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THE LEDGER: GAFFNEY, S. C., MARCH 18, 1897. CHRI ST THE CAPTAIN l*EV. DR. TALMAOE PREACHES A SER MON OF MARTIAL ELOQUENCE. The Saviour la the T.oa«!er, the Cross the Standard, and All Mnjr Serve In the Oreat Array — rfjfhttnsr » Glorious Cause. Washington, March 14.—At this time, wheu our national capital has for ten days been ablaze with our na tional flag, the iinof.'ery of this sermon of Dr. Talrr.r.^e seems very vivid and appropriate. The text is Psalms xx, 5, "In the name of God we will set up our banners. ” I hate war. In my boyhood we may have read the biography of Alexander or of some Revolutionary hero until our young heart beat high and we wished we had been born over 100 years ago g ist for the glory of striking down u essian. For rusty swords hung up on the rafters and bullets cut out of log bouses in which they were lodged dur ing the groat strife we had unbounded admiration, or on some public day, clothed in our grandfather’s soldierly accouterments, we felt ns brave as Gar ibaldi or Miltiades. Wo are wiser now, for we make a vest distinction between the poetry and tlic prose of war. The roll of drums, and tho call of bugles, and the champing of steeds foaming and pawing for tho battle, a hundred thousand muskets glittering among the dancing plumes, "God Save the King” waving up from clarinets and trum pets and rung back from deep de files or the arches of a prostrate city, distant capitals of kingdoms illuminated at tho tidings, generals returning home under flaming arches and showering amaranths and tho shout of empires— that is poetry. Chilled and half blanketed, lying on the wet earth, feet sore with tho march and bleeding at tho slightest touch, hunger pulling on every fiber of flesh or attempting to satisfy ksclf with a scanty and spoiled ration, thirst licking up the dew or drinking out of filthy and tram pled pool, thoughts of home and kindred far away while just on tho eve of a deadly strife whero death may leap cu him from any cue of a hundred bayo- pets, the closing in of two armies now changed to a hundred thousand maniacs, j the ground slippery with blood and shat- j •tered flesh, fallen ones writhing under | the hoofs of unbridled chargers madden ed with pain, the dreadfulness of night that con«?9 down when the strife is over, tho stniggle of tho wounded ones crawling oui over the corpses, tho long, feverish agony rf the crowded barrack and hospital, from whose mattresses the fragments of men send up their groans, tho only music of carnage and butchery, desolate homes from which fathers and husbands and brothers and sous went off, without giving any dying message or sending a kiss to the dear ones at home, tumbled into the soldiers’ grave trench, and houses in which a few weeks before unbroken family circles rejoiced now plunged in tho great sor rows of widowhood and orphanage— that is prose. No Quarter Will Do Given. But there is now on tho earth a king dom which has set itself up for conflicts without numbe r. In its march it tram ples no graiufidds; it sacks no cities; it impoverishes no treasuries; it fills no hospitals; it bereaves no families. The courage and victory cf Bolferino and Magenta without carnage—the kingdom of Christ against the kingdom of satan —that is the stiifo now raging. We will offer no armistices. We will make no treaty. Until all the revolted nations of the earth shall submit again to King Emmanuel "in the name of God we w ill •et up our banners. ” Every army lias its ensigns. Long be fore tho time when David wrote the text they were in use. The hosts of Israel displayed them. The tribo of Benjamin carried a flag with tho inscription of a wolf, tho tribe of Dan a representation of cherubim, Judah a lion wrought into tho groundwork of white, purple, crim son and bluo. Such flags from their folds shook tiro into tho hearts of such numbers us were in the field when Abi- juh fought against Jdioram, and there were 1,200,000 soldiers, and more than 600,000 were left dead on tho field. These ensigns gave heroism to such numbers as were assembled when Asa fought against Zcrah, and there were 1,680,000 troops in tho battle. The Athenians carried an inscription of tho owl, which was their emblem of wis dom. The flags of modern nations aro familiar to you all, and many of them so inappropriate for the character .of the nations