Connecticut western news., 1897-01-21

the fact that the Lord God Almighty, in the fall play of his omnipotence. will accomplish this snpernal work. If God can build a mountain, guess he can remove Q mountain. After God has given full opportunity for the shovels he will come in with his thunderbolts
 We have amplified the idea of the Lamb of God. tell you now of the lion. 1 Here is thought that I have never seen projected, and yet it is the most | cheering of all considerations and plain ly Scriptural, the thought that as at the opening of the gospel dispensation in the Christly and Johanian and Pauline d;Ss the machinery of the natural world was brought into service, the shadow of eclipses and the agitation of earthquakes, tenpests put to sleep un- der the voice of divine lullaby. iron bolts of prisons showed back hy invisible muscle, kindling of flame on heads of worshipers, by instantaneous pharmacy blasted vision given full eyesight, and the dead returned from the eternal world, mingling amid earthly scenes, so 1t will be again.
 Return of the Supernatural.
 As I read my Bible, these supernat- urals are to return. Again the eclipses, as at the destruction of Jerusalem, will put red wing under the moon and black wing under the sun, and the mountain will shake with agne of excitement and hospital cots be emptied as their pa tients bound into sudden health and the gospel of mercy emphasized by most tremendous spectacles. And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, 10, there was a great earthquake. and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood and every mountain and island were moved out of their placesp' There you have 1t. The shovels HOW digging away at tha mountains to be re-enforced by thunderbolts. The gospel is only par italy successful because we preach it amid all placidities. the hearers having heard the invitation thousand times before and expect to hear it 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 pnllid dead will spring into roseate life. say, then the gospel will be universally ac- cepted. There is the programme. First | the shovels, then the thunderbolts. Ours | the shovels, Gods the thunderholta | The text, which before we ,stered with something of trepidation. now we utter in laugh of triumph: "Who art thou, | O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel 1k .1o,,
 Sometimes a general begins battle before he is ready, because the enemy forces it on him. The general says: "The enemy are pushing us, and so | open battle. We are not sufficient to cope with them, but hope the reserve forces will come up in time" The bat
 .le rages. and the general looks through | his feldglass at the troops, but ever and anon he sweeps his fieldglass back | ward and upward toward the hill, to zee if the reserve forces are coming.
 Hard pushed are we," says the gen. i sral. 1T do wish those endorsements ! would come up.'' After awhile the | plumes of the advancing cavalry are seen tossing on the ridge of the hill. and then the fash of swords, and then 1 the long lines of mounted troops, their horses in full gallop. And the general | says: All is well. Hold out, my men, | little longer. Let the sergeants ride | along the lines and cheer the men and tell them re-enforcements are coming | And now the rumbling of the batteries and gun carriages is distinctly heard, and soon they are in line, and at the first roar of the newly arrived artillery | the enemy, little while before so jubi- | lant, fall back in wild retreat, their | way strewn with canteens and knap- sacks and ammunition. that the defeat ed may be unhindered in their flight. | All Heaven to the Rescue.
 | 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 l come up with bravado and the force of great numbers. They have opened bat tie upon us before we are, in our own strength, ready to meet them, and great are the discouragements. But steady, therel Hold onl Re-enforcements are coming Through the glass of inspira- ton 1 look and see the flash of the sw ord of "him who hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, King of kings and Lord of lords" All heaven is on our side and is coming to the res- cue. hear the rumbling of the King s artillery, louder than any thunder that ever shook the earth, and with every roll of the ponderous W heels our cour- age augments, and when these re-en- forcements 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 flight and nothing be left of them save here and there, strewn by the wayside, an agnostic's pen. or a broken decanter, or torn playb bill of debasing amuse- ment, or blasphemous paragraph, or 8 leper's scale, or 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 accomplished by the thunderbolts- "Who art thou. O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain"
 The mountains look on Marathon,
 And Marathon looks on the sea.
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 Shrine or the mighty, can it be That this is all remains of theef
 Spanish Gunboat Blown Up.
 HAVANA, Jan. 19.-The gunboats Cen
 tinela and Relampago left Manzanilla or
 the night of Jan. Is with the object of go
 ing up the river Cauto to Fort Guamo, ir
 compliance with the orders of General