The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1890-02-19

Brighter than the light, fresher than
the fountains, deeper than the seas, are
all these gospel themes. Song has no
melody, flowers have no sweetness, sun
set sky has no color compared with
these glorious themes. These harvests
OF grace spring up quicker than we can
sickle them. Kindling pulpits with
their fire, and producing revolutions
with their power, lighting up dying beds
with their glory, they arc the sweetest
thought for the poet, and they are the
most thrilling illustration for the ora
tor, and they offer the most intense
scene for the artist, and they are to the
ambassador Of the sky all enthusiasm.
Complete pardon for direst guilt. Sweet
est comfort for ghastliest agony. Bright
est hope for grimmest death. Grandest
resurrection for darkest sepulcher. Oh,
what gospel to preach Christ over all
init. His birth, His suffering, His mir
ocles, His parallels, His sweat, His tears,
His blood, His atonement, His interces-
sion-what glorious themesl Do we ex-
ercise faith? Christ is its tbject Do
We have love? 1t fastens on Jesus.
Have we fondness for the church? 1t
is because Christ died for it. Have we
a hore of heaven? 1t is because Jesus
went ahead, the herald and forerunner.
TIE royal robe Of Demetrius was SO
costly. o beautiful, that after he had
put it of no ono ever dared put 1t on; but
this robe of Christ, richer than that,
the poorest and the wannest and worst
may wear. "Where sin abounded grace
may much more abound"
80, my sins, my SINS" said Martin
Luther to Staupitz, ''my sins, my sins!"
The fact is, that the brawny German
student had found Latin Bible that
made him quake. and nothing else ever
did ma q him quake; and when he found
how, through Christ, he was pardoned
and saved, he wrote to friend, saying:
"Come over and join us great and
awful sinners saved by the grace Of
God. You seem to be only a slen.
dor sinner, and you don't much
extol the mercy Of God; but we that
have been such very awful sinners
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you are so desperately egotistical that
You feel yourself in first 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 a
iooAinB ~ grass anu nero ~ 10 III Ine niDlo,
Vor, anu wreVoleu' anu iniSeraoie, anu
oilno' anu naheu rom tno crown 0, 'ne
neau 10 tne sole Oh tne iooE iuii OF
wounus ana putrelylng sores NO heaitn
IN us' ana then .ake tne iact .nat Onrls,
gaenereu up al .ne noses agaihsC US anu
paid them, ana tneh onereu us tne re-
celpt.
ana now mucn VIZ neeu MN IN our
sorroWs' we are ihuepenuene Oh CIT
cumstances II we nave ms grace why,
ne maue Iaul sing IN .he aungeon, ana
unuer tnat grace oe' oonh from uesoiate'
Ia'iuos hearu tho oiass VI 'he apOcaiyptic
.rumpets, Aieer an osner candies nave
oeen snulied out, TINS Is the hgny tna'
gets orignter ana DrignDer uneo ene per
iect cay' ana alter' uhuer tne naru noois
Oh calami.y' al tne pools Oh worldly en-
loyment nave Deen .rampieu ihto deep
mire' at tne ioot Oh tne eternal ROCK tne
Ohrlstian, from cups Oh granite my
rimmeu anu Vlne coVereu' puos ouS tne
thrist OF MS soul.
again. remark, thaS Ohrlsb Is ABOVE
all IN dying alleViations
nave not any sympathy WIN the
morplulty aproau apout our uemlse' Inc
emperor OF Oonstantinopie arranged
tnat on tne oay 0, ms corohation tne
stohe mason snouiu oome anu oohsu'
MIN about tne tombstone tnat atter
wnlle ne Wouiu heeu. ana tnere are
men VINO are monomaniacai ON tne SUD
Ject Oh departure from tnls me py ueatn'
ana tne more they tnink Oh IL 'he less
they are prepared 70 60 Ihls Is an un-
manliness not worthy Oh you, not worthy
OF me-
saladin' the greatest conquerer OF his
day, while dying orSered That the tunic
ne mad on MIN DO carried aiter 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 emperor and con-
querorl OF all the states he conquered,
OF all the wealth he accumulated, moth
ing did he retain but his 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 a commonsensical idea on this
subject that you and need to consider
that there are only two styles OF de-
parture.
A thousand feet under ground, by