The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1896-10-23


Joined by the millions of the victims Of
arrack, the spirituous liquor of China,
and India, and Arabia, and Egypt, and
CeYlon. and Siaml
Other regiments who VIII march in
on the wrong side In the battle will be
the Regiments Mohammedan. At the
present time there are about IT'S, o00,-
600 Moslems. Their plain mission is to
kill Christians, demean womanhood,
and take possession of the earth in the
interest of ignorance, superstition and
moral filth. The massacre Of $4,000
Armenians in the last two or three
years is only one chapter in their eff
fort to devastate the earth of every
thing but themselves. So determined
are they in their bad work that
all the nations of the earth put
together dare not say to them: ''Stopi
or we make you stopw My hope is
that long before that last battle Of
which 1 speak, the Turkish govern
ment, and with it Mohammedanism,m may
be wiped out of existence. The Turk
ish power for the last 400 years has
been the mightiest hindrance on earth
to religious liberty and moral improve
ment. Her determination is prophe-
sled in the Book of Revelations in the
figure of the drying up of the
river Euphrates, and she is
going rapidly, thank God In
1920, by the Greek instruction, she re-
ceived the first destructive blow. In
1929, the Turkoman army of 80, 600 was
destroyed, and the cause Of liberty adj
vanced. In 1927, England, France and
Russia, not so cautious as they have
since been, at Navarino humilitated
the Turkish fleets, and Greece was
free. Weaker and weaker the Turk
ish power has become, and it has lost
Algiers and Wallachia, and, more
than all, during the past decade
through her cruelty, has lost the
sympathy Of every good man and
woman in all the earth, and If William
E. Gladstone were prime minister of
England the Turkish government
would very soon either quit her out
RACES or 60 down under the lombard
ment Of the men-of-war from many
nations now lowering near the Bos-
pOrus. But if the Bible prophecy con-
corning the drying up Of the Euphrates
is not fulfilled before the battle men,
toned in my text, Mohammedanism
will start in with sword, and poison,
and torch, to take her part in the great
Armageddon.
First of all, l mention the Regiments
Angelic. Alas! that the subject of
demonology seems better understood
than the subject of angelology. But
the glorious spirits around the throne
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 regiments plutonic. To show you
something of au angels power,
ask you to consider that just one
of them slew 1876, 900 of SEN
nacherib's hosts in a night, and 1t is
not a tough arthmetical question to
solve, if one angel can slay 1s5, 900
troops in night, how many can 800,
600, 900 of them slay? The old Book
says that "They excel in strength" 1t
is not a celestial mob, but disciplined
host, and they know their rank. Cher
ubim, seraphim, thrones, principali-
ties and powers! And the leader of
tose regiments is Michael the Arch
angel. David saw just one group of
angels sweep past, and they were ga
600 charioted. Paul, who in the Ga
malian college had his faculties so won
derfully developed, confesses his inca
pacity to count them by saying: "Ye
are come to Mount Zion and an innum-
cradle company of angels" If each
soul on. earth has a guardian angel,
~. Al. T.
on earth to-day. Beside that, Heaven
must be full of angels, those who stay
there; not only the 10 angels who, we
are told, guard the - gates, but those
angels who help in the worship, and
60 on mission from mansion to man
sion and help to build the hosannas
and enthrone the hallelujahs and roll
the doxologies of the service that
never ends. But they all, If required,
will be in the last fight between
holiness and sin. Heaven could af-
ford to adjourn just one day, and
empty all its temples, and mansions,
and palaces, and boulevards into that
one battle. l think all the angels of
God will join in it. The one that stood
with sword of flame at the gate of par
adise. The one that pointed Hagar to
the fountain in the wilderness. The
one that halted Balaam on the high
way. The one that warned Lot to fee
tho doomed city. The one that took part
with Joshua against the Canaanites
The one that informed Mary of the APP
proach of the Nativity The one that
wrestled with Jacob at the brook Jab-
box. The one that swung open the
gate for the incarcerated Apostle Peter.
The one that strengthened Christ In
His last paroxysm. All, think, will
be there-their velocities inconceiv-
able, SO that when Daniel was in
prayer, Gabriel, we are told, came from
Heaven to speak to him, and if Heaven
be at the center of the universe, that
angel must have travelled thousands
of millions of miles in an instant.
Talk of earthly regiments on double
quick marchi What will be the speed
of the regiments angelic when, at the
command of the archangel, Down to
earthl Forward into the battle!"
those regiments angelic, lightning
winged, rain bow girled, fire-footed,
shall sweep into the great Arranged
donl
The next regiment that see march
ing into the fight will be the Regiment
Ecclesiastic According to the last ac-
count, and practically only in the be-
ginning of the great gospel movement
which proposes to take the whole earth
for God, there are 4, 900, 600 Methodists,
3,725, 900 Baptists, 1,2S0,333 Presbyte-
rians, /, 23O, 900 Lutherans, and 640, 900
E~;soo,aI;arc Ruf the varaaanf etc