The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1898-02-23

until frcn. exhaustion and starvation
they will have to give up" Weeks and
months perhaps year, pass along ana
finally the fortress surreEders through
that starvation and exhaustion. But,
lry friends, the fortresses of sin are
never to be taken in that way. If they
are taken for GCd, it will be by storm.
You will have to bring up the great
siege guns Of the gospel to the very
wall and wheel the flying artillery into
line, and when the armed infantry OF
heaven shall confront the battlements
you will have to give tie quick COM
mand: Forward CEarge!'
All, my friends, there is work for you
to do and fer lie to do in order to this
grand accom- plishment. l have pulpit.
| preach in il. Your pulpit is the Eank.
Your ulpit is the store. Your pulpit is
the editorial chair. Your pulpit is the
anvil. Your pulpit is the house scatfold-
ing. Your pulpit is the mechanics
shop. l may stand III my place and
through cowardice or through self
seeking may keep back the word l
ought to utter, while you, with sleeve
rolled up and brow beswcated with
toll, may utter the word that will jar
the foundations of heaven with the
shout Of a great victory. Oh, that we
might all feel that the Lord Almighty
is putting upon US the hands of ordina-
ton! tell you, every one, go fo1th
and preach this gospel You have as
much right to preach as have or any
man living.
Hed!ey Wears was wicked nian IN
the English army. The grace of God
came to him. He became an earnest
and eminent Christian. They scoffed at
him and said, You are hypocrite;
YOU are as bad as ever you were. " Still
he kept his faith in Christ, and after
awhile, finding that they could not turn
him aside by calling him hypocrite,
they said to him, "Oh, you are nothing
but Methodist" This did not disturb
him. He went 10 performing his Chris
tian duty until he had formed all his
troops into q Bible class, and the whole
epcampmeut was shaken with the pres
ence of Gcd. So Hayelcck went into the
heather temple in India while the Eng
lish army Was there aud put candle
into tie hand cf each CT the heathen
gods that stood around in the heather
temple, aud by the light of those can
dies held Up by the idols General Have
lock preached Righteousness, temperance
aud Judgment to come. And WHO Will
say On earth or in heaven that Havelock
had not the right to preach?
The Power Of Esrncstacss.
In the minister's house where pre-.
pared fcz college there worked man by
the name OF Peter CToy. He could
neither read ncr write, but he was a
man of Gcd. Often theologiars would
stop in the house-graye tkeologians-
and at family prayer Peter Croy would
be called upon to lead, ard all those
! wise men sat around, wonder struck ct
his religious efficiency. When lie prayed,
be reached up ard seemed to take hold
of the very ;hrcne ct the Almighty, ard
he talked with God until the very heav-
ems were bowed down into the sitting
rccm. Oh, if / were dying would
rather haro plain Peter Croy kneel by
my bedside aud commend my Immortal
spirit to God than the greatest arch
bishop arrayed in costly canonicals. Go
greach this gospel. You say you arc not
! licensed. In tie name Of the Lord AL
mighty, l license you. Go preach this
gospel, preach it in the Sabbath schools,
in the prayer meetings, i'll the high
ways, in the hedges. Wee Ee unto you
if you preach it not!
remark again that in order to bo
| qualified to meet your duty III this par
ticplar age ycu want unbcunded faith
| in tie triumph Ct the truth and the
overthrow of wickedness. How dare the
Christian church ever get discouraged:
Have we net tie Lord Almighty on
our side? Low long did it take God to
slay the hosts of SenIacherib or burn
SCdom or shake down Jericho? How
| long will it take God, when he Cuce
arises in his strength, to overthrow all
the forces Of iniQuity? Between this
time and that there may be long seasons
of darkness and the chariot wheels CT
| Gcd's gospel may seem to drag heavily,
but here is the promise aud yonder Is
the throne, and when omIiSciencc has
lost its eyesisht and omnipotence falls
back impotent and jehovah is driven
from lis throne, then the church Of
Jesus Christ can afford to be desponGent,
but never until then.
Despots Eay plan and armies may
march and the congresses Of the nations
may seem to think they are adjusting
all the affairs CT the world, but the
mighty nicn Of the earth are only the
dust Of tie chariot wheels of Gods
providence. Ard | think before the sun
of the next century shall set the last tyr
amy Will fall, aud with a splendor of
demonstration that shall Lc the astcE-
ishment Cf the universe GCd will set
forth the brightness aud po"lp aid glory
and perpetuity CT his eternal govern
mert. Cut CT the starry flags and the
emblazoned Insignia OF this world God
will make Path fer lis own triumph,
and returning from universal conquest
he will sit down, the SranGest, tic
strongest, highest throne Of earth lis
! fcOtstCol.
To Encourage Christian Workers.
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