Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1896-10-16

on their way may be joined by other
millions Of re endorsements, 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 mil
lions Of the victims of arrack, the spir-
ituous 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 infidel. God gave but one
revelation to the human race, and these
men have been trying to destroy it.
Many Of the books, magazines and news
papers, through perpetual scoff at Chris
tianity, and some of the universities,
have become recruiting agencies for
those regiments. The greatest brigadier
Of all those regiments, Voltaire, who
closed his life of assault upon Christian
ity by writing: Happiness is a dream,
and only pain is real. l have thought
so for 81 years, and know no better
plan than to resign myself to the inev-
table 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 regi-
ments Of infidels, who, after having
spent their life in antagonizing the on
ly influence that could make the earth
better, gather with their low wit, and
their vile sneer, and their learned lido
cy, and their horrible blasphemy, to
take part against God and righteous
ness in the great Armageddonl
To XIII Christians.
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 10, 600, 600
Moslems. 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 80, 600 Ar
menians in the last two or three years
is only one chapter in their effort to de-
vastate the earth Of everything but
themselves. SO determined are they in
their bad work that all the nations Of
the earth put together dare not say to
them, "Stop, or we will make you stopF
Nv hope is that long before that last
battle of which 1 speak the Turkish
government, and with it Mohammedan-
ism. may be wiped out Of existence The
Turkish power for the last 400 years
has been the mightiest hindrance on
earth to religious liberty and moral IN
provement. Her determination isproph-
esied IN the book of Revelation III
the figure Of the drying up Of the liyer
Euphrates, and she is going rapidly,
thank God. In 1920, by the Greek IN
surrection, she received the first destruc-
tive blow. In 1923 the Turkoman army
of 80. 900 was destroyed and the cause
of liberty advanced. In 1927 England,
France and Russia, not so cautious as
they have since been, at Navarino hu-
inflated 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 heI
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 outrages or 60 down under the bonn
bardment Of the men-of-war from many
nations now lowering near the Bospor'
ms. But if the Bible prophecy concern
ing the drying up Of the Euphrates II
not fulfilled before the battle mention
ed in my text Mohammedanism VIII
march in with sword and poison anc
torch to take her part in the great Ar
mageddon.
On the Wrong Side.
Yea, to show the magnitude OF th'
forces on the wrong side, have to tel
YOU that what is left Of heathenism a
that time will march into the conflict
There are $50, 900, 900 fetish idolators
22O. 900, 900 Brahmins, 400, OOO'OO'
Buddhists. Through the sublimest move
ment Of this century, the missionary
movement. all the time gathering IL
momentum, | believe all or nearly al
of that no, 900, 900 Of heathendom vii
be converted to God. But that whlol
is not converted will come into the Ar
mageddon on the wrong side.
Other regiments on that wrong sld
will be made up of offenders of all sort
the defrauders, the libertines, the dy
namiters, the anarchists, the oppressor
and the foes of society, the criminals O
all nations, by whatever name they ar
8 now called or shall then be called. The
may not before that have openly take
4 sides but then they will be compelle
to take sides. With what venom VIII
what violence, with what desperatio
Q they will fall into line at the great Al
: mageddonl Is it not appalling thes
uncounted regiments Of the earth, 70 .
ioined by the uncounted regiments fror
o perdition? Can any power cope VIII
them? Especially when tell you wh
l their commander is, for so much in a
|" wars depends upon the chieftain- Ihel
I. leader will not be political accider
u or a military "happen So " BY taler
, and adroitness and courage and III
:. ceasing industry he has come to the ba
u eminence. He disputed the throne
/ heaven with the Almighty, but no on
o has ever disputed the throne OF etern'
/ night with this monarch, who VIII
J. the last battle take the field in persol
u Milton calls him Lucifer, Goethe cal
't him Mephistopheles, the Hebrew cal
10 him Abaddon, the Greek calls hi
, Apollyon. He is the impersonation
n ali malevolence, Of all oppression, OF a
Is cruelty, the summing up OF all fais'
Il hood In his make up nothing bad W
|. left out and nothing good was put Il
"a and he is TO be the general, the cor
/ mander In chief Of all the forces on. q
n wrong side in the great Armageddo
!. He has been in more battles than y
m have ever read about, and he has gai
~ ed more victories than have ever be-
celebrated in this world. But l que
this old warrior Of pandemonium W
to not have an undisputed field. guC
o- there will be an army TO dispute WI
"a his forces. l have mentioned the
premacy of this world. guess