The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-03-10

look to the right and the left and look
up and down. With no ether or chlOrO-
form or meTciful anesthetic to dull and
stupefy, but with wide awake faculties
he saw all the ObscuTatiOn Of the heaV-
ems, the unbalancing of the rocks, the
human faces quivering with hate and
the exclamation diabOlic. Oh, what a
hostile land for the Royal EXilel
Again, be was an exile far from home.
It Is 100000 miles from the sun to
this earth, and all astronomers agree in
believing that the whole solar system
is only one of the smaller wheels of the
vast machinery Of the universe, turning
around center so far away that the dis
tance Is beyond all calculation OF imag-
inatiOn. II that distant center is heaV-
en-, as most suppose, how far away from
home Christ, the exile came, when he
came herel The 100000 miles were
only step Of the journey. How home
sick he must have beenl You have never
taken that into your estimate of his en-
durances. Some Of you know what that
feeling Is, when, for few weeks, you
have been away from the home circle,
but Christ was away 3S years. Some of
you know What'that is when you have
been away 100 or 1000 miles; but Christ
was more million miles from home than
you could count in all your life. Christ
was a-hungered and a-thirst, and SO poor
that he was born In another mans sta
BILE, on his way to be buried in another
mans grave. The Swiss, away from
home, hearing their native air sung,
fall away into melancholy, and some
times into death. Who shall tell the
Inconsistencies Of Christi Poverty home
sick for celestial wealth; persecution
hOmesick for hOsanna; weariness home
sick for rest; hOmesick for angelic COM
paniOnship; hOmesiek to get back out of
the night, out of the storm, out Of the
worlds exeeratiOn; hOmesick will make
a week seem a month, and the home
sickness Of Christ must have made the
three decades Of earthly residence seem
almost interminable. You have tried to
measure the other pangs Of Christ, but
you never once tried to measure the pom
derOstty and magnitude Of SaViOr's
hOmesicknesS.
Yea; 1t was exile that he knew would
end in assassination. Holman Hunt,
the master painter, has made picture
OF Christ in his NaZarene caTpe1 ter
shop. Around him are all the saws and
hammers and drills and axes Of caTpent-
ry. Christ is represented as rising from
the work bench and wearily stretching
out his arms, az one will after long sit
ting in contracted or uncomfortable pos
tuTe, and the light of the picture is so
arranged that as Christ stretches out his
arms, they, with the rest Of his body,
cast cross on the ground. My friends,
that shadow was on everything in
Christ's lifetime. Shadow of a cross on
the swaddling clothes OF Bethlehem (;
shadow of a cross on the road along
which the three fugitives fed to Egypt;
shadow of cross on the chalices of the
wedding festival at Cana; shadow of a
cross on Lake Galilee as he walked its
mosaic floor of opal and crystal and en-
erald; shadow of cross on the dust of
the road to EmmauS; shadow of a cross
on the brook KedrOn and on the door of
the temple and on the sides of 0liVet. A
cross on every sunrise and on every sun
set. Constantine saw the Cross just once
on the sky as he marched with his arm
les, but Christ saw it all the time. We
cheer ourselves If the road be rough
that 1t ends at hospitality, but Christ
knew his road ended at a defoliaged
tree without one leaf, and with only
two branches, one to the right and the
other to the left, laden with fruits Of ag-
Ony such as no human lips ever tasted,
What an exilel Starting with an in
fancy without cradle and ending with
assassination Thirst without water.
Day without sunlight. A ruffian's doom
for more than angelic excellence.
For what this exile! Good sometimes
comes from evil now. By the accident
al glance Of q blade from the wheel of
an Italian razor-grinder, Gambetta To-
ses an eye, and sympaJhies are aroused
for him which secure his education,
and start him on career which makes
his the most magnetic name OF the last
decade among Frenchmen. Hawthorne
loses his Office as Collector of Salem, and
in despair goes home, and his wife says:
Now ts the time to write your bOok,"
and the Scarlet Letter" was the brill
liant consequence. IL worldly good some
times come OF worldly evil, be not sur
prised to find that from the worst crime
in all eternity, the murderer Of the Son
Of God, there comes a consequence that
shall eclipse the grandeurs of two eter
mites, the one past and the one to come.
Exile OF Christ from heaven opening
the way for the deportation thither of
all who will accept the free prOffer. The
atOnement, ship large enough to take
all the passengers who will get aboard
here. In my hOyhood heard my father
talk with great enthusiasm of the Colo
niZatiOn Society, which proposed trans
porting all the cOlored population Of
America to Africa, and the most elO-
Quent lips in the United States Senate,
and OF the American pulpit advocated
the enterprise. Indeed, the proposition
was inspiring, but what a. tame project
that was compared to that which Christ
undertook the colonization Of the human
race from the slavery Of earth to the free
lands Of hesvenl Millions have already
been shipped. Millions more will make
the same glorious passage.
For the Royal Exile of this mornings
speech implore the love and service OF
all the exiles here present, and that in
one sense OF another means all OF you.
The gates Of this continent have been
swung so wide open that this main floor
and these galleries and aisles are thrOn-
ged with voluntary exiles from other
countries Some OF you are 5cOtchmen.
| see 1t In the high cheek-bones and in
the glory that illumines your faces, as
l mention the land of your nativity.
Bonnie ScOtlandl Dear old kirkl An
cestry sleeping we'll In Freyfriars'
Churchyard, or near the deep lOchs filled
from the pure pitchers Of heaven, or un-
der the heather, sometimes so deep Of
color 1t makes you think Of the blood of
the Covenanters who signed their names
for Christ, dipping their pens In the
blood OF the veins which they opened in
their arms for that purpose. How 1t
makes every fiber Of your nature thrill
as speak Of the Camerons and Robert