The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-02-08

bring up the great siege guns or n
gospel to h very wall and wheel the
flying artillery into line, and when the
armed infantry OF heaven shall o n
front the battlements you will have to
give the quick command, Forward!
Charged"
Ah, my friends, there Is work for
you to do and for me to do IN order
to this grand accomplishment / have
a pulpit / preach in It. Your pulpit
is the bank. Your pulpit is the store.
Your pulpit Is the editorial chair.
Your pulpit Is the anvil. our pulpit
is the house scaffolding. Your pulpit
is the mechanics shop. I may stand
in my place and, through cowardice or
through self seeking, may keep back
the word I ought TO utter, while you,
with sleeve rolled UP and brow be-
sweated with toll, may utter the word
that will Jar the foundations OF heaven
| with the shout Of a great victory. Oh,
that We might all feel that the Lord
Almighty is putting upon US the hands
OF ordination! / tell you. every one
go forth and preach this gospel. You
have as much right to preach as I
have or any mar living.
EXAMPLES OF COURAGE
Hedley Wears was a wicked man in
the English army. The grace of God
came to him. He became an earnest
and eminent Christian. They scoffed
at him and said: You are a hypocrite
You are as bad as you ever Were"
Still he kept his faith in Christ, and
after awhile, finding that they could
not turn him aside by calling him a
hypocritc, they said to him, oh, you
are nothing but a Methodist" This
did not disturb him. He went on per-
forming his Christian duty until he
had formed all his troops into a Bible
class, and the whole encampment was
shaken with the presence of God. So
Havelock went into the heathern tenn
, pie in India while the English army
| was there and put a candle into the
han of each of the heather gods
that stood around in h heather tenn
| pie, and by the light of those candles
| held up by the idols General Havelock
preached Righteousness, temperance
and Judgment to come. And who will
say on earth or in heaven that Have
lock had not the right to preach? In
the minister's house where / prepared
| for college there worked a man by the
| name of Peter Croy. He could neither
| read write, but he was a man Of
God. Often t~heOlOgianS would stop in
the LhOuse-grave theologians-and at
| family prayer Peter Croy would be
called upon to lead, and all those wise
men sat around, wonder struck at
his religious efficiency. When he
prayed, he reached up n seemed to
take hold Of the very throne of the
Almighty, and he talked with God
| until the very heavens were bowed
down into the sitting room. Oh, if I
were dying I would rather have plain
Peter Croy kneel by my bedside and
comuend my immortal spirit to God
than the greatest archbishop arrayed
| in costly c~anOnicalS. Go preach this
| gospel. You say you are not licensed.
In the name of the Lord Almighty, 1
| license you. Go preach this gospel,
preach it in the Sabbath schools, in the
| prayer meetings, in the highways, in
| the hedges. Woe be unto you if you
| preach it not.
TRIUMPH OF TRUTH.
I remark again, that in order to be
qualified to meet your duty in this
| particular age you want u~nbounded
| faith in the triumph of the truth and
\ the overthrow of wickedness. How
dare the Christian church ever get dis
c~Ouraged? Have We not the Lord AL
mighty on our side? How long did it
take Soc to Stay the hosts of Sennach-
crib 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 his time and that there may
he long seasons of darkness, and the
chariot wheels of Gods gospel may
seem to drag heavily, but here is the
promise and yonder is the throne, and
when omniscience has lost it's 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 rmies ma,
march n the congresses of the ma
lions may seem to think they are ad-
justing 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 I think before the
sun of the next country shall set the
last tyranny will fall, and with q
splendor of demonstration that shall be
the astonishment of the universe God
will set forth the brightness and pomI
and glory and perpetuity of his eterna.
government. Out of the starry flags
and the emblazoned insignia of this
world God will make a path for his
own triumph and returning from uni
versal conquest he will sit down, the
grandest, the strongest, highest throne
of earth his footstool.
I prepare this sermon because
want to all CHRISTIAN work
ers in every possible department. Host
of the living God, march ON! His
spirit will bless you. His shield viii
defend you. His sword will strike fol
you. March on, march on! The de-
spotisms will fail and paganism viii
burn it's idols and Mohammedanisn
will give up it's false prophet and tht
great walls of superstition will com
Town in thunder and wreck at TIT
long, loud blast of the gospel trumpet
March ON, march on, march on! TIL.
besiegement will soon be ended. Only
a few more steps on the long way
only a few more sturdy blows; onl,
a few more battlecries; then God will
put the laurels upon your brow, ant
from the living fountains of HEAVIER
Will battle OH the sweat ana the hea
and the GIst of the conflict. Marc1
on, march on For you the time 70,
work will 500 be passed and annie
the ~outf1ashings of h Judgment thron'
and the trumpeting of resurrection
angels and the hosanna and the groan
ing Of the saved and the lost we shall
be rewarded for our faithfulness O