they represent it would bo im politic to enumerate them. Those en- aigus aro streamers borne on tho point of a lauco and on the top of wooden shafts. They are carried in the front and rear of armies. They unroll from the main topgallant masthead of an ad miral’s flagship to distinguish it among other ships of the some squadron. They are the objects of national pride. The loss of them on the field is ignominious. The three b.uiuers of the Lord’s hosts are tho banner of proclamation, the ban ner of recruit and the banner of victory. When a nation feels ’ts rights infringed or its honor insulted, when its citizens have in foreign climes been oppressed and no indemnity has been offered to the inhabitant of tho republic or king dom, u proclamation of war is uttered. On the tops of batteries and arsenals and custom houses and revenue offices flags are immediately swung out All who look upon them realize the fact that uncompromising war is declared, {fhns it is that tho church of Jesus Christ, jealous for the honor of its sov ereign and determined to get back those who have been carried off captive into the bondage of satan and intent upon the destruction of those mighty wrongs which have so long cursed the earth and bent upon tho < n.'ion of ttto Sarlour’s reign of mercy in the name of God sets . op its banner of pto> lamution. j AhxhmU Agalmtt Kin. The church makes no assault upon Ike world. I do not believe that God ever made a better world than this. It is magnificent in its mins. Let ns slop talking so much against the world. God pronounced it very good ginning. Though a v.-rml . God, I see in it yet rh,) gr< I j lineaments. Though to • ‘ •! » i by tho storms of *',<)<'■) year ! bravely yet, and at her J I the beginning the nn .’ni / ' together and all th- j for joy, so at last, when c ; the calm harbor of Gill’s shall bo greeted by the hu/.z; fied kingdoms. It is not I cast out, while there remains still one in the heart—the devil of avarice, tho devil of lust or tho devil of pride. Men u would be trans- like the confounded worshipers of Baal: “Tho Lord, lie is the God 1 • The Lord, 1: i •* in of the world, if formed and eleva gospel, now is tl no mean ensign i time honored Ih g. rifle battle. Dragg ?aviom’B hnmiiiat i to Calvary. Rent the spears of a in in r.ii from said, "Let him is ensign in his the be- i.i Id of t Father’s and iriv. u u, f he : •.tM’hijj.. ■‘ far.-: rang io' 7 .shouted omir.g intfl mercy, hhs of glori- the world against which we contend, but it* transgressions. Whatever is obstinate iu the will, degrading iu passion, harmful in custom, false in friendship, hypocrit ical in profession—against all this Christ makes onset. From false profes sion he would tear tho mask. From op pression he would tear the rod. From pride he would rend off the plume j. From revenge ho would exorcise tho dcviL While Christ loved the world so much he died to save it, he hates sin so well that to eradicate the last trace of ite pollution ho will utterly consume the continents and the oceans. At the gate of Eden the declarati'in of perpet ual enmity was made against the ser pent. The tumult roundabout Mount Sinai was only the roar and flash of God’s artillery of wrath against sin. Sodom on fire was only o::o of God’s flaming bulletins announcing hostility. Nineveh and Tyre and Jerusalem in awful ruin mark the track of Jehovah’s advancement. They chow that God was terribly in earnest when he announced himself abhorrent of all iniquity. Tin y make ns believe that, though nations belligerent and revengeful may sign ar ticles of peace and come to an amicable adjustment, there shall be no cessation of hostilities between the forces of light and the forces of darkness until tho kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord. Affrighted by no opposition, discouraged by no temporary defeats, shrinking from no exposure, every man to his position, lock is always ready.” That Chris while from the tops of our school house.'