Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1861-06-27

ness, in perils in the sea, in perlls among
false brethren; in WEAKNESS and painful
ness, in watchings often, in hunger and
thirst, in HASTINGS often, in cold and naked
ness. Besides those things that are with
out, that which conleth upon me daily the
care OF all the churches
Let US now go back about eighteen CEN
turtles, and fancy ourselves present and wit
hessing some of those scenes which the
apostle here so graphically delineates.
View him, for instances, at the city Of
Lystra as the infunated mobocrats, with
bitter yells, and demoniacal howis thrust
him out of their city, and Immediately
cover him with shower Of stones, very
hard Observation-Disclosures logic, but the
most potent that mobocracy was then abe
to WELD. Southern tar and feathers were
not then known, and he falls to the earth
apparently liteless corpse. But ! see him
now as BY miraculous interpostion he rises
from the cold ground, and to the astonish-
ment Of bis friends walks into the city
again And now | imagine | hear some
one inquirng of him, "Paul is not your
new religion a bottles cheat9 Have you
not made bad bargain? Had you not
better retract, give it all up, and return to
the enioyments and comforts Of domestic
life? | listen attentively for the response;
and it comes yelling up from the fullness
Of his great soul, in these stirring words,
"Noae ofthese things more me-
See him again as he immerges from the
sea, after having been night and day
il the deep. He is all dripping with old
oceans brine; and again one interrogates
him, how now Paul? Are you not now
tired Of The contract? | hear him again
responding in clear and unambiguous tones
that rise above the roar and thunders of
the angry waves, "Noae Of these things
more Dse.p
Take him once more just after one Of
those unmerciful beatings with Roman rods
his back all lacerated, and bleeding from
every wound. Some one standing by pro-
claims, Paul. PAUL! what foolish man !
Are you not fully satisfied to give up your
new religion now and forever? | listen
once more with The most intense interest
for the apostles response. 1t comes once
more, his great soul swelling and heaving
with emotion, while his eye brightens with
celestial fire, and he exclaims "None Of
these things move me-" Nay, more yet.
"Neither count | my life dear unto myself,
SO that might finish my course with JOY,
and the ministry which have received Of
the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel Of the
grace of God"
Noble language, well BETTING the worth
Of this undaunted and tireless follower OF
his Divine MASTER Nor did he appear to
repent the choice he had made, even in
view Of a martyrs death and crown, for we
hear him there telling his son Timothy, 81
am now ready to be offered, and the time
of my departure is at hand | have fought
good fight, have finished my course, |
have kept the faith; henceforth there is
laid up for me crown of righteousness
which the Son, the righteous Judge, shall
give me at that day, and not to me only
but unto all them also who love his APP
| pearing."
Its thus that the dying christain-the
man who has endured as seeing him who
is wreaths himself with the gar
lands and appareling Of immortality, and
might almost weep that heaven has SO in
exoraby decreed that man can die but
once.
What for instance. did the brave Leon
ides care for death when he immortalized
the Passage Of Thermopylea by cour-
age seldom equalled, never surpassed
" hat did Hannibal regard death when his
armies hung ike the tsmpests Of heaven
upon the declivities Of the Alps! What
did Alexander care fer death when he
leaped into tie Grancus with the banner
Of Macedon waving in triumph over bis
head? What cared Cyrus for death when
III bis scythed chariot and surrounded with
his spearmen he rushed forward to battle,
to danger, to glory and conquestG What
did the heroic prince Of Naphtali care for
the grim monster when at the seige Of Je-
rusalem he "spurred his barb up the noun
tain paths Of Calico" TO meet the incur
sions of the Roman Eagle!
These, and thousands more that we
might name, all had an object, a definite
aim in view. We do not produce these as
examples OF men who "endured as seeing
him who is invisible" but to show that il
men with no higher aim than earthly fame
| have dared and endured SO much, how
much more should the christian endure and
suffer who has in view crown Of glory
that fadeth not away.
But YOU will permit lis to make few
selections from other and different depart
ments Of human life. Take for illustration
the man devoted to the arts or sciences
and see how he has endured the scott and
ridicuIe Of his age and generation.
In the incidents connected with the life
Of the great navigator Christopher Co
! lumbus, we have a most forcible and bril-
liant illustration Of the principle now under
consideration. lie, by an inspiration OF
some kind, had become profoundly I'M
pressed with the conviction that there was
another, and to the civilized world undls-
covered. continent, away westward, over
the deep blue sea. Soon the world pro-
nounced him the crazy continent huntsr.
4 Nearly every one tried to discourage him