Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-03-15

like the COMPOUNDED worshipers of Baal:
The Lord, he is the God! The Lord,
he is the God!'
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 OF indirectly, shall favor Chris
tianity. The stars in their courses are
marshaled for us, as they fought against
Sisera. The winds of heaven are now as
certainly acting in favor Of Christ as in
reformation times the invincible arma-
ola in its pride approached the coast OF
England. As that prod navy directed
its guns against the friends of Christ
and religious liberty, God said unto his
winds, Seize hold of them,' and to
the sea, Swallow Them" She Lord,
with his tenlpests, dashed their bulls
together and splintered them on the
rocks until the flower of Spanish pride
and yalor lay crushed among the waves
of the seabeach. All are ours. Aye,
God the Father, God the Son and God
the Holy Ghost are our alliesi
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 ou1
swords the words of David to the giant,
81 come to thee in the name of the
Lord of Hosts, the God of the armies o.
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Effect Of the Conquest.
Now the church goes forth bearing
precious seed, but after awhile it will
be the sheaf binding, and reaper angels
shall shout the harvest home. Now il
is tents and marching and exposure, but
then, in the ranks of PROSTATE iniquity
and on the very walls of heaven, Sin the
name of God we will set up our ban
ners. -
The earth sends up its long, deer
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
tradition on the other side OF the water
that the daughter of Lir was transform
ed into a bird of the air and that she
wandered for hundreds of years over
river and lake until the arrival of Chris
tianity 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 trans
formed into a state of wretchedness,
and they wander like the poor daughter
of Lir, but they snall after awhile be
released When the great church OF
Christ shall in those darkened lands I
from its tower ring out the glad tidings
of the gospel, then millions of wander. /
ing souls shall find rest in Saviour's 1
pity and Saviour's love, transported /
from the kingdom of satan into the |
kingdom of Gods dear Son.
By and by you would hardly know !
the earth if you saw it. The world as q
whole shall be as greatly improved as
the individual heart by conversion
Fraud, leaving its triclzery, will go tc
work for an honest living. Knavery
shall begin to make righteous bargains.
Passion shall answer to the control OF
reason. Scoffers shall be changed into
and skeptics into Bible Low.
srs. Christ shall begin his reign OF
earth. Whether he shall descend on to
The earth in person and establish a gov
at Jerusalem, cannot say, but
t will be an era of more than Augustar
'plendor. That is enough Knowing
his, we can never despair But as we
zee the church of Christ putting on he1
beautiful garments and arising to shine
We will say, with the enthusiasm OF
Oliver Cromwell, who, standing before
lis sick and famine stricken soldiers a,
Dunbar, saw the sun rising out of the
morning mist and, pointing to it with
lis sword, uttered a prayer which hurled
lis men upon the crushed foe like sky
all of thunderbolts: "Arise, O God
let thine enemies be scattered With
he ear of faith catch the sound of the
after day glory. Church of Christ, un.
heath thy sword and this moment into
he battle! In the name of Christ, march
n! Upon every school and hospital,
pom every bankers desk and mer.
hant's counter, upon every chemists
laboratory and astronomers tower, upon
hepherd's hut and woodman's cabin,
pom ships deck and sailor IS hammock.
II out on the sea and high up in the
fountain, before the gaze of nations,
nder the applaudits of heaven, in the
anne of God we will set up our ban
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