Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-03-07

50 beautiful, that after he had mt il of m
one ever dared put it on: but this robe of
ChFist, TIcher than that, the poorest and the
Wannest and the worst may wear s.Whera
SIN aoounded grace may much more abound
IN my sins, my sins, said Martin Luther
70 otaupltZ, my sius my sins The fact
Is, mat the brawnF German student had
found a Latin Bible that made him QUAKE
an nothing else ever did make him quake.
and when he found how. through Christ
he was paTiOned and saved he wrote
70 friend, saying: Come over and
@oin Us great and awful sinners saved
~ 'ne glacs OF GOD. You seem to be
only a slender sinner and you don't
much extol the mercy Of God; but we that
have been such very awful sinners praise His
grace the more now that we have been re.
deemed" Can 1t be that YOU are 50 des-
PerateIy egotistical that you feel yourself in
hFSt rate spiritual trim, and that from the
root Of the hair TO the tip Of the toe you are
scarless and immaculate? What you need is
looking glass, and here it is in the Bible
Poor, and wretched, and miserable, and blind
and naked from the crown Of the head to the
sole Of the foot, full Of wounds and putrefying
sores. No health in US. And then take the
fact that Christ gathered up all the notes
against us and paid them, and then offered
us the receipt,
ana now much we need Him In our sor-
rows! We are Independent of circumstances
If we have His grace. Why, He made Paul
sing IN the dungeon, and under that grace
St John from desolate Patmos heard the
blast of the apocalyptic trumpets. After
all other candles have been snuffed out, this
is the light that gets brighter and brighter
unto rne perfect day; and after under the
hard hOOfs of calamity, all the pools of
worldly enjOyments have been trampled into
deep mire, at the foot of the eternal rock the
Christian, from cups of granite lily trimmed
and vine covered puts out the thirst of his
soul.
Again remark, that Christ is above all
i'll dying alleviatiOns.
L have not any sympathy with the morbid
ity abroad about our demise. The Emperor
of COnstantinOple arranged that on the day
Of his coronation the stone mason should
come and consult him about the tombstone
that after a while he would need. And there
are men who are mOnOmaniacal on the sub
iect of departure from this ife by DEATH and
the more they think of it the less they are
prepared to 60 This is an unmanllness not
worthy of you not worthy of me.
Saladin, the greatest cOnqueror of his day,
while dying, ordered that the tunic he had
on him be carried after his death on his spear
at the head of his army, and that then the
soldier, ever and anon, should stop and say:
Behold, all that is left of Saladin the En-
peror and conqueror! OF all the States he
conquered, of all the wealth he accumulated,
nothing did he retain but this ShrOud." L
have no sympathy with such behavior, or
such absurd demonstration, or with much
that we hear uttered in regard to departure
from this life to the next. There is COM
monsensical idea on this subject that you and
I need to COnsider-that there are only TWO
styles of departure.
A thousand feet underground by light Of
torch toiling in a miners shaft, a ledge of
rock may fall upon us, and we may die
miners death. Far out at sea, falling from
the slippery ratlines and broken on the hal
yards, we may die a sailors death. On
mission of mercy in hospital, amid broken
bones and reeking leprosies and raging
fevers, we may die philanthropist's death.
On the field of battle, serving God and our
country, slugs through the heart, the gun
carriage may roll over U.s. and we may die a
patriots death But after all, there are
only two styles of departure-the death of
the righteous and the death of the wicked
and we all want to die the former
God grant that when that hour comes you
may be at home. You want the hand of
your kindred in your hand. You want your
children to surround you You want the
long reflected your love. You want the
room still. You do not want any curious
strangers standing around watching you
You want your kindred from afar to hear
your last prayer. think that is the wish of
al! of US. But is that ali? Can earthly
friends hold us up when the pillows
of death come up to the 9irllla2 Cap
human voice charm open heavens
gate? Can human hand pilot us
heavens harbor? Can any earthly friend
ship shield us from the arrows of death, and
in the hour when Satan shall practice upon
US his Internal archery? No, no, no, no!
Alas! Poor soul, if that is all Better die in
the wilderness, far from tree shadow and
from fountain, alone, vultureS clrcllng
through the air waiting for our body, I'M
known to men, and to have no burial, if only
Christ could say through the solitudes: Il
will never leave thee will never forsake
thee" From that pillow of stone ladder
would soar heaVenwar0 angels coming and
going; and across the solitude and the bar
renness would come the sweet notes of heav-
emily minStrelSy.
Gordon Hail. far from home, dying in the
door of a heather temple, said GLORY to
thee, o Godr' What did dying Wilberforce
say, to his wife? Come and sit beside me,
and let us talk of heaven. [ never knew
what happiness was until found Christ"
What did dying Hannah More say! ITO go
to heaven think what that is! To go to
Christ who died that [ might live! Oh,
glorious grave! Oh, what glorious thingit
is to die? Oh, the love of Christ, the love of
Christp What did Mr.. Toplady, the great
hynfnmaker, say in his last hour? ''Who can
measure the depths of the third heaven? Oh,
the sunshine that fills my soul! | shall soon
be gone, for surely no one can live in this
world after such glories as God has mani
Tested to my soul"
What did the dying Janeway say? II can
as easily die as close my eyes or turn my
head in sleep. Before few hours have passed
| shall stand on Mount Zion with the one
hundred and forty and four thousand and
with the just mon made perfect. and we
shall asCribe riches, and honor, and glory,
and majesty. aud dominion unto God and
the Lamb" DR.. TAYLOR, condemned to burn
at the stake, on his WY thither broke away
from the guardsmen and went bounding and
leaping and jumping toward the fire glad to
go to Jesus and to die for Him. Sir Charles