The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-05

I Yea lou must nave full arrnor: There lare adaptations to an impure life eli the time multiplying and intensifyin9; Read in private and discussed aftefwaro are cooked poisonsS rom i'd to MS with q applauded by rhetorical pens and and insdeiity of behavior out In a way to excite sympathy ard half approval. My wonder Is not that % many gs astray. but my wonder IS that ten umes innuencA at work which. If unarrested. win turn, our cities into sodoms and Gomorrahs ready for the e.. hall and and fire
 Oh. yes. you need the harness on until God tells you to take 1t oil. In olden ttime 1t was leathern arnor or chain armor or ribbed armor. fashioned in an- cieut foundry. but no one can give you the outfit you need except God. who is master of this world and the infernal world, from which sscsnd the mishtiest ftiea s'' but the arm Of Sa Olsniootence is strong
 Strength in the 0ospsl Armor
 Young man. put on the. entire Gospel outfit. f you have come from the .coun- ample of . young man who arrived in New York on Saturday night intending the following Monday to enter his place sH. s. sssS ca .svss sS1sy ses: %srSa
 Ing his country home he went to church: Standing at the door. ne vas anasheS as the beauty and fashion and wealth arv. and hs dared not % in. A he vas said, Have you . seat, young manf"
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 Tn ins the ciiyr T came last nisht.' What are you going to dc , nsrxa ,a, !. young man. Never forsaks tho God Of y.ur fathers Gone Il, VII, .ss sivs osrnina yoIi seat in my 2sw cr.,sntsa ne nsk Sss Iettsr in STs,Dsss tms ySsns ercies. a wSat do " You sah. young man?" said the Scotch merchant.
 want to get crsd on yoa
 | CT has friends here" Young man, did I not see you yesterday in MT; Lenoxs church and kind gentleman, mask asked msS as that was Robert Lennox. will trust any Sns Sos inas nssa M not trouble yourself abou. ref
 come s and get get more" That young man became an eminent merchant, and he rived, put yourself under good infiu- ences your first day in town. There hangs yOur helmet. ldhS II Ahcio is your breastplate. Adjust 1t. Thsr is all tho harness for safety ana triumph.
 Also sec in my subject the folly of un- hadad's fatal mistake. He could whip them before sundown. He wanted iss. than half day to capture Samaria ana what he thought was so easy turned out to be the impossible. Better overestt | mate than underestimate the other side. We who are. trying to make the world homuncull. We wrestle not with strip lings. We have a whole army of antag. onists trying to halt the finE or God ness. II we secure the victory. t will be a struggle as fierce as when Darius and Alexander grappled each other at Arbela. as when Joan of Are rode rum s,ans met the Swedes at Poltava, as when mics at Blenheim. Those were fights for earthly crowns and dominions, but the fight that now goes on between all tn. allied armies of Heaven and all the allied srMsies of hell is to settle whether God or Satan is to have possession of this
 Put or the Harness.
 I congratulate all those who are now In the thickest of lifes battles that the time is coming when the struggle VIII ana you w, pus na ns hSv ing fulfilled their mission. You cannot Ii" one Welt to London Tower see all: You mus, so asan ana ,sa Ssan ,hs to sssey of Lady Jane Grey and Anne Boleyn and Waiter Raleigh, and Sir Thomas Moore: You will sec the crowns Of kings ana
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 tss Ts'fa Sioss sSyst on '8s Msss @ oSst Ss sqs mo part yau of sa1 Lorssn sSs in which Is skillfully and inpressively arranged a collection of all styles ot armor worn between he rhirteenth ano of confiict--cuirass and neck guard and chin piece and lance rest and gauntlet and Girdle and mailed apron. You see
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 0 ye soldiers of Jesus Christ, when the war of life Is over and the victors rest in the soidiers' home on the heav- enly heights perhaps there may be m the city Of the sun tower or spiritual armor such as incased the warriors or may be in that armory and hear the heroes talk of how they fought the good fight of faith. and see them with the of wounds ssaea sd aae defsnse with which they became more than con querors. In that tower of. Heaven as the weapons of the spiritual conflict are the armor with which he advised the "That is the shield of faith. That is the helmet of salvation. That Is the girdle of truth. That Is the breastplate of shoes in which they were shod with the preparation of the Gospel" There and then you may recount the contrast be- tween the day when you enliste in Christian conflict and the day when you closed 1t in earthly farewell and heav- enly salutation, and the text, which has SO much meaning for us now, will have that Rirdeth on his harness boast him self as he that rutteth 1t off." (Copyright, 1901, by Louis K'opsch. N. Y.l