Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1890-02-21

intercession-wha glorious themesl Do We
exercise faith! Christ is its object. Do we
we have lovei 1t fastens on Jesus. Have we
a fondness Tor the church, 1t is because Christ
died for it. Have we a hope Of heaven? Ii
is because Jesus went ahead, tho herald and
the forerunner.
The ROYAL robe of Dcmetrius was SO costly,
so beautiful, that after he had put it off no
one ever dared put it on; but this robe of
Christ richer than that the poorest and the
wannest and the worst may wear "Where
sin abounded grace may much more abound
"Oh, my sins, my sins, said Martin Luther
to Staupt2, tiny sins, my sins!" The fact is
that the brawny German student had found
a Latin Bible that made him quake, and
nothing else ever did make him quake, and
when he found how, through Christ he was
pardoned and saved, he wrote to q friend
saving: Come over and Join us great and
awful sinners saved by the grace of God You
seem to be only slender sinner and YOU
don't much extol the mercy Of God: but we
that have been such very awful sinners praise
bis grace the more now that we have been
redeemed" Can it be that YOU are so des-
peratey 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
SVafl'Ss ana lnmaculotef W nat 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
PURIFYING sores. No health in rs, aud then
take the fact that Christ gathered up all the
notes against us aud paid them, and then of
fcred Us the receipt
And how much we need him in our sor-
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If We have his grace Why, he made Paul
sing in the dungeon and under that grace St.
John from desoate Patmo> heard the blast of
tho apOcalyptic trumpcts After all other
candles have been rulled ont, this is the light
that gets brighter and brighter unto the per-
feet day; and after, under the hard hoofs of
calamity, all the pools Of worldly enjoyment
have been tramplcd into deep mirc at the
foot of the eternal rock the Christian, from
cups Of granite lilyrimmed and vine covered
puts out the thirst Of hi, soul
Again, ! remark, that Christ is above all
in dying allcviatons
DEATH.
have not any sympathy with the morbid
ity abroad about our deniSe. The emperor
of COnstantinope arranged that on the day
of bis coronation the stone mason should
come and consult hum about the tomb
stone that after while he would need AMI
there are men who are monoinaniacal on the.
subject Of departure from this life by death.
and the more thoy think OF it the less they
are prepared to 90. THIS is an unmanliness
not worthy Of you, not worthy of me.
Saladin, the greatest conqucror Of his day.
while dying, ordered that the tuuic he had On
him be carried after his death on his spear al
the head Of his army, ami that then the sol
der ever and anon should stop and SAY. Be
hold, all that is left Of SalqGin. the em,aror
and cOuqueror, OF all the states he con
QuereI, Of all the wealth he accumulated.
nothing did he retain bat this STROUD" |
nave 40 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 common
sensical idea on th, subject that you and /
need to consder-that there are only t,yo
styles OF departure.
A thousand feet underground, by light of
torch toiling in miners shaft, ledge OF
rock may fall upon Us, and we may die q
miners death. Far out at sea, falling from
the slippery ratlincS and broken on the hal
yards, We may die sailors death. On mis-
sion of mercy in hospital, amid broken bone,
and rpekiner lpprOS,pS and ro.ri,,,r fo,...r. ,-,