The Penn's Grove record., 1889-01-05

hands Of thrones and empires and con
tinents-his last words, IN deliriun
supposing Chris: standing by the bed
lside--his last words: Crush tina
wretchi"
Spectacle the third: Paul-Paul, in
significant in person, thrust out from
all refined association, scourged, spa
on, bounded like a wild beast from cit,
to city. yet trying to make the worlt
good and heaven full;
ANNOUNCING RESURRECTION
to those who mourned at the barred
gates of the dead; speaking consola
tions which light up the eyes Of widow
hood and orphanage and want will
glow OF certain and eternal release; un.
daunted before those who could take
his life, his cheek flushed with trans
port, and his eye on heaven; with one
hand shaking defiance at all the foes Of
earth and all the principalities of hell,
and with the other hand beckoniul
messenger angels to come and bear hin
away, as Re says: 81 am now ready II
be offered, and the time of my depart
IRE Is at hand; l have fought the good
fight, l have finished my course, / have
kept the faith; henceforth there is laid
up for me a crown of Righteousness:
which the Lord, the righteous Judge,
will give me-"
Which of the three spectacles do yor
most admire? When
TIE WIND OF DEATH
struck the conqueror and the infidel
they were tossed like sea-gulls in 8
tempest, drenched of the wave and tori
of the hurricane, their dismal voice:
heard through the everlasting storm;
but when the wave and the wind oil
death struck Paul, like an albatross lie
made u throne of the tempest, and one
day tloated away into the calm, cleal
summer of heaven, brighter than the
dove. its wings covered with silver, and
its feathers with yellow gold. Oh. are
you not in love with such a religion-a
religion that a do so much for a mar
while he lives, and so much for a mar
! when he comes to die?
] suppose you may have noticed the
contrast between the departure OF a
| Christian and the departure Of an inll-
del. Diodorus, dying IN chagrin be-
cause he could not compose a joke equal
to the 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 friends holding
his hands because he was unable to hold
them himself. All that on one side,
compared with the departure of the
Scotch minister, who said to his friends:
81 have no interest as to whether | live
or die; If / die, l shall be with the
Lord; and If ] live, the Lord shall be
| with me-" Or the last words of WASH
ington: st is WE'LL" Or the last words
of Mcintosh, the learned and the great:
"IIappyi" Or the last word Of Hannah
More, the Christian pOetess: s'Joyl''
Or those thousands Of Christians who
have gone. saying: "Lord Jesus receive
my spiritI Come, Lord Jesus, come
quickly" so death! where is thy stingf
o gravel where is thy victory2"
BEHOLD THE CONTRAST.
Behold the charm of the one, behold
the darkness Of the other. Now, !
know it is very popular in this city for
young men to think there is something
more charming in scepticism than in re
ligion. They are ashamed of the old
fashioned religion of the cross, and they
pride themselves on their free-thinking
on all these subjects. My young friends,
1 want to tell you what l know from
observation: that while scepticism is a
beautiful land at the start, it is the
great Sahara Desert at the last.
Years ago q minister's son went of
from home to college. At college he
formed the acquaintance of a young
man whom l shall call Ellison. Ellison
was an infidel. Ellison scoffed at relig-
ion, and the minister's son soon learned
from him the infidelity, and when he
went home on his vacation broke his
fathers heart by his denunciations of
Christianity. Time passed on and vaca-
ton came, and the minister's son went
off to spend the vacation, and was on a
Journey, and came to a hotel. The
hotel-keeper said: 81 an sorry that to-
night I shall have to pu. you in a room
adjoining one where there is a very sick
and dying man. l can give you no
other accommodation" ssOh," said
the young college student and minister's
son, ''that will make no difference to
me except the matter of sympathy with
anybody that is su%ffering.s The young
man retired to his room, but could not
sleep. All night long he heard the
yroaning of the sick man, or the step OF
the watchers, and his soul trembled.
| He thought to himself: "Now there is
only a thin wall between me and a de
parting spirit. How if Ellison should
know low l feel? How if Ellison sllould
find out how my heart fiutters? What
If Ellison knew
MY s%CEPTICIsM GAVE wAYp"
He slept not. In the morning, coming
down, he said to the hotel-keeper: show
is the sick man?' son." said the, hotel
keeper, she is dead, poor fellowl the
doctors told us he could not last through
the nIght." s'Well," said the young
man, "what was the sick ones name
where is he from?'' "Well.o said the
hotel keeper, ''he is from Providence
College" "Providence Collegel what
is his name?n ELLISON" "Elison!'
Oh, how the young man was stunned
1t was his old college-mate-dead with
out any hopa.
1t was many hours before the young
man could leave that hotel. He got OF
his horse and started homeward, and al
the way he heard something say to him
'DEADl LOST! DEADl
Lostl" He came to no satisfaction un
til he entered the Christian life, until
he entered the Christian ministry, unit
he became one of the most eminent mis-
sionaries OF the Cross, the greatest Bap
fist missionary the world has ever seer
since the days of Paul-no superior t.
Adoniram Judson. Mighty on earth
mighty in heaven-Adoniram Judson
Which do you like the best, Judson'
scepticism or Judson's Christian life,
Judson's s offering for Christ's sake
Judson's almost martyrdom2 Oh, young
man, take your choice between thes'
1.-TWO kinds of lives. Your own hear
tells you this morning that the Christian
life is more admirable, o peaceful
more comfortable, and o beautiful
Oh, if religion does so much for /;
man on earth, what will it do for hin
in heaven2 That is the thought tina
comes to me now. If a soldier cal
afford to shout ,'Huzza!'' when he goe'