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     CAPTIVITY OF THE HUMAN RACE.

REVOLUTION BY JESUS CHRIST. THE PROTRACTED

  AND DESPERATE CAMPAIGN. BIOGRAPHICAL

   SKETCHES OF SCRIPTURE CHARACTERS.

     THREE HUNDRED SCRIPTURE AL-

      LUSIONS AND  QUOTATIONS,
RUNNING HISTORY OF EARTH AND TIME.
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  "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth."
To inhabit these, he likewise created angels and men.  They
all constituted  one universal fraternity in which  perfect
holiness, loyality and  happiness  were combined.   Some
angels kept not their first estate.   They were self-moved to
sin.   Angel sins are unpardonable. " The angels  that kept
not their first estate were cast down to hell."  Satan having
been convicted  of original sin, was separated from God  and
heaven by the omnipotent and irresistible repulsion, which
infinite holiness ever exerts upon sin and sinners.   Finding
no way to obtain revenge by  direct attack upon God, in his
consummate meanness and cowardice he determined to ruin
man, and thus reach the deep fountain of parental affection
in the bosom of Deity.  Access to his victim was not then
easy as now.
  Heaven and  earth were in communication;  but  no  one
had ever been  from Hell to earth, or  from earth to Hell.
Satan's knowledge of the earth was only traditional.  He
determined upon  a  voyage of  discovery,  in which  he 
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traveled more than Columbus, Sir John Franklin, Col. Fre-
mont, and Dr. Kane altogether.  As Abram or Columbus he
knew not whither he should go.  He had not however God,
as Abram, or Isabella as Columbus, to assist him.  He was
but  too  successful nevertheless.   His devious pathway
through the trackless space has become a thorough-fare, a
Broadway.  Our natal  abode was remote and to him un-
known, and strongly guarded.  He must needs devote some
attention to universal geography.  He had never explored
creation.  He had only heard of earth and Adam by others
less  domesticated than himself.  They had witnessed the
laying of the foundations of the earth and sang and shouted
together for joy, when creating and forming power fashioned
primeval chaos so that it was called good.   He  made dili-
gent search in a stolen copy of  the records of creation.
Folio after folio was consulted, which however  only indi-
cated the locality of other systems and orbs.   At length
earth was found to belong to the solar systems on the out-
skirts of creation.  He  then set himself to  inquire of one
and another which  way he should go to find  earth.  "Wan-
dering " to and fro," in fruitless effort, he chanced to meet
one of those above mentioned, who not knowing his design,
and being perfectly polite, directed him by way of certain
constellations down to the milky way, thence by Pliades to
Sol, Mercury, Venus, Earth.  His discovery and arrival were
momentous events.  Hell was jubilant. Earth became a vale
of tears.   The infernal Upas withered Eden.   Thorns and
briars  sprang up.   Roses have  had thorns ever since. 
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 This rebel  against God, now the enemy of man, invaded
 Eden.  He  deceived the mistress and mastered the master
 of Paradise.  Human sin was conceived and brought forth.
 The ugly thing strongly resembles the father of it.  Propo-
 gated indefinitely age after age every species belongs to the
 same genus,  a  copy of the  original.   Its  embryo  state
 was a single germ, a hidden desire, a thought unexpressed.
 How prolific! Hence  "all our woes," "sickness, sorrow,
 pain and death."
   All of human sin was once an indivisible unit  as above,
 existing in  a single heart, the joint creature of  the tempter
 and the tempted, known only to them and to God.  Its  ante-
 cedents are dishonorable, its surroundings, evils, the half of
 which were never told.  Its effects are felt in three worlds.
 To propogate  it is the great work of  the Devil, to  destroy it
 the  great work of God.  Will it ever cease?  Its effects
 never can.  Human suffering is just begun,  Paradise was
 lost.  The head and representatives of mankind were con-
 quered  and enslaved.  Innocence,  holiness, loyality and
 happiness were lost.   This planet once a free and happy
 colony of the  immense monarchy of  God, was self-ceded to
 the Devil and  his heirs and assigns for ever. Earth and Hell
 were in league, confederated against their sovereign  God.
