The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-18

ing of the gospel dispensation, in the
Christly, and Johanian, and Pauline days,
the machinery of the natural world was
Drought into service the shadow of
eclipses and the agitation of earthquakes.
tempests put to sleep under the voice Of
divine lullaby. iron bolts of prisons shOV-
cd back by invisible muscle. kindling of
hame on heads Of worshippers. by instan-
taneous pharmacy blasted vision given
iull eyesight. and the dead returned from
the eternal world. mmglng amid earthly
scenes, so it will be again As / read my
Bible these supernaturals are to return.
AGAIN the eciipses, as at the destruction
OF Jerusalem, will put red wing under the
moon and black wing under the sun, and
the mountains will shake with ague OF
excitement, and hospital cots he empted
as their patients bound into sudden health,
and the Gospel of Mercy emphasized by
most tremendous spectacles. And be
held when he had opened the sixth seat.
and, 10, there was Il great earthquake;
and the sun became black as sackcloth of
hair, and the moon became as
blood 80. and every mountain
and island were moved out of
their Places" There you have it. The
shovels now digging away at the noun
tains to be reinforced by thunderbolts.
The gospel is only partially successful be-
cause we preach it amid all p4acldiues,
the hearers having heard the invitation a
thousand times before. and expect to hear
1t a 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. l say then
the gospel will be universally accepted.
There is the programme. First the SHOW
els, then the thunderbolts. ours the SHOW
els, Gods the thunderbolts. The text,
which before we uttered with some thing of
trepidation, now we utter in laugh of tri-
umph Who art thou, O great mountain
before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a
plain
Sometimes a general begins battle be-
fore he is ready, because the enemy forces
it on him. The general says, THE enemy
are pushing US, and so 1 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 field-glass a the troops,
but ever and anon he sweeps his field
glass backward and upward toward the
hill, to see If the reserve forces are coming,
Hard pushed are we! says the general.
| Il do wish those achievements would
come up After awhile the plumes of
the advancing cavalry are seen toss
| ing on the ridge of the hill, and then the
| flash of swords, and then the long lines
of mounted troops, their horses in full
gallop, and the general says, "All is we'll
| Hold out, my men, little long
| er. Let the sergeants ride along
the lines and cheer the men and tell them
| reinforcements are coming And now the
! rumbling Of the batteries and gun-car-
| riages is distinctly heard, and soon they
| are in line, and at 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 canteens.
and knapsacks, and ammunition, that the
| defeated may be unhindered in their flight.
| That is just the way now In this great
| battle against sin and crime and moral
! death the enemy seem too much for us.
| More grogshops than churches More bad
men than good men. and they come up
| with Dravado and the force of great num-
| bers. They have opened battle upon us
| before we are, in our own strength ready
to meet them, and great are the discour-
| agements But steady, there! Hold on!
Reinforcements are coming Through the
! glass of inspiration l look, and see the
| flash of the sword of "him who hath on
his vesture and on his thigh, name writ
| ten, King of kings and Lord of lords" All
| heaven is on our side and is coming to the
| rescue. hear the rumblng of the King s
artillery louder than any thunder that
| ever shook the earth, and with every roll
| of the ponderOus wheels our courage aug
| ments and when these reinforcements
| from heaven get into line with the forces
| of God already on earth, all the armies OF
| unrighteousness will see that their hour
of doom has come, and will waver and
fall back and take fight and nothing be
| lefG of them save here and there, strewn
by the wayside, an agnostic's pen or a
| broken decanter or a torn playful of a
| debasing amusement or a blasphemous
| paragraph, or a leper's scale, or a dragons
tooth, to show they ever existed Let
there be cheering all along the lines OF
| Christian workers. over the fact that
what the shovels fail to do will be ac-
| complished by the thunderbolts "Who
art thou, o great mountain? before Zerub-
babel thou shalt become a plain"
The mountains look on Marathon
And Marathon looks on the sea,
|
Shrine of the mighty can 1t be
| That this Is all remains OF theat