Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1897-01-27

this supernal work. II Col can build n
mountain. l guess He can re move n moun-
tain. After God has given fuu opportunity
! for the shovsls He viii come in with Uis
thunderbolts. We have amplified the idea
otthe Lamb of God. Itell you now otthe
lion. Here l. a thought that | have never
seen projected, and Yet 1t is the most cheer
ing OF all considerations and plainly Scrip
tural the thought that as at the opening of
The gospel dispensation IN the Chrsty and
Johanan and Pauline days the machinery OF
the natural world was brought Into service,
the shadow of eclipses and the agitation Of
earthquakes, tempests put TO sleep under ths
voice of divine lullaby, iron bolts OF prisons
showed back by invisible muscle. kindiing
of fame on heads of worshipers, by Iusiau-
taneouS pharmacy blastet vision given fult
eyesight, and the dead returned from the
eternal world, mingling amid earthly scenes,
SO It will be again.
As read my Bible, these supernaturals
are 10 return. Again the eclipses, as nj the
destruction OF Jerusalem, will put red wing
under the moon and black wing under tho
sun. and the mountain will shake with a9ue
OF excitement and hospital cots be emDried
as their patients bound into sudden health
and the gospel OF mercy emphasiz ID by most
tremendous spectacles. "And beheld when
he had opened the sixth seal. and. 10 there
was great earthquake, and the sun became
black "a sackcioth OF hair. and the moon be-
came as blood - and every mountain
and island We're moved out OF their places
There you have it. The shovels now digging
away at the mountains to be re-enforced by
thunderDolts The gospel is only partially
successful because we preach 1t amid all
placidities, the hearers having heard the IN
vitation a thousand times before and expect
to hear 1t a thousand times more, but In
coming times to be preached amid pulver-
fzet rocks and stellar panicS an shattered
masonry of cemeteries, from which the pal
lid dead will spring into roseate life. / say
then the gospel will be universally accepted.
There is the programme. First the shovels,
then the thunderbolts. Ours the shovei-,
Gods the thunderbolts. The text. which
before We uttered with something of trepida-
tion, now We utter in laugh of triumph
"Who art thou, great mountain? Before
Zerubbabel thou shall become plain"
Sometimes general begins a battle before
he is ready, because the enemy forces IL on
him. The general says: The enemy ara
pushing us. aud so | open battle We
not sufficient TO cope with them. but / hope
the reserve forces will come up IN time.
The battle RACES. and the general look.
through his feidglas5 at the trooI,s. but ever
and anon he sweeps his tieldglass rack ward
and upward toward the hill to see if the TO
serve forces are coming. Hard pushed
We, says the general. Il do wish those re-
endorsements would come up" After awhile
the piumes Of the advancing cavalry are
seen tossing on the ridge OF the hill and then
the flash of swords and then the long line OF
mounted troops, their horses in full galiop,
and tue general SAYS; "Al is well. Hold
out, my men, little longer. Let the ser
geauts ride along the lines and cheer the
men and tell them re-enforcements are com
ing 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 a lit
tie while before so juhilant, fall back in will
retreat. their way strewn with canteens and
knapsacks and ammunition that the defeated
IN " ha I'M lind dara tpt hafr atr,ht
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 bra
vado and the force OF great numbers. They
have opened battle upon US before we are in
our strength ready to meet them, and great
are the discouragements. But steady there!
Hold on! Re-enforcements are comingl
Through the glass Of inspiration I look and
see the flash OF the sword 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 comingtJ the
rescue. hear the rumblng of the Kings
artillery, louder than any thunder that ever
shook the earth, and with every roll of tho
ponderous wheels our courage augments
and when these re-enforcements from heaven
get into line with the forces of God already
on earth all the armies of uprighteousness
will see that their hour of doom has come
ana Will Waver ana Iall Dack ana take night
and nothing be left of them save here and
there, strewn by the wayside, au agnostics
pen, or a broken decanter, or a torn playbill
OF debasing amusement or a blasphemous
paragraph. or a leper's scale, dragons
tooth, to show they ever existed. Let there
be cheering all along the lines OF Christian
workers over the fact that what the shoves
fail TO do will be accomplished by the thun-
derbolts. "Who art thou o great mountain?
Before Zerubbabel thou shalt become
plain
The mountains look on Marathon,
And Marathon looks on the sea
Shrine OF the mighty, can IL he
That this is ali remains OF thee2