 Satan's  jurisdiction over Adam and Eve, and their degene-
 rate posterity, has survived  all good influences  for 6,000
years.   But time will never give peaceable or  lawful pos-
session.    His  visit to  this  planet  was  unjustifiable and
contrary to  all laws of nations.  His right of dominion is 
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denied.   His fillibustering is vain.   His  Walkers  must
walk off or fall.   His extension of slavery will cease.   The
Compromise* is no dead  letter.  The  Devil  conquers only
whom he first deceives.   His mode of warfare is to surprise,
to alarm, to drug and to lynch, Himself to conceal or trans-
form.  He is a coward.   He never shows fair play.
              " The Devil trembles when he sees,
              The weakest enemy on his knees."
  We have no apprehension of libel suits growing out of
these allegations.  He and  all his lawyers know they are
true.  His entrance  upon every man's posssession is tres-
pass.  His entrance  into every human  soul  is  burglary.
Every  temptation, however plausible, is an  assault  and
battery with  malice prepense and intent  to kill.  His pos-
sessions, such as they are,  are the avails of  a system of
grand larceny.  His recruiting officers draft men from the
pulpit, from the  throne, from court,  from  congress, from
the north and from the south, from palace  and cottage, from
theatres and brothels, from grog shops and the gutter.  His
strongholds are so many junk shops containing only what
is useless  to  every body else.   He has such an enmity to
everything good that he spoils  every person and  thing
before  he can turn it to his own account.   This is  only
giving the Devil his due.
  God was not a party in the contest between Devils  and
men.   His  interposition in behalf of mankind was  not
sought for or expected.  It was  impartial and voluntary.
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Human misery unparalleled in the history of  God's crea-
tures moved the Divine compassion.  Trinity in  counsel
determined to adopt the cause of the  oppressed.  A revolu-
tion was the alternative.  The jurisprudence of this revolu-
tion, its enactments and  provisions were emanations of
Divinity in an absolute sense.  Not an angel in heaven was
privy  to  them, much  less the  benighted  Devil.   Holy
angels could only " desire  to look into them."  They could
never conceive such a plan or understand it when revealed.
God found a  way in which he could be just  and forgive
human sins, and so rescue  men from the tyranny of Satan
and reinstate the disloyal alienated apostate race.
  "God so  loved the world as to give his only begotten
Son that whosoever believeth on him  should not perish, but
have everlasting life."  In other words God so loved the
the lost that he proposed to  save them.   To deliver them
from the bondage of iniquity.  To destroy  the works of the
Devil.   To break his scepter  over man.   To demolish his
strongholds.  To overthrow his kingdom.  To put under his
feet all such rule and authority and  power.  To wage war
against the  proud tyrant who had usurped such authority
in this world  and all the hosts of hell.  "  The seed of the
woman shall bruise the serpent's head."  Thus the war was
declared.  Then  hostilities commenced.   The sword was
drawn that  never knew a scabbard.   All  power in heaven
and  earth belongs to this " man of war."   He can create
and he destroy.   He kills and makes alive.  His panoply
of Divine perfections makes him invulnerable.  His grace is 
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sufficient for every soldier of the cross.  Jesus Christ the Son
of God, the mighty Lord of Hosts allied himself to us in a
natural  consanguinity and became the "Captain of our
Salvation."  He undertook  our cause.  He assumed our
nature.   He knew what was in man.  He was touched with
the feeling of our infirmities.  Being tempted he knew how
to succor the tempted.   He had a personal encounter with
the Devil of forty days' continuance, in which he "bruised
his head."  He has  stood, he now stands, and will  ever
stand, in the front of the battle and the thickest of the fight.
