The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-11-21

ing presence Hut IL IS an Old age without
nny OF the lnilrmities or limitations Of
old age There is O passage OF Scrip
ture which speaks of the birth of the
mountains, Tor there was time when
the Andes Nera horn, and tho Pyrenees were
born, and the Sierra Neyadas were born, but
before tho birth OF those mountains The Bible
tells MS, God was born, aye, was never born
al all, because He always existed. Psalm
xc., 2; "Before tho mountains were brought
forth, or ever Thou hadst formed the earth
aud tbs word, even from everlasting TO ever
lasting, Thou art God" How short Is human
lie what antiquity attaches to its worth
How everlasting Is God Show us the antiq.
ritlaS tho things that were old when Amer.
lea was discovered, old when Paul went UP
and down these streets sight seeing, old when
Christ was born, must. l must also see
Romsi
Another reason for our visit 10 this city Is
that we want TO 500 the places where tho
mlsht;est intellools and the greatest natures
wrought Tor our Cl stan religion. We have
been told in America by some people of
swollen heads that the Christian religion is a
pusillaripous thing, good for children under
years o age and small Drained people but
not for the intelligent and swartfy minded.
We have heard OF your Constantine tho
mighty, who pointed Ills army to the cross,
saying: by this conquer" IL there DO
anything hero connected with his reign or
hls military history, show it TO us. Tho
mightiest intellect Of the ages was the au-
thor OF my text, and, il for the Christian
religion no was willing to labor and suffer
and die, there must be something exalted
ana sublime and tremendous in it; and show
me every place he visited, and show mo il
you can whore he las tried, and which of
your rcaas leads ont to Ostia, that may
500 where he went oGt to die We expect
before Ne finish this journey to see Lake
Galiloe and the places where Simon Peter
and Andrew tished, and perhaps we
may drop net or hook and limo into
those waters ourselves, but when fol-
lowing the trac, OF those lesser apps.
''"" will learn quite another lesson, ]
~ "itv Of Rome 10 study the
.ru. est Of the apostles
as we can trace Ii, the
tellect of my text who
...... also Ho was a logi-
hysiclan, he was an all
no was poet of tho
nd nature that could
men of his own day, and
Sanhedrlm. he made ii
tremblc, lie learned all he could get In the
school OF his native village, then he had COMO
TO higher school, and there had mastered
tina Greek and the Hebrew and per-
fected himself in bellies lettrcs until, in of.
Ter years, he astounded the Cretans, and
tatons from their own authors. / have
never found anything in Carlyle, or Goethe
or Herbert Spencer that could compare in
strength or beauty with Pauls epistles. l do
not think there is anything in the writings
OF Sir William Hamilton that show such
mental discipline as you find in Paurs argu-
tnent about justification and resurrection. /
have not found anything In Milton finer in
the way of imagination than / can find
II, =trnt
amphitheatre. There was nothing in
Robert Emmett pleading for his life,
or in Edmund Burke arrnigniDg Warren
Hastings in Westminster Hall, that COM
pared with the scene in the court room when,
before ROBBED officials, Paul bowed and began
his speech, saying; 81 think myself happy,
King Agrippa, because l shall answer FOR
myself this day" Irepeat, that religion
that can capture man like that must have
some power in it. Ii is time our wiseacres
stopped talking as though all the brains Of
tho world wero opposed to Christianity.
| Whcrs Paul leads we can a fford to follow. l
am glad to know that Christ has, in the diff.
ferent, ages of the world, had in
His discpleship Mozart and Hail;
Reynolds in painting; an Angelo and a
Canova in sculpture; q Rush and Harvey
in medicine; Grotius and Washington in
craftsmanship. Blackstone, Marshall and
q Kent in the law; and the time will come
when the religion of Christ will conquer all
| the oltscrvatories and universities, and phil
os6phy will, through her telescope, behold
the morning star of Jesus, and in her labora-
| tory see that "all things work together for
good" and with her geological hammer
discern the Crock of Ages" Oh, ill.,
| stead Of covering and shivering when the
skeptc stands before us, and talks of re
| ligion as though it were q ,pusilianimots
Al, e haf Id Jal,1 o,,%
New Testament and read the story OF Paul
at Rome or come and see this city for our
selves, and learn that it could have been no
weak Gospel that actuated such man, but
that is is an all ,onquering Gospel, Ayel
for all ages the p ,wer of God and the wis
| dom of God unto salvation.
Men, brethren and fathers! l thank you
| for this opportunity of preaching the Gospel
ITO you aiat are at Rome also. The churches
+ of America salute you. Upon you who are
| like MS, strangers in Rome, pray the pro-
! tecting and journeying care of God. Upon
| sou who are resident here, pray grace
mercy and peace from God our Father and
| the Lord Jesus Christ After tarrying here
! q few days wcresune our journey for Pales-
tine, and we shall never meet again. either in
Italy, or America, or what is called
| the Holy Land but there is a holier
| land, and there we may meet saved by the
grace that in the same way saves Italian and
| American, and there in that supernal cline,
after embracing Him who, by His sufferings
on the hill back OF Jerusalem, made our
heaven possible, and given salutation to our
own kindred whose departure broke our
| hearts on earth, we SHALL | think seek out
the travelling preacher and mighty hero of
the text who marked out his journey through
| Macedonia and Achaia to Jerusalem, saying:
AFTER have been there l must also see
! Rome"