Daily Yellowstone journal., 1888-12-23

frienGi- g.S~f worldly SUCCESS, out lie
lives for himself. His chief care is for
his own comfort. He lives useleSsly.
He dies unregretted. Here is another
young man. His apparel may not be
so good, his education may not be SO
thorough. He lives for others. His
happiness is to make others happy.
He is us self denying as that dying
soldier, falling in the ranks, when he
said: Colonel, there is no need Of
those boys firing themselves by carry.
ing me TO the hospital; let me die just
where | am" So this young man of
whom | speak loves God, wants all
the world To love him. is not ashamed
to carry n bundle Of clothes up that
dark alley TO the poor, Which of
those young men do you admire the
betterl The one a sham. the other a
prince imperial.
Oh. do you know of anything, my
hearer, that is more beautiful than 10
see a young man start out for Christi
Here is some one falling: he lifts him
up. Here is a vagabond boy; he in
PRODUCES him TO a mission school.
Here is a family freezing TO death; he
carries them a scuttle of coal. There
are eight hundred millions perishing
in midnight heather darkness; by all
possible means he tries to send TO them
the Gospel. He may be laughed at,
and he may be sneered at, and he may
be caricatured, but he is not ashamed
TO 90 everywhere, saying: Il am not
ashamed OF the Gospel of Christ. Its
the power of God and the wisdom of
God unto salvation" Such a young
man can 60 through everything.
There is no force on earth or in hell
that can resist him.
SIGNIFICANT SPECTACLES IN HISTORY.
/ show you three spectacles. Spec
tacle the first: Napoleon passes by
with the host that went down with
him to Egypt, and up with him
through Russia, and crossed the on
tinent on the bleeding heart of which
he set his iron heel, and across the
%quivering flesh of which he went
grinding the wheels of his gun car
riages-in hisdying moment asking his
attendants TO put on his military boots
for him.
Spectacle the second: Voltaire,
bright and learned and witty and elo-
quent, with tongue and voice and
stratagem internal, warning against
God and poisoning whole kingdoms
with his infidelity, yet applauded by
the clapping hands Of thrones and
empires and continents-his last
words, in delirium supposing Christ
standing by the bedside-his last
words: Crush that wretch"
Spectacle the third: Paul-Paul in
significant in person, thrust out from
all refined association, s%courged, spat
on, bounded like a wild beast from
city to city, yet trying to make the
world good and heaven full; an
nouncing resurrection TO those who
mourned at the barred gates Of the
dead; speaking consultations which
light up the eyes Of widowhood and
orphanage and want with glow Of Ger.
tain and eternal release; undaunted
before those who could take his life,
his cheek flushed with transport, and
his eye on heaven; with one hand
shaking defiance at all the foes of
earth and all the principalities of hell,
and with the other hand reckoning
messenger angels to come and bear
him away, a he says: II am now
ready to be offered, and the time of
my departure is at hand; | have
fought the good fight, | have finished
my course, | have kept the faith;
henceforth there is laid up for me a
crown of righteousness which the
Lord, the righteous Judge, will give
me-"
Which of the three spectacles do
you most admirel When the wind of
death struck the conqueror and the in.
idel they were tossed like sea gulls in
q tempest, drenched of the wave and
torn of the hurricane, their dismal
voices heard through the everlasting
storm; but when the wave and the
wind Of death struck Paul, like an
albatross, he made a throne of the
tempest, and one day hoatcd away into
the calm, clear summer of heaven,
brighter than the dove, its wings GOV.
cred with silver, and its feathers with
yellow gold. Oh, are you not in love
with such a religion-a religion that
can do 20 much for a man while he
lives, and so much for a man when he
comes to die! suppose you may have
noticed the contrast between the de-
parture of a Christian and the depart
ure Of an infidel. Deodorus, dying in
chagrin because he could not compose
a joke equal TO the joke uttered
at the other end Of his table. Zeuxis,
dying in a dt Of laughter at the sketch
Of an aged woman-a sketch made by
his own hand. Mazarin, dying play
ing cards, his friend holding his hands
because he was unable TO hold them
himself. All that on one side. com
pared with the departure Of the
Scotch minister, who said TO his
friends: Il have no interest as 10
whether l live or die; il / die /
shall be with the Lord, and IL | live
the Lord shall be with me-" Or the
last words Of Washington: 1T is
we'll" Or the last word Of Mcintosh,
the learned and the great, Happy"
Or the last word Of Hannah More,
the Christian poetessi "Joyr Or
those thousands OF Christians who have
gone, saying: Lord Jesus, receive
my spirit. Come, Lord Jesus, come
quickly" 20 DEATH where is thy