The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-07-06

on the nature OF the disease or.the nied
ticiue under whose inhuei &c The persoI
is when dying Thirdly, this rule wcul
consign 10 perdi,ion some OF the bes
christians, Ccwper, toe authorIof :
many OF the hymns We sing, said as hi
last words, " feel nnutterabledespair
Whiteheld, the great preacher. niefel,
said, 4" | am dying Fourthly, IS lay
ing so much stress on death bed utter
anee we foster the idea that long if
of wickeduess cah be aloned for by ut
iering few pious phrases on ,onei
death bed You viii see the evil o
this il reading the accounts Of the exc
cutions of our murderers. Almost in
varlably when those men are caught
convicted, stand on the scaiiold, 10 hops
OF escape, the fatal moose dangling be
fore their eyes, they say to the bystand-
ers, Trust in Jesus ! trust in Jesus
and feel that | am saved" do not
say that those men are Lot saved-God
is the Judge-but | do say that have
read those things until am disgusted
with them. [ think we have had full
enough Of this gallows religion" Ii
| were to drop down into this world
from another plauet, ana had never
heard of the christian religion and were
to get my first impression of it from
reading the accounts of these executions,
/ would naturally infer that the infal-
lible safe way TO set to Heaven would
DC to 90 by way Of the galIows lie.
us stop this kind Of preaching. If you
want to know whether the deceased one
is in Heaven. don't ask what did be say
when dying but what did he do while
living. lie; the life be right, aud the
death bed and its utterances will take
care Of themselves.
4. The last lesson CLEANED from this
narrative is, that every good life leaves
behind it an influence that is life. giving
a funeral procession was following the
body OF a friend to the grave. they
saw band o. Moabite robbers and,
frightened they threw the body into the
sepuicher Of Elisha When the BODY
touched the bones OF Elisha it cane to
life This was miracle, and we stop
not TO discuss 1t, save to draw from it
the practical lesson that when the life
OF IA good man is ended bis influence has
not ceased The Council Of Constance
decreed that the body of Wickltf
should be disinterred and burnt to ashes
The inturiated mob obeyed the order
and then threw the ashes into the River
Swift They have succeeded iu remov
ing ali trace OF Wickliff' 5 body, but
have they swept away his influence p
The truths be preached reverberate to-
day from ten thousand thousand pulpits
A gentleman bearing young man
swear, said 10 him that If he would 90
alone at the hour of midnight to mis-
mothers grave and utter those same
paths, be would give him fifty dollars
The young man said he would 20. When
the clock struck the hour OF midnight /
le started in the direction Of the burial
ground 1t was beautiful moonlight |
hight. As he walked along he had seri-
Jus thoughts. The moon. with hei
'ilvery light, seemed TO rebuke him, the
oppressive stiffness Of the hour seemed to
litter its protest, and when he entered the
graveyard every tombstone that he
passed seemed to join in the general dis
APPRECIATION. When he reached his
mothers grave he thought OF the child.
lood hours, Of the prayers that his
mother taught him, OF the death .bed
Gene when She, with pale lips, kissed
Ter boy good bye forever, Of the promise
hat he made her, aud instead OF utter.
az an oath over that sacred mound, be
ffered feryent prayer. That mother
ad been dead for years, but from her
rave there came IN influence that bro't
err son to Christ. Being dead yet
peaketh.'
Preached in the Methodist Church. Lawton,
unday afternoon, July 1st, 1877, and revised
Y Dir. Seares expressly fer the True NORTH