Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-03-31

most things. There is such reserve OF
power. He has moro thunderbolts than he
has ever flung; more light than He has ever
distributed; more blue than that with
which he has overarched the sky; moro
green than that with which He has emer-
aided the grass; moro crimson tnun tnAI
with which He has FURNISHED tho sunsets.
l say 1t with reverence-from all tnit can
see, God has never half tried.
"My text makes it plain that the rectiH-
cation of this world is stupendous under
taking. 1t takes more power to make TINS
world over again than 1t took TO make lt az
first. A word was only necessary Tor the
first creation, but for the new creation tnc
unsleeved aud unhindered forearm OF the
Almighty. The reason OF that l can under
stand. In the shipyards or Llverpooi, or
Glasgow, or New York, great vessei Is
constructed. The architect draws out the
plan, the length of the beam, the capacity
OF tonnage, the rotation of wheel or screw,
the cabin, the masts and all the appoint
ments of this great palace OF the deep. The
architect finishes his work without any
perplexity, and the carpenters and artisans
toll on the craft SO many hours a day, each
one doing his part, until, with flags flying
and thousands of people cheering on the
docks, the vessel is launched. But out on
the sea that vessel breaks her SHAFT and Is
limping slowly along toward harDor, when
Caribbean whiflwinds, those mighty hunt
ers OF the deep, looking out for prey OF
ships, surround that wounded vessel and
pitch 1t on a rocky coast, and she Hits and
falls in the breakers until every joint is
loose and every spar Is down, and every
wave sweeps over the hurricane deck as
she parts amidship. Would It not require
| more skill and power to got that splintered
vessels off the rocks and reconstruct 1t than
| it required originally to build her? Aye!
"Our world, which started out with all
the flags of Edenic foliage and with the
chant of Paradisaical bowers has been six
al, hn HnN n CD
and sorrow, and to get her out and of, and
to get her on the right way again, will re-
| quire more of omnipotence than it required
to build her and launch her. So 1 am not
surprised that, though In the drydock OF
one word our world was made, It will take
the unsleeved arm of God to lift her from
the rocks and put her on the right course
again. 1t is evident from my text, and its
comparison with other texts, that 1t would
not be so great an undertaking to make
whole constellation Of worlds, and whole
galaxy Of worlds, and a whole astronomy
Of worlds, and swing them in their right
orbits, as to take this wounded world, this
stranded world, this bankrupt world, this
destroyed world, and make 1t as good az
when it started.
| "But have no time to specify the mani
| fold evils that challenge Christianity. And
l think have seen In some Chrlstians, and
| read in some newspapers, and heard from
some pulpits, disheartenment, as though
Christianity were so worsted that it is
hardly worth while to attempt to win this
| world of God, and that all Christian work
would collapse, and that it is no use for you
| to teach Sabbath class, to distribute tracts,
or exhort in prayer meeting, or preach In
n pulpit, as Satan is gaining ground.
| TO rebuke that pessimism, the Gospel of
Smash-up, preach this sermon, showing
| that you are on the winning side. Go
aheadl Fight on! What want to make
| ont tn do ic hot 1Dlt1T 10 No
| exhausted; that all which has been ac-
complshed has been only the skirmishing
before the great Armageddon; that not
| more than one of the thousand fountains
Of beauty in the Kings Park has begun to
| play: that not more than one brigade of
the innumerable hosts to be marshaled by
the Rider on the White Horse has yet taken
| the field; that what God has done yet has
been with arm folded in flowing robe but
| that the time is coming when he will rise
| from his throne, and throw OF that robe,
and come out of the palaces OF eternity,
and come down the stairs of heaven with
all-conquerfng step, and halt In the pres
ence OF expectant nations, and flashing
his omniscient eyes across the work to be
done will put back the sleeve OF his right
| arm to the shoulder, and roll 1t up there,
| and for the worlds final and complete
rescue make bare his his arm. Who can
doubt the result when according to my
| text Jehovah does his best; when the last
| reserve force OF Omnipotence takes the
| fleld when the last sword Of Eternal Might
| leaps from its scabbard! s,,~a
"Do you know what decided the battle
| of Sedan? The hills Thousand feet high.
Eleven hundred cannon on the hills. Ar
| tillery ON the heights OF Givonne. and
| twelve German batteries on the heights of
La Moncello. The Crown Prince Of Sax
| ony watched the scene from the heights
| Of Marry. Between q quarter to 6 O'Clock
| in the morning and o'clock In the after
| noon of September 2. 1870, the hills
dropped the shells that shattered the
Emperor and the $4,000 OF his army cap
tured by the hills. At the close Of that
| battle Of Sedan the Emperor sat broken
| hearted in poor woman's cottage, and
when she said in sympathy, What can I
do for your he replied, Nothing, except
not stare at me!' Sedan decided by the
| hills. SO in this conflict now raging be-
tween holiness and sin our eyes are unto
the hills Down hero in the valleys of
earth we must be valiant soldiers OF the
| cross, but the Commander of our host
walks the heights, and views the scene
| far better than We can In the valleys,
| and at the right day and the right hour
| all heaven will open its batteries on our
side, and the commander OF the hosts OF
sin, with all his followers, will surren-
| der. and it will take eternity to fully
our Lord Jesus Christ. Our eyes are unto
the hills 1t is SO certain to be accom-
| plished that Isaiah, In my text, looks down
| through the fleld-glass of prophecy and
speaks Of it as already accomplished, and
take my stand where the prophet took
his stand. and look at It as all done. See!
Those cities without tear? Look! Those
continents without pang! Behold! Those
hemispheres without sin! Why, those
deserts-Arabian desert, American desert,
and Great Sahara desert-are all irrigated
into gardens where God walks In the cool
of the day. The atmosphere that encircles
our globe floating not one groan. All the
rivers and lakes and oceans dimpled with
not one falling tear. The climates OF the
earth have dropped out of them the rigors
of the cold and the blasts Of the heat. and
it is universal spring. Let us change the
old worlds name. Let 1t no more be called
the earth, as when 1t was reeking with
everything pestiferous and malevolent,
scarleted with battle-helds and gashed
with graves. but now SO changed, so aro-
matte with gardens, and so resonant with
| song and so rubescent with beautv let II