! ti unity which gathered its first trophies and churches and se minaries and ay , from the fishermen’s huts on the shore lums "iu the name of God we will tet j of Galileo now has Samsouian strength up onr banners. ” : thrown upon its shoulders and has car- A Giorion* starwiura. r j ct i t ,ff the gates cf science and world- Again, it was the custom in ancient 1 ly power. We point not to the fortresses times for the purpose of gathering ar- and standing armies and navies as the mies to lift an ensign outlie top of some | evidence of the church’s progress. Wo high hill, so that all who caw it would j point to the men whom Christ has re feel impelled to rally around it. In deemed by his blood, more modern times the same plan has ! What if arsenals and navy yards do been employed for tho gathering of an not belong to the church? We do not army. Thus it is that the church of want them. The weapons of our var- Christ lifts its flag for recruits. The fero are not carnal, bat spiritual and cross of Jesus is our standard, planted ; mighty through God to the pulling on the hill of Calvary. Other armies j down of strongholds. The world and demand that persons desiring to enter satan have no idea of the strength and the lists of war shall bo between such ' heroism which God will y< t let out aud such an ago, lest tho folly of ex- againrt the forces of darkness. As yet treme youth or the infirmity of advanced they have had only one round from the age bo* a clog rather than an advantage, i first regiment. The Lord of Hosts will But none is too young for Christ’s mg- | scon appear in the field at the head of iment; none can be too old. The hand his troops. Depend upon it that when that is strong enough to bound a ball or ; G<xl inspires tho soul with a new life ho trundle a hoop is skilled (nou/n to fight i puts in it the principle cf "m ver give for Christ, while many a hand trem- up.” In all ages of the church there blirg with old age lies gr» ned the ar- have been those who have had a faith row of truth, and with a dim eye close that was almost equal to sight, looking to it, taking aim. has s< :t iis sharp through pc.r.sc nitir .t and reverses with point right through the !•'art of tho tas much expc otatmu ns through palpable King’s cnenih s. Many c f you have long achievements. There have been in< n for ago had your names written on the roll Christ who have acte d as did the* favor- of celestial troops, and you like tho serv- ite troops of Bri.cn, attacked by Fitzpat- ice well, although you now bear the rick of 0.-,“ory. The wounded soldiers scars of multitudinous '-onilicts id .in begg< d that they might enter the fight recount many a long march and tell of , with tho others. Tl y aid, "Let stakes siege guns opi ned on you that you j bo stuck in the ground and sutler each thought uevrr would be spiked. But ; of us, tied to and - upp.iru d by one of there maybe some who have not yet en- i th *'SC* to battle iii tl*. ranks by listed. Your being here implies that j the side of a soundman.” it is said you are seriously thinking about it, aud j that 700 or 800 men, pah and emaciated your attention makes me hope you arc from former woun 1 only looking for the stanuard to be by the stakes, tre* jme. It is ur. It is a •* en iu tor- , dust of a Bethlehem by ’/lbs onslaught, nd. ned soldiery and the hands of men who bo crucified. ” With tl bleeding hand tho Saviour scaled tho heights of our siu. With this he mount ed tho walls of perdition, anu amid its very sn ke and flame aud blasphemy he waved ) is triumph, while demons howl ed with defeat and heaved Thronged bis chariot wheels And bore him to his throne, • Then swept thth 1 golden harp.-' and sung. The glorious work is done. A Victory Signal. Again, when a grand victory has been won, it*is customary to announce it by flags floating from public build ings and from trees and from the masts of ships. They aro the signal for eulogy aud rejoicing and festivity. So the en sign which tho church hoists is a banner cf victory. Tl.. xe was a, time when the religion of Christ was not considered respectable. Men of learning and posi tion frowned upon it. Governments anathematized its supporters. To be a Christian was to be an underling. But mark the difference. Religion has com pelled the world’s i rp'-ot. Infidelity, in the tremendous effort it has made to crush it, has complimented its power. And there is not now ;v single civilized nation but in its constitution or laws or proclanlations pays heningn to the reli gion of tho cross. In the war in India, when Sir Archibald Campbell found iu an hour of danger that tho men he or dered to the field were intoxicated aud asked for the pious men whom the Chris tian Havelock had uuder his manage ment, he said: "Call cut Havelock’s saints. They aro neve r