The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1898-02-02

will be by storm; you will have to bring
up the great siege guns of the gospel to
the very wall and wheel the flying ar
tillery into line, and when the armed
infantry of Heaven shall confront the
battlements you will have to give the
quick command, Forward! Charger
Ah, my friends, there is work for you
to do and for me to do in order to this
grand accomplishment. 1 have pull
pit. preach in it. Your pulpit is the
bank. Your pulpit is the store. Your
pulpit is the editorial chair. Your pull
pit is the anvil. Your pulpit is the
house scaffolding. Your pulpit is the
mechanics shop. / may stand in my
place and, through cowardice or
through self-seeking, may keep back
the word l ought to utter; while you
with sleeve rolled up and brow besweat-
ed with toll, may utter the word that
will jar the foundations of Heaven with
the shout of great victory. Oh, that
we might all feel that the Lord AL
mighty is putting upon us the hands
of ordination! l tell you, every one,
go forth and preach this gospel. You
have as much right to preach as have
or any man living.
Hedley Wears was 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 hypo-
crite; you are as bad as ever you were"
Still he kept his faith in Christ, and
after while finding that they could
not turn him aside by calling him
hypocrite, they said to him: "Oh, you
are nothing but Methodistw This
did not disturb him. He went on per-
forming his Christian duty until he
had formed all his troops into Bible
class, and the whole encampment was
shaken with the presence of God. So
Havelock went into the heather tenn
pie in India while the English army
was there, and put a candle into the
hand of each of the heather gods that
stood around in the heather temple,
and by the light of those candles held
up by the idols Gen. Havelock preached
righteousness, temper ance and iudg-
ment to come. And who will say on
earth or in Heaven that Havelock had
not the right to preach?
In the minister's house where pre-
pared for college there worked man
by the name of Peter Croy. He could
neither read nor write, but he was a
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 his religious efficiency. When he
prayed he reached up and 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 l
were dying l would rather have plain
Peter Croy kneel by my bedside and
commend my immortal spirit to God
than the greatest archbishop arrayed
in costly canonicals. Go preach this
gospel. You say you are not licensed.
In the name of the Lord Almighty, l
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!
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 discour-
aged? 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 over
throw all the forces of iniquity? Be
tween 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 yonder 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 despondent, but never until then. |
Despots may plan and armies may
march and the congresses of the ma
lions may seem to think they are ad-
iusting the affairs of the world, but
The mighty men of the earth are only
,he dust of the chariot wheels of Gods
providence. And | think before the
sun OF the next century shall set the
asst tyranny will fall, and with
'plendor of demonstration that shall
De the astonishment of the universe
iod will set forth the brightness and
'omp and glory and perpetuity of his
,ternal government. Out of the starry
lags and the emblazoned insignia of
his world, God will make a path for
his own triumph, and returning from
Universal conquest he will sit down, the
'randest, the strongest, highest throne
# earth his footstool.
prepare this sermon because want
o encourage all christian workers in
very possible department, Hosts of
he living God, march on! march on!
lis spirit will bless you. His shield
will defend you. His sword will strike
or you. March on! march on! The
espotisms will fail, and paganism will
'urn its idols, and Mahometanism will
i've up its false prophet, and the great
7alls of superstition will come down
n thunder and wreck at the long loud
last of the gospel trumpet. March
n! march on! The besiegement will
oon be ended. Onlv n few mora