The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-05-24


Soon shall we serenely float
Where the deep no plu1nmet soundeth
Fear no hidden breakers there;
And the foaming way of angels
Shall your bark right onward bear
Quit now. full of hope and comfort,
These rude shores; they are OF EARTH
Where the rosy clouds parting,
There The blessed isles loom forth.
By faith Abraham seeks the city that hath
foundation. He had the house of God; he was
persuaded of it, and took his staff in his hand.
Not only did Gamalel need Christ then for
Savior and guide, but Christ needed him then for
a discipie-for soldier. The cause is lovely; the
fields are wide and white to the harvest the
laborers are few. Other sheep have which are
not of this fold Who will go after them and
bring them tenderly homel Was that time to
say: If this counsel or work be of men 1t VIII
come to naught, but if it be of God ye cannot
overthrow it, and sit back and look on! VIII the
tmid, faithless rabbi wait until every tongue
confesses and every knee bows, and then, when
his tongue and knee should have been dust for
twenty centuries try to fan III on the left OF the
line and announce himself ready to join the
church triumphant was once on the staff of
very brave general and very poor book-keeper
and when the paymaster came around to pay
the First Kentucky, his old regiment, and now
in his brigade, there was no payroll ready, and
he sat down by the paymaster and told him that
the men might march by and they would pay
the men who had been in the fight
Strive to enter in at the straight gate, Tor
many, l say unto YOU, shall seek TO enter in,
and shall not be able. Then shall they begin to
say, we have eaten and drunk IN thy presence,
and thou has taught in streets. And he shall
say, tell you know we whence ye are. 1t IS
not stated that they were his enemies. They
simply saw him hungry and thirsty, and they
went on with their eating and drinking; let him
alone. He taught in their streets, and they did
not dispute what he said, nor do what he com
manded they simply waited to see how it would
turn out.
No man has ever been poor and despised and
afterward rich and great, who has not
been thus reminded: 1--WE knew you when
you were one Of us; we saw you in the
when it is in the Manager; when its light dies out
then it is rejected of men. What did the wise
men from the east dol Recognized Jesus Christ
when low laid his head with the beasts of the
stall" What did Simeon dol Took him in his
arms and prayed: Now, Lord, lettest thy ser
want depart in peace, for mine eyes have seen
thy salvation-the glory of thy people Israel; a
light to tighten the gentiles." What did John
the Baptist do!-saw him and said: Behold
the lamb of God, that taketh away the sins of
the worldn And what did Matthew, and John,
and James, and Peter do}-looked at him and for
sock all and followed him. And Mary brought
the oil dedicated to the coronation of kings and
poured it on his feet and designated him as
King Of Kings" So Joseph of A-amathea came
early and claimed the body of one executed as
malefactor. He was late, but not too late
Who can number those who committed them
selves from life and from death to the Man of
Sorrows Their names are only written in the
Lambs book of life Their blood is on the floors
of early prisons and drunk up by the sands of
tie theaters.
Who are those in bright array2
This innumerable throng,
Round the altar night and day
Hymning one triumphant songF
These are the glorious company of the apostles,
| these are the noble army of martyrs, found with
| the good cause when it was a Cause despiaed
| and rejected by men. In the catacombS OF
Rome they are mentioned not by name but by
motto reads: Faithful, aged eleven, fallen
| asleep" They sang the name of Jesus Christ
their Saviour, at the very hour of death the most
| awful. These all died in faith in love fer the
cause, in His name and for His sake. By the
side of these Ga1naliel begins to look to me like
| one to be pitied
| 1t is not too late yet for us. 1t is our time
now. Our day, before the night cometh in which
no man can work. The field is still wide
and white and the laborers are few. We
need Christ as much as any, and He
needs us as much as ever. Ii is the day of bat
| tie! If ever world needed Christ it is the
| world that Christ redeemed, to-day-needs him
| everywhere and in everything believe it to
| be the full answer to all our questions con
corning this life and the life to come; the peace
! in our social discard. If ever Christ called you
! from an applied Christianity it is now. He
needs some disciples who shall be teachers, who
shall take the gospel and break it to the hungry
| multitude It is small, but it is enough and
more, and he who gives benefits more than He
who gave twelve basketfuls. when the son of
man comes win he find faith in the earthg" |
hope so; pray so.
The church doesn t stand as pauper. 1t pays
every night 1t pays every night in the week
for all that is given it. There is a man going to
talk to you after / sit down that can explain
this point better than can. But have this to
say: that property, believe, doesn't depreciate
or go down in the vicinity of a church. The en-
igrant had better go to town where they obey
the Lord Jesus Christ than to town where
they obey the devil.