THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1806. ~ ARMAGEDDON. The Last Great Batti to Fought on Earth. ——" All the Foroes of Light and Darkness Will Eungege In the Final Conflict es tween Good and Kvil--Christ Will Be Victorious. In his latest Washington sermon Dr. Talmage vividly describes the com- batants who will engage in the climax of the world's struggles, when Satan will be overthrown. The text he se- lected was Rev. 16: 16: ‘‘And ho gtth- ered them together in a place called in the Hebrew tongue, Armageddon.” Megiddo is the name of a mountain that looks down upon Esdraelon, the greatest battlefield that the world has ever seen, There Barak fought Canaanites; there Gideon fought Midianites: there Josinh fought the in- vading Egyptians, The whole region stands for battle, and of my text be and here us but figuratively, the idea closing battle, the the the Armageddon yws its name from it, is geographically, sett be the greatest of while ing forth a world’s all bat the con- that there is to tles, compared with which flicts of this century and all other cen- turies nsignificant, of the greater number of combatants en- gaged, the greater victory, and greater defeat. The exact date of that battle we do not know, and the exact locality is un- certain, It may be in Asia, Europe, Africa, or America; but the fact that such a battle will take place is as cer- tain as God's eternal truth. When 1 use the superlative degree in regard to that coming conflict I do not fouget that there have been wars } on a stupendous As when Marathon Mi mght men, not in ordi ol u run, uj the black archers of Ethic terin Bring were because the all al scale, br semen of Persia and at- “Bring fire! yon the hor pia, and se them, and cr E ying, r ira! sat int 1 fr 4 24) o fia now, Jattle Tolferino. Fontenoy, where 100,000 were slain. Battle of Chalons, where 300.000 were massacred, Battle Genghis Khan destroyed 1,600,000 lives Jattle of Neishar, where 1,747 down to d of Herat, where 000 went 1,816,000 slain at Troy. And American battles, too near us now to allow as to appreciate their awful grandeur and significance, except who were there, facing the nort facing the south. But all the battles | have named put not equal in numbers énlisted, or fierce- ness, or grandeur, or triumph, or rout, the coming Armageddon contest Whether it shall be fought with print. ! by brain or muscle, whether by pen or car- bine, whet booming thunders « hristian not know, and y say h wil. on v 4 or together will er's rpe or keen steel, whether sr he ie oy yf cannon or | do what I uence [3 may as figur ilterai, * AS certain wha John the r¢ of the ( is Pp “as My se regi in on on recian ‘Armag and woman and sn 1 has a tempter, there a 1,600,000,000 of evil Pere on abomination of must inconceival of in habitants in realms pandemoniae, staying there keep the great capitals of sin going from age to age. Many of them once lived in Heaven, but engaging in conspiracy to put Sa- tan on the throne, they were hurled out and down, and they are now among the worst thugs of the universe. Hav. ing been in three worlds—Heaven, earth and hell-—they have all the ad- vantages of great experience. Their power, their speed, their conning, their hostility wonderful beyond all state ment! In the Armageddon they will, 1 doubt not, be present in full array, They will have no reserve corps, but all will be at the front. There will not only be soldiers in that battle who can be seen and aimed at, but troops in- tangible and without ecorporeity, and weapons may strike clear through them without giving them hurt. With what shout of defiance will they climb up the ladders of fire and leap from the battlements of asbestos into the last campaign of hell Paul, the braveat of men, was ime with their might for evil when sald: "We wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, nnd ngainst powers, and against the rulers of the Savina A hia Jr against spiritual w ness i "oh, what an agitating mo~ ment, when the ranks diabolio move up and San thials places for conflict in the : (re an ahve the Regiments Alco the fight will men e0~ Je They will be made up of the owners, liquor ith gur worid air Ww more are engaged of the nat and Besides that number hay es] INES among the be ons empires earth, there an le to distillery associations, and hundreds of millions of their pat- rons. They will movy into the ranks with what the Bible omlls the ‘Song of the drunkard.” And what a bloated, and hiccoughing, and nauseating host! If now, necording to a scientist, in En- land there are 50,000 deaths annually from strong drink, and in the United States, according to another estimate, 08,000 deaths annually from strong drink, with an army of living drunk- ards that implies, coming up from the whole earth to take their places in the lust battle, especially as the evil in- creases and the millions now stagger- ing on their way may by millions of reinforements- brigade after brigade, with drunkards’ bones drumming on the heads of beer { barrels the dead march of souls, These millions of victims of {the millions of the spirituous | India, snd Arabia, Ceylon, and Siam! be joined other alcohol joined by the victims of ¢ Ol arrack, and and China Egypt, liquor and Other regiments who will march into the fight on the wrong s Regiments Infidel, Gos revelation to the human race, try books, have been men Many newspapers, through ing to destr i and scoff of magazines perpetual at