The Progress., 1897-01-23


AS I read my Bible, these supernaturals
are to return. Again the eclipses, as ut the
destruction Of Jerusalem, will pnt red
wing under the moon and black wing I'M
der the snn, and the mountain viii shake
with ague OF excitement and hospital cots
be emptied as their patients bound into
sudden health and the gospel of mercy
emphasized by most tremendous specta-
Giles. - nd beheld when he had opened
the sixth seal, and, 10, there was a great
earthq uake, and the sun became black as
sackcloth of hair, and the moon became
as blood and every mountain and
island wero moved ont OF their places"'
There you have 1t. The shovels now dig
eing away al the mountains to be re-en-
forced by thunderbolts. The gospel Is on
~ partially successful because we preach
1t amid all placidities, the hearers having
heard the invitation thousand times be-
fore and expect to hear 1t q thousand times
more, but in coming times to be preached
amid pulverized rocks and stellar panics
and shattered masonry of cemeteries, from
which the pallid dead will spring into
roseate life say then the gospel will be
universally accepted. There is the pro-
gTamlne. First the shovels, then the thun-
derbOlts. Ours the shovels, God the thun-
derDoits The text, which before we utter
ed with something OF reputation, now we
utter in laugh Of triumph, "Who art thou,
thou shalt become u plain
Sometimes 4 general begins q battle b.
fore he Is ready, because the enemy forces
it on him. I he general says: 1.-The enemy
are pushing US, and so I open battle. We
are not sufficient to cope with them, but
hope the reserve forces will come up in
time. The battle RACES, and the general
looks through his ieldglass at the troops,
but ever and amen he sweeps his fieldglass
backward and upward toward the hill to
see IT the reserve forces are coming. Hard
pushed are N7e, says the general. Il do
wish those rc-enforcements would come
uP." After awhile the plumes Of the adj
vanclng cavalry are seen tossing on the
ridge OF the hill, and then the flash of
swords and then the long lines of mount
ed troops, their horses in full galiop, and
the general says: IAN is well. Hold out
my men, little longer. Let the serReants
ride along the lines and cheer the men and
tell them re-enforcemeDts are coming"
And now the ulnbling Of the batteries
and gun carriages is distinctly heard, and
soon they are in line, and Mt the first roar
of the newly arrived artillery the enemy, a
little while before so jubilant, fall back in
wild retreat, their way strewn with can
teens and knapsacks and ammunition, that
the defeated may be unhiBdered in their
flight
That Is just the way now In this great
death the enemy seem too much for us.
More grogshops than churches. More bad
men than good men, and they come up
with bravado and the force of great num-
bers. They have opened battle upon US be-
fore we are in our strength ready to meet
them, and great are the disconragements.
But steady there! Hold on! Re-enforce-
ments are coming! Through the glass of
inspiration look and see the flash of the
sword of "him who hath on his vesture
and on his thigh name written. King of
kings and Lord OF lords All heaven is
on our side and il coming to the rescue I
hear the rumbling Of the Kings artillery,
! louder than any thunder that ever shook
the earth, and with every roll of the pom
derous wheels our courage augments, and
when these re-enforcements from heaven
get into line with the forces of God already
on earth all the axmies of unrighteousness
will see that their hour of doom has come
and will waver and fall back and take
/ flight and nothing be left of them save
here and there, strewn by the wayside, an
s r. or l,er