St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1898-10-22
OCTOBER ~ 1885,

COV1NGTON, ST
WHEN GOD ARISEI.H.
Rev. Dr.. Talmage Tells Of the Ter
ribleness Of Gods Anger.
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Rev. +. Dewitt Talmage, in the fol-
lowing discourse, assails some Of the
present evils Of the times, and sug-
gests that God, in His anger, may visit
terrible punishment. The text Is:
LET God arise, let His enemies be scat
tered-Psalms, xviii. /.
In the following discourse Rev. T.
Dewitt Talmage assails some Of the pre-
vailing evils of the times, and suggests
that God, in His anger, may visit ter
rible punishment. The text is: Let
God arise, let His enemies be scat
tered. d."-Psalms. xviii, !.
A procession was formed to carry
the ark, sacred box, which, though
only 3 feet inches in height and
depth, wns the symbol Of Gods pres
ence. AS the leaders Of the procession
lifted this ornamented and brilliant
box by two golden poles run through
four golden rings, and started for
Mount Zion, all the people chanted
the battle hymn of my text: Let
God arise, let His enemies be scat
tered"
The Cameronians Of Scotland, out
ragged by James l., who forced upon
them religious forms that were offen-
sive, and by the terrible persecution Of
Drummond, Dalziel and Turner, and
by the oppressive laws Of Charles I.
and Charles H., were driven to pro-
claim war against tyrants, and went
forth to fight for religious liberty; and
the mountain heather became red with
carnage, and Mt Boutwell, Bridge and
Aird's Moss and Drumclog the battle
hymn and the battle shout of those
glorious old Scotchmen was the text I
have chosen: LET God arise, let His
enemies be scattered"
What whirlwind Of power was Oil
yer Cromwell, and how with his soldiers,
named the "Ironsides," he went from
victory to victory! Opposing enemies
melted 40 he looked at them. He dis
missed parliament as easy as school
master a school. He pointed his finger
at Berkeley castle, and it was taken.
He ordered Sir Ralph Hopton, the gen.
eral, to dismount, and he dismounted.
See Cromwell marching on with his
army, and hear the battle cry Of the
"Ironsides," loud rs q storm and sol
emn rs = death knell, standards reel
before it, and cavalry horses going
back on their launches, and armies
flying at Marston Moor, at Winceby
Field, at Naseby, ut Bridgewater and
Dartmouth-"Let God arise, let His
enemies be scattered"
So you see my text is not like COM
plimentary and tasseled sword that
you some times see hung up in par
lor, 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 three
thousand years in which it has been
carried, but still as keen and mighty
- when David first unsheathed it.
II seems to me that in the Church of
God, and in all styles of reformatory
work, what We most need now is =
battle cry. We raise our little stand
ard, and put on it the name Of some
man who only a 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
. battle cry the name Of some Chris
tian reformer, but after awhile that
refOrmer dies, or gets old. or loses his
courage, and then we take another
battle cry, and this time perhaps we
put the name of someone who betrays
the cause and sells out to the enemy.
What We want for = battle cry is the
name OF some leader who will never
.betray us, and will never surrender,
and will never die.
All respect have for brave men and
women, but IL we are to get the vic
tory all along the line we must take
the hint of the Gideonites, who wiped
out the Bedouin Arabs, commonly
called Midianites. These Gideonites
had d glorious leader in Gideon, but
wlbat was the b9ttle cry with which
they flung their enemies into the
worst defeat into which any army was
ever tumbled7 It was .The sword Of
the Lord and Of Gideon" Put God first,
whoever you put second. 1t the army
of the American revolution il to free
America it must be 'sThe sword Of the
Lord and OF Warrington" If the Ger
mans want to win the day 1t Sedan, it
must be .sThe sword of the Lord and
w, Moltke." Waterloo was won for
the English because mot only the
armed men It the front, but the wor-
shippers in the cathedrals 1t 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 Presbytcrians have
gone from victory to victory with the
cry: .sThe sword of the Lord and Of
Jehn Knox" The Baptists have con-
ouered millions after millions for
Christ with the cry: The sword OF
the Lord and Of Judson." The Ameri-
can Episcopalians have won their
mighty way with the cry: The
sword OF the Lord and Of Bishop Nc
Iivainc." The victory il to those who
put God first. But . we want bat
tie cry suited to al sects Of religion
ists, and to all lands, I nominate -
the battle cry Of Christendom in the
approaching Armageddon the words Of
my text, sounded before the ark ~ y
was carried to Mount Zion: Let God
arise, let His enemies be scattered"
Al far % our finite min can judge,
It seems about time for God to rise
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