Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1875-08-14

ures without end will all this be
flung aside? Dashed to the
ground? And for what? A broth
erhood of slaves reproach ! pow
erty ! sacrifice of all present COM
fort! wonderful choice! Never
does a mans real character stand
out so Enthusiastically as when call
ed on 10 maintain a conviction in
face of universal opprobium and
loss. 1t is easy enough to float
with the current; any dead fish
can swim down stream, but it
takes life and strength to battle
with wave and current and force
ones way up against the sweepings
of wind and tide. Men without
any moral backbone, may crawl
serpent-like in the dust of popular
opinion, but it takes achole man
to dare to be singular for the sake
of the right. He who can dare to
be known as the advocate of an
unpopular truth-the friend of an
opprobrious mantle champion
of detested cause, is no ordinary
| man.
When William Charming dared
to grasp the hand of the hated
William Lloyd Garrison on the eve
of his trial in Boston for aiding the
escaping slave on his way to lib
erty. When he dared to greet
this odious man with a warm
"God bless you," he exhibited a
grander manhood by far than he
would have done, had he skulked
the presence and evaded the re-
sponsihility of a brave assertion of
his oneness in sympathy and con-
vlctien with this unpopular man.
And thus when Moses, by a single
act filings aside all worldly honor,
all worldly good, and worldly
pleasure, and for the sceptre Of
Egypt puts on the chains of sIav-
cry, and for the purple robes of
wealth clothes himself in the rags
of poverty, and for the cup of
pleasure willingly drinks the
NORWOOD and the privation and
suffering that he might be true to
his conscience, his God, and his
race-he rises by that act above
the base and sordid and common
place life, and stands before earth
and Heaven, in all the grandeur
of a full manhood. Glorious, noble
man. Glorious, trancendently glor-
ious deed, worthy to be enshrined
with immortal honors.
II. And now look at the princi-
pie underlying this grand act, and
ultimating in the glorious life
Faith" by faith Moses re-
fused" Mans faith is everything,
it moulds and destinates the man.
Not cold intellectual belief, but
hearty entering into the truth of
life 10 come. Tell nae a mans
faith aud l will tell you what the
man is. | will tell you how much
or how little he is capable Of
The speaker then developed this
thought by many striking illus
tratiOns of the power of belief, and
the manner of its operations, con-
Guiding by noting:
3. The n0tiUes. sRespect to the
recompense of reward"
Man was not made to act with
out motives-there is a reward for
the rightesus-there is a recon-
pense for the servant of God
Faith grasps this recompense, and
even amid the tolls and sorrows
of life, subsists upon the gleries of
reservation for the good.
Did this acct tear the crown of
the Pharaohs from the brow of
Moses, and smite the sceptre of
mighty kingdom from his hand,
and fling him out in wilderness,
wanderings without home or place
Of burial--and will it pay?
Follow him to the last hour!-
See him on Pisgah What cared
he then for crown, or pomp, or
pleasures OF Egypt, as he pillows
his dying head on the warm bo-
som of Infinite Godhead, amid the
welcoming glories of opening hea-
ven, and all of Earth and Time is
lost in the measureiess bliss of
Eternity ? But | can essay no
more +" for eye hath not seen, ear
hath moi heard, nor hath it enter
ed into the heart OF man 70 con-
ceive Of the glories in reservation
fer tie people of Cod GOD shall
wipe away all tears from their
eyes, and the Lamb shall lead
them to fountains of living wa