Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1898-09-24

ing at MarSton AlCOr, III w luCepy ltlu'
at Naseby, at Britigawater and Dart
mouth Let God arise, let his enemies
bo scattered!''
God, Not Man.
So you see my text is not like COM
plimentary and tasselcd sword that you
sometimes SEQ hung up in q parlor, q
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 its story
of battles, for my text hangs in the
Scripture armory, telling of the holy
wars Of 8, 900 years in which it has been
carried, but still as keen and mighty
az when David first unshcathed it. 1t
seems to mo that in the church of God
and in all styles of reformatory work
what we most need now is a battlecry
We raise our little standard and put on
it the name of some man who only
few years ago began to live and in
few years will cease to live. We go into
contest against the armies of iniquity
depending too much on human agencies.
We use for battlecry the name OF some
bravo Christian reformer, but after
awhile that reformer dies or gets old or
loses his courage, and then we take an
other battlecry, and this time perhaps
we put the name Of some one who be-
trays the cause and cells 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 bravo men and
women, but if we are to get the victory
all along the line we must take the hint
of the Gideonites, who wiped out the
Bedouin Arabs, commonly called Midi
antics. These Gideonites had glori-
GUS leader in Gideon, but what was the
battlecry with which they flung their
enemies into the worst defeat into which
any army was ever tumbled: 1t was,
1.-THE sword of the Lord and of Gideon. ;"
Put God first whoever you put second.
If the army of the American Revolution
is to free America, it must be, 1.-The
sword of the Lord and of Washington. "
II the Germans want to win the day at
Sedan, it must be, "The sword of the
Lord and Won Moltke. " Waterloo was
won for the English because not only
the armed men at the front, but the
worshipers in the cathedrals at the rear,
wero crying, 1.-The sword Of the Lord
and Of Wellington. y
Right Is Might.
The Methodists have gone in triumph
across nation after nation with the cry
1.-The sword of the Lord and of Yves
ley" The Presbyterians have gone from
victory to victory with the cry, "The
sword of the Lord and of John Knox. !"
The Baptists have conquered millions
after millions for Christ with the cry,
1.-The sword Of the Lord and of Jud-
son." The American Episcopalians have
won their mighty way with the cry,
1.-THE sword of the Lord and of Bishop
McIlvaine. The victory is to those
who put God first. But as we want a
battlecry suited to all sects of religion
lists and to all lands 1 nominate as the
battlecry of Christendom in the ap-
preaching Armageddon the words of my
text, sounded before the ark as it was
carried to Mount Zion, "Let God arise,
let his enemies be scattered. y
AS far as our finite mind can judge it
seems about time for God to rise. Does
it not seem to you that the abomina-
lions of this earth have gone far enough?
Was there ever time when sin was SO
defiant? Were there ever before so many
fists lifted toward God telling him to
come on if be dare? Look at the BIAS
phemy abroad What towering profan-
ityl Would it be possible for any one to
calculate the numbers of times that the
name of the Almighty God and of Jesus
Christ are every day taken irreverently
on the lips? Profane swearing is as
much forbidden by the law as theft or
arson or murder, yet who executes it?
Profanity is worse than theft OF arson
or murder, for these crimes are attacks
on humanity-that is an attack on God.
This country is pre-eminent for bias
phemy. A man travelling in Russia was
supposed to be clergyman. "Why do
you take me to be Clergyman" said
the man. "Oh," said the Russian, "all
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