The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-12

years, and l know no better plan than to
resign myself TO the inevitable and to re-
fleet that flies are born TO be devoured by
spiders and man to be consumed by care.
/ I wish I had never been born" Oh, the
God-forsaken regiments Of in1des, who,
after having spent their life in antagoniz-
| ing the only influence that could make
| the earth better, gather with their low
wit and their vile sneer and their learned
| idiocy and their horrible blasphemy to
! take part against God and righteousness
! in the great Armageddon,
Other regiments who win march in on
| the wrong side in the battle will be the
| Regiments Mohammedan. At the present
time there are about one hundred and sew
enty-fve million Moslems. Their plain
mission is to kill Christians, demean wo-
| manhood and take possession of the earth
| In the interest 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 ef-
| fort to devastate 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 stop"
! My hope is that long before that last bat
| tie of which / speak. the Turkish govern
ment, and with it Mohammedanism, may
| be wiped out Of existence. The Turkish
power for the last four hundred years has
religious liberty and moral Improvement.
Her determination is prophesied in the
book of Revelations in the figure of the
drying up of the river Euphrates, and
she is going rapidly, thank God! In 1890,
by the Greek instruction, she received
the first destructive blow. In 1929, the
TurkOman army of thirty thousand was
destroyed and the cause Of liberty ad-
vanced. In 1927, England, France and
Russia, not so cautious as they have since
been, at Navarino Inundated the Turk
ish fleets, and Greece was free. Weaker
and weaker the Turkish power has be-
come, and it has lost Algiers and Walla-
CHA, 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. Glad
stone were prime minister of England the
Turkish government would very soon
either quit her outrages, or go down under
the bombardment of the men-of-war from
many nations now lowering near the Bos-
phorus. But if the Bible prophecy con-
corning the drying up of the Euphrates is
not fulfilled before the battle mentioned in
my text, Mohammedanism will march in
with sword and poison, and torch to take
her part in the great Armageddon.
Yea! to show the magnitude of the forces
on the wrong side. have to tell you that
what is left of heathenism at that time
will march into the conflict. There are
one hundred and fifty million fetish idol
ators, two hundred and twenty million
Brahmins, four hundred million Buddhists
Through the sublimest movement of this
century, the missionary movement, all the
time gathering in momentum, believe all,
or nearly all of that seven hundred and
seventy millions of heathendom will be
converted to God. But that which is not
converted will come into the Armageddon
on the wrong side
Other regiments on that wrong side will
be made up of offenders of all sorts-the
defrauders, the ibeTtines, the dynamiters,
the anarchists, the oppressors and the foes
OF society, the criminals of all nations, by
whatever name they are now called, or
shall then be called. They may not before
that have openly taken sides, but then
they will be compelled to take sides. With
what venom, with what violence, with
what desperation they will fail into line
at the great Armageddon! Is it not APP
palling, these uncounted regiments of the
earth, to be Joined by the uncounted regi-
ments from perdition? Can any power cope
with them? Especially when l tell you
who their commander is, for so much in
all wars depends upon the chieftain. Their
leader will not be a political accident of a
military happen So" BY talent, and
adroitness, and courage, and unceasing in
dustries he has come to the bad eminence
ne ulSpultu the lHIOne OF heaven WITH
the Almighty, but no one has ever disputed
the throne of eternal night with this mon
arch who will in the last battle take the
field in person. Milton calls him Lucifer,
Goethe calls him Mephistopheles, the He
brew calls him Abaddon, the Greek calls
him Appollyon. He is the impersonation
of all malevolence, of all oppression, of all
cruelty, the summing up of all falsehood
In his makeup nothing bad was left out
and nothing good was put in, and he Is to
be the general, the ommander-in-ch ief
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 gained more victories than
have ever been celebrated in this world
But guess this old warrior of pandemo-
mum will not have an undisputed field. 1
guess there Will be an army to dispute
with his forces. l have mentioned the
supremacy of this world. l 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 diabolic. We
have been measuring the calibres of their
guns. We have bern examining their
ammunition wagons. Now let us look at
the forces to be marshaled in the Arma-
geddon on the right side.
First of all. I mention the regiments
| angelic. Alas! that the subject of demon
ology seems better understood than the
/ subject OF angelology. But the glorious
/ spirits around the throne and all the
1 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 an angels power. l ask
] you to consider that just one Of them slew
one hundred and eighty-five thousand
4 or Sennacherib's hosts in a night, and 1t
| Is not tough arithmetical question to
solve, II one angel can Stay cne hundred
and eighty-five thousand troops in a
night, how many can five hundred mil
! lions OF them Stay? The old Book SAYS
/ that They excel in strength" 1t is not a
| celestial mob but a disciplined host. and
they know their rank Cheribum. sera-
! phim, thrones, principalities, and powers!
! And the leader Of those regiments is
Michael the archangel. David saw lust
one group of angels sweep past, and they
were twenty-thousand charioted Paul
who in the Canadian college had his fac
ulties so wonderful developed, confesses
! his incapacity to count them by saying.
''He are come to Mount Zion and an in
Vulnerable company OF angels" II each
soul on earth as guardian angel. then
there must be sixteen hundred million
angels on earth to-day. Besides that
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