The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-12-23
your srandiatters dies taye zone with Them

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yo,,r srandfateers died have gone with them
70 heaven. When those tunes died, they did
no. ssay on eartn, ana tney couid NOT nave
. ueen panisaeu 70 Pefution: ana 80 tnlnR
lney must pe IN the corr1oors OF aiaDaster
aha !. lebanon cedaf.
Aeail, H. = Ismarx tnat tnose OF our de,
parIeo onristiauz lI IiienaS VINO In TINS "orio
hao very stronS mintary spirit are now IN
III a., mics ceiestial ana out IN olooaiess pattle.
-. nnere are hunofeds OF people Dorn soialers.
Aney eannot neip PIT ineT IN s Deiong 70 tegt-
lnsnes IN tilne on PEACE; lInoy. ganuoL neas
a. orum OF ME Witnout .rying " Keep step so 70
Tue tI masic. iney are Snristians, S, sno s SMneh
tney nGnt tney ngnt on tne rignl aae; NOW,
Wnen toese our Christian friends. VINO naa
a.usa ana poWerlui mtntary sPlriL enesrsa sa
aeayea aea tney entereo tne ceiesLlsl army. lns
uooi i,,t ~ neaven scareeiy opens pu1 you near :
''Ihe charots OF God are 20, COOL" Elisha
saw rne mountains filled with celestial cav
alrY 81. Jonn said, ,"The armies which are !,
NJ. ~ heaven .s .ohoWeo HIM on wni,s 3aorses
an ooreh snnnsad a,asad nau ,Ie sp,sa.
.Ie,ht ev,Iistad suPpSSo
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s.tu.ely ~ Spi1n. e.a Luela are kranu pasaoe
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sros oe ah aIeu essors ssas 20 psins Up
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anil foncbt ont otSer rabaii1ons srn,,dS ~ -
be cono1ered. worlds ta bs nrit to fha for torch.
worlds 20 Ia ovsd ,vasids 81 p ha S.n.e,,shsd
woridsto bs snnT woriJa n. ~ hs ~ hoi.ted ne,
sides that in nnr own 1vorld Sthera ara hat.
ties FOR thn richt and aoaInst tha asrons,
where wa nnst have tha hsavsn,v ,ni,itsrys
bnovant so faw GOOD man aoainst 40 u,ono nv
md mn. ar, "a, cSnrct sa ss,nst az 90 10y ny
erogshons: so many pure nrintine n dresses |
against so many polluted printing presses.
aud yet we are buoyant and courageous.
evil In the world are larger In numbers
than the army OF truth, there are celestial CO.
horts In the air fighting on our side. j have
not 80 much faith In the army on the ground
as have In the army IN the air. God,
open our eyes that we may see them.the
military spirits that went up rom EARN 70
join the military spirits before the, throne-
Joshua and Caleb and Gideon and David and
samson and the hundreds OF CnLstien War-
riors who on earth fouSnt Win lesniy arm,
and now, having gone up on higns are COM
ing down the hills Of heaven ready TO night
among the dnylsibles. Es. s5fs;s gy,. az.
But what are our mathematical friends 10
do In theInext world2 They found their Joy
and delight In mathematics. There was
more poetry to them In Euclid tnan IN John
Milton. They were passionately fond OF
mathematics as Plato, who wrote over his
door, "Let no one enter here who Is not ac-
quainted with geometry. Wnas .1 are tney
doing now Iney are pusy WIN 'n8ures yet.
No place In all the universe like heaven Tor
figures. Numbers ind lite. distances Infinite,
calculations infinite. II they want them,
arithmetics and algabras and geonetrles and
ytrlgonometries for all eternity. What fields
Of spaceto be- surveyed Whist magnitudes
to measure! What diameters, what ctrcum::
ferences. what trangies, what quafernions,
what epicYcioids, Wnat paraiieiQ rfins, tlt Wnat
COMIC sections! - 4, & a,
4 what are our departed cnrlsttan IIlenos
who are explorers aoing noWs E4plorlntg
YET, Dut with ;ngnrnnG tocomotion, WAn
vision microscopic and telescoDtc az tne same
time. A continent a.a glance, a world IN q
second "a planetary system In day. Chris
tian John franklin. no more 10 disabled
Erebua pushing toward ths North Polei
Christian De Long, no more tryino 70 free
blookaded Jenhnette from the Ice; Christian
Livingstone, no more amid African maiarias,
trying to make revelation 81 dark con-
tlnent, but all OF them In the twinkltng OF an
eye takin9 In that which was once unap.
proaohable. Mont Blanc scaled without
alpenstock, the coral depths otthe ocean ex-
plored with out o diving bell, the mountains
unbarred and opened without Sir Humphrey
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