Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1898-03-11

ments uf this great palace of the deep. Toe
architect finishes hts work without any
p.rplezity. and the carpenters aud artisans
toll ON the craft - many hours day. each
one doing his part, until, with flags lying
and thousands II people cheering on tue
docks, the vessel Is launched. But out On
the sea that vessel breaks her shaft ani l.
limpinc slowly along toward harbnr, when
Caribbean whirlwind-. those mighty hunt
ers OF the deep. looking out for prey ul
ships surround that wounded yess. aud
pitch 10 on a rocky coast, AMI she lifts aud
falls In the breakers until every joint .,
loose and every spar Is DOM, and every
wave sweeps over the hurricane deck as
she parts amilShip. Would 10 not require
more skill and power o. get that splintrred
vessels OF IL" rocks and reconstruct % than
u r. luirrd originally to hIil I her. Ave,
our world. which starred out VITA all
the hag~ 81 Eteui- foliage and Wi.u iIH
rhaut OF faradisaical bowers has nr"u r.y-
~ centuries pounding Ia thr ssrrrIr- "I SIN
aud sorrow, aud 60 ct her uut aud OF, ami
to get her ON the right way a.glu, wall r.
quire more OF omnipotencr than d. required
To build her aud launch her. So aw not
surprised that, though IN o." trydn'i ul
uac word our world was made. % Viii tai"
the uusleeyed arm uf God % RIO hv~ lrHW
the rocks and put her ua the right course
again. IL Is evident from my text, and is
comparison with other texts. tlu; 10 would
not bc 80 great gn undrrt , .r. ., make a
whole constellation OF worlds, o.. B a whole
galaxy OF worlds, and q whole astronomy
a, worlds. AMI swing Them in their right
orbits a. to take this wounded world this
stranded world, this bankrupt world. this
destroyed world, and make it a. good as
when it started.
But have no time h. specify the mani
fold evils that challenge Christianity. Aud
/ think / have seen in somc Christians. ami
read in some newspapers, and heard from
some pulpits. a disbursement. IA though
Christianity We're 50 WDrsted tn1t Il l.
hardly worth while to attempt To win this
world of God, and thar all Christian WORK
would collapse. and that II j. no use fUryOu
to teach Sabbath class to distribute tracts
or cXhOrt in prayer meeting, or preach in
pulpit A. Satan il gaining grouad.
To rebuke that pessimism, the Gospel OF
Snash-up, | preach this sermon, showing
that YOU are on the winning side. 90
ahead! Fight on! What | want TO make
ont to-day is that our ammunition is not
exhausted; that all which has been "a
complished has been only the sEirmishiug
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 innumerablr hosts to be marshalei bv
the Rider on the White Horse has yet talina
the field: that what God has done yet has
b"rn with arm folded in flowing robe but
that the time Is coming when he will rise
from his throne, aud throw off that robe
und come out of the palaces Of eternity.
ana come down the stairs OF heaven with
Hil-cunquerinS step, aud halt in the pres
enc" Of cXpectant nations, and flashing
his omui-rirnt eyes across the work t. hr
done will put back the sleeve OF his right
arm to the shoulder, and roll it up there,
aud for the worlds final and cOmret.
rescue make bare his his arm. Who can
doubt the result when according 10 my
text Jehovah does his best; when the la-t
reserve force Of Omnipotence takes tho
field; when the last sword OF Eternal Might
leaps from its scabbardl
DO you know what decided the battle
Of Sedan? The hills a 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 Moncelo. The Crown Prince of SAX
ony watched the scene from the heights
OF Marry, Between quarter to 6 O'Clock
in the morning and l o'clock in the after.
noon of September 2, 1870. the hills
| dropped the shells that shattered the
French host in the valley. The French
Emperor and the 50 900 OF his army cap
tured by the hills. At the close Of that
hearted in poor womau's cottage, and
when she said in sympathy, What eau |
do for yOuY he replied, Nothing. except
pull down those blinds 50 that they can
not stare at mel Sedan decided 10y tn
hills. SO in this conflict now raging be
! tween holiness and sin our eyes are unto
the hills Down here in the valleys of
earth we must be valiant soldiers " the
/ cross. bat 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 night hoUt
/ 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
| celebrate the universal victory through
. our Lord Jesus Christ. Our eyes are unto
the hills 1t is so certain to be accom-
/ plshed that Isaiah in my text, looks down
through the ileld-glass of prophecy and
/ speaks OF it as already accomplished, and
/ | take my stand whore the prophet took
his stand and look At it rs all done Ser'
/ Those cities without a tear Look Those
continents without u pang! Behold! Those
hemspheres without Il SIM Why, those
deserts-Ar 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 cncircles
our globe floating not one groan. All the
rivers and lakes and oceans dimpcd with
not one falling tear. The climates Of the
earth have dropped ont Of them the rigors
of the cold and the blasts of the heat, and
II is universal spring. Let us change the
old worlds name. Let it no more be called
the earth, as when it was rocking with
everything pestiferous and malevolent,
scarleted with battle-heds and gashed
with graves. but now so changed, so aro-
matte with gardens, and so resonant with
song, and so rubescent with beauty, let US
call it Immanuels Land, or let us call 1t
Beulah, or Mllennial Gardens or Paradise
Regained, or Heaven! Haleluiah, for the
Lord God Omnipotent reigneth Hallelu-
JAN, for the kingdoms of this world have
become the kingdoms Of Christ!'