Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-10-12

and he IS 10 De the general, the COM
manGer i'll chief Of all the forces on the
wrong side in the great Armageddon.
He has been in more battles than you
have ever read about, and he has gain
ed more victories than have ever been
celebrated III this world But I guess
this old warrior Of pandemoniu1n will
not have an undisputed field. / guess
there will be al army to dispute with
his forces [ have mentioned the su-
premacy of this world. T guess our
troops will not have to run when on
the day mentioned in my text all the
internal batteries shall be unlimbered
We have been reviewing the troops dia-
bolic We have been measuring the cal
ibers of their guns. We have been ex-
amining their ammunition wagons
Now let Us look at the forces to be mar
shaled in the Armageddon on the right
side.
The Regiments Angelic
First Of all, mention the regiments
angelic. Alas, that the subject of de-
monology seems better understood than
the subjects Of angelology. But the
glorious spirits around the throne and
all the bright immortaIs 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 regi-
ments capable of meeting the regiments
plutonic To show you something of an
angels power, I ask you to consider
that just one Of them slew 1856, 900 of
Sennacherib's host in q night, and it is
not a tough arithmetical question to
solve, If one angel can slay 185, 600
troops in q night, how many can
500, 900, 900 Of them Stay? The old book
says that 'sthey excel in strength It
is not celestial mob, but disciplined
host, and they know their rank Cher
ubim, seraphim, thrones, municipalities
and powers And the leader Of those
regiments is Michael the Archangel
David saw just one group of angels
sweep past, and they were $1,000 char
ioted. Paul, who in the Canadian col
Iege had his faculties SO wonderfully
developed, confesses his incapacity to
count them by saying, eye are come to
Mount Zion and an innumerable COM
pany of angels If each soul Oh earth
has a guardian angel, then there must
be l, 800, coo, 600 angels on earth today.
Besides that, heaven must be full of an
gels, those who stay there. Not only
the 10 angels who, we are told, guard
the 10 gates, but those angels who help
in the worship and go on mission from
to mansion asld help to build
the hosannas and inthrone the hallelu-
iahs and roll the doxoiogies of the serv-
ice that never ends. But they all, if re-
quired, will be in the last fight between
holiness and sin. Heaven could afford
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.
Fire Footed Hosts.
The one that stood wi tn sword of
dame at the gate Of paradise. The one
that pointed Hagar to the fountain in
the wilderness. The one that halted Ba-
laam on the highway. The one that
warned Lot to flee the doomed city. The
one that took part with Joshua against
the Canaanites. The one that informed
Mary of the approach of the Nativity.
The one that wrestled with Jacob at the
brook Jabbok. 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 inconceivable,
so that when Daniel was in prayer Ga
orie1, 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 march, What
will be the ST % of the regiments an
yelic when az the command of the
Down to earth! Forward
into the battle!'' those regiments an
gelic, lightning winged, rainbow Cir
lled, fire footed, shall sweep into the
great Armageddon.
The next regiments that / see march
ing into the fight will be the regiments
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
sor God, there are 1000, 600 Methodists,
;, 725, 900 Baptists. 1880, 1888 Presby
jerians, 1 $3.50, 900 Lutherans and $40, 900
Episcopalians. But the present statistics
IF churches will be utterly swamped
when, after all the great denominations
lave done their best work, the slowest
IF all the sectS will have more plumbers
han the present enrolment of all de-
nominations throughout Christendom.
You see, by that time an atheist or an
nfdel will be curiosity, and he will
De looked at as we look at a man with
ong hair reaching below his shoulders
md long finger nails that are never cut
md stare in the eyes indicating incipi-
mt lunacy-nOt to be argued with, but
10 be pitied-while it will not be any
unusual thing to sec men az much de-
7oted 10 their religion as Francis Xa-
yier was devoted to his religion. when
he went through the streets asking all |
20 come to hear his faith expounded, in
nj a,afi1icr tho k0