The Brookhaven leader., 1888-07-12

Put that foot into the iron boot of perse-
! cutiou until it is mashed TO a pulp.
| Stretch that man on the rack OF the lu-
| QUESTION, and louder than all the uproar
of the prosecutors you will hear his voice
like the voice Of Alexander lie CrOix
above the cracking faggots as he
| cried out: so. Jesus! o, my blessed
Jesus! q. divine Jesus! who would not
die for thee;"
d. Again. remark that Christ il precious
10 the believer as a friend You have COM
mercial friends and YOU have family
friends. To the commercial friend you
go when You have business troubles, You
can look back to som, d1y..-it may have
been ten or twenty yrtrs ago-when. if
you had not had that friend, you would
have been entirely overthrow in BUSH
ness. But want to- tell you this morning
Of Jesus, the best business friend n man
ever had. He can pull You out of the
worst perplcXitrs. There are people in
this audience who have got in the habit
/ 81 putting down all their worldly troubles
at the feet OF Jesus. Why, Christ meets
4 the business man on the street and saws:
ooh, business man, | know all thy
troubles. | will he with thee. Twill see
thee through" Look out how you try to
! corner or trample on man who IS back
! ed up by the Lord God Almighty. Look
out how you trample on Him. Oh, there
Is q finanCier that many of our business
men have not found out Christ owns all
| the boards of trade, all the insurance
/ companies and all the banking houses.
They say that the Nanderbilts own the
railroads; but Christ owns the Wander
bits and the railroads. and all the plot
tngs of stock gamblers shall be put to
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shall wipe out their infamous projects.
How often it has been that we have seen
men gather up riches by fraud, in a
pyramid of strength and beauty, and the
Lord came and blew on it and it war
gone; while there are those here to-day
who, if they could speak out in this as
scmblage, or dared to speak out, would
| say:
The best friend had in 1857, the best
friend | had in 1857, the best friead | had
at the opening of the war. the best friend
| ever had, has been the Lori Jesus
Christ would rather give up all other
friends than this one"
But we have also family friends. They
come in when we have sickness in the
household. Perhaps they say nothing;
but they sit down and they weep as the
light goes out from the bright eyes, and
the white petals of the lily are scattered
in the blast of death. They watch through
the long night by the dying couch, and
then, when the spirit has gone, soothe you
with great comfort. They say: "Don't
cry. Jesus pities you. All is we'll, You
will meet the lost one again" Then,
when your son went off, breaking yonr
heart, did they not come and pat the story
iii the very best shape and prophes Y the
Il
in your house when the birth angel
tapped its wings over your dwelling?
And they have been there at the baptisms
and at the weddings. Family friends!
But [ nave to tell you that Christ is the
best family friend. o, BILE 'sed is that
cradle over which Jesus bends. Blessed
is that nursery where Jesus walks.
Blessed is that sick brow from which
Jesus wipes the dampness Blessed is
that table where Jesus breaks the bread =.
Blessed Is that grave where Jesus stand
with his SCARED feet on the uptnrncd sod,
saying:
II am the resurrection and the life; lie
that bclieveth in Me, though he were
dead, yet shall he live"
Have you a babe i'll the house? Put il
into the arms of the great Child-lover. Is
there a sc! one in the house? Think of
Him who said: "Damsel arise" Are
YOU afraid you will come to want? Think
of Him who fed the five thousand. Is
there a little one in your house that you are
afraid will be bliud, or deaf, or lame?
Think of hlm who touched the blinded eye
and snatched back the boy from epileptic
CONFUSION. Oh, he is the best friend.
Look over your family friends to-day and
find another that can be compared to him.
When We want our friends, they are some
times out of town. Christ is always in
town. We find that some will stick to us
in prosperity who will not in adversely.
But Christ comes through darkest night,
and amid ghHStiieSt sorrow, and across
toughest sea, TO comfort you. There are
men and women here who would have
been dead twenty years ago but for
Jesus. They have gone through trial
enough to exhaust ten times their physical
strength. Their property went their
health went, their families were scattered.
Ged only knows what they suffered They
are an amazement to themselves that
they have been able to stand it. They
look at their once happy home, sur
rounded by all comfort. Gone! They
think of the time when they usel to rise
strong in the morning, and walk vigOr-
ously dOwn the street and had exper-
fenced a health they thought inexhaust-
able. Gone. Everything gone but Jesus.
He has pitied them. His eye has watched
them. His omnipotence has defended
them. Yes. He has been with them.
They have gone through disaster, and he
was pillar of fire by night. They hav Q
gone across stormy Galilec, but Christ
had his foot on tho neck of the storm.
They felt the waves of trouble coming up
around them gradually, and they began
to climb into the strong rock of Gods
defense, and then they sang, as they
looked over the waters:
''God is our refuge and strength, an
ever present help in time OF trouble;
therefore we will not fear, though the
earth be removed though the mountain S
be carried into the midst of the sea, though
the waters thereof roar and be troubled,
though the mountains shake with the
swelling thereof. Selah."
The Other day there was a sailor who
came into the Bethel in New York and
said:
'My lads Che was standing among the
sailors) l don't know what's the IN after
with me. / used to hear good deal about
religion and about Jesus Christ. | don't
know that l have any religion, or that
know any thing much about Christ but
when was in midAtlantic | looked up