The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1898-10-27
WHEN GOD ARISEIU.
Rev. DR.. Tslmage Tells of the Ter
1ibleness of Gods Anger.
An Arraignment OF Ever-Present Evils
The Sins Which Seem to Defy
God and Which Grow In
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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. 7.
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. Psalms, xviii, l.
\ procession was formed to carry
the ark, sacred box, which, though
only 3 feet 9 inches in height and
depth, was the symbol of Gods pres
ence. AS the leaders Of the procession
lifted this ornamcnted and brilliant
box by two golden poles run through
four golden rings, and started for
Mount Zion, all the people chantcd
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 often
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 at Boutwell, Bridge and
Ards Moss and Drumclog 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 whirlwind of power was Oil
yer Cromwell, and how with his soldiers,
named the "Ironsides," he went from
victory to victory! Opposing enemies
melted as 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 as a storm and sol
emn as death knell, standards reel
before it, and cavalry horses going
flying at Marston Moor, at Winceby
Field, at Naseby, at Bridgewater and
Dartmouth-'Let God arise, let His
enemies be scattered.'
So You see my text is not like a 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 it's story of battles, for
my text hangs in the Scripture armory
telling of the holy wars of three
| carried, but still as keen and mighty
as when David first unsheathed it
| it seems to 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 stand
ard, and put on it the name of some
man who only few years ago began
to live and in few years will cease te
live. We go into contest against the
armies of iniquity, depending toe
much on human agencies. We use fol
battle cry the name of some Chris
,ian reformer, but after awhile thai
reformcr dies, or gets old, or loses hi:
| courage. and then we take another
battle cry, and this time perhaps WI
| put the name of someone who betray:
| the cause and sells out to the enemy
What we want for battle cry is thu
name of some leader who will neve1
betray us, and will never surrender
and will never die.
All respect have l for brave men ant
women, but if we are to get the vic
tory all along the line we must taxi
the hint of the Gideonites, who wipe,
out the Bedouin Arabs, commonl,
called Midianites. These Gideonite
had a glorious leader in Gideon, bu
what was the battle cry with whicl
they flung their enemies into tn
worst defeat into which any army wa
ever 1umbled? 1t was "The sword O
the Lord and of Gideon" Put God first
whoever you put second. If the arm
of the American revolution is to fire
America it must he The sword of tn
Lord and of Washington If the Gel
mans want to win the day at Sedan,
must be ''The sword of the Lord an
Won Moltke." Waterloo was won 70
the English because not only tn
armed men at the front, but the wo,
shippers in the cathedrals at the real
were crying: The sword of the Lor
and of Wellington"
The Methodists have gone in trump
across nation after nation with tn
cry: THE sword of the Lord and c
Wesley" The Presbyterians hav
gone from victory to victory with tn
cry: "The sword of the Lord and {
John Knox" The Baptists have COZ
quered millions after millions fe
Christ with the cry; "The sword {
the Lord and of Iudson." The Amer
can Episccpaliaus have won the