The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-15

| viii soon appear in the field at the head
/ of his troops. Depend upon 1t, that when
! God inspires the soul with a new life he
| puts In it the principle of never give up"
In all ages of the church there have been
those who have had a faith that was al
most equal to sight, looking through per-
secution and reVerses with as much expec-
| tation as through palpable achievements.
! There have been men for Christ who have
| acted as did the favorite troops of Brlen,
attacked by Fitzpatrick Of Ossory. The
wounded soldiers begged that they might
| enter the fight with the others. They
said, Let stakes be stuck in the ground
ana suffer each Of US, tied to and sup
| ported by one of these stakes, TO battle in
| the ranks by the side of a sound man..
It is said that seven or eight hundred men
| pale and annotated from former wounds,
| and thus supported by the stakes, strug-
gled through the combat Thus has 1t
| been that multitudes of the children of
| God, though feeling themselves weak and
wounded, perhaps in body, perhaps in es-
tate, perhaps in soul, supported by the
staff of Gods promise, have warred 1t up
10 the hit in the subjugation of a world
of wickedness.
We are mighty in this cause, for we
have the help of the pious dead. Messen-
gers of salvation from high heaven, they
visit the field They stand behind us to
keep us from ignominious retreat. They
go before US to encourage us in the strife.
The McCheynes and the Paysons and the
Martyrs and the Brainerds, an uncounted
multitude of the glorifed, are our coad-
tutors. Have you heard the Swiss tradi-
| ton? The herdsmen say that three great
| leaders of the HeVetic nation, though
seemingly dead are only lying down I'M
der the ground in their old-time dress,
refreshing themselves with sleep, and
that if at any time the liberties uf their
| country are in danger they will immediate
1Nr srarif1e IN hafr foo nd riNT q
enemy. May 1 not have the thought that
| If ever the church of the blessed Christ
shall be threatened with destruction by
| foes which seem TOO great for her strength
the Lord himself will not only come to
the deHverance but those great ancients
who have seemed to be sleeping among the
dead shall Immediately hear the trumpet
blast of the church militant, and full
armed, spring back TO their old
positions in the ranks of God,
with the battle cry, More than
| conquerors through him that loved u.s."
Although we have already much to en-
| courage us in the work of the worlds
evangeHzation. yet we must confess that
much Of our time has been consumed in
planting our batteries and getting ready
for the conflict. We have not yet begun
to preach: We have not yet begun to
pray. We have not yet begun to work.
On the coasts of heathendom are mis-
sionary stations. They have scarcely yet
begun to accomplish what they propose.
1t takes some time to dig the trenches
and elevate the standard and direct the
great guns From what / hear, l think
they are about ready now. Let but the
Great Captain wave the signal, and the
ringing of celestial weaponry shall quake
every dungeon of hell and sound up
among the thrones of heaven. Pagodas
and temples shall tumble under the shock,
and besotted nations flying from their
| I.aIs CHI fvae he
COMPOUNDED worshippers of Baal. "The
Lord he is the God! The Lord, he is the
Cod"
We go not alone to the field. We have
inVincible allies in the dumb elements of
nature. AS Job said, we are in league
with the very stones of the field. The
sun by day and the moon by night, di-
rectly or indirectly, shall favor Christian
ity. The stars in their courses are mar
shaled for us. they fought against ST.
| sera. The winds of heaven are now as
certainly acting in favor of Christ as in
reformation times the invincible Armada,
| in its pride, approached the coast of Eng
| land. AS that proud navy directed their
| guns against the friends of Christ and re-
! ligious liberty, God said unto his winds,
"Seize hold of them" and to the sea,
! Swallow them" The Lord, with his
| tempests, dashed their hulks together and
| splintered them on the rocks until the
flower of Spanish pride and valor lay
! crushed among the waves of the sea beach.
All are ours. Aye! God the Father,
God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost are
our allies
The Mohammedans, in their struggle to
! subjugate the world, had passages from
the Koran inscribed on the blades of their
| scimiters, and we have nothing to fear if,
approaching the infidelity and malice that
| oppose the kingdom of Christ, we shall
have glittering on our swords the words of
David to the GiRlt, Il come to thee in the
| name of the Lord of Hosts, the God of the
armies of Israel whom thou has defed"
! Now the church goes forth bearing
! precious seed, but after awhile it win be
the sheaf-binding, and reaper angels shall
| shout the harvest home. Now it is tents
and marching and exposure, but then in
| the ranks of PROSTATE iniquity and on the
very walls of heaven "In the name of
! God we will set up our banners.
The earth sends up it's long, deep groan
of pain, and clanks the great chains of its
! bondage, and cries by the voice of sea and
! land and sky, How long, o Lord, how
| long"' There was a tradition on the
other side of the water that the daughter
| of Lir was transformed into a bird of the
air, and that she wandered for hundreds
of years over river and lake until the ar
! rival of Christianity, and that at the
| stroke of the first cathedral bell her spirit
was freed. Uncounted millions of our race,
by the power of sin and satan, have been
transformed into a state Of wretchedness,
| and they wander like the poor daughter
| of Lir; but they shall after awhile be re-
| leased. When the great Church of Christ
| shall in those darkened lands from it's
| tower ring out the glad tidings of the
! Gospel, then millions of wandering souls
! shall find rest in a Saviour's pity and
! Savior's love. transported from the king
dom of satan into the kingdom of Gods
1 dear Son.
| BY and by you would HARDLY know the
| earth If you saw it. The world as a whole
! shall be as greatly improved as the in
| dividual heart by conversion. Fraud,
| leaving its trickery, will go to work for an
! honest living. Knavery shall begin 20
make righteous bargains Passion shall
answer 70 the control of reason. Scoffers
| shall be changed into worshippeTs. and
sceptics into Bible lovers. Christ shall
begin his reign on earth Whether he
| shall descend onto the earth in person and
establish a government at Jerusalem, 1
| cannot say; but II will be an era OF more
| than Augustan splendor. That Is enough.
| Knowing this we can never despair. But
as We see the church OF Christ putting on