Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-10-20

| irons. They will move into the ranks
with what the bible calls the Song of
| the drunkard." And what a bloated,
and soaked, and bleared, and blasted,
and hiccoughing, and nauseating host!
If now, according to a scientist in Eng
land, there are fifty thousand deaths
annually from strong drink, and in the
United States, according to another
estimate, ninety-eight thousand deaths
annually from strong drink, what an
army of living drunkards that implies,
coming up from the whole earth to
take their places in the last battle, es-
pecially as the evil increases and the
millions now staggering on their way
may be Joined by other millions of re-
Inducements; brigade after brigade,
with drunkards' bones drumming on the
head of beer barrels the dead march of
souls. These millions of victims of
alcohol Joined by the millions Of vic
Tins of arrack, the spirituous liquor of
CHINA, and India, and Arabia, and
Egypt, and Ceylon, and Siam!
Other regiments who will march into
the fight on the wrong side will be the
regiments Infdel. God gave but one
revelation to the human race, and these
men have been trying to destroy it,
Many OF the books, magazines, and
newspapers through perpetual scott at
Christianity, and some of the universe
ties, have become recruiting agencies
for those regiments. The greatest brig
adler OF all those regiments, Voltaire,
who closed his life of assault upon
Christianity by writing, Happiness is
dream, and only pain is real. / have
thought so for eighty-four years, and
| know no better plan than to resign
myself to the inevitable and to reflect
that flies are born to be devoured by
spiders and man to be consumed by
care. | wish l had never been born"
Oh, the God-forsaken regiments of in
fidels, who after having spent their life
in antagonizing the only influence that
could make the earth better, gather
with their low wit and their vile sneer
and their learned idiocy and their hor-
rible blasphemy to take part against
God and righteousness in the great Ar
mageddon!
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 one hun
dred and seventy-fve million Mos
lens. 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 fifty
thousand Armenians in the last two
or three years is only one chapter in
their effort to devastate the earth Of
everything but themselves. So deter
mined are they in their bad work that
all the nations of the earth put togeth-
err dare not say to them, stop! or we
will make you stop" My hope is that
long before that last battle of which
speak the Turkish government, and
with it Mohammedanism, may be
wiped out of existence.
First of all, / mention the regiments
Angelic! Alas! that the subject of de-
monology seems better understood
than the subject of angelology. Bat
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
regiments capable of meeting the regi-
ments plutonic. To show you some
thing of an angels power. ask you to
consider that just one Of them slew one
| hundred and eighty-five thousand of
| Sennacherib's hosts in a night, and it
| is not a tough arithmetical question
| to solve, if one angel can Stay one hun
| dred and eighty-five thousand troops in
a night, how many can five hundred
millions of them slay? The old Book
says that They excel in strength" 1t
| is not a celestial mob, but a disciplined
host, and they know their rank. Cher
ubim, seraphim, thrones, principalities
and powers! And the leader of these
| regiments is Michael the Archangel!
David saw just one group Of angels
sweep past, and they were twenty thou
sand charioted. Paul, who in the Ga
malian college had his faculties SO won
derfully developed, confesses his inca
pacity to count them by saying, I'VE are
come to Mount Zion and an innumera-
BILE company Of angels" II each soul
on earth has a guardian angel, then
there must be sixteen hundred million
angels on earth today. Besides 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, and go on mission
from mansion to mansion, and help to
build the hozannas and enthrone the
hailelujahs and roll the doxologies Of
the service that never ends. But they
all, il required, will be In the last fight
between holiness and sin. Heaven
could afford to adjourn just one day,
and empty all its temples, and man
sions, and palaces, and boulevards in
to that one battle. / think all the
angels of God will join in it. The one
that stood with sword of fame at the
gate of paradise. The one that pointed
Hagar to the fountain in the wilder
ness.
The next regiments that see march
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