The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-11-09
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VIII determine the character of anyone IN his
tory: What did he dof What influence had
he while living? What influence has he now?
Ask these with reference to Martin Luther
What did he doi lie preached and wrote
against the gross abuses in the church. What
influence had he theni He made the papacy
tremble from centre to circumference. What
influence has he now (? Let the teeminq mil
lions OF Professionalism make reply. Elaborate
answers to these questions give Us the charac-
ter OF Luther. Let US use them ia ascertain
ing the character Of Christ. /. What did He
do? He was miracle worker. We state the
fact, without attemp. at present to establish il.
We take it for granted.
z. What influence had he while living Con-
slder His influence as q teacher. The world
Las seen many famous ia speech. Mr. Webster
by vote in the senate had in some way given
ofense to the entire brotherhood OF Quakers.
delegation was sent from Massachusetts, to
Visit him AID protest against his course. About
twenty OF them met HIM in his room. They
al sat down save one their chairman. He
made lengthy speech, setting forth tue wrong
that MIR. Webster bad done the Quaker by his
course in the question under cousider,,ion.-
lie then held up to the view OF the senator a
written protest bearing many signatures After
the Quaker had concluded his scathing speech,
Mr.. Webster arose and made reply. He gave
the reason for his action for which the delega-
ton denounced hun. He at first spoke yery
slowly. After time he grew more ard more
eloquent, One after another ~ the Quakers
arose. Soon they were all standing. Then
they began to move toward the senator. Now
they are close TO him. Now the tears steal
down their faces. When Webster sat down
every one of them took him by the hand and
asked his apology for the hard things the
Quakers had said of him. They tore the pro
test up then and there and quietly took their
departure. Here is the power Of Webster:
but OF Christ 1t is said, 81 Never man spake like
this man."
8. What influence has He now
Consider Him as a law-maker. Our cousti-
tuition is only about one hundred years old. It
was made by the wisest men: vet IL has fifteen
amendments. The constitution that Christ
gave to the world Is eighteen hundred years
old. but has 20 amendments and needs none
ture. Remove from our libraries the works
written in defense OF Christianity, those writ
ten against it, those written to explain it, and
those that would not have been written had not
Christ IIved and YOU remove the best produc-
tious of the best minds. There WAS once q
man who said that he would not only baye no
Bible in bis house, but he would have no book
that contained reference to Chrlst or a quo
taton from scripture. With scissors he went
about to expunge all such matter from hie
books. He soon rehnquished his undertaking.
He saw that when Charles Dickens would
write novel he found it necessary to refer to
Christ.
Consider his influence as leader. Napoleon
was gifted as leader. Under his command
vast armies moved with the regularity of clock
work. Washington at Valley Forge exhibited
the elements Of true leadership. His personal
influence kept the army together during that
terrible winter. But perhaps the most remark
able instance of the power OF leadership is that
OF Sheridan at the battle OF Winchester. The
poet has immortalized this event. While Sheri-
dan is fifteen miles away from his command
the rebel Gen. Early makes an attack on the
troops thus left without their leader. Tho
confederates are victorious. Sheridan hearing
of the conflict, mounts his dark charger and
hurnes with the speed OF the whirlwind down
thu road that leads to Winchester. He meets
lis troops followed by the rebels in hot pur-
suit. Rising In his stirrups and waving his
sword on high, he shouts IN tones that are
heard above the din of battle, Come boys,
foos me-" AS the retreating soldiers recoS-
nize their leader they send up cheer that
makes the heavens ring. They turn on their
pursuers, put them to fight, take twelve hum
dred prisoners. and turn defeat into victory
The personal presence Of Sheridan here was
worth more to the Union than an army all
armed and equipped.
The captain Of our salvation controls might
ler armies than eyer marched under the COM
mand Of Napoleon, Washington, or Sheri-
dan. No compuslon keeps this army together.
In the campaign not q cannon doomed, not a
bayonet gittered, not a sabre lesped from its
scabbard. This was the wonder OF Napoleon:
/" Alexander, Charlemagne, Cesar, and myself
founded empires, but upon what foundation
did we erect tho creation Of our genius2 Upon
force. Jesus Christ alone founded His empire
upon love, and at this hour millions OF mon
would die for HIM."
The world to-day is virtually acknowledging
this Lord and SAVIOR. When you sit down TO
write letter and begin - 1877, what DO
YOU mean by these 1S772 You know that 1t is
an abbrevlation OF THE YEAR OF oUR LORD eight
cen hundred and seventy-seven. This is .
virtual acknowledgment that Jesus Is the Lord.
Thomas Paine saw THIS and suggested that we
speak Of time from the year of the De,lars-
ton OF Independence"
Humanity needs to think of Jesus as more
than man. know grave. For ten winters
the SHOWS have fallen on that sacred mound
For ten summers the flowers have bossomed
there. When I stand by mothers grave want
to think OF Jesus not as a man but as He who
said: Il anu the resurrection and the life, he
that beleveth in Me though he we're dead, yet
shall he hve.p When the Brooklyn theatre
was in flames, the frightened inmates could
look out and see the cross on the very high
steeple of old TRINITY. It shone brightly