The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1897-03-06

taneous pharmacy blasted Vision given full
eyesight, and the dead returned from the
eternal world, ningiing amid earthly scenes,
so it will bs again.
As read my Bible, these supernaturais
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. aud the mountain will shake with ague
of excitement and hospital cots be emDtied
az their patients bound into sudden health
and the gospel of mercy emphasized by most
tremendous spectacies. s'And behold when
he had opened the sixth seal and, 10 there
was great earthquake, aud the sun became
black as sackcloth OF hair. and the moon be-
came as blood and every mountain
and island were moved out of their places!''
There you have it. The shovels now digging
away at the mountains to be REINFORCED by
thulderboIts. The gospel Is only partially
successful because we preach it amid all
placidities, the hearers having heard tho in
viration thousand timcs before and expect
to hear 1t thousand times more, but in
coming times to be preached amid pulver-
lied rocks and stellar panics aud shattered
masonry OF cemeteries, from which the pail
lid dead will spring into roseate life. I say
then the gospel will be universally accepted.
There is tue programme. First the shovels.
then the thnnderbolts. Ours the shovels,
Gods the thunderbolts. The text. which
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ton, now We utter in laugh OF triumph,
"Who art thou, o great mountain? Before
Zerubbabei thou shall become plain"
Sometimes general begins a battle before
he is ready, because the enemy forces 1t on
him. The general says: s'rhe enemy are
pushing US, and so I open battle. We are
not sufficient to cope with them, bat hope
the reserve forces will come up in time"
The battle RACES, and the general looks
through his fieldglaa5 at the troops. bat ever
and anon he sweeps his fleldglass backward
and upward toward the hill 10 see II the re-
serve forces are coming. Hard pushed are
We" says the general. 81 do wish those re-
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 the long line of
mounted troops, their horses In full ga,Iop,
and the general says: "All is well. Hold
out, my men. little longer. Let the SER
geants ride along the lines and cheer the
men and tell them re-enforcements are COM
ing" And now the rumbling of the batteries
aud 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 jubilant, fall back in wild
retreat, their way strewn with canteens and
knapsacks and ammunition, that the defeated
may be unhindsred 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 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 therel
Hold oni. Re-enforcements are comingl
Through the glass of inspiration look and
see the fash 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 ours side and is coningto the
rescue / hear the rumbling of the Kings
artillery, louder than any thunder that ever
shook the earth, and with every roll OF the
ponderous wheels our courage augments,
and when these re-enforceinents 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
and will WAIVER and fall back and take flight
and nothing be left of item save here and
there. strewn by the wayside, IN agnostic's
pen, or broken decanter, or q torn playbill
OF debasing amusement. or blasphemous
paragraph. or leper's scale. or dragons
tooth, to show they e,,er existed. Let there
be cheering all along fhe tines OF Christian
workers over the fact Shat what the shoyelS
fail to do will be accomplished by the thun-
derbolts. "Who art thou, o great mountain?
Before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a
plain" g
The mountains look en- Marathon,
And Marathon looks on the sea.
Shrine of the mighty, can it be
That this is all remains of thee2