The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1888-09-05


dom OF Heaven" but they do not realize
the fact that this principle applies to
worldly as well as spiritual SUI cess. It's
true in all departments. Had it not been
for 4Eschines, who brought impeachment
against Demosthenes, the immortal Grafton
De Corona would never have been
delivered. Men rise TO high
political position through mis-
representation and the assault OF the pub
ic. Public abuse is all that some of our
public men have had to rely upon for their
elevation. 1t has brought to them what
talent and executive force could never
have achieved. Many Of those who are
making great effort for place and power
will never succeed Just because they are
not Of enough Importance to be abused. 1t
Is the nature Of man to gather about those
who are prosecuted and defend them, and
they are apt to forget the faults Of those
who are tue subjects Of attack while
attempting to drive back the SANDER
ers. Helen Stirk, Scotch martyr, con-
demned with her husband to death for
Christ's sake said to her husband: Re
jolce! We have lived together many JOY
full days, but this day wherein VIC must
die together ought 10 be most joyful to us
both. Therefore / will not bid you good
night, for soon we shall meet in the
| heavenly kingdom" By the fash Of the
furnace best Christian character is dem
onstrated.
| go into another department and find
that those great denominations Of Chris
tians which have been most abused have
spread the most rapidly. No good man
was ever more Wiley maltreated than
John Wesley His followers were booted
at and maligned, and called by every de-
testable name that internal ingenuity
could invent, but the hotter the persecu-
ton the more rapid the spread of that de-
nomination, until you know what great
host they have become, and what ire
mcndous force for God and the truth
they are welding all the world
over. 1t was persecution that gave
Scotland to Presbyterianism. 1t was
persecution which gave our own
land first to civil liberty, and afterward
TO religious freedom. Yea, may go fur
ther back and say it was persecution that
gave the world the great salvation of the
y,
ing and the thirsting, the unjust trial and
gnomnious death, where all the force Of
hell's fury was hurled against the cross,
was the introduction of that religion
which is yet to be the earth's deliver
ance from guilt and suffering and her
everlasting enforcement among tho
prinoipalities of Heaven. The State has
sometimes said to the Church: "Come,
let me take your hand and / will help
you" What has been the RESULT The
Church has gone back and has lost its estate
Of holiness and has become ineffective.
At other times the State has said to the
Church: 81 will crush you" What has
been the result2 After the storms have
spent their fury, the Church. SO far from
having lost any of its force, has increased
ana is worth infinitely more after the as
SALT than before it. The Church is far
more indebted to the opposition Of civil
government than to its approval. The
fNes of the stake have only been the
tocches which Christ held in His hand by
: the light of which the Church has marched
to her present position. In the sound Of
racks and implements of torture l hear
the rumbling Of the wheels of the Gospc
4 chariot Scaffolds of martyrdom have
been the stairs by which the Church ha:
1 assembled. Aqua forts is the best test O.
7 pure gold.
1 Furthermore, our subject impresses III
5 that sins will come to exposure. Long
. long ago had these brothers sold JOSEPH
Q into Egypt. They had suppressed thu
Il crime, and it was profound secret wei
v kept by the brothers. But suddenly tn
y secret is out. The old father hears tina
Il his son is in Egypt, having been sold Their
. by the malice of his own brothers. How
: their checks must have burned and thei
e hearts sunk at the flaming out Of this sur
y pressed crime! The smallest iniquity ha
p q thousand tongues, and they will blab GU
# an exposure. Saul was sent to destro
r the Canaanites, their sheep and their oxen
/, But when he got down there among tn
y pastures he saw some fine sheep an
# oxen too fat to kill, and so he thought h
d would steal them. He drove them towar
l. home, but stopped to report to the prophe
II how we'll he had executed his commission
n when in the distance the sheep began t
a bleat and the oxen to below. The secrt
II was out, and Samuel said to the blushin
h. and confounded Saul: "What means tn
h blcating of the sheep that hear and tn
TO loving of the cattleW Aye, my nearer
II you can not keep an inquiry quiet
T. just the wrong time the sheep will blef
&c and the oxen will below. Achan can NJ
tx steal the Babylonish garment without ge
i, ting stoned to death, nor Benedict Arnol
ot betray his country without having his nee
ir stretched. Look over the police arrest
rt These thieves, these burglars, these adulte
le ers, these assassns. They all thought the
H. could bury their iniquity so deep dow
that it would never come to resurrection
ID But there was some shoe that answere
~ to the print in the sand, some false key
IN found in possession, some bloody kni
v, that whispered of the deed, and the publ
| Indignation and the anathema of outrage
Id law hurled him into the Tombs or hoistt
d, him on the gallows. At the close of Il
d. battle between the Dauphin of Fran,
I'd and the Helvetians, Burchard Nor
m was so eiated with the victory that
le lifted his helmet to look off upon the fiel
to when wounded soldier hurled a stol
10 that struck his uncovered forehead and
TO fell. Sin will always leave some point e
ne posed, and there is no safety in iniquit
as Francis l., King of France, was discus
d. ing how it was best to get his army in
H. Italy. Amaril, the court fool, sprang 0
ell from the corner and said to the King al
is his staff officers: you had better
lie thinking how you will get your army ba