Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1896-10-28
REV. DR.. TALMAGE.
The Eminent Divine's sunday
Discourse.
Subject: "Armaseddon.s'


TExr: s'And he gathered them together In
4 place called In the Hebrew tongue, Arma.
sc idon. Rev. xvi. 16.
Megildo is the name Of a mountain tina
looks down upon EsdreloU, the greatest
battlefield that the world has ever SEEN
There Barak fought the CaDaanites; there
Gideon fought the Miiianites; there Josiah
| fought the invading Egyptians. The whole
region stands for battle. ami the Armaged-
don OF my text borrows is name from II
aad Is here used, not geographically, bu'
f'eurstiveiy, while setting forth the ides
the greatest OF all battles. compared with
which the conflicts OF this century and all
other centuries were Insignificant, because
OF the greater number OF combatants en-
gagged, the greater victory and the greater
defeat. The exact date Of that battle We dc
not know, ami the exact locality is uncer.
tain. may be in Asia. Europe, Africa, OF
America; but the fact that such battle will
take place is as certain as Gods eternal
truth. When use the superlafive degree 10
regard to that coming conflict, do not forget
that there have been wars all along on
stupendous scale. As when at Marathon Mil
tiades brought on his men, not In ordinary
march, but in full run, upon the horse.
men OF Persia and the black archers oi
Ethiopia. and scattered them, and crying,
"Brine f1rei Bring fire!' set into flame the
ships OF the invaders. As when Plzarro over
came Peru. As when Philip ths Second
Hiumphed over Portugal. As when the Huns
met the Goths. As when three hundred
Spartaus sacrificed themselves at Thermo-
pylae. As when the Carthagenians took Ag-
ngentum. As when Alexander headed the
Macedonian phalanx. As when Hannibal In.
vailed Italy. Battle of Hastings! Battle OF
valmy! Battle Of Arbels! Battle OF Toursl
Battle Of Borodino! Battle of Lucknow! Bat
tie Of Solferino, Battle of Fontenoy where
Ion, 900 were slain! Battle OF Chalons where
900 were massacred! Battle Of Herat
where Genghis Khan destroyed l,800, ,000
lives! Battle of Neishar where l. .747 ,OOC
went down TO death! ,Sl6, 900 slain at Troy!
And American battles. TOO near US now to
allow us to appreciate their awful grandeur
and Significance, except you who wero there.
facing the North or facing the South! But
all the battles have named put together
will not equal in numbers enlisted, or fierce
ness, or grandeur, or triumph, OF ront, the
coming ArmageddOn contest. Whether 1t
shall be fought with printers type or keen
steel. whether by brain or muscle, whether
by pen or carbine, whether by booming cam
non or thunders OF Christian eloquence, dc
not know, and you may take what say a
flgurative or literal, but take as certain what
ST. John. in his vision on the rocks OF the
Grecian archipelago. ia pleased to call Gar
mageddon."
MY sermon vii, first mentionthe regiment.
that will be engaged in the conflict; then
will say something of the commanders on
both sides: and then speak OF tbs battle
itself and the tremendous issues. Begin
ming with those who will fight on the wrong
side, I first mention the Regiments Dia-
bolic. In this very chapter from which my
text Is taken We are told that the spirits oi
devils will be there. How many milliona
| OF them no one can tell, for ths statistics OF
the satanic dominions have never been re-
ported and the roll OF that host has nsvel
on earth been called; but> from the direful
and continental, and planetary work they
have already done, aud the fact that every
man and woman and child on earth has q
fempter there must be at least sixteen hun
dred millions Of evil spirits familiar with
our world. Perhaps as many more are en-.
gaged on especial enterprises OF abomina.
don among the Nations and empires Of the
earth. Beside that there must bs an incon-
ceivable number Of Inhabitants in realms
pandemoniac. staying there to keep the
great capitals OF sin going from age TO aga
Many OF them once lived in heaven. but
engaging in conspiracy TO put Satan on the
throne. they were hurled out AMI down, ano
| they are now among the worst thugs OF the
universe Having been in three worlds. -
Heaven, earth and hell they have all the
advantages Of great experience. Their power,
their speed, their cunning. their hostility
wonderful beyond all statement In the Ar.
/ nageddon they will. doubt not, be present
In full array. They will have no reserve
corps, but all will be at the front. There will
be seen aud aimed at, but troops intangible
and without corporeity, and weapons may
strike clear through them without giving them
hurt With what shout Of defiance will they
climb up the ladders Of fire and leap from
the battiements of asbestos into the last cam
paign OF hell! Paul, the bravest Of all mon,
was impressed with their might for evil when
! he said "We wrestle not against flesh and
blood. but against Principalities, and againsl
powers, aud against the rulers Of the dark.
ness in this world, against spiritual wicked
ness in high places" Oh, wnat an agitatins
moment. when the ranks diabolic move uE
and take their places for conflicts In the Ar.
mageddon.
Other regiments who will march into the
fight will be the Regiment Alcoholic. They
will be made of the brewers companies, dis
liiiery owners and liquor dealers assocfa
tiops, and the hundreds of millions Of thsil
patrons. These millions Of victims Of alco
hol joined by the millions OF the victims o.
nrrack, the spirituous liquor of China ant
India, and Arabia. and Egypt, and Ceylon
and am.
Other regiments who will march into thu
fight ON the wrong side will be the Regi
ments Inf1del. God gave but one revelation
to the human race, and these men have beer
trying to destroy it. Many of the books
magazines and newspapers. through per
petual scoff nj Christianity, and some Of the
universities have become recruiting agencie.
for those regimen .. The greatest briRadiel
OF all those regiments, Voitaire, who close(
his life OF assault upon Christianity by writ
ing: Happiness is "a dream, and only pain 4
real. / have thought SO ior eighty-foul
years, and I know no better plan than to re
sign myself TO the inevitable and to re1ec
that flies are born TO be devoured by spider
had never been born" Oh. the 4od-for
SAX en- regiments Of infidel5, vino, after hav
ing spent their life autagonizing the only In
fiuence that could make the earth better
gather with their low wit and their vile sneel
and their learned idiocy and their horribl,
blasphemy to take part against God ane
Righteousness in tine great Armageddonl
Other regiments who will march in on thu
the wrong sice in tho battle will be the Regi
ments Moharmedan. At the present time
there are about one hundred and seventy
i've mill. on Moslems. Their plain mission
is to kill Christians, demean womanhood
and take possession OF the earth In the inter
est of ignorance, superstition, and mora
Nth. The massacre of fifty thousand Ar
men,ans In the last two or three years Is only
one chapter In their effort to devastate th'
earth Of everything but themselves. *
determined are they in their bad wori
that all the Nations OF the earth put together
dare not say to them. 'Jtop or We will make
you stop" My hope is that long before that
last battle OF which speak, the Turkish
Government, and with 1t Mohammedanism
may be wiped out of existence. The Turkfff
power Of the last four hun ired years ha
been the mightiest hindrance on earth to 70
ligious liberty and moral Improvement. He
determination Is prophesied in the Book o
Revelation in the figure OF the drying up o
the River Euphrates, aad she is going rapid
l. ly, thank Godl But il the Bible prophec.
concerning the drying up Of the Euphrate
ia not fulfilled before the battle mentionet
in my text. Mohammedanism will march Il
With sword, and poison, and torch to tax
her part in the great Armageddon.
Yeai to show the magnitude OF the force
on the wrong side, I have to tell you Whist
left of heathenism at that time will marc
into the conflict. There are one hundre
and nfty million fetish idolators, two hui