Christianity, and some of the uni- versities have become reerunitin "0 - 1 he gr test iments, Vol- cies for those regiments, brigadier of all those re taire, who his li upon Christianity by writing: assault “Hap only pain is I have thought so for 84 years, and I know no better plan than to re- sign myself to the inevitable and to reflect that flies to be voured by spiders and man to be con- sumed by care. 1 wish I had never born. Ok, the God forsaken regiments of infidels, who, after having spent their lifein antagonizing the only that could make the e: better, gather with their low wit their vile and their learned idiocy and their horrible blasphemy to take part against God and rig} closed life piness is a dream, and real. are born de- been 5 fl “hy influence arin and sneer nselves, termined are they in their In that the nati { all Jus Of together dare not say to them, * put Nt the earth ! My hope is that long before that last battle of which I speak, the Turkish govern- ment, and with it Mohammedanism may be wiped out of existence. The Turkish power for the last 400 years has been the mightiest hindrance on earth to religious liberty and mora improvement. Her extermination prophesied in the book of Revelations in the figure of the drying up of the river Euphrates, and she is going rap idly, thank God! or we will make you stop.” is Other regiments on that will be { of the wrong side made up offenders of all defrauders, libertines, the dynamiters, the anarchists, the ail saris, the the op the whatever pressors, and foes of criminals of name they then be called society, nations, by now They taken sides ed t called, or shall not before are may fiat have openly but then will be compel] y take sides 1 what venom, with what violence, desperation they will fall m! Is ng, these uncounted he great Armagedd reo " Lhe $3 Mined DY Lhe : : ucifer, Goel the Hebres Lireek CRIs i nts Meg n Abaddon n fie malevolence, of all STE RIA vhistophe oN, the is the impersonation of of the summing up of all false. Apolly oO oppression, all cruelty, hood. In his makeup nothing bad was left out and mothing good and he is to be the general, the com- mander-in-chief of all the forces on the wrong side in the great Armageddon He has been in more battles than you ever read about, and he has more victories than have ever this world. Batl guess this old warrior of Pandemonium will not have an undisputed field. I guess there will be an army to dispute with his forces. 1 have mentioned the supremacy of this world. 1 guess our troops will not have to run when, on the day mentioned in my text, all the infernal batteries shall be unlimbered. We have been reviewing the troops diaboliec. We have been measuring the calibers of their guna We have been examining their ammunition wagons, Now let us look at the forces to be marshaled in the Armageddon on the right side, First of all I mention the Hegimonts Angelic. Alas! that the sabject of demonology seems better understood than the subject of angelology. Bul the glorious spirits around the throne and all the bright immortals that dll the galleries and levels of the sniverse are to take part in thet Ise great fight, and the regiments sngelie are the only regiments capable of meeting the regiments plutonic. Toshow you some- thing of an angel's power, I ask you to consider that just one of them slew 185,000 of BSennacherib’s hosts In a night, and it is not =» tough arithmetical question to solve, if ono angel ean slay 185,000 troops in a night, how many can 500,000,000 of them slay. The old Book says that “They excel in strength,” It is nota celostinl mob, but a disciplined host nnd they know thelr rank. Cherubim, seraphim, thrones, principalities and was put in, have gained been celebrated in powers! ments is Michael the Archangel. David saw just one group of angels sweep past, and they were £0,000 charioted. Paul, who in the Gamaklian college has his faculties so wonderfully developed, confesses his incapability to count them by saying: “Ye are come to Mount Zion, and an innumerable com- pany of angels” The next regiments that I see march- ing into the fight will be the regiments ecclesiastic, According to the last | account, G40. 000 Episcopalians, and practically only in the beginning of the great gospel move- ment which proposes to take the whole { earth for God, there are 4,600,000 Meth- | odists, 3,725,000 Baptists, 1,980,888 Pres~ byterians, 1,280,000 and But the present churches will utterly Lutherans, statistics of be | swamped when, after all the great de- nominations the more done the all the s than the pre wwe r best work, sects will ve numb ment of a Christer denominations throug ne wom, You see by that time ran infidel will | bp cure and be will be looked at as we look at a man with long hair reaching bel rs, and long finger nails tha , and a stare in the ey: ipient lunacy--not but to be pitied; any devote not be unusual thing to en as much Xavier wi he fil y Francis n went to « ( { 3 | M 1 faith expounded, in ten 4 { ing over } 1wosts of making 2.01 Xerxes reviey the commander Splendid been ruined, eaughtin tra precipices, and annihilated through the incompetence or treachery of their gen- Who commands on our side? Je- in of Salvation,” other place 3 era. hovah-Jireh! so-called one place so-called In Kings. Lord of Conqueror of ( onquerors. His eye omniscient. His arm omnipotent He wil lead, He will draw He will give the command He plants His f foundations of and “Captain King of Lords, | take the the sword And combat when the oot for the the earth when He shall give the mttie-shout, all the rates of will quake, \ a hell will io not let us shout until after we have seen the two armies clash in 0, and last struggle my soul! all orward! all time Forward!” “'} both command on sides give long lines swing to and fro. Swords against engines infernal £ § cavairy of perdition ag horse cavalry of Heaven tion of this world and the | throne of God to vindicat n Boom t of Ligh 1 torehe ning tha i that the crisis Armageddon has It the turning point of this last battle The next moment will decide all. Aye: the forees of Apollyon are breaking ranks. See! See! They fly! Some on foot, some on wing: they fly. Back over the battlements of perdition they go down with infinite erash, all the regiments diabelie! Back to the mountains and caves the armed hests of earth, erying as they retreat to the rocks and moun- tains, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of him that sitteth upon the throne, and from the wrath of the lamb, for the great day of his wrath has come and who shall be able to stand?’ And while Apoliyon, the prisoner of war, is being dragged in chaius to his dangeon, and our Cone queror is remounting His throne, I look off upon the battiefidld, and among the slain I find the carcasses of Moham- medism, and Paganism, and Atheism, and Iafidelity, and Dissipation, and Fraud, and multitudinous Wrong, strewing the plain, The prophesied Armageddon of the text has been fought, and Christ and his followers have won the day. The kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord and His Christ. All the Christian workers of lumine the scene | ’ Of Ree he come, is our time, you, my hearers, and you, | my readsis, and all the Christian workers of all the ages, have helped on this magnificent result, and the victor Is ours as much as theirs, This moment inviting all outsiders, through the ransomed blood of the everlasting covenant, to get into the ranks of the conquerors, and under the banner of our leader, I shall not close the service with prayer, as we usually do, but immediately give out the Moravian hymn, James Mont. 0 w to in voloes, ns woll as with’ grateful hearts; to ehant 31. Soo Jehovah's banner furi'd, Huenthed his sword: He ‘Wis done the kingdoms of this the kingdoms of His Soa . And the leader of those reg) | An Englishman Soeers at Its Canals aud Distanoes. An Englishman who had seen Venicu but to be disillusioned, writes of his im pressions to the Weetminster Budget as follows: “Here is a description of what these canals are, taken from my diary, and it is literally truthful, which the poets and the painters never are. On either sido staggers a crowd of decayed build ings; from the roof downward they aro & mass of squalid rain; br balcon 108 cling to the stained and discolored walls, great scabs of plaster have fallen from their fronts as if eaten them; for a foot the walls Jen HY leprosy had above the water black with the broken windows are stuffed with rags shattered wie; vl up ing by the Ves | y ul are slime and paper, the to doors that sw one steps them with ¢ lowes ppery KTOAsY & tairs ti Howor i and thro greenisl 120 ail these = CREEL Y MA. | He Says He Has Made an Ass of Himsell baka Pity. il a He pu nylon » Platt mv nas C, fo an fs} i Lie ent « My Dear mented aud hon »f the Michi guest at the eleventh annual banquet i Friday night. 1 have not married a wife or bought a yoke of oxen, but ave made an of myself by assum ing certain political burdens which 1 must carry this I shall grin ond weep while you celebrate, for conception the of your banquets and the of your Pity me man whom the angel press pictures as so satanic Y. C. inviation gan Club to be present as a a out at time Ln Cou piete { i have a oO magniicence orators, the vray for and pray for PLATT. Siow But Healthy. The Italian battles} 68% A CUri ip JUS iT sRinen with proved Cold water MIY Wil the innumer ih en on it it pre CTY ER 14 lives, San Fran sco Posi, Lalhe A Novel Protection for Shipa, to Hp 10 warn the approach of An invent utilize the pA LEE AH the n igs of danger. He has constructed a crmpass which is reg | which will not Ix Of ses ayn tos ulated affected by the magnetic force cn board the ship, but will be keenly sensitive to minute symptoms "om any other mag netic influence exeited at a distance | from the vissel up to possibly two miles, | This compass when affected by the mag: | netism oscillates about an eighth of an | mech, 80 the inventor asserts. When it | is 80 affected the metal connections on | the rim of the dial plate will close a ircuit, causing belis to ring in the en gine room as well as in the pilot sud on the bridge. —N, Y. Tribune, by & ci eq Yor tusulting the Emperor, A little girl of 14 years old wmed 1 Fuchs, has just been con lemned to « having iosuited the German Emperor, The iosult consisted in writing a private otter to one of her little friends, in whch there was something disrespect ful to his Majesty, Such sentences are quite conimon in Alsace Lorraine, Motz, FRE Mme. Bernhardt s-Wheel, Mme. Bernhardt demonstrated the nse of the bicycle last summer during tany by the sea. The hostess and her guests all wore fisher costumes, and took all their jaunts on their wheels, while once u week the entire party went to Palais to buy provisions, which they carried back with them. 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