The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1899-11-18

settled in Heaven.
Another thing decided in the higl
places of the universe is that this world
with or without us, will he made Owe
into scene Of arborescence and purity
DO not think that such a consummatioi
depends upon our personal fidelity. i
win be done anyhow. Gods cause does
not go a-bcgging. If all the soldiers o.
Jesus Christ now living should become
dcscrters ard 90 over to the enemy, thai
would not defeat the cause. large
part Of the IIblc is taken up with tel
ing us what !hc world will be. THERE'S
a large army, human ard angelic, noW
in the field, but Gods reserve forces are
more numerous and more mighty than
! hose row at the front, and If He could
! In Gideon's time rout the Midlanites
| with crash Of crockcry. and ii lie
could in Shnmgar's time overcome n host
with an OK goad, and if in Samson S
| time He could defeat an army with n
| blcached jawbone, ard if the walls OF
| .]t richo went down under blast OF
perforated rams horn, and If in Christs
| day blind eyes were cured by ONT
ment of spittlc. then God can do any
thing lie says He will do. AS yet lie
| has taken only one sword out of whole
urmory OF weapons. DO not get nervous,
as if the Lord were going to be defent-
ed. The redemption of these hem
ispheres was settled in Heaven. and
Isaiah and Ezekiel ard ilabalkuk and
Malachi and ST. John only reported
what TIE Lord God Almighty had de-
cidcd upon. My only fear is that our
regiment will not get into the fight to
% something worthy Of the Christ who
redeemed us and we lie left in lazy en-
clmpmcnt at Tampa when we ought
TO have been at Santiago.
Oh, that coming day of the worlds
perfection. The earth will be so
changed that the sermonology will he
changed. There will be no more calls
to repentance, for AL viii have re-
pcntcd: no more gathering of aims for
he poor, for the poor will have bccns
enriched no hospital Sunday, for dis
.iointcd bones viii have been set and
lhc wounds all healed, and the in
durable diseases of other times will
have been overcome by a matcria med
lea and pharmacy and q dentistry and
n therapeutics that haye conquered
everything that afflicted the nerve or
lang or tooth or eye or limb-heath-
ology complete and universal. The poul-
tice and the ointment and the panacea
and the catho!icon and the surgeons
fnire and the dentists forceps and the
scientists y ray will have fulfilled their
mission. The social life of the world
will be perfected. In that millennial age
! imagine ourselves standing in front
Of house lighted for lcvee. We enter
among groups filled with gladness and
taking good sense and rallying each
other in plcasantrics and in every pos
sibie way forwarding good neighbor-
hood; no looking askancc, no whispered
backbitings, no strut Of pretcnsion, no
oblivion of some ones presence be-
cause you do not want to know him;
each one hnppy, determined on making
some one else happy; words Of honest
appreciation instead Of hollow flattery;
suavitics and genialities instead of in
iiations and pomposities; equipage
and upholstery and sculpture and paint
ing paid for: Two hours of mental and
moral improvement; all the guests able
to walk as steadily down the steps of
that mansion as when they assembled
them; no awakening next morning with
aching head and bloodshot eye and in
competent Cor the days duties; the
social life as perfect as refinement and
common sense and culture and prosper
'iy and religion can make it: the cart
mace better than il was at the start,
and all through gospelizing influences,
directly or indirectly.
suppose the greatest tidal wave that
ever rolled the seas was that which in
1865 was started by the Peruvian earth
quake At africa, Peru, the wave was
80 feet high and swung warships mile
forward on the land. At San Pedro,
Cal, the wave was GO feet high. 1t
moved on TO the Sandwich islands and
submerged some of them and beat
against the shores of New Zealand and
rolled up the beach of Japan and
stepped not until it had e Relied the
entire globe. Oh, whats Wave. But
the earthquake that shook the noun
tain where our Lord died started a
higher and swifter and mightier tidal
wave that will roll round and round
the earth until all its rcDellions and
denominations have gone under.
That was an exciting scene after the
battle of Bosworth, which was fought
between Richard Ill. and the earl of
Richmond, the king falling and the earl
triumphing, when Lord Stanley
brought the crown and handed it TO the
earl, seated on horseback. while the
dying and the dead of the battle were
lying all around. But il is Il more thrill
ing spectacle as we look forward
through the centuries and see the last
armed and imperial iniquity of the
world slain and the crown of universal
victory put upon the conqueror on the
white horse of the Apocalypse and all
nations hail the power of Jesus
name" That the whole earth will be
redeemed is one of the1hings long ago
settled in Heaven.
Another thing decided in that high
place is that all who are adjoined TO the
unparalleled One of Bethlehem and
Nazareth and Golgotha will be the sub
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