To his soldiers he said " Lo I am with you to the end of the
world," the end of the war.  " Awake! awake! put on your
strength and your beautiful armor.  You that are  fearful of
heart be strong, fear not, behold your God will come with
vengeance, even God with  a recompense, he  will come  and
save you."  One soldier of Christ  will chase a thousand,
and two will put ten thousand to flight.  They are bold as
lions.  They can look danger and death in the face.  They
conquer though they die. For them to die is gain.  A whole
and complete  armor is  furnished every soldier,  offensive
and defensive, a two edged  sword and a shield that quenches
all the  fiery darts of the enemy.   Thus panoplied  with
Christ within, they have  no such word as surrender in
their vocabulary.  Babylonians, Assyrians, Egyptians  and
Romans, have all tested their chivalry in times that  tried
men's souls amidst the groans of the dying, the  shouts of
victory and garments rolled in blood.  God is in earnest to
deliver  the race from  Satan's yoke.  Reviewing the pro- 
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visions of the gospel and his preparations for this holy war
he said, " What more could I have done?"  So long as God
lives  and his throne stands, until he reigns  alone, once
more  in  all  the universe he will continue to  do all in his
power consistently with moral freedom to consummate the
revolution  and independence of enslaved  humanity.  His
resources and appliances  are immense.   The aggregate
power of the King Eternal and  all the  heavenly hosts,
directed by Omniscence and prompted by a compassion that
knows no bounds, is pledged to its accomplishment.   Almost
all we know of God and his divine administration is what is
revealed touching  the  redemption  and  salvation of the
human  race.   His infinite perfections and  energies are
devoted to the present and future well being of sinful man.
  This revolution has engrossed the divine intelligence and
influenced  the  divine  administration so  far  as we know
more  than all other interests in the universe.   Jehovah  is
pledged  to the fulfillment of all the exceeding great and
precious promises, contained in his revealed word.  These
promises comprehend the  extension  and ultimate triumph
of Messiah's kingdom until the heathen shall be  given  to
Christ for  an  inheritance and  the uttermost  parts  of
the earth  for a  possession, until  the kingdoms of this
world shall become  the kingdoms of God and his Christ,
until  heaven, earth and hell shall confess  him Lord of all,
until  all knees  bow, and all tongues confess.   Such a
triumph is not to  be achieved by human might or power, or
by silver and gold.  Help was  laid  upon one  that was
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mighty, Almighty.  Heaven was laid under heavy contribu-
tion.  " God was manifest in the flesh," " He took not on
him the nature of angels but the seed of Abraham."   One
whom angels worshipped; who was one with and equal to
the Father;  one who had glory with the Father before the
world was;  one who was rich in heaven, became poor on
earth that we  through  his poverty might be rich in grace,
and free from  sin and satan.  His poverty and consequent
humiliation  were  voluntary.   He was  not  deposed or
dethroned.  No rival usurped his riches.   The glory he
had with the Father before the  world was, he exchanged
for the contempt of his  creatures.  The adoration of angels
for the blasphemies of men  and temptations of the Devil.
The infinite  dignity of the King  Eternal for  the form of a
servant.   The proprietorship possession and government of
universal  empire  for abject  poverty.   The  heaven  of
heavens, the  palace of  angels and God, for a  stable for
brutes.  The throne eternal  for  Gethsemane and Calvary.
Concerted Anthems of Cherubim and Seraphim for an in-
fernal dialect humanized.  He exchanged a visage eternally
radiating bliss through all the ranks of holy intelligences
for one marred as no man's visage was ever marred.  Essen-
tial, self-existent happiness, for boundless sympathy, which
involved a labor of love, mental agony and bodily sufferings
unto death, strong cries and tears and giving up the ghost.
What manner of love is this?  Never was love like this.  A
prince may  feed  a beggar, but  such a prince is more
princely and the beggar a beggar still.   No  sacrifice is 
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made.   The Prince of Peace empties all his stores.  He
gives himself and all  he has and  all he can do to gain
human freedom.  He shed his own bloody sweat and aton-
ing blood.   He gives grace more precious than fine gold.
He has built fortifications  more secure  than Gibralter on
the everlasting hills and strongholds absolutely impregnable.
When Jesus Christ sets a prisoner free, he does as much to
keep him free from the dominion of Satan as to keep Adam
or Gabriel from falling and when he has fought the  good
fight and  stood through  his probation,  he will place  him
where  Adam and Grabriel never stood, beyond the reach of
temptation and beyond the possibility of falling.   Deliver-
ance is vouchsafed in all cases to such as desert the colors
of the enemy.  So much power is poured  into such strength -
less souls, that no bonds  can restrain them, Sampson-like
they sunder  their chains  and carry off  the  gates."  No
comdemnation now  they dread, Jesus  and all in him  is
theirs.  Considering the illimitable power and infinite array
of  agencies  employed in this revolutionary movement it
would  seem that it should have been consummated already.
