The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1896-10-21

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creases and the millions now staggering
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 Ct arrack, the splr-
ituous liquor of China and India and
Arabia and Egypt and Ceylon aud Siam.
Other regiments who will march into
| the fight on the wrong siGe will be the
regiments infdel. God gave bUt one
revelation to tie human race, and these
men have been trying to destroy 1t.
| Many of the books, magazines and news
papers, through perpetual scof 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 dream,
and only pain is real. I have thought
so for "a years, and l know no better
plan than to resign myself to the inev-
liable and to reflect that flies are born to
be devoured by spiders and man to be
consumed by care. wish ! had never
been borr." Oh, the God fcrsaken regi-
ments of infdels, who, after having
spent their life in antagonizing the on
" 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 Gcd and righteous
ness in the great Armageddon!
To Kill Christians.
Other regiments who will march in
on the wrong side in the battle will be
the regiments Mohammedan. At the
present tim there are about 175, 900, OF D
Moslems. Their plain mission is to kali
Christians, demean womanhood and
take possession Of the earth in the in
terest of ignorance, superstition ard
moral filth. The massacre Of 90, 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 rot say 10
them, "Stop, or we will make you stop!"
My hope is that long before that last
battle of which I 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 I'M
provement. Her determination is proph-
esied in the book of Revelation in
the figure of the drying up of the river
Euphrates, and she is going rapidly,
thank God. In 1920, by the Greek ill.,
surrection, she received the first destruc-
tive blow. In 1923 the Turkoman army
of 10000 was destroyed and the cause
Of liberty advanced. In 1927 England,
France and Russia, not so cautious as
they have since been, at Nayarino hu-
inflated the Turkish fleets, and Greece
was free Weaker and weaker the Turj.-
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 CT 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-
US. But if the Bible prophecy concern
ing the drying up of the Euphrates is
not fulfilled before the battle mention
ed in my text Mohammedanism will
march in with sword and poison and
torch to take her part in the great Ar
mageddon. =.
On the Wrong Side.
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 $50, 900, 900 fetish idolators,
100000 Brahmins, 400, 600, 900
Buddhists. Through the sublimest move
ment of this century, the missionary
movement, all the time gathering III
momentum, believe all or nearly All
of that ITO, 900, 900 Of heathendom will
be converted to God. But that which
is not converted will come into the Ar
mageddon on the wrong side.
Other regiments on that wrong side
will be made up of offenders of all sorts
the defrauders, the hbertines, the dy-
namiters, 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 fall into line at the great Ar
mageddon! Is it not appalling, these
uncounted regiments Of the earth, to be
joined by the uncounted regiments from
perdition? Can any power cope with
them? Especially when tell you who
their commander is, for so much in all
wars depends upon the chieftain. Their
leader will not be political accident
or q military "happen So" By talent
and adroitness and courage and un-
ceasing industry he has come to the bad
eminence. He disputed the throne Of
heaven with the Almighty, but no one
has ever disputed the throne of eternal
night with this monarch, who will in
the last battle take the field in person.
Milton calls him Lucifer, Goethe calls
him Mephistopheles. the Hebrew calls
him Abaddon, the Greek calls him
Apollyoa. He is the impersonation Of
all malevolence, of all oppression, of sll
cruelty, the summing up of all false
hood. In his make up nothing bad was
left out and nothing good was put in,
and he is to be the general, the COM
mander in chief of all the forces on the
wrong side in the great Armageddon.
He has been Ia more battles than you
have ever read about, and he has gain
cd more victories than have ever been