The Red Cloud chief., 1889-11-22

| NAV drop a net or q hook and line init
those waters ourselves, but when follow
inc the track Of those lesser apostles !
will learn quite another lesson.
Iwant while in this City Of Rome to
study the religion of the brainiest OF the
apostles. l want to follow, as far as we
can trace it, the track Of this great In
tellect of my text who wanted to sec
Rome also. He was a lOgician, he was
a metaphysician. he was an all-conquer'
ing orator, he was a poet OF th" highest
type. He had a nature taat could
swamp the leading men CT h''own day,
and hurled against the ~Sanhedrim. he
made it tremble. lie learned all he could
get in the school of his native village
then @ had gone to higher school. and
there had mastered the Greek and the
Hebrew and perfected himself in bellies
letters. until in after years. he astound-
cd the Cretans and the Corinthians, and
the Athenians, by quotations from the
own authors. / have found any
thing in Carlyle. or Goethe, or Herbert
Spencer that could compare in strength
or beauty with Paul's epistles. l do
not think there is any thing in the writ
ings of Sir William Hamilton that shows
such mental discipline as you find in
Paul's argument about justification and
resurrection. L have not found any
thing in Milton finer in the way Of
Imagination than l can finl in Pauls
illustrations drawn from the amphi-
theater. There was nothing in Robert
Emmett pleading for his life, or in Ed
mund Burke arraigning Warren Hast
ings in Westminster Hall. that COM
pared with the scene in the courtroom
when, before robed officials, Paul bowed
and began his speech. saying: II think
myself happy. King ASrippa. because 1
shall answer for myself this day"
Irepcat. that 4 religion hat can capt
ure a man like that must have some
power in it. 1t is time our wiseacreS
stopped talking as though all the brain
of the world We're opposed to Christian
ity. Where Paul leads. we can afford TO
follow. I am glad to know that Christ
has, in the different ages of the world.
had in His discipleship a Mozart and a
Handel in music: a Raphael and a
Reynolds in painting; an Angelo and a
CanOva in sculpture; a Rush and q
Harvey in medicine; a GrOtius and a
Washington in craftsmanship; a Black
4 Marshall and 4 Kent in law. and
the time will come when the religion of
Christ will conquer all the Observa-
%,y,n. owl r-afoc on ~hi-
losophy will, through her telescope. be-
hold the morning star of Jesus, and in
her laboratory see that ''all thin , work
together for good" and with her geo.
hammer discern the Rock of
Ages" Oh. instead of covering and
shivcring when the skeptic stands be-
fore us, and talks of religion as though
it were a pusillaniTous thing-instead
of that. let us take Out our New Tesla
ment and read ths story of Paul at
or come ard see this city for
ourselves, and learn that it could have
been no weak gospel that actuatcd such
q nan but that it is an all-conquering
gospel. Aye, for all ages the power Of
God and the wisdom of God int saliva
ton.
Men, brethren and fathers. / thank
you for this opportunity of preaching
the Gospel to you that are at Rome also
The churches of America salute you.
Upon you who are. like us, strangers in
| pray the protecting and jour-
care of God. Upon you who are
resident here. I pray grace. mercy and
peace from God our Father and the LOrd
Jesus Christ. After tarrying here a few
days we resume our journey for Palestine.
and we shall never meet again. either
Italy. or America, or what is called
the Holy Land, but there is a hOlier
land. and there We may meet, saved by
grace that in the same way saves
Italian and American. and there in that
,upernal cline. after embracing Him
who, by His sufferings Oh the hill back
Of Jerusalem. made our Heaven possible.
md given SalutatiOn to our own kindred
whose departure broke our hearts N
,arth. We shall. l think, seek out the
travelling preacher and mighty hero of
he text who marked out His journey
Macedonia and Achaia to Je-
'usalem. saying:
"After l have been there, l must also
Rome"