The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-12-20

to carry a bundle OF clothes up that
dark alley to the poor. Which of
those young men do1 you admire the
better2 The one sham, the other a
prince imperial.
Oh, do you know of anything, my
hearer, that is more beautiful than TO
see a young man start out for Christ?
Here is some one falling: he lifts him
up. Here is a vagabond boy; he in
troduces him to a mission school
Here is family freezing to death; he
carries them scuttle of coal. There
are eight hundred millions pe-ishing
in midnight heathen 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 caricaturcd, but he is not ashamed
to go everywhere, saying: II am not
ashamed of the Gospel of Christ. ltis
the power OF God and the wisdom of
God unto salvation. Such young
man can go through everything.
There is no force OH 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 con-
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 his sdying moment asking his
attendants to put on his military boots
for him.
Spectacle The secontt: voltaire,
bright and learned and witty and elo-s
qrlent, with tongue and voice and
staatagem Internal, warning against
Cod 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 i'll
significant in person, thrust out from
all refined association, scourged, 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 cer-
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 ell the principalities of hell,
and with the other hand beckoning
messenger angels to come and bear
him away, as he says: II am now
ready to be offered, and the time of
my departure is at hand; have
fought the good Fight, l have finished
my course, ! have kept the faith;
henceforth there is laid up for me q
crown Of righteousness which the
Lord, the righteous Judge, will give
me-"
Which of tho three spectacles do
you most admire2 When tho wind Of
death struck tho conqueror and the in
fdcl they were tossed like sea gulls in
tempest, drenched of the wave and
torn Of the hurricane, their dismal
voices heard through tho everlasting
storm; but when the wave and the
wind of death struck Paul, like. an
-albatross, he made throne of the
tempest, and one day fioated away into
the calm, clear summer of heaven,
brighter than the dove, its wings cov-
! cred with silver, and its feathers with
yellow gold. Oh, are you not in love
with such religion--a religion that
cam dqaso much for man whilo he
lives, and so much for man when he
comes to die! L suppose you may have
noticed the contrast between tho de-
parture of q Christian and the depart
use of an inlldel. DeodoruS, dying in
chagriIl because hecould not compose
a joke equal to the joke uttered
at the other end of his table. ZeuXis,
dying in fit 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
whether ] live Or die; if / die ]
shall be with the Lord, and if | 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 poetess: ''Joy!" Or
| those thousands Of Christians who have
gone, saying: Lord Jesus, receive
my spirit. Come, Lord Jesus, come
quickly" go DEATH where is thy
sting4 0 gravel where is thy victoryf'
Behold the contrast Behold the
charm of the one, behold tho darkness
Of tho other. Now, know it is very
popular in this day for young men to
think there is something more charm
ing in skep:icism than in religion.
They are ashamed of the old fashioned
religion Of the cross, and they pride
themselves ON their free thinking Oh
all these subjects. My young friends,
I want to tell you what / know from
observation, that while sllepticism is.a
beautiful land at the start, it is the
great Sahara desert at the last
A STORY WITH A MORAL.
Years ago q minister's son went off
from homo to college. At college he
formed the acquaintance of young
man whom l shall call Ellison. Eli
son was On inhdel. Ellison scoffed
at religion, and the minister's son
soon learned from him tho inlidelity,
and when he went home on his vaca-
ton broke his fathers heart by his de-
nunciations of Christianity. Time
passed on and vacation camo, and the
minister's son Went OF to spend the
vacation, and was on journey and
came to hotel The hotel keeper
said: u am sorry that tonight shall
have to put you in room adjoining
ono where there is very sick and
dying man. can give you no other
accommodation. "Oh," said the
| young college student and ministers
| son, that will make no difference to me
except the matter Of sympathy with
anybody that is suffering" The young
man retired to his room, but could noi
sleep. All night long he heard the
groaning of tho sick man, or the step
| IF fho vvafchapa md his Sol1l trerlbled