Connecticut western news., 1898-02-03
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man of God. Often theologians would stop in the house-grave theologians- and at family prayer Peter Croy would be called upon to lead, and all those wise men sat around, wonder struck at bis religious efficiency. When heprayed, be reached up and seemed to take hold of the very throne of the Almighty, and be talked with God until the very heav- ems were bowed down into the sitting room. Oh. if I were dying 1 would rather have plain Peter Croy kneel by my bedside and commend my immortal spirit to God than the greatest arch bishop arrayed in costly canonicals. Go greach this gospel. You say you are not licensed. In the name of the Lord Al mighty, license you. Go preach this gospel, preach it in the Sabbath schools, in the prayer meetings, in the high ways, in the hedges. Woe be unto you if you preach it notl
 l remark again that in order to be qualified to meet your duty In this par ticular age you want unbounded faith in the triumph of the truth and the overthrow of wickedness. How dare the Christian church ever get discouraged? Have we not the Lord Almighty on our side? How long did it take God to slay the hosts of Sennacherib or burn Sodom or shake down Jericho? How long will it take God, when he once arises in his strength, to overthrow all the forces of iniquity? Between this time and that there may be long seasons of darkness and the chariot wheels of Gods gospel may seem to drag heavily, but here is the promise and wonder is the throne, and when omniscience has lost its eyesight and omnipotence falls back impotent and Jehovah is driven from his throne, then the church of Jesus Christ can afford to be Respondent, but never until then.
 Despots may plan and armies may march and the congresses of the nations may seem to think they are adjusting all the affairs of the world, but the mighty men of the earth are only the dust of the chariot wheels of Gods providence. And think before the sun of the next century shall set the last tyr amy will fall, and with splendor of demonstration that shall be the aston ishment of the universe God will set forth the brightness and pomp and glory and perpetuity of his eternal govern ment. Out of the starry flags and the emblazoned insignia of this world God will make path for his own triumph, and returning from universal conquest he will sit down, the grandest, the strongest, highest throne of earth his footstool.
 
 I prepare this sermon because want to encourage all Christian workers in every possible department. Hosts of the living God, march on, march oni His spirit will bless you. His shield will defend you. His sword will strike for you. March on, march on The despot- isms will fail, and organism will burn its idols, and Mohammedanism will give up its false prophet, and the great walls of superstition will come down in thunder and wreck at the long loud blast of the gospel trumpet. March on, march onl The besiegement will soon be ended. Only a few more steps on the long way; only few more sturdy blows; only b few more battlecries, then God will put the laurels upon your brow, and from the living fountains of heaven will bathe of the sweat and the heat and the dust of the conflict. March on, march onl For you. the time for work will soon be passed, and amid the ontnashines of the judgment throne and the trumpeting of resurrection angels and the upheaving of world of graves and the hosanna and the groaning of the saved and the lost we shall be rewarded for our faithfulness or punished for our stupidity. Blessed be the Lord God of Israel from everlasting to everlasting, and let the whole earth be filled with bis glory. Amen and amen.