But consent  and co-operation must needs be obtained  of
every one before he  can enjoy the  boon of freedom.  He
must first  abandon all hope of delivering himself and look
to another for help in time of need.  He must believe that
Jesus Christ is, and is the deliverer of all that flee to him
for refuge.  God and Satan each claiming jurisdiction over
man have  been opposed to  each other in a continuous war-
fare without a momentary cessation of  hostilities for six- 
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thousand years.  It is not  a little remarkable that during
this  protracted and desperate  struggle  in which all the
legions  and artillery of hell  have been arrayed against
enfeebled humanity that neither the Lord of Hosts or one
of his faithful soldiers has fallen.  Never a  city  under
Christ's martial  law  has  been  taken.   Victories  have
invariably turned  on the Lord's  side.   When  the enemy
comes in like a flood, God raises up a standard against him.
Superior numbers avail nothing.  The Lord can conquer by
few or by many.   It is the Father's good pleasure to give
the kingdom to the little army.   The gates of hell shall not
prevail against it.  Prophets, Priests, Apostles and ministers
execute the divine command.   Every Bible  is  a  battery.
Every prayer is a  telegraphic dispatch.  Every holy angel
a messenger of mercy to man, and a page for his Prince.
Every gospel  sermon  is a  proclamation  of deliverance to
captives and declaration of independence.  The  ubiquitous
Holy Ghost acts efficiently always everywhere by sea and by
land, by day, and by night, in  all Christendom  and  all
heathendom, instigating revolution and turning  to  God.
He breaks the power of Satan's yoke.  He changes the
nature as well as  the  civil  relation of the  sinner so that
to follow Christ is his  soldiers' delight.
  "With  God all  things are possible."  When a suitable
deliverer  was needed, Sarah had strength given her, and
Mary was overshadowed by the Holy Ghost.
  Angels escorted the infant Prince and Savior to Egypt,
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infanticide.   When the army needed supplies, down  came
the manna and the quails, and the cristalvbeverage issued
in profuse abundance from the smitten rock in the parched
desert.   The pillar of fire shone brilliantly on the encamp-
ment, but was dark on the side next the army of the aliens.
The Red sea at once afforded a  way of escape for the  army
of the  Lord and  swallowed up Pharaoh, and his  hosts
pursuing.  Gideon's little band with lights, trumpets and
pitchers saw their enemies  scattered  as  chaff before the
wind.
  Senacharib, king of Assyria, and his one hundred and
eighty-five thousand warriors was slain by the angel of God,
who spread his wings on the blast and breathed in the face
of the foe as he passed.  The giant Goliah fell by the sling
of a stripling.  Job the servant of God though afflicted so as
not to be able to  wield  carnal  weapons, nevertheless with
the sword of the  spirit withstood a legion of infernal foes.
Job  resisted  the Devil more successfully than Adam.  He
better knew  the sinfulness and  danger of sin.  Sodom and
Gomorrah, Adma and Zaboim were scathed and burned and
sunk by heaven's artillery.
  Depraved humanity except eight germs had drowned in
the Noahan deluge. Ararat is the world's Plymouth.   The
Ark, the world's Mayflower.
  Here  three young Adams began to repeople the earth.
  The second edition of humanity was issued here.
  Ararat after immersion, reared  his dripping head, and
taking cold, has stood draped in ermine icebergs and gla- 
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 ciers ever since, wrapped in clouds, radiant with the blind-
 ing glory of perpetual congelation.
   A later similar tragedy had transpired at the Red sea.
 Bable-builders were  confounded and dispersed.   Caleb and
 Joshua achieved glorious victories in the promised  land.
 The cleft earth swallowed up Datham and Abiram enemies
 of Christ.  Siniah smoked and trembled when the law was
 announced by the  Great  King to his servant  in command,
 while thunders and lightnings roared and flashed, terrifying
 the enemies of Christ for all time to come.  Here God com-
 missioned  Moses commander-in-chief,  and  committed to
 him the oracles and field-book, the lithograph Bible.  Moses
 was  brought  from  his unknown  sepulchre,  by a writ of
 habeas  corpus, to  attend a war counsel, fifteen hundred
 years  after  his death,   on  mount Tabor, where  with
 Elijah,  Peter, James, John  and Jesus, they planned for
 future operations.   This  was a  House  of Representatives
 in Congress assembled.  The camp fire  which came down
 from  God out of heaven, kindled in the bush, and burned
 in the  tabernacle  and temple, and  shone in the Shechi-
 nah.   Ahab, Jezebel and  Judas, though  treacherous, could
 not defeat the wise and  gracious purposes of the  Prince
 of Peace.  Nebuchadnezzar  was humbled for his opposi-
tion  to Christ, and  became the only grass-eating biped
of our genus.  The mysterious and  superhuman inscription
upon the wall  of the palace of the king of  Babylon, was
reinscribed upon the walls of  Pandamonium. Daniel was
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whole kingdom was reproved and dismayed.  Three speci-
mens of  moral asbestos were kept cool in a furnace, seven
times hotter than was necessary for smelting metals.   Elijah
was a successful operator in a  telegraph office on Mount
Carmel.   He held a regular correspondence  with head
quarters, while the prophets of Baal were bawling in vain.
King Jesus had heaven for his throne and earth as his foot-
stool, and all power in both worlds.   He came from Edom,
with dyed  garments from Bozrah, glorious in his apparel,
traveling in the greatness of his strength, mighty to save.
  He came from Ternan, the Holy One from Mount Paran,
his glory covered the  heavens, and the earth was full of his
praise;  his brightness was  as  the  light.   He  had horns
coming  out of his hands, and there was the hiding of his
power ;  before him went the pestilence, and burning coals
went forth at his feet.  He  stood and measured the earth.
  He beheld and drove asunder the nations, the everlasting
mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow; "He
rent the  heavens and came down."   Finishing deliberations
were held on Calvary, the world's Amphitheatre, Earth's
altar, God's battle-field, the black-board on which was de-
monstrated the problem of human redemption. Here was the
focal point through which all the rays of light ever thrown
upon the history of our race passed, to- throw an outline
map of  life  and immortality upon  the blank  canvass  of
eternity to come.
  Then prophecy was fulfilled and history set over against
prophecy.  Debtor and creditor stood  opposed, the sign of 
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equality completed  the balance sheet, and  the vicarious
work of sacrificial atonement was^wmAed."
  " The Lord  is a  man of war."  " He came not to send
peace but a sword."  He has made his holy arm bare in the
eyes of all the nations, and all the ends of the earth shall see
the victory complete.   He that can create and destroy said
to his enemies," come down and sit in the dust."  To Cyrus
he said, " I will loose the loins of kings and open before thee
the two leaved gates, and the gates shall not be shut.  I will
break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars
of iron.  I will give thee the treasures of darkness and the
hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that
I am the God of Israel—the mighty Lord of Hosts." " Jesus
spoils the hosts of hell and bruises Satan's head." " Through
death he destroyed him that had the power of death, that is
the Devil."  Patriarchal, Prophetic, Mosaic and Christian
dispensations furnish  each a  voluminous and  instructive
chapter in the history  of  earth and time.   Earth and time
had a beginning, they  now have an end.  One of Christ's
marshals took his stand upon the earth and  upon the sea;
he lifted up his hand to heaven, and swore by Him that made
 heaven and earth and liveth for ever  and ever, that there
 should be time no longer.  The  heavens passed away with
 a great noise, the  elements melted with fervent heat; the
 earth and the works that were therein were burnt up.  " The
 winter is past and gone;" its stormy blasts are spent. The
 once thick coming changes of all past ages have transpired.
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battle is fought.  The victory is won.  The Rubicon is past.
Sebastopol is taken.  The last  page of the annals of time is
written.  Earth's epitaph is brief and  significant.   It was
but  is not.   Earth's  kings had swayed sceptres.  Earth's
kingdoms had risen  and fallen.  Parasitic Liliputians had
swarmed around their Gullivers.
  The millions had witnessed the  strides of such herculean
victors, as Moses, Caleb, Joshua, Nimrod and the Pharaohs,
Alexander  and the Cesars.  They had seen what there was
worth seeing, in Antidiluvian, Jewish, Macedonian, Medo-
Persian and Roman chivalry, diplomacy and statesmanship.
Civil jurisprudence had become a familiar science.  Generic
principles had analized themselves, and one by one unmis-
takably indicated its ultimatum.  System after system, civil,
ecclesiastical and reformatory, had demonstrated what there
was or was not of utility in them.
  Mediation has ceased.  The mercy seat is abdicated.
  The last pardon is dispensed.  God  out of  Christ is a
consuming fire.   No prayer is offered but for rocks and
mountains to hide Christ's enemies from his all seeing eye.
As  men lived and died, they are now and will be, holy or un-
holy, unchangeably fixed.  Once there was one mediator be-
twixt God and man.  Now there is one judge of all men and
angels.  The promised seed of  the woman; the desire of na-
tions; Ihe long looked for  Messiah; the babe of Bethle-
hem; the man of sorrows; the bleeding Jesus; the man of
Calvary; he that was crucified, dead  and buried; the lamb
of God that was slain ; one alive from the dead; the smit-
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ten Shepherd; the risen Savior;  the man of war; the con-
queror of  death, hell  and the grave ;  the  great miracle
worker of  the apostolic  age; our great High Priest who
passed into the heavens  and made intercession for  trans-
gressors, has exchanged his sacredotal for regal robes.  He
was revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming
fire.  "He  descended from heaven with a shout, with the
voice of the archangel and with the trump of God."  The
King  of kings and Judge of men, ascended the great white
throne, and from his face the earth and heavens fled  away.
He had the keys of death.  " The sea gave  up the dead
which were in it; death and hell delivered up the dead which
were  in them.  All the dead, small and great, stood before
him.  He opened the books, one was the book of life, and
the dead were judged out of those things which were written
in the books according to their works."  He  ascended the
judgment throne.  He broke the seals and opened the books.
He adjusted the accounts therein between all creatures and
their  Creator.  He has taken vengeance on all that rejected
the terms of reconciliation.  He spared not  in  the day of
vengeance.   Wicked men and angels, and all the enemies of
Christ are " suffering the vengeance of eternal  fire."
  With a smile that radiated bliss and gilded heaven, he said
to kings and commanders and all the heavenly hosts as they
wheeled in  on the right of the throne of the King df kings,
" Come ye  blessed of my Father inherit  the kingdom pre-
pared for you from the beginning of the world."
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despair over all his enemies, he consigned them, as prisoners
of war, to be victimized by undying worms and to everlast-
ing destruction in the lake of unquenchable, eternal  fire,
prepared for the Devil and his angels.
  The victorious army, late from the field of conflict, having
fought the good fight, rich in spoils, wearing crowns  and
bearing palms, tuned their golden harps and sing redeeming
grace and  dying love,  their endless theme in the world
above.

   CHRISTIANS' INPEPENDENCE CELEBRATION.
                   Order of Exercises.
  First, Triumphant prelude by all the redeemed in concert,
                 " 0 grave where is thy victory.
                 0 death where is thy sting."
  Innumerable hosts  that no man can number,  Avill take
their blissful stations—mansions in their Father's house.
  At  an early hour on the  morning of the resurrection
while yet the earth is  heaving, the skies parting, the sea
and death and hell are  giving up the dead;  the morning
gun, the trump of God is heard, and salutes of heaven's
artillery follow at intervals under direction of Gabriel.
  Music by the  Old Choir, that sang  together  when the
foundations of the earth were laid.  The Cherubic legions
who serenaded the Messiah at his first  advent, will repeat
their  performance at the  second advent.  Celestial bands
will give  voluntaries.   All the redeemed in concert  will
sing the " new song before the throne," in hemispheric sec- 
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   tions and  national divisions.   Asaph and David will lead
   the Jewish Choir.  Watts and Wesley will act as gentile
   choristers.
                       The  Procession.
     The  sacramental hosts of God's elect, commanders and
   soldiery, artillery, cavalry and dragoons; the saved of all
   ages and dispensations, will take their respective places.
   Legion after legion of blood-washed earthlings,  will wheel
:   into line right and left, in white  robes, full dress, bearing
   palms instead of  swords, and  crowns instead  of helmets.
i   Enoch will walk with God.  Noah will march at the head of
   the naval  department,  with the  ark and  dove and  olive
   branch engraved  on his crown.   Shadrach, Meshech and
   Abednego  at the head of the fire  department.  Moses and
!   the Prophets and the twelve Apostles, at the head of the
   tribes and  hosts of Israel.  Last but not least, will  be seen
   millions of infants whose sins were taken away, who never
   were guilty of sin, or perverted by error.  Jesus took them
   into his arms  on earth, in  heaven he takes them into his
   bosom.
                          Exercises.
     Declarations of  independence, as set forth in the Old and
   New Testaments,  will be read in sections at intervals, by
   the twelve Prophets and twelve Apostles.   Moses will pro-
   nounce the decalogue, and  describe his own funeral.   Job
   will lecture on patience.  Enoch  relates his experience in
   pedestrianship, how he  walked with  God three hundred
   years, and  how God  " took him  up.   He walks with  God 
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again and forever.   Elijah follows Enoch with an elucida-
tion of the subject of charioteermanship, drawn from his
overland passage to heaven, through the solar walk and
milky way, where stars revolve their little rounds.  * Daniel
will lecture on chronology.  David, Peter and Thomas, will
each discourse to reclaimed backsliders.  Lazarus will lec-
ture on resurrection power and escort of angels.  Paul will
expound his epistles.
             Coronation of the King of Kings.
   Martials exclaim " attention the whole."  The everlasting
doors are lifted up and Jesus the  "King of glory" enters
in through the gates into the city.  As he enters a splendid
illumination is the consequence.  He is the light of the city
as He was the light of the world.   He is attended by a com-
petent body-guard, among whom may be noticed the Beth-
lehem choir, the angel that appeared to Zachariah and those
that warned Joseph, and went down to Egypt with the holy
family, and others that ministered  to Jesus in Gethsemane,
and the one that rolled away the stone.  Another that told
Mary at the Savior's tomb that her master was risen, and
those who when He ascended declared that he should come
in like manner, altogether a respectable  staff of old  domes-
tic servants.   He had also a few human servants.  John the
Baptist might  be seen a  little behind his master, bearing
some  shoes  or sandals,  and Mary at  his feet, while he
leaned upon the beloved  John.    The  same Jews who
* Millerites take notice. 
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   strewed branches of palm in old Jerusalem, now scatter a   I
;   profusion of  palms along the thorough-fares  of the new
   Jerusalem.
     Amidst the shouts of the  innumerable multitude  casting
|   their armor and crowns at his feet, and worship of angels,
   King Jesus resumes his original throne of universal, eternal
   and peerless dominion.
     Jesus condescends to teach in heaven. He demonstrates
   the unity of design and harmony of the Law and Gospels,
   as taught respectively  in  the theological seminaries on
   Mount Siniah and Mount Zion in the Decalogue  and Sermon
   on the Mount.
     Jesus will repeat the miracle of feeding the multitude,
|   not of five thousand seated on the grass,  but of one hun-
   dred and forty-four thousand and more standing before the
   throne.  Instead of loaves  and fishes  as  of old,  at this
   magnificent banquet, the bread and water of life, and wine
   of the Kingdom will be served up from stores that never
   can be diminished.  Fruition is complete, there are  fulness
   of joy and pleasure for evermore.
     The august procession will march again  through some of   '
   the principal streets of the new Jerusalem, halting under   |
   the tree of life and making a stand before the throne.
     This prototypical embodiment and personification of all
   that is glorious in the index of  divine revelation, stands
   eternally mirrored  upon the sea of glass encircled and  de-
   corated by  God's eternal  smile.   Heaven in panorama.
   Coronation services conclude with a  voluntary anthem by 
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all Heaven, and benediction  by the King of glory, now
crowned Lord of all.
  The future of eternity will be devoted to the study of
God and his works and ways.
  Angels and men will unite and vie  with each other in
endless and increasing strains of music in celestial harmony,
ascribing power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honor,
and  glory, and blessing, and dominion, unto him that sitteth
upon the throne, King Eternal, the Mighty Lord God Omnipo-
tent, and unto the Lamb forever and ever.   Amen. 
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