drunk, and Have- hoisted. Will you not, 100 of you, with all the aroused enthusiasm of your na ture, come bounding into the ranks, while "in the name of God we set up our banners?” Through natural modesty do you hold back aud say, “I will h*- cf no advan tage to Christ. I am too awkward to learn the step of the host or to be of any service* in the shock of battle?” To you I make the reply, Try ii. One hour under Christ’s drill, and you would so well understand his rules that the first step of your march heavenward would make* the gates of hell tremble on their hinges. We may not be m polished and trim as many Christians we have known, and we may not as well under stand sharp: henting. but th< r* is rough work which we can all accomplish. Vv* may lie axmen and hew a pathway through the forests. We may Is* spades men and dig the trenches or throw up tho fortifications. We do not care where, wc do not care what, if wo can only help in the cause of our King and shout as loudly as any of them at the comple tion of the conquest. There are nonprofessors who have a very correct idea of vvl.ut Christiana ought to bo. You have si en members of the church who v.« re us proud sis Aha!) and lied as badly as Ananias and who were as foul hypocrites as Judas. You abhor nil that. You say followers of Christ ought to be honorahh*, humble and self denying and charitable and pa tient and forgiving. Amen. So they ought. Come into the kingdom of Christ, my hearer, and be jutt that glorious Christian that you have de scribed. Every church has enough stingy men iu it to arrest its charities, and enough proud men in it to grieve away the Holy' Ghost, and enough lazy iu< u in it to hang on behind till its wlael^ like Pharaoh’s chariots, drag heavily, and enough worldly men to exhaust the patience of the very elect, and enough snarly men to make appropriate the Bi ble warning, "Beware of dogs. ” If any of you men on tho outside of the king dom expect to make such Christians ns that, we do not want you to come, for the church has already a million mem bers too many of just that kind. W< do not wopt our rank:; ciowcui with r rfs when we can have them filled \.ith zouaves. There are men now, iu in Christ’s time, possessed of seven devils. In s ine instances it seems us though at conver sion only six of these evil si'mts wers md thus supported did t’..rough tho combat Thus ha-; it I - i that multi tudes of the children <a God, though feeding themselves vve:'e and wounded— perhaps in body, p< rhap in < Gate, per haps iu sou:—supp* rteu by the staff of God’s promise, have warred it up to tho hilt in the subjugation of a world of wickedness. A JilKlily C ani e. Wc art* mighty in » ' ■ c . i- •, for we have the help of the j ious dead. Mes sengers of ealvaHou from high heaven, they visit the field. Tl.i y stand behind us to keep us from ignominious retreat They go before n.< t<.*en< mirage u*. in the strife. The MtCheym s, and tho Pay- sons, and the Martynv, and the Brain- trds, an uncounted multitude of the glorified, are our coadjutors. Have you heard the Swiss tradition? The nerds- men say that three go at leaders of the Helvetic nation, thou,;h ; utiiigly dead, an* only lying down an er the ground in their old time dins, refreshing them, elves with sleep, cud that if at any time the liberti of their country are in danger tie y * ill immediately spring to their feet and drive b-wk thu enemy. May I not have tho thought that if ever the church if the blessed Christ shall be thread ned with destruc tion by the fo< s which . > m too great for her strength tho L< rd himself will not only come to the deliverance, but those great ancients who have seemed to be sleeping among tin- de*ad shall im mediately hear the trampci blast of the church militant, and, full armed, spring back to their old p sitie ns m the ranks b£ God, with th** L it:l ' ry, ‘‘More than conquerors through him that loved us?” Although wo huva ulr* ndy much to < n- courage us in tho w ork of the world's evangelization, yet we must confess tint much of our time hi> 1 ecu constqncd in planting our batteries ml getting V ady for the conflict. We have not yet befeuu to preach. We hi ve >t yet begunYo pray. We have not yet begun to work* On the coast of heath' ndoei are mission ary stations. They ha' • scarcely yet be gun to accomplish what tlvy proixase. It takes some tine to dig the tr aches ;uid elevate the standard aud direct thu great guns. From what I hear I think they arp about mid; n< v. Hit but the great Captain wav* 'la* signal, an ■ the lai wi popry ‘ti ol h< 11 and ringing of <v quake every du up among the throm. cf la avi u. Pago da* and temples shall tumble under the shock and hcsottcel nation.- flying troin their idols aud superstitious, shoutiuy he is th*' God!” Wo go rut ale iu to the field. Wo have invincible ;:.ii* in tho dumb elements ot natv- . A& Job soul, we aro in league with tie vny {Cores eiT the field. The run by dry rad the moon by night, di rectly or indirectly, shall favor Chris tianity. The stars iu their course's aro marshaled for us, as they fought against Si sera. The winds of heaven are now as certainly acting in favor of Christ as in reformation times tho invincible anna- da iu its pride approached the coast of England. As that proud navy directed its guns against the friends of Christ and religious liberty', Cod said unto his winds, “Seize hold of them,” and to the sea, "Swallow them. ” The Lord, with his tempests, dashed their hulls together and splintered them on the rocks until the flower of Spanish prido and valor lay crushed among the waves of the seabeach. All are ours. Aye, God the Father, God the Sou aud God the Holy Ghost aro our allies! The Mohammedans, in their struggle to subjugate the world, had passages from the Koran inscribed on the blades of their ecixniters, and we have nothing to fear if, approaching the infidelity and malice that oppose the kingdom of Christ, we shall have glittering on cur swords the words of David to the giant, “I coniv to thee in the name of the Lord of Hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.” Effect of tho Conquest. Now tho church goes forth bearing precious s(*ed, but after awhile it will bo the sheaf binding, and reaper angels shall shout the harvest home. Now it is tents aud marching aud exposure, but then, in the ranks of prostrate iniquity and on the very walls of heaven, "in tho name of God we will sot up our ban ners. ” The earth sends np its long, deep groan of pain and clanks the great chains of its bondage and cries by tho voice cf sea aud land and sky, "How long, O Lord, how long?” There was a tradition on the other side of the water that the daughter of Lir was transform ed into a bird of the air and that she wandered for hundreds of years over river aud lake until the arrival of Chris tianity and that at the stroke of the first cathedral bell her spirit was freed. Uncounted millions of our race by tho power of sin and satan have been trans formed into a state of wretchedness, aud they wander like the pcor daughter of Lir, but they shall after awhile bo ; released. When the great church of Christ shall iu those darkened lands from its tower ring out the glad tidings of the gospel, then millions of wander ing souls shall find rest in a Saviour’s pity and a Saviour’s love, transported from the kingdom of satan into the kingdom of God’s dear Sou. By and by yon would hardly know the earth if you saw it. The world .as a whole shall be as greatly improved as the individual .heart by conversion. Fraud, leaving its trickery, will goto work for an honest living. Knavery shall begin to make righteous bargains. Pai-ion shall answer to the control of reason. Scoffers shall be changed into worshipers and ske ptics into Bible lov ers. Christ shall begin his reign on earth. Whether he shall descend on to the earth in person and establish a gov- ernmeut at Jerusalem, I cannot say, hut it will be an era of more than Angjurtun splendor. That is enough. Knowing this, we can never d< spair. But as wo see the church of Christ putting on her beautiful garments and arising to shine j 1 we will say, with tho enthusiasm of i Oliver Cromwell, who, standing before j his sick and famine stricken soldiers at Dunbar, saw the sun rising out cf tho morning mist and, pointing to it with his sword, uttered a prayer which hurl* d his men upon the crushed foe like a sky full of thunderbolts: “Arise, O God! la t thine enemies be scattered.” With the ear of faith I catch the sound of the latter day glory. Church of Christ, un- sheath thy sword and this moment into tho battle! In the name of Christ, march on! Upon every school aud hospital, njnin every banker’s desk and mer- chant’s counter, upon every chemist’s laboratory and astronomer’s tower, upon shepherd’s hut and woodman’s cabin, upon .ihip’s deck and sailor’s hammock, far cut on the seu and high up iu thu mom/ .in, before the gaze of nations, under the apphuidits of heaven, “in tho name of God we will sat up our ban ners. ’ ’ My subject has taught you that in this eonfi .-;t we are not without ensigns and colors. All we want now is men to carry them. Before I sit down T must pn p< sc to each of you thi^i great honor. Blooming a Christian is not so ignoble a thing os many have thought it. "It makes a man stoop, ” you say. I know it. but it is only the steep of an heir oi royalty who on his knees is to receive u crown of dominion We want standard bear* rs iu all pulpits, in all places of business—everywhere. I do not ask yon how old you are nor how young, how weak or how strong, how dull or how sharp, nor what your home, nor who your unrest* in. Without any condition, without any reserve, in the name of the God of Israel, I offer yon the honor of carrying tho church’s ensigns. Do not bo afraid of tho assaults of a world whoso ruuks you desert nor of dovil* who will oppose you with infernal might, it were more hi ^* d to fall here than -tiind anywhere *'lse. It were nuiro < f an h' nor, engaged with Christ, to 1m Rumpled underfoot with this army of banner:' tliau, opposing Christ, to bo b*iii« <i, like Edward I, iu Egyptian per- \ihyry. 11k* Surrender. You 1 now in ancient times elephant! were trained to fight and that on one occ asion, instead of attacking the ene my, 'ii- 'tcrued upon their owners, and thousands who crushed under tin. 1 stv 'k'- of their trunks and the mnnn- f .m'V.t ight of the ir step. The. * mighty < i,poa’.unities of work for (.’h.-Dt may a' • loplish j:i at things in ov< rthrmv- ing tfye sin ol the world and healing t<; pit <v« its errors, but if we du not wield I them dnyhf those very advantages will in unguarded moments turn terribly upon us and under th* ir heels of venge ance grind us to powder. Rejected blessings uro sevenf- 11 *■ arses. Wo can not compromise this .'natter. We cannot stand aside and looi: o i. Christ has de clared it, "AU who aro, not with no are against me.” Lord Jesns, wo sur render. The prophecies intimate that there shall before the destruction of the world be one great battle between truth and unrighteousness. We shall not probably sec it on errth. God grant that Wo may see it, bending from the battlements of heaven. On the sid ifof sin shall be ar rayed all forms cf oppression and cruel ty, led on by infamous kings and gen erals; the votaries of paganism, led on by their priests; the subjects of Moham medanism, following the command of their sheiks. And gluttony and intem perance aud iniquity of every phase shall be largely represented on the field. All the wealth and splendor and power and glory of wickedness shall be concentrat ed on that one decisive spot and, madden ed by 10,000 previous defeats, shall gather themselves np for one last ter rible assault. With hatred to God for t heir cans*: and blasphemy for the battle cry, they spread out over the earth in square beyond square and legion be yond legion, while in some overhanging cloud of blackness foul spirits of bell watch this last struggle of sin and darkness for dominion. Scattered by the blasts of Jehovah’s nostrils, plunder and sin and satanio force shall quit the field. As the roar of the conflict sounds through tho universe all worlds shall listen. The air shall be full of wings of heavenly cohorts. Tho work is dene, and in tho presence of a world reclaimed for the crown of Jesus and amid the crumbling of tyrannies and the defeat of Satanic force and amid the sound of heavenly acclama tions tho church shall rise up in the im age of our Lord, and with the crown of victory on her head ami the scepter of dominion in her hand iu the name of God shall set up her banners. Then Himalaya shall beemne Mount Zion, and the Pyrenees Moriah, and the oceans i the walking place of him who trod ; the wave, crests of Galilee, and the great heavens become a sounding board which shall strike back the sound of ex ultation to the earth till it rebound again to the throne of the Almighty. Angel of tho Apocalypse, fly, fly! For who will stand in the way of thy might or resist the sweep of thy wing? Rheumatism Is a blood disease and only a blood reme dy can cure it. 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