Newport daily independent., 1903-04-10

cannot be written in decade, or a
 generation, or a century. Ultimate
 triumph is to be His. Truth as 1t is found in Him is to prevail. God says:
 "I will be exalted in the earth" and they who can say: "The Lord of Hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our
 refuge" are fighting along the line
 of sure victory.
 GHE titles which are given to 0od
 VJ in our text are specially fitting and sienifcant: "The Lord of Hosts" and "the God of Jacob" The hosts of
 the Assyrians had come up against
 Jerusalem, but the hosts of the Lord were marshalled to the aid of the be- leapuered city. The honor, the pow CT. the faithfulness of God were lm- pugned by the goddess enerny, and the covenant-keeping God could not for
 sake His people; He must deliver them
 for His own vindication and honor' as we'll as because the need was des- perate and the cry of faith was per sistent. The Lord of Hosts as the militant God; the God of Jacob as the covenant-keeping God. If the eye oI faith will look long and steadily to- ward the hills from whence comes its help, a vision will burst upon the soul which will recall the sight which cbeered the faint-hearted servant ot the prophet as he was enabled to see the innumerable hosts of God en- camped between the threatening en- emy and the hunted prophet. Inc Lord of Hosts. The Lord with the countless multitudes of Heaven to car ry out His commissions and execute His judgments. That was no 1cie boast which Jesus made when the Roman guard took Him prisoner in the garden and He declared that lie could ask of His Father and He would send more than 12 legiOns of angels to deliver Him. Xerxes is credited with having an army of over two millions and a half of men when he made his descent upon Greece, sup posedly the largest army ever mus tered by single ruler. and yet this immense army, which it is said took seven days and nights to cross the bridge of boats built across the Hel- lespont, was but a handful of men in comparison to the innumera ble hosts which God can marshal when need requires. The arena of the upper air is filled with the forces of Heaven as they swiftly pass hither and thither in performing the will of Him who Is the Lord of all these hosts What tremendous claim it is to say that "the Lord of Hosts is with us!" What invincible union! It was this conf dence which brought Moses, the fugi- tive Hebrew, back and made him bold to go before the mighty Pharaoh and demand deliverance for his enslaved countrymen. It was this confidence which kept Joshua circling the walls of Jericho until they crumbled to the ground. It was this confidence which nerved the arm of David and sent the stone with unerring aim into the fore head of the Philistine giant. It was this confidence which enabled Paul to fight the good fight of faith" to meet all the perilS and hardships of his pio- neer missionary work and give him the right at the close of his tremen- dously active life to claim that he had been more than conquerOr through Him who had loved him and given Himself for him. And it is this confi- dence which makes the servant of the Lord brave and steadfast and victori- ous in the face of every foe, and en-