The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1899-12-20

wrath from the cOnhagration of home
steads or sulphurOus from blazing bat
teries, but sweet as a burning grove OF
cinnamon or jungle of sassafras or the
odors of a temple censor. who is this
that cometh out of the wilderness like
pillars of smoke perfumed with myrrh
and frankincense?" Hear it, men and
women everywhere, that the advance OF
the genuine church of Christ means
peace for all nations.
The Arbiter of Nations.
The church of God will yet become the
arbiter Of nations. II the world Woulo
allow it, it could to-day step III between
Germany and France and settle the trou-
BILE about Alsace and Lorraine, and pc
tween England and her antagonists, ana
between all the other nations that are ny
ing at each others threats and command
peace and disband armies and harness
for the plow the war horses now beng
htched to ammunition wagons or saddleo
for cavalry charge. That time must
come, or through the increased faclllty
for shooting men and blowing up cities
and whelming hosts to instant death. so
that we can kill a regiment easier than
we could once kill company and XII
brigade easier than we could once XIII q
regiment, the patent offices Of the world
more busy than ever in recognizing new
enginery Of destruction, the human race
will after awhile so fighting with one
arm, and hobbing with one foot, ana
stumbling along with one eye, and some
ingenious inventor, inspired of the arch-
angel of all mischief, will contrive ma
chine that will bore a hole to the earth,
center, and some desperate nation VIII
throw into that hole enough dynamite to
blow this hulk of a planet into frag-
ments, dropping the meteoric stones on
surrounding stellar habitations.
But this shall not be, for whatever |
let go hang OH TO my Bible, which tells
me that the blacksmith's shop shall yet
come to its grandest use when the war
rior and the husbandman shall enter it
side by side, ard the soldier shall throw
into its bank of fires his sword, and the
farmer shall pick it up q plowshare, and
the straightest spear shall be bent into
crook at each end and then cut in two,
and what was one spear shall be two
pruning hooks. Down with Moloch and
up with Christ! Let no more war horses
eat out of the manager where Jesus was
born.
Peace! Forever roll off the sky the
black pillars of smoke from the Maren-
Cos and Salamanc;lS and BorodinoS and
Sedans and Gettysburgs of earth. And
right after them roll into the heavens
the peaceful vapors from the chimneys Of
farmhouses and asylums and churches
and capitals Of Christian nations, and,
as the sunlight strikes through these va
pors, they will write in letters of jet and
gold all over the sky from horizon to
zenith, GLORY to God in the highest, and
on earth peace, good will to menu
While thinking of these Things I look
ed out from my window, and the wind
was violently blowing. And saw from
many chimneys the smoke tossed in the
air and whirled in great velocity, volume
after volume, fold after fold, and car
ried on the swift wind were the great
pillars of smoke And, helped by Solo
mon in the text, 7 saw the speed of the
church symbolized. Do you realize the
momentum the church of God is under?
Why, the smoke of chimney on the top
of Mount Washington, when the wind is
blowing sixty miles the hour, is slow as
compared with the celebrity of good influ-
ences. For fifty-nine centuries the devil
Nearly all the great missionary move
ments have been started within the CEN
fury, and see what one century has done
to recover the world from ffty-nine CEN
turtles of devastation. What great re-
vivals! What mighty churches! What
saved millions!
From the ruins Of Babylon and Assy-
ria and Nineveh and the valleys OF the
Nile combinations have been exhumed
proving 70 all fair minded men that the
Bible is the truest book ever written.
The mythologies of Egypt were found to
have embodied in them the knowledge of
mans expulsion from paradise and the
sacrifice Of great Emancipator. Moses
account of the creation, corroborated by
the hammer Of Christian biologists: the
oldest profane writers, Hiromus, Helani-
Gus and Berosus, confirming the Bible ac-
count of ancient longevity; Tacitus and
Pliny confirming the Bible accounts OF
destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah; Taci-
tus and Porphyry telling the same story
of Christ as Matthew and Luke told;
Macrobius telling Of the massacre of
children in Bethlehem, and Phlegon
sketching at the crucifxion.
God Wrote the Bible.
1t is demonstrated to all honest men
that it is not so certain that William
Cullen Bryant wrote ..Thanatopsis" or
Longfellow wrote "Hiawatha" as that
God, by the hand of prophet and apostle,
wrote the Bible. All the wise men in
science and law and medicine and litera-
ture and merchandise are gradually COM
ing to believe in Christianity. and soon
there will be no people who disbelieve in
it except those conspicuous for lack of
brain or men with two families, who do
not like the Bible because it rebukes
their swinish propensities.
The time is Fastening when there will
be no infidels left except libertines and
harlots and murderers. Millions of Chris
tans where once there were thousands,
and thousands where once there were
hundreds. What bright evening this,
the evening of the nineteenth century!
And the twentieth century, which is
about to dawn, will, in my opinion, bring
universal victory for Christ and the
church that now is marching on with
step double quick or. if you prefer the
figure of the text, is being swept on in