The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1896-10-23

Regiments Plutontc. To show you some
thing OF an angels power, ask you to
consider that Just one OF them slew one
hundred and eighty-fve thousand OF Sem
nacherib's hosts In night, and 1t Is not q
tough arithmetical question to solve. II one
angel can slay one hundred and eighty-ave
thousand troops in q night. how many can
Ave hundred millions Of them slay2 The
old Book says that "They excel in
strength" 1t is not celestial mob, but a
discipled host, and they know their rank.
Cherabim, sersphim. 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 eh8rioted.
Paul, who In the Canadian college had his
faculties so 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 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 so
on mission from mansion to mansion, and
help to build the hosaunas and enthrone the
hallelujahS aud roll the doxolOgieS OF the
service that never enls. But they all. IL re-
CURED, @ill be In the last fight between
holiness and sin. Heaven cou!t afford to
adjourn, just one day, and empty all its
temples, ana mansions, ana palaces, anu
bou evards into that one battle.
The next regiments that / see marching
into the fight will be the Regiments Erclpsi-
asttc. According 10 the last accounts and
practically only in tho beginning Of the gos-
pei movement which proposes to take the
whole earth for God, there are four million
six hundred thousand Methodsts, three
million seven hundred and twenty-five thou
san! Baptists, one million two hundred and
eighty thousand three hundred aud thirty
throe ePreshyterians, one million two hundred
ant thirty thousand Luthrrpns aud six
hundred and forty thousand Ep >copaliuns.
But tho pre- s'nt statistics OF churches will bs
utterly Swarnped when, after all the great
denominations have done their bsst work,
the slowest OF a!l tho sects will have more
numbers than tho present enrolment Of all
denominations throughout Christendom. I
see thcm moving into the ranks carrying II
standard striped ana starred; strpsd rs suG-
gestinS Him by whose stripes we nrs hea q I,
and starred ~ with the promise that those
who turn manyto righteousness shall shine us
the stars. forever and ever. Into thar battle
on our side will roll those mighty engines OF
power, the printing presses of Christend0m.
Into that battle will also move the mightest
telescopes, that shall bring the stS.s In their
courses to fight for our God.
Again. the Regiments Elemental will come
into that battle on the righs side. The
winds! God showed what He could do with
them when tho splintered timbers OF tho
ships OF the Spanish Armada were strewn
on the rocks OF Scotland, Norway and tho
Hcbrides. The waters! He showed what Ee
could do with them when He put the whole
earth under them, leaving 1t subauueous one
hundred ID nfty days. The earthquakes!
Hn showed what He could 10 with them
when He let Caracas drop into the open
mouth OF horror and the islands OF the sea
went into entomDment. The lightnings! He
showed what He could do with them when
He wrapped Noun. Sinai in flame. aud we
have NIL seen their flashing lanterns moving
with the chariots OF the midnight hurricane.
All the Regiments Elemental will come in our
side in tho great Armageddon. Come nnd let
us mount and ride along the line. AMI review
the troops OF Emanuel. and find that tho
Regiments Terrestrial and Celestial that como
into that battle on the right side arc as COM
pared with those on the wrong si!e two to
ono. hundred 10 one, u thousand TO one.
But who il the Chief on
tn ) side? Splendid arm es have been
ruined, caught in traps, flung over prccipices,
and nrnihIated through the inconprtencc
or treach"ry of their general. Who COM
man!S on our side? J-hov Ih-Jirrhr So
called in one place. Captain II Salvation"
so-calied in another place. King OF kings
Lord OF lords. Congu"ror of conqurrorS
His eye omniscient. His arm onnipo:sn,
Ho will tax, the lead. He will draw the
sword. He vii. give the command And
whom He plants His foot for ,hn combat, the
foundations o! the earth will quake. and
whom He shall give the battle shout. all the
gates OF he'll will tremble.
BIt 10 not let us shout until after W. have
seen tho two armies clash in the last Strug-
gle. Oh, my soul! Tho battle OF all time AMI
al eternity opens. "FOrward.' For
ward. i the command ON both sides given.
The long lines OF no'h armies wnver, . d
swing to and fro. Swords OF truth against
engines internal. Black horse cavalry of per
dition against white horse cavalry OF heaven
Tho redemption of this world and the honor
oftse throno of God to vindcHtc. h w ire
mcndous is the battle! The army of right
eousncss seems giving away; but no! 1t is
only II part ofthe manuuvro Of the infinite
light. 1t is Il dep oy Of the host celestial.
What Meeting In this field of sp!endor
md wrath, OF tho angels, and Of tho
diabolic. OF hosanna and blaSphemy, of
song and curse, OF the divine and the satanic.
Tho ,hunlerbolts OF the Almighty burst
and blaze upon the foe. Boom! Boom!
ty the torches of lightning that illuminated
the scene seq that the crisis OF the Arma-
geldon hns come 1t Is tho turning point
OF this last battle. Tho next moment will
decide nil. Ave, the forces OF Apoliyon
are breaking ranks. See: See! rhey fly!
Some on foot. some ON wing; they fly.
Back over the battlements OF periition they
go down with infinite crash, all the Regi-
ments Diabolic! Back to tho mountains
and caves tho armed hosts OF earth. crying
as they retreat to the ro3ks and mount aims
"Fali on us and hide us from the face OF Him
that sit;eth upon the throne. Rnl from
the wrath of tho Lamb, for tho great day
OF His wrath has come. and who shall be
able to stand" And while Apollyon. the
prisoner OF war, is being dragged in chains
to his dungeon, and our Conqueror is re-
mounting His throne, l look of upon the
battlefield, and among the slain l find the
oarcasses Of Mehummedunisn, and Papan-
ism, and Atheism. and lpliuety, aud Dis:
sipation, and Fiaud. and mullitudinous
Wrong. s'rewinc the plain. and l hrar tn.
angel that standoth in the sun crying in .hs
words of Revelation, to all the fowls tha
fly in tho midst Of heaven the eagles and
the vultures. and the hawks, and the alba
gether unto tho supper OF the great God,
that We may cat the flesh OF kings, and tho