Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1897-03-18

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transported from the Eingdom Of satan in
to the kingdom of Gods dear Son.
By and by you would hardly know the
earth if you saw II. The world as a whole
shall be as greatly improved as the individ-
ual heart by conversion. Fraud, leaving
its trickery, will go to work for an honest
living. Knavery shall begin to make right
eous bargains. Passion shall answer to
the control of reason. Scoffers shall be
changed into worshipers and skeptics into
Bible lovers Christ shall begin his reign
on Garth. Whether he shall descend ON to
the earth in person and establish gov
ernment at Jerusalem, l cannot say. But
it will be an era of more than Augustan
splendor. That is enough. Knowing this,
we can never despair. Hut as we see the
church of Christ putting on her beautiful
garments and arising &c shine we will say,
with tho enthusiasm of Oliver Cromwell,
who, standing before his sick and famine
stricken soldiers at Dunbar, saw the sun
rising out of the morning mist and, point
ing to it with his sword, uttered a prayer
which hurled his men upon the crushed foe
like u sky full of thunderbolts: "Arise, o
God! Let thine enemies be scattered. I"
With the car Of faith catch the sound Of
the latter day glory. Church of Christ,
unsheath thy sword and this moment into
the battle In the name of Christ, march
onl Upon every school and hospital, upon
| every bankers desk and merchants coun-
ter, upon every chemists laboratory and
| astronomers tower, upon shepherd s hut
and woodman's cabin, upon ships deck
and sailors hammock, far out on the sea
and high up in the mountain, before the
gaze of nations, under the applaudits Of
heaven, sin the name Of God we will sot
up our banners.
Ensigns and Colors.
My subject has taught you that in this
contest we are not without ensigns and
colors. All we want now is men to carry
them. Before sit down must propose to
each of you this great honor. Becoming n
Christian is not so ignoble thing as
many have thought it. "It makes man
stoop," you say. know it, but it is only
the stoop of an heir of royalty, who on his
knees is to receive crown of dominion.
We want standard bearers in all pulpits,
in all places of business-everywher /
do not ask you how old you are, nor how
young, how weak or how strong, how dull
or how sharp, nor what your home, nor
who your ancestors. Without any condi-
ton, without any reserve, in the name of
the God of Israel, offer you the honor of
carrying the church's cnsigns. DO not he
afraid of the assaults of o world whose
ranks you desert, nor of devils who will
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more blessed to fall here than stand any.
where else. 1t were more Of an honor, en-.
gagged with Christ, to bo trampled under
foot with this army of banners, than, op
posing Christ, to be buried like Edward l.
in Egyptian porphyry.
You know in ancient times elephants
were trained to fight and that ON one occa
sion, instead of attacking the enemy, they
turned upon their owners, and thousands
were crushed under the stroke of theil
trunks and the mountain weight Of theil
step. Those mighty opportunities of worl
for Christ may accomplish great thing.
in overthrowing the sin of the world aD(
beating to pieces its errors, but if we dt
not WELD them Alright these very advan
tsges will III unguarded moments tur1
terribly upon us and under their heels Of
vengeance grind us to powder Rejected
blessings are seycnfold curses. We cannot
compromise this matter. We cannot stanC
aside and look on, Christ has declared it
"All who are not with me are against
me-" Lord Jesus, we surrender.
The prophecies intimate that there shal
before the destruction of the world be ono
great battle between truth and unright
eousness. We shall not probably see it OF
earGh God grant that we may see it, lean
ing from the battlements of heaven. Or
the side of sin shall be arrayed all forms O.
oppression and cruelty, led on by infa
nous kings and generals; the votlries o.
paganism, led on by their priests; thu
subjects of Mohammedanism, following
the command of their sheiks. And glut
tony and intemperance and iniquity of ev
cry phase shall be largely represented OF
the field. All the wealth and splendor ant
power and glory of wickedness shall b,
concentrated on that one decisive spot
and, 1naddcncd by 10000 previous defeats
shall gather themselves up for one las
terrible assault With hatred to God fo
their cause and blasphemy for the battle
cry, they spread out over the earth il
square behind square and legion beyont
legion, while in some overhanging clout
of blackness foul spirits of hell watch thi
last struggle of sin and darkness for do
minion.
Scattered by the blasts Of jehovah s nos
trils, plunder and sin and satanic forc
shall quit the field. AS the roar of til,
conflict sounds through the universe al
worlds shall listen. The air shall be full
of wings of heavenly cohorts. The worl
is done, and in the presence of world re
claimed for the crown Of Jesus, and amit
the crumbling of tyrannies and the defea
of satanic force, and amid the sound o
heavenly acclamations, the church shal
rise up in the image of our Lord, and will
the crown Of victory on her head and TIN
scepter of dominion in her hand in til,
name Of God shall set up her banners
Then Himalaya shall become Mount Zion
and tho Pyrenees Moriah, and the ocean
the walking place of him who trod tn
wave crests of Galilec, and the great heav
ems become u sounding board which shall
strike back the sound of exultation to tn
earth till it rebound again to the throne o
the Almighty. Angel of the Apocalypse
fly, fly For who will stand in the way o
thy might or resist the sweep OF thy wing
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