Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1898-09-23

ed-an organization making a mighty
assault on this evil. God forward the
tracts on this subject distributed by
the religious tract societies of the
land. God help parents in the great
work they are doing, in trying TO start
their children with pure principles.
But is this all? Then it is only
question of time when the last vestige
of purity and home will vanish out OF
sight. Human arms. human pens, hu-
man voices. human talents are not suf-
ficient. | begin TO look up. l listen
for artillery rumbling down the sap
phire bouleyards of heaven. l watch
to see if in the morning light there be
not the flash Of descending scimitars.
Oh, for God. Does it not seem time
for his appearance? Is it not time
for all lands to cry out: Let God
arise. and let his enemies be scat
tered?"
Not only are the affairs of this
world so a-twist, a-jangle and racked,
that there seems a need of the Divine
appearance, but there is another rea-
son. Have you not noticed that in the
history of this planet God turns leaf
about every two thousand years? God
turned leaf. and this world was fitted
for human residence. About two thou
sand more years passed along and God
turned another leaf, and it was the
Deluge. About two thousand more
years passed on, and il was the Ma
tivity. Almost two thousand more
years have passed, and he will probably
soon turn another leaf. What it shall
be | cannot say 1t may be the demoli-
ton of all these monstrosities of tur7
pitude. and the establishment of right
eOuSness in all the earth He can do
il, and he will do it. | am as con-
fident as if it were already accom-
plished. How easily he can do it, my
text suggests. 1t does not ask God to
hurl a great thunderbolt of his power,
but just TO rise from the throne on
which he sits. Only that will be nee
essary. Let God arise!"
1t will be no ..xertion of omnipo
tence. 1t will be no bending or brac-
ing for a mighty lift. 1t will be no
sending down the sky of the white
horse cavalry of heaven or rumbling
war chariots. He will only rise. Now
he is sitting in the majesty and pa
| thence of his reign. He is from his
| throne watching the mastering Of all
| the forces OF blasphemy and drunken
ness and impurity and fraud and Sab
! bath breaking. and when they have
done their worst and are most surely
! organized. he will bestir himself and
| say: My enemies have denied me
| long enough. and their cup of iniquity
is full. have given them all oppor-
tunity for repentance This dispen-
SatiOn of patience is ended, and the
faith of the good shall be tried no
| longer" And now God begins to rise,
and what mountains give way under
his right foot | know not; but. stand
ing in the full radiance ard grandeur
of his nature, he looks this way and
that, and how his enemies are scat
tered, Blasphemers. white and dumb,
reel down to their doom; and those
who have trafficked in that which de-
| stroys the bodies and souls OF men
and families Will fly with cut foot on
the down grade OF broken decanters;
and the polluters of society, that did
their bad work with large fortunes and
high social sphere. will overtake in
their descent the degraded rabble or
underground city life, as they tumble
over the eternal precipices; and the
world shall be left clear and clean for
the friends of humanity and the wor-
Slippers of Almighty God The last
thorn plucked Off the world will be
left a blooming rose on the bosom
of that Christ who came to gardenize
it. The earth that stood snarling with
its tigerish passion thrusting out its
raging claws, shall lie down a lamb at
the feet of the Lamb of God, who took
away the sins of the world.
And now the best thing / can wish
for you. and the best thing | can wish
for myself, is, that we may be found
his warm and undisguised and en-
thusiastic friends in that hour when
God shall rise and his enemies shall
be scattered.