The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-03-01

thing There is no force on earth or in hell
that can resist him.
show you three spectacles. Spectacle the
first: Napoleon passes by with the host that
went down with him to Egypt, and up with
him through Russia, and crossed the eonti-
nent 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 carriages-in his dying moment asking
his attendants to put on his military boots
for him.
Spectacle the second: Voltaire, bright and
learned and witty and eloquent, 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 sup
posing Christ standing by the hedside-his
last words: Crush that wretchr'
Spectacle the third: Paul-Paul insight
6cant in person, thrust out from all refined
association, scourged, spat on, bounded like
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 certain and eternal releases; I'M
daunted before those who could take his life,
his cheek flushed with transport and his eve
on heaven; with one hand shaking defiance
tiles of hell, and with the other hand beckOn-
ing messenger angels to come and bear him
away, as he says: Il am now ready to be
offered, and the time of nv departure is at
hand; | have fought the good fight, / have
finished nv course 1 have kept the faith;
henceforth there is laid up for me a crown Of
Righteousness VIII oh the Lord, the righteous
Judge will give me
Which of the three spectacles do you most
admire. When the wind of death struck the
conqueror and the infidel they were tossed
like sea-gulls in a tempest. drenched of the
wave ami 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 iioated
away into the calm, clear summer Of heaven,
brighter than the dove it, wings covered with
silver, and its feathers with yellow gold
Oh, are you not in love with such religion
"a religion that can DO so much for man
while he lives, and so much for a man when
he comes to dies 1 suppose you may have
noticed the contrast between the departure of
a Christian and the departure of an infdei.
O's.-:.;-T N 5Ti7gfif iise e
'could not compose a joke equal
to tic joke uttered at the other
end of his table. Zeuxis, dying in a
fit of laughter at the sketch of an aged
woman-a sketch made by his own hand.
Mazarin, dying playing cards. his friend
holding his hands because ne was unable TO
hold them himself. All that on one side,
compared with the departure of the
Scotch minister, who said to his friends:
Il have no interest as to whether
! live or die; if l die l shall
be with the Lord, and if / live the Lord shall
be with me- Or the last words Of Wash
ington: at is well.n Or the last words of
Mcintosh. the learned and the great,
HAPPY Or the last word of Hannah |
More, the Christian poetess: 'Joyr' Or |
those thousands of Christians who |
have gone. saying; Lord Jesus, re-
ceive my spirit. Come, Lord Jesus, come |
quickly" 90 death! where is thy stingi |
contrast, Behold the charm OF the one, be- /
hold the darkness Of the other. Now, | /
know it is very popular in this day for
young men to think there is something
more charming in skepticism than IN
religion. They are ashamed of the o!d-fash-
toned religion Of the cross. AMI they pride
themselves on their free thinking on all these
subjects. Ny young friends, | want to tell
you what / know from observation that
while skepticism is a beautiful land at the
start, it is the great Sahara Desert at he
last
Years ago a minister's son went of from
home to college. At college he formed the
acquaintance of a young man whom | shall
call Ellison. Ellison was an infidel. Ellison
scoffed Mt religion, aud the minister's son
soon learned from him the ,intidelty, and
When he went home on his vacation
broke his fathers heart by his
of Christianity. Time passed
on and vacation came, and the minister's
son went off to spend the vacation. and was
on a Journey and came 70 a hotel. The hotel
keeper said: Il am sorry that to night l
shall have to put you in room adjoining one
where there is a very sick and dying man. l
can give you no other accommodation"
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minister's son, that will make no difference
b me- except the matter of sympathy with
lnyboiy that IS suffering The young
man retired to his room. but could not sleep.
All night long he heard the grooming of the
;ick man, or the step of the watchers, and
lis soul tremblei He thought to himself:
Now, there is Cnly thin wall between me
md a departing spirit How if Ellison
should know how | feel. How il |
Ellison should find out how my heart
cutters? What would Ellison say if he knew
nv skeptcsm gave way. he slept not In
NE morning, coming down, he sad to the
elkeeper: slow IL Ale SICK Inuut Ohi
-, INC rotel-keeper, she is dead, poor feIlowi
rhe doctors told us he could not last through
he night "Well,n said the young man,
what was the sick ones namei
where is he fromF' "Well,' said the
lotel- keeper" he is from Providence
College" providence College! what IS
lis namel7 ELLISON" ''Ellisonn Oh, how
he young man was stunned IL was his oId
ollege mate-dead without any hope IL
vas many hours before the young man could
cave that hotel. He got on his horse ana
tarted homeward, and all the way he heard
ome.hng saying to him: Dead LOST!
)eadl LOST" He came to no satisfaction
Intil he entsred the Christian life, until ne
ntered the Christian ministry, until ne pc
anne one of the most eminent missionaries {
t the cross, the greatest Baptist mis-
ionary the VOID has ever seen !
nce ths days of Pauline superior to /
Adoniram Judson. Mighty on earth, mighty
\ heaven-Adoniram Judson. Which do J
on like the best Judson's skepticism or Jud- I
ons Christian life Judson's suffering for I
'hrist's sake, Judson's almost martyrdom! i
)h, young man, take your choice between 1
hese two kinds of lives. Your own heart
ellis you this morning the Chrstlun life
mora admirable, moro peaceful, more
and more beautiful !
Oh if religion does 50 much for man on !
arth what will lido for him in heaven! That I
the thought that comes to me now. Ii '
older can afford to shout ''HdZzal when he !
Oes into battle how much more lubilantly
70 can afford to shout "Huzzal' when he has
aimed the victory If religion is so good
ming to have here, how bright thing it
ill be in heaveni l want TO see that
Dung man when the glories Of heaven have
Obed and crowned him. | want to hear
i'm sing when all huskineSs OF earthly colds
gone, and he rises up with the great dox- C
logy. / want to know what standard he Fl
I'LL carry when marching under arches of b
earl in the army of banners. / want to know b
hat company he will keep in land where s!
iey are all kings and queens forever and ever. "
| have induced one of Won this morning to il
egn a better life, then | want to know it. ii
may not in this world clasp hands with you
friendship, may not hear from your own
ps the story OF temptation and sorrow. bat
will clasp hands with you when the sea is q
lssed and the gttes are entered b.
That might WOO you TO better life, and
lat ! might show you the glories with =