Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1899-12-20

blackpillars OF smoke from the Maren-
gos and Salamancas 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 vapors, they will write
in letters of jet and gold all over the
sky. from horizon to zenith: GLORY
TO God in the highest, anu on earth
peace, good will to men!"
While thinking of these things
looked 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 carried on the swift
wind were the great pillars of smoke.
And, helped by Solomon in the text,
L saw the speed of the church smy-
| bolized. Do you realize the momentum
the church of God is under? WHY,
the smoke of a chimney on the top
OF Mount Washington, when the wind
is blowing co miles the hour, is slow
rs compared with the CELEBRITY of good
| influences. For 50 centuries the devil
had it his own way among the ma
tons. Nearly all the great missionary
movements have been started within
the century, and see what one century
has done TO recover the world from 80
centuries of devastation. What great
REVEALS! What mighty churches!
What saved millions!
From the ruins OF Babylon and AS
syria and Nineveh and the valleys of
the Nile combinations have been en-
humed proving to 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 a
great Emancipator. Moses account
OF the creation. corroborated by the
hammer of Christian biologists; the
oldest profane writers, Hiromus, Hell
anicus and BerosuS confirming the
| Bible account of ancient longevity:
Tacitus and Plny confirming the
Bible accounts of destroyed Sodom
and Gomorrnh; Tacitus and Porphyry
telling the same story of Christ Us
Matthew and Luke told; Macrobius
telling Of the massacre of children in
Bethlehem, and Phlegon sketching at
| the crucifixion
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 apos-
tie, wrote the Bible. All the wise men
| in science and law AMI medicine and
| literature and merchandise are grad
ually coming 10 believe in Christianity
and soon there will be no people who
disbelieve in it except those conspicu-
Gus for lack of brain or men with two
families, who do not like the Bible
because it rebukes their swinish pro-
pcnsities.
The time is fastening when there
Will be no infidels left except liber-
| tines and harlots and murderers Mil
lions of Christians where once there
were thousands, and thousands where
once there were hundreds What n
bright evening this, the evening of the
nineteenth century! And the TWEEN
tieth century, which is about to dawn.
will. in my opinion, bring universal
now is marching on with step double
quick or, If you prefer the figure of
the text, is being swept on in the
mighty gales of blessing imposing and
grand and majestic and swift like pill
lars OF smoke
Oh, come into the church through
Christ the door, a door more glorious
than that of the temple of Hercules,
| which had two pillars, and one was
gold and the other emerald! Come in
| to-day! The world you leave behit,d
is poor world. and it will burn and
pass off like pillars Of smoke Whether
the final confagration will start in the
coal mines of Pennsylvania, which, in
some places, have for many years bgen
burning and eating into the heart of
the mountains, or whether. it shall be-
! gin near the California geysers or
whether from out the furnaces of
! Cotopaxi and Vesuvius and Stromboli
it shall burst forth upon the aston
! ished nations / make no prophecy. but
all biologists tell us that we stand ON
| the We OF n world. the heart of which
is raging. roaring, awful flame, and
some day God will let the red mon
Sters out OF their imprisonment OF
centuries, and New York. on fire in
! 1885, and Charleston on fire I'm 1868
and Chicago on fire i'm 1872. and Bos-
! ton on fire in 1873 were only like one
! spark from a blacksmith's forge as
compared with that last universal
! blaze which will be seen in other
worlds. But gradually the flames will
| lessen. and the world will become 81
| great living coal, and that will take on
asben hue, and then our ruined planet
! VIII begin 70 smoke, and the noun.
| tains viii smoke, and The valleys viii
smoke, and the islands will smoke.
| and the seas will smoke. and the cities