Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-09-17
ENEMIES OF MAN.
THE MlsOEEDS AND THE DANGERS or
MODERN LIFE.


Has Been tho Worlds Best Leader-rhe
Sins Of Blasphemy and Drunkenness.
Tho Day Of Expiation.
iCopyrght. 1888. by American Press Asso-
ciation.l
WASHINGTON, Sept. lS.-This arous.
ing discourse by DR.. Talmage will e.
cite interest by the manner In which 1t
assails some Of the great evils now
abroad. The subject is Enemies Over.
THROWN" and the text Psalms xviii.
!, "Let God arise. let his enemies be
scattered"
A procession was formed to carry the
ark. or sacred box, which, though only
3 feet o inches in length and feet 5
inches in height and depth, was the
symbol Of Gods presence. As the lead
ers of the procession lifted this orna-
mented and brilliant box by two golden
poles run through four golden rings
and started for Mount Zion all the peo-
pie chanted the battle hymn Of my text,
LET God arise. let his enemies be scat.
tered"
The Cameronians of Scotland, out
ragged by James l, who forced upon
them religious forms that were offensive,
and by the terrible persecution of
Drummond, Dalziel and Turner and by
the oppressive laws of Charles I and
Charles II were driven to proclaim war
against tyrants and went forth to fight
for religious liberty, and the mounts
heather became red with carnage and at
Boutwell, bridge and Ards Moss and
Drumclog the battle hymn and the bat
tie shout of those glorious old Scotch
men was the text I have chosen. "Let
God arise. let his enemies be scattered. )"
What a whirlwind Of power was Oil
yer Cromwell, and how with his SOL
diers. named the "Ironsides, he went
from victory to victory Opposing enc
mics melted as he looked at them. He
dismissed parliament as easily as
schoolmaster school. He pointed his
finger at Berkeley castle, and it was
taken He ordered Sir Ralph Hopton,
the general, to dismount, and no dis
mounted See Cromwell marching on
with his army and hear the battlecry
OF the "Ironsides, loud as storm and
solemn as a deathknell, standards reel.
ing before it and cavalry horses going
back on their launches and armies fly
ing at Marston Moor, at Winceby Field,
at Naseby, at Bridgewater and Dart
mouth-"LetG God arise. let his enemies
be scattered!"
God. Not Man.
So you see my text is not like com.
plimentary and tasseled sword that you
sometimes see hung up in a parlor, n
sword that was never In battle, and
only to be used on general training day.
but more like some weapon carefully
hung up in your home, telling it's story
of battles. for my text hangs In the
Scripture armory. telling Of the holy
wars Of 5000 years in which 1t has been
carried, but still as keen and mighty
as when David first unsheathed 1t. 1t
seems to me that in the church Of God
and in all styles Of reformatory work
what we most need now Is a sbattiecry.
We raise our little standard and pat on
It the name of some man who only q
few years ago began to live and IN a
few years will cease to live Wego into
contest against the armies Of iniquity,
depending too much OH human agencies
We use for battlecry the name Of some
brave Christian reformer. but after
awhile that reforiner dies or gets old or
loses his courage, and then VIC take an
other battlecry. and this time perhaps
we put the name of some one who be-
trays the cause and sells out to the en-
envy What we want for battlecry Is
the name Of some leader who will never
betray us and will never surrender and
will never die.
All respects have for brave men and
women, but if we are to get the victory
all along tho line We must take the mint
Of the Gideonites, who wiped ont the
Bedouin Arabs, commonly called Midi
antics. These Gideonites had glorl'
Gus leader in Gideon, but what was the
batt]ecry with which they flung theil
enemies into the worst defeat into which
any army was ever tumbled! 1t was,
..The sword of the Lord and of Gideon
Put God first, whoever you put second
II the army Of the American Revolution
is to free America, it must be. 1.-THE
sword of the Lord and of Washington.
If the Germans want to win the day al
Sedan. it must be, 1.-the sword OF TIT
Lord and Won Moltke." Waterloo wal
won for the English because not only
the armed men at the front, out I'M
worshipers in the cathedrals at the rear
were CRYING, 1.-The sword OF the Lore
and of Wellington, :"
Right IL Might.
The Mcthodists have gone in triumph
across nation after nation with the cry
1.-THE sword Of the Lord and OF YVES
lev. " The Presbyterians have gone iron
victory to victory with the cry, I'm
sword of the Lord and Of John Knox.
The Baptists have conquered million
after millions for Christ with the cry
"Tbe sword of the Lord and OF Juo
SON The American Episcopalians nav
won their mighty way with the cry
1.-The sword of the Lord and OF blsno
McIlvaine." The victory Is to thos
who nut God first But as we want
battlecry suited to all scots OF religion
lists and to all lands nominate as IN
battlecry of Christendom in the al
preaching Armageddon the words OF III
text sounded before the ark as IL wa
carried to Mount Zion, "Let God arise
let his enemies be scattered.
AS far as our finite mind can 1uoge
!, seems about time for God to rise. Doe
it not seem to you that the aoom'n s