Roseburg review. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 1885-1920, 1885-08-14

created for the use of man; the atten-
ton, the interest and the affections be-
ing lavished on horses, dogs and fowls
With others, the ruling passion is for
the accumulation Of wealth, or the ac-
QUESTION of titles of Office, of-rank an
Of power, prefolring to rule on earth
and suffer in hell rather than TO serve
on earth and reign in heaven. How
unenviable the place in history of the
Baeons, the Tweeds and the Dorseys.
Others glory in their race, their color
and their nationality, having little or
no regard for their fellow-men when
they belong to another clan, forgetting
that oof one blood God created all the
nations of men to dwell on all the face
of the EARTH It is the cross tha4 goes
in advance of the implements Of Chris
tian civilization, and reconciles to each
O. her men Of hostile races and restores
to earth her lost unities.
In times of political excitement it
would seem thai to glory in party IS the
chief end of man. Then each party
imagines itself the especial guardian of
the government, the constitution, the
institutions and the liberties OF the
country; and the opposition is regarded
as bent upon the utter destruction of
al The effects of this party-wolship
are destruction of confidence and friend
ship between the sections, intoxication
of the mental and moral faculties, SO
that we can not see our fellow-men as
they really are, and the growth of big
otry aad alienation and hate
This party worship freezes the genial
currents of the soul, and leaves in the
Eeart parched and arid desert. Such
is party servitude in politics; how much
the more ruirous in religion, where it
disfigures the body of Christ, and often
destroys them for whom Christ died.
1t subverts the christian religion, whose
essence is love; it makes Babylon of
the New Jerusal IN, and converts the
cross into an Instrument of torture, as it
was before Christ; by dying on it, chang
ed it into shrine of unf4ding beauty.
As poor, frail, ignorant and sectarian
men are prone to glory in party rather
than the CT IS, SO are they prone to
b I'm incenseto party leaders rather than
to Christ. Men, who can not bow to
the man Christ Jesus, are sold to men,.
Because they are in bondage to me II
they wear their names, as tokens of
religious fealty, and pronounce them
as their shilboieths, and parade them
rs h. usehold gods. The cross, on the
contrary, frees us from all bondage 10
men, and teaches US to honor all men,
AMI TO love ali men, but to worship
only God. 1t recognizes no master Of
the soul, but the souls Creator and
Redeemer. A man In the church may
be eminent AMI great, but oulyas tn,
! first among equals, for all arc brethren
there. Nor should W. glory in doc
trine, even though it be "our pl a.
Itmay b. that many one who de-
noanees glorying in doctrine, when it
is that OF Calvin OF Wesley, is al un-
conscious secta.ian iii his zeal fol
Christian Union, glorying in his own
feasible basis" instead of the cross OF
Jesus Christ by which alone the child
ren of men are reeoneiled to Col and
to one another And what is it to glory
in the cross of Christ
It is to glory in Christ cruci6ed; it is
to choose as Lord him whom the world
derlded and put to an lgnominious
death; even death OH a cross; him who,
in bringing many sons to CORY, was
perfected In suffering; him who for the
Joy that was set before him--the los in
saving men from sin and death-en-
dared the cross anl despised the shame.
Such is the meaning Of Paul's synec-
doche.
To glory in such cross is to accept
as ones own the life of the crucified
with all that it involves of responsible
ity, of self-abnegation and sacrifice, and
of glorious destiny. Such glorying re-
produces the Christ in the life of the
Christian, in whom Christ's glory glis-
tens, as the light of the sun in the
bloom and IN the ripened fruit of the
kapple and the peach.
The Christians earth-life is made
glorious by the glory that excelleth; bis
life is sweetened and enriched, and
made hopeful and glad and beaatiful
but most in death does his soul tii-
umph. For him death is not death at
all, but the vestibule to a house not
made with hands, eternal in the heav-
ems.
For him death has no sting, the grave
no terrors; for him hope hath a star and
the rustic OF angels wings; for him the
Jordan opens, and the land Of promise
extends without limit; for him immor
tality pours ont its riches from rivers
inexhaustable. 1t is said that there is
| Joy in heaven over one sinner that re
pents; how much more over saint
that triumphs, that falls in battle or
his shield, that dying looks still npor
the standard of the cross and 'ssmiles
to see its splendors fly IN triumph o'er
his closing eye"
Then he enters his gloriied body
shines in the light of the Great White
Throne, and "knows no more the Sol
rows that bend us here"
| Oh, let us glory in the cross only
| till we ''enter the green tent whose cur
tains never outward turn, till we ente