The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1898-09-24

Will CAIuhHG. anu
at Boutwell, bridge and Aids Moss
and Drumelog the battle hymn and the
battle shout of those glorious old
Scotchmen was the text / have chosen:
LET God arise, let His enemies be
scattered
What q whirlwind of power was
Oliver Cromwell, and how with his
soldiers, named the "Ironsides," he
went from victory TO victoryl 0ppos-
ing enemies melted as he looked at
them. He dismissed parliament as
easily as q schoolmaster a school He
pointed his finger at Berkeley castle,
and IL was taken He ordered Sir
Ralph Hopton, the general, TO dis
mount, and he dismounted. See Crom-
well marching on with his army. and
hear the battle cry OF the "Ironsides,"
loud as q storm and solemn IS a death
knell, standards reeling before it, and
cavalry horses going back on their
launches and armies flying at Mars
ton Moor, at Winceby Field, at Naseby,
at Bridgewatsr and Dartmouth-'Let
God arise, let His enemies be scat
teredF
So you see my text IA not like a eom-
plimentary and tasseled sword that
you sometimes see hung up in q par
lor, a sword that was never in battle,
and only TO be used on general train
ing day, but more like some weapon
carefully hung up in your home, tell
ing its story Of battles, for my text
hangs Ia the Scripture armory, telling
OF the holy vars Of 1000 years in
which IL hAs been carried, but still as
keen and mighty as when David first
~unsheathed It. IL seems 70 me that In
the church OF God, and In all styles Of
reformatory work, what we most need
now is a battle cry. We raise our little
standard, and put on it the name OF
some man who only q few years ago
began TO live and in 4 few years will
cease TO live. We go into contest
against the armies Of inquiry, depend
ing too much on human agencies We
use for a battle cry the name OF some
brave Christian reformer, but after
awhile that reformer dies, or gets old,
or loses his courage, and then we take
another battle cry, and this time per-
baps we put the name Of some one who
betrAys the cause and sells out 70 the
enemy. What we want for a battle
cry is the mama OF some leader who
will never betray AA. and will never
surrender, and will never die,
Dali respect have / for brave men and
women, but II we are 10 get the vie,
tory all along the line we must take
Vae hint Of the G~ideonites, who wiped
out the Bedouin Arabs, commonly
called Midjanites- These Gideonites
had a glorious leader in Gideon, but
what was the battle cry with which
they flung their enemies into the
worst defeat into which any army was
ever tumbledp 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 10
free America II must be 'the sword Of
the Lord and Of Washington" II the
Germans want to win the day at
Sedan, Il must be ''the sword OF tho
Lord and Won Moltke." Waterloo WIS
won for the English because not only
the armed men at the front but the
worshipers in the cathedrals at the
rear, were crying "the sword Of the
Lord and Of Wellington"
The Methodists have gone In triumph
, across nation after nation with the
cry, "the sword Of the Lord and OF
Wesley" The Presbyterians have
gone from victory TO victory with the
cry, 1.-THE sword Of the Lord and OF
John Knox The 8aptists- have con: