Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1884-07-18
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An Interesting Sermon on Christ, the
Model.

The text was Romans viii, 8:
"Now, if any man have not the
spirit of Christ he is none of His.
Still further: The spirit of Christ
was spirit of humility. The Lord
of heaven and earth in the garb of a
rustic. He who poured all the wa
ters of the earth out of his hand
the Amazon, the Euphrates, the
Mississippi, the Ohio, the St. Law
rence-bending over a well to beg of
Samaritan woman drink. He
who spread out the canopy of the
heavens and set the earth for his
footstool, lodging with one Simon, a
tanner. He whose charlots the winds
are, walking with sore feet. Jostled
as though he was nobody. Pur-
sued as though he was a criminal
outlaw, nicknamed, struck at, spit
on. flushing the tempests, and yet
sitting down without any assumption
in the cabin by the disciples, as
though He had done no more than
wipe the sweat from his brow in his
fathers carpenter shop, Taking the
foot of death off the heart of Lazarus
and breaking the shackles against
the grave-mouth, and yet walking
home with Mary and Martha as
though he were only a plain citizen
of Jerusalem going out to stay tire
night in the suburban village of Beth
any. Omnipotence under a coun-
tryman's garb. Walking in common
sandals, seated with publicans and
sinners. Oh, the humility of the
Son of God! How little you and 1
have of it. We gather few more
dollars than other people have, or
we get. little higher social position
than some one else has, and how we
strut and want people to know their
place, and cry out: SIS not this
great Babylon that have built for
the might of my majesty and for the
honor of my kingdom 2" Would to
God that we might get something of
the humility of Christ.
Still further: The spirit of Christ
was spirit of prayer; prayer on the
prayer in Gethsemane;
prayer on the lake; prayer among
the sick; prayer on the cross. Why,
you can not mention the name of Je-
sus, without being obliged TO think
of prayer. Prayer for little chill
dren: "I thank Thee, o Father,
Lord of heaven and earth, that Thou
hast hid these things from the wise
and prudent and hast revealed them
unto babes" Prayer for His
friends: "Fa.her, 1 will that they be
with me where I am.'' Prayer for
His enemies: "Father, forgive them,
they know not what they do" Pray
er for all nations: ''Thy kingdom
How little of that spirit you
and / have. How soon our knees get
tired. Who is there that for ten
can keep his mind away from
the store, and the office, and the
shop? Concentrate it in supplica-
ton? Where are the vials full of
odors which are the prayers of the
saints. Oh, we want more prayer in
the house, more prayer in the nurse
ry, more prayer in the parlor, more
in the social circle, more
prayer in the church, more prayer in
the Legislative hall, more prayer
the young, more prayer
among the old. Lord, teach us how
to pray. We have not tested its
power yet. The very moment when
the Diet of Nuremberg were signing
the edict that gave de1iverance to
Protestants, that very moment Mar
tin Luther was kneeling down in his
room praying for the accomplishment
of the object. Without any commu-
between the Diet of Nurem-
BERN and the room where Martin
Luther was praying for the grand ac-
Martin Luther rose
from his knees with shout, rushed
out into the street and cried: "We
have got the victory; the Protes-
tants are free" That was prayer
getting the answer straight from the
throne. We need to pray like
Daniel, with our face toward the holy
city. We need to pray like the pub
lican. shifting on our heart. We need
to pray like Panl, ''Oh, wretched man
that / am, who shall deliver me?"
We need to pray like Christ, who
first emptied all the life blood out of
His heart and then filled that heart
with the sighs and the groans and the
wants and the agonies of all genera
tions.
Cold mountains and the midnight air
Witnessed the fervor Of his prayer.
Still further: The spirit Of Christ
was the spirit Of work. There was
not a lazy moment in all His life.
Whether he was talking to the fisher
men on the beach, or preaching to
the sailors on the deck, or address
ing the rustics amid the mountains,
or spending the summer evenings in
the village, He was always busy.
Hewing in the carpenters shop,
helping the lame man walk without
any crutehes, curing the chiId's fits,