The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-03-21
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/ o. g SuCe al the contamination, when
SurlsS With His almighty arm has struck of
the last chain Of human BONDAGE and
PBItnalays shall be Mount Zion: and
1yIehees, Morlah; and oceans the walking
Place OF dim who trod the wave cliffs d
stoItned Ilberias, and island shall call