Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-09-20
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anar Tina unan1"i"h shaI ny asiao
ttha svmhais - IT, mnprninn rana oiad
Wv. . 2;atouio, us aha15 M aomo
for.h 49, H. nnania In +ha haantr
md snIendoro If roIo1 Iunranacy .sRonse
ahu sPieauor ~. aisuPleihae. house
ye, men Of Jerusalem rouse ye to the
Elinr 70 tba winds your foars stand
= H,S W "a, WINS .o"' a''
ye before the oppressor as your fathers
stood. clad in the armOr of
hio faith ne, m rnrr orns nnfo tho
hills. Trust the God OF heaven Ne
shall see the king in his beauty
| Ronsa va ronso vo man of .JerusaIcm.
is one of the most notable Events in
| R;hlo biS,orv IN . Sinplo ,;gbt IL, oOo
d tho nIsso,a, ,a IN en,s., ra aI' aud
the remnant, too feeble to make an at
Cach' Iet.rneu 70 Assyrla WIN Sna'lc
OF face" me Bible account tells us
| and smotn tho Invaders This of conrse
mnann d;v;no int"uvant;an wbatbar hv
the direct agency of a superhuman be-
Il inn or nv cnn,n ipfntstn nIjn To known in,
lng or ot some n,ermeuia u n nntMm nn'
Strument, Such as Il Vlfulent peStllence,
IL Is not certain. III Is the 1act that con-
Germs US now, ana not the explanation
OF the 1act, II many OF us Will, doupt-
Tess recall byrons VIVA description ol
the Whole scene.
The Assyrian came down like a wolf on the
And lis cohorts were CLEANING in silver and
gold;
And the sheen OF their spears was like stars
When the bIIne wave rolls nightly ON deem
Galilee.
Like the leaves OF the forest when summer is
That host with ito banuers at sunset was seen
Like the leaves of the forest when autumn
,, hath blown,
strown. ~ ''" 10 UNIV
For the angel of death spread his wings on
me blast, ,o ..o =. en- g.. o.,o
passed y" ~ i"'o ~ % "'"0
And the eyes of the sleepers waxed deadly
and chill,
grew still
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The tents were a. silent IN the banners alone
Ii '' ~
And the might of the Gentle, unsmote by the
sword 3D., ,,,,. j., .,,o u,..o. - .,o
Lord" 'Ae S"'" :"
Someone has said that God always
fohtS an thn sian of thn Ia rnast h.ttal.
jons Knt tbis 10 tho ntterance If SEan-
ticiSm or of ignorance or of hotb cod
fights on the Side of righteousness and
trnth ON Tho Side Of bnma nitv and civS
iIization M tba sido Of Iho;tv ard an
Iinhtanmont Somatimo th;s i nn tho
LAO of tho largest hattalions .nd some
timos an tho sido ~ tho smallost and
waaLoSt IN tha ohurnhos nf Mnsoow
Tho storv Of Sonnonharih,s inrasion i,
rood nm overv nnivorSaryo Of tho ratroat
of tho Franch from Russia Historv
tolls ne that Na%noloon ,ost hv tho intenso
cold of a. sinola niuht On oo9 horsas and
tho strenath of his magni6cnnt armv
When newid with his Siimn and stnnos
want wa ont ~ meot tha oiant Gnlioth and
his pbi,istina hosts O. wh;cb sida did
Cod anhto Whnn Miitiodas On tho 6aid
~ Me- hon WITH ~ nnn athnnians nnt
iunominionsiv to f,iabt ion ooo persians
+1nS nravan+;nr +he o;viIination ~ ASia
from plantina i7saIf IN Emrono on which
sido IA Cod aahta When Rohart Rrnco
ia dafanso ~ 13ha ,o,ioion and 1;hortioS
w. oon 900 ~, ~ 'o'oIo hls|ae
uIoVe loo,ooo NnSllSh lnSioftouSly DeloTe
him in the battle of Bannockburn, on
| which side did God Gphto When Georoe
Washington conducted his u"neoual con
test with the mother country. leading
his disheartened soldiers, whose path
was marked with bloody footprints,
through New JERSEY, across the Della
ware to starve and pray at Valley Forge,
on which side did God fight? And when,
in the recent past, the people of Cuba,
ground down by iniquitous taxation, en-
shaved and butchered by an inhuman
and barbarian monarchy, half starved
and half naked, vet with the hope of
liberty stirring their bosoms, when these
people took up arms against the merci.
less and sem~i-civilized Spaniard, on
| which side did God fight? Did l not say
| that God always fights on the side OF
liberty and humanity and truth? An.
| swer me. Sennacherib, is it not true? An.
swer me, Napoleon Bonaparte, is it not
truce Answer me, Blanco and Weylel
and Cervera and all We defeated chief
tains of decadent Spain. can a man fight
against God?
Truth crushed to earth shall rise again,
p, Ihe e. eternal years OF G6d are hers;
And dies mid her worshippers."
Rut tho destruction of Sonn,cberib,s
army was only a partial fnlflment Of
this n%ronhecv # p]refiuures a CREATE,
| and moro maunificrnt victorv hat ot
| Christ ovar aIl his anamia: that ri
Christ,s naon,a tbronoh him as cantain
of their salyation II noints to q time
that ia coming when tho kinodom ~
God shall he fnliv estahlished and
riohteonsnoss and nsoco shall roiar "n.
nrono. ~,han s;m shnii onaSn an5 rain
shsii no my mora and toars shau No
winod awov Mat time should not bo
dnrr;na tho do vs ~ Tho distrossod noonIo
~ IornsaIon y whon, fsa;ab vras p noapr
ino T, wos forthau - hnt " 10 w . =
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