The Russellville Democrat., 1888-07-12

! Are there no charmed weapons with
 which to go out and contend against him? | Give me some keen sword, sharpened in | Gods armory, with which I may stab him | through. Give me some battles axe that
 may clutch it, and hew hIm from helmet
 to sandal Thank God, thank God, that
 be that rideth on the pale horse hath more than match in him who rideth on the white horse St, John heard the con-
 test, the pawing of the steeds, the rush,
 the battle-cry, the onset, until the pale
 horse came down on his launches, and
 his rider bit the dust, while Christ, the
 conqueror, with. uplifted voice, declared | it.
 death, I will be thy plague; O grave, will | be thy destruction.
 The sepulchre is lighted castle on the l shore of heavenly seas, and sentinel angels walk up and down at the door to l guard it. The dust and the dampness of
 the grave are only the spray of the white l surf of celestial seas, and the long breath l ing of the dying Christian, that you call | his gas ping, is only the long inhalation
 of the air of Heaven. o, bless God for | what Christ is to the Christian soul, hero
 and hereafter.
 1 l heard man say some time time ago that they never laugh in Heaven. l do
 not know where he got his authority for | that. I think they do laugh in Heaven. | When victors come home, do we not
 laugh2 When fortunes are won in a day, 1 do we not laighy After we have been ten | or fifteen years away from our friends, and we greet them again, do we not l laugh? Yes, we will laugh in Heaven. l Not hollow laughter, not meaningless
 laughter, but sall r2lnd ,sl cleai, q deep, | lr rf .sfa lpdn o. the glee of that moment when we first sec Jesus think we will take first two
 or three years in Heaven to look at Jesus; and if, in ten thousand years, there should be moment when the doxology paused, ten thousand souls would cry out: "Sing! singp" and when the cry was; What shall we singf" the answer would be: 'Jesus! Jesusv O. you may have all the crowns in Heaven; l do not care so much
 about them. You may have all the robes
 in Heaven; do not care so much about
 them. You may have all the scepters in Heaven; 1 do not care so much about l them But give me Jesus-that IS enough
 Heaven for me. o Jesus! l long to sec
 thee. Thou 'Chief among ten thousand, the one altogether lovely"
 There may be some here who have come
 hardly knowing why they come. Perhaps
 it was as in Paul's time-you have come | to hear what this babbler sayeth; but I
 am glad to meet you face to face, and to 1 strike hands with you in one earnest talk | about your deathless spirit. Do you know,
 my friend, that this world is not good | enough for you? It cheats. It fades. 1t | dies. You are immortal. I see it in the | deathless spirit looking out of your eye. 1 It is u mighty spirit It is an immortal | spirit. It beats against the window of | the cage. I come out to feed it. During
 the past week the world has been trying l to feed it with husks. I come ont this
 morning to feed it with that bread of
 which if man eat he will never hunger.
 What has the world done for you? Has 1t
 not bruised you? Has it not maltreated
 youg Look me in the eye, immortal man,
 and tell me if that is not so. And yet,
 will you trust it? 0, l wish that you could | forget me, the weak and sinful man
 that might vanish from your sight this
 morning, and that Jesus might come in. | Aye, He comes here this morning to
 plead for your soul-comes in all
 covered with the wounds of Calvary.
 He says: 90, immortal man! I died
 for thee. I pity thee. I come to save
 thee. With these hands. torn and crushed, will lift thee up into pleasures
 that never die." Who will reject, who
 will drive him back. When Christ was l slain on the cross. they had cross and
 they had nails, and they had hammers.
 You crucify by your sin, o, impenitent
 soull the Lord Jesus Christ Here is & cross; but where are the nails? Where
 are the hammers ''Ah," says some one
 rejecting Chrst--some one standing q
 long way off: T will furnish the nails. I
 don't believe in that Jesus. 1 will furnish
 the nails" Now we have the nails; who | will furnish the hammersy "Ah," says l some hard heart "I will furnish the ham, 1 mers." Now we have nails and hammers. | We have no spears; who will furnish the | spears? "Ah," says somo one long in the
 habit of sin and rejection of Christ's
 mercy: 'I will furnish thera" Now we l have all the instruments: The cross, the nails. the hammers, the spears and the
 crucifixion goes on. 0, the darkness! O, l the pangl 0, the tears! O, the death 1, | "Behold the Lamb of God, that takest
 away the sin of the world"
 ! Lord Jesus, help that man. He sits far | back to-day. He does not like to come | forward. He feels strange in a religious
 assemblage. He thinks perhaps we do not want him O Jesus take that tremling | hand Put thine ear to that agitated heart and hear how it beats O, lift tho | iron gate of that prison house and let that
 man go free.
 Lord Jesus, help this woman She is
 wanderer. No tears can she weep. See, ! Lord Jesus, that polluted soul see that | blistered foot No church for her. No good cheer for her. No hope for her. Lord Jesus, go to that soul. Thou wilt
 not stone her Let the ed-hot chain. that burns to the bone till the bloody ichor
 hisses in the heat, snap at Thy touch. O have mercy on Mary Magdalene.
 Lord Jesus, help that young man. He took money out of his employers till. Didst Thou see itY The clerks were all , gone. The lights were down. The shut tors were up, Didst Thou see ity 0, let
 him not fall into the pit. Remembcrest Thou not his mothers prayers? She can pray for him no more. Lord Jesus, touch
 him on the shoulder. Touch him on the heart Lord, save that young man. There are many young men here. got letter from one of them who is probably here to-day, and shall have no other opportunity of answering that let | ter You say you believe in me. c, do you believe in Jespsy l can not save you. my dear brother. Christ can. He wants
 and waits to save you, and he comes to-
 day to save you. Will you have himy
 do not know what our young men do
 without Christ-hOw they get on amid all
 the temptations and trials Co which they
 are subjected o, young men, come to Christ to-day and put your soul and your interest for this life and for the next into His keeping. In olden times, you know, cup bearer would bring wine or water to the King, who would drink it, first astiug it himself, showing there was no roison in if then DRSsiup ft tO the King who would drink 1t. The highest honor that ask is that l may be cup bearer to-day to yonr soul I bring you this water of everlasting life. l have been drinking of
 it. There is no poison in it. IL has never
 done me any harm 0 drink it, and live
 forever And let that aged man put his
 head down on the staff and let thrt poor
 widowed soul bury her worried face in her handkerchief md these liltIo ch ildren