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

taneous pharmacy blasted VISION R1von Iuu
eyesight, and the dead returned from the
eternal world, mingling amid earthly scenes
so 1t will be again.
As read my Bible, these supernaturals
are 10 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 ague
of excitement and hospital cots be emptied
as their patients bound into sudden health
and the gospel OF mercy emphasized by most
tremendous spactaces, ''And beheld when
he had opened the sixth seal, and, 10 there
was great earthquake, and the sun became
black as sackcioth or hair. aud the moon be-
came az blood and every mountain
and island were moved out of their place5!
There you have it.. The shove.s now digging
away at the mountains to be REINFORCED by
thunder5olts. The gospel is only partially
successful because we preach it amid all
placidities, the hearers having heard tho In.
vration a thousand times before and expect
to hear it thousand times more, but In
coming times to be preached amid pniyer.
lied rocks and stellar panics and shattered
masonry OF cemeteries, from which the pal-
lid dead will spring into rossate life l say
then the gospel will be universally accepted.
There is the programme. First the shoyels,
| then the thunderbolts. Ours the shovels,
| Gods the thunderbolts. The text, which
before we uttered With something of trepida-
| ton, now We utter in laugh CT triumph,
ssWho art thou, o great mountain? Before
| Zerubbabel thou shall become plain.
| Sometimes general begins battle before
| he is ready. because tho enemy forces 1t on
| him. The general says: sThe enemy are
! pushing us. and so / open battle. We are
| not sufficient to cope with then, but hope
| the reserve forces will come up in time"
| The battle RACES, and the general looks
| through his feidglass at the trools, but ever
and anon be sweeps his flsldglass backward
| and upward toward the hill 10 see II the re-
serve forces are coming. Hard pushed arc
we," says the general. ~ do wish those re-
| enforcefhents 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 galiop,
and the general says: 'sAll 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
and gun carriages Is distinctly heard, and
soon they are in line, and at the first roar oil
the newiy-arrlved artillery the enemy, lit
tie while before so jubilant, fall back in wild
retreat. their way strewn with canteens and
knapsacks and ammunitiou,t that the defeated
may be unhindered in their flight.
| That is Just the way now. In TINS greas
battle against sin and crime aud moral death
tho 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 il
our strength ready TO meet them, aud great
are tho discouragements. But steady there
Hold oni Disbursements are coming
Through the glass OF inspiration look anc
see the fash of the sword of Him who haiti
on His vesture and on His thigh name
written, King of Kings and Lord OF Lords. "
All heaven is on our side and is coming TO thu
rescue. hear the rumbiing of the Kings
artillery, louder than any thunder that eve
shook the earth, and with every roll OF tn,
ponderous wheels our courage augments
and when these re-enf0rcements from HEAVIER
get into line with the forces OF God alread.
on earth all the armies OF uprighteousnes
will see thnt their hour OF doom has comt
and will waver and fall back and take fiigh
and nothing be left of them save here ant
there, strewn by the wayside, an agnostic'
pen, or a broken decanter, or a torn Playful
OF debasing amusement, or blasphemou
paragraph. or leper's scale, or a dragon
tooth, to SHOW they ever existed. Let Their
be cheering all along the lines OF Christian
workers over the fact that what the shovel
fail to do will be accomplished by the thnn
derbolts. ssWho 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 it be
That this is all remains OF thee!