissipation, and fraud. and
multitudinous wrong, strcwing the plain.
| ard l hear the angel that standeth in the
sun crying, in the words of Revelation, to
| all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven
the eagles, and the vulturss. and the
! hawks, and the albatrosses-'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