Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1890-12-27

'sSHhatr say you, mot the sun stand
ing stillf' Yes. The same miracle Is
performed nowadays The wicked do
not live out half their day, and the sun
sets at noon. But iet a man start out
in battle 'or God and the truth and
against sin, aud the day of his useful
ness is prolonged and prolonged and
prolonged
THOUGH BAD THEIR WORKS DO FOL- |
Low THEM.
John Su'nmerfeld was consumptive
Methodist He looked fearfully white.
| am told, as he stood in old Sands
Street church, in Brooklyn. preaching
Christ. aud when he stood on the an
niverSary platform in New York plead
ing for the Bible until unusual and un-
known glories rolled forth from that
book. When he was dying his pillow
was brushed with the wings of the angel
from the -kies, the messenger that God
sent down. Did John Summerfield's
sun set2 Did John Summerfield's day
end9 On, no. He lives on in his
burning rtterances in behalf of the
CHRISTIAN 'nuECn-
Robert NcCheyne was a consumptive
Presbyter an. 1t was said when he
preached ne coughed SO it seemed as il
he would never preach again. His
name is fragrant in all Christendom,
that name mightier today than was
ever his living presence. He lived to
preach + gospel in Aberdeen, Edin-
/ D.-Ioo l,v,f l,o mani xrro "
very earl. lie preached himself into
+. the grave. Has Robert McCheyne's
sun setl Is Robert McCheyne's day
endedi Oh, no. His dying delirium
was fiIlec with prayer, and when he
lifted his hand to pronounce the bene
diction upon his family and the bene
diction upon his country he seemed K
say: Il cannot die now. want K
live on ami on. want to start an in
fluence for the church that will neve
cease. am only 80 years of age
Sun of my Christian ministry, stan,
still over Scotland" And it stood still
A long time ago there was n Chris
tan woman, very consecrated, and sh
had a drunken husband, and so o
came the night of domestic trouble
> She lost hsr children, and there cam
the night of bereavement. She wa
very i'll, and there came the night {
sickness. Her soul departed, and thel
came the night of death. But all the:
nights of trouble and darkness and so
, row and sickness were illuInined by I'll
: grace of the gospel, and people can
, many miles to see how cheerfully
): Christian could be sick and how chez
. fully n Christian could die. The moC
:, that illunined that night of troub
= was a reflection from the Sun of rigf
eeusness. In the last heur of tn
~ night--rhst night OF darkness and sic
ness and Misfortune, as she lifted h
r hand tewsr& heaven, those who sto
nearest her pillow could hear the VIII
=. per for she wanted to live on in I
- generations that were to follow, con
Grated to God; she wanted to have
influence long after she had enter
upon her eternal reward, and while |
~ hand was lifted and her lips were mC
a, ing those who stood nearest her pill
81 could hear her say, ''Thou moon, sta
"a still in theivalley of Ajalonr'
F1vR MORN KINGS TO BE BEHEADl
he But Jo;' N was not quite throu
& -..eroa 20 Ter ave funerals
,en fore tie nn OF that prolonged I
nd set Who viii preach their funeral
on mont Massillon preached the fun'
,;tv sermon oyer Louis XVI. Who
nts preach the funeral sermon of those
ese dead kings-king of Jerusalem, kim
the Hebron, king of Jarmuth, king of
Is chish, king of EglonG Let it be
a I Joshua. What is his text3 What s
we'd be the epit pin put on the door of
the tombg ''Chere shall not any mai
, of able to stsE..t before thee all the {
me- Of thy life"
and But before you fasten up the dc
hall want five moro kings beheaded
fore thrust in King Alcohol, King FIR
King Lust, King Superstition, Kinl
fidelity. let them be beheaded
=. hurl them in. Then fasten up the
~ forever. Whit shall the inscriT
and what shall the epitaph BET
tself ali Christian philanthropists of all
rhev are goine to come and look a
After w AAS cAiAt otlC hAOOAa He1~- W.
send shall nct any man be able to stan'
-av.p fore Ill the days of thy life"
more But it il time for Joshua to go h
ming He is 110years old. Washington
envy. down the foComac' anu AZ nAoun'
The non closel mis- days. Wellington
but PEACEFUL at Apsley House.
.ome- where shall Joshua rest9 Why,
,hua. TO have his greatest battle now.
the no year he has to meet a king,
, the has NOR subjects than all the pr
# All popula ,isn of the earth, his thr
thew pyramid of skulls, his parterrt
i'm to grave ya-ds and the cemeteries o
upon world, I chariot the worlds hes
them the XII II terrors. But if this is
antics ua's ere test battle it is going
fore Josh~.a's sreatest victory. He g
shv his frierss around him and Civ