The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1899-12-23

} and Sedans and Gettysburgs OF earth
! And right after them roll into tn,
: heavens the peaceful vapors from thu
chimneys of farmhouses and asylumi
and churches and capitals of Christian
e nations, and, us the sunlight strikes
through these vapors, they will writ,
4 in letters of jet and gold all over the
r sky. from horizon to zenith: "Glory
: to God in the highest, and on eartl
: peace, good will to men!"
, While thinking of these things
| looked out from my window, and TIE
, 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.
| saw the speed of the church s,ny-
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 GO miles the hour, is slow
rs compared with the celebrity of good
influences. For so centuries the devil
had ii 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 50
centuries of devastation. What great
REVEALS! p What mighty churches!
What saved millions.
From the ruins Of Babylon and AS
syria and Nineveh and the valleys of
the Nile combinations have bee, ex-
humed proving to ak fpir-mindeo men
that the Bible is the truest book aver
written. The mythologies of Egypt
were found to have embodied in thsm
the knowledge of mans expulsion
from paradise and the sacrifice OF
great Emancipator. Moses accoul (
of the creation, corroborated by the
hammer of Christian biologists; tn,
oldest profane writers, Iliromus, Hell
anicus and Berosus, confirming the
Bible account of ancient longevity;
Tacitus and Pliny confirming the
Bible accounts of destroyed Sodom
and Gomorrah; Tacitus and Porphyry
telling the same story of Christ rs
-hatthS" tili tOiuy MuCIODluS
telling of the massacre of children in
bethlehem, and Phlegon sketching a.
the crucitiXion
1t is demonstrated to all honest men
that it is not SO certain that William
Cullen Bryant wrote "Thanatopsis" or
Longfellow wrote "IIiawatha" as that
God, by the hand of prophet and apos.
n IN nihJa ha x,-;Sa
in science and law AMI medicine and
literature and merchandise are grad.
ually coming to believe in Christianity,
and soon there will be no people who
disbelcve 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
tines and harlots and murderers. Mil
liens of Christians where once there
were thousands, and thousands where
once there were hundreds. What
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
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 the
mighty gales of blessing imposing ard
grand and majestic and swift like pill
lars of smoke.
Oh, come into the church through
Christ the door, 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 behind
is poor world, and it will burn and
pass off like pillars of smoke. Whether
the final conflagration will start in the
coal mines Of Pennsylvania, which, in
some places, have for many years been
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 I make no prophecy, but
all biologists tell us that we stand on
the lid of world, the heart of which
is a 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
1898, and Charleston on fire in 1865,
and Chicago on fire in 1872, and Bos-
ton on fire in 1879 were only like one
| spark from n 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 a
| great living coal, and that will take on
asben hue, and then our ruined planet
will begin to smoke, and the noun
tains will smoke, and the valleys will
smoke, and the islands will smoke,
and the seas will smoke, and the cities
will smoke, and the five continen Is
will be five pillars Of smoke. But the
black vapors will begin to lessen in
height and density and then will be-
come hardly visible to those who look
upon II from the sky galleries. and
after awhile from just one point there
will cnrl up thin, solitary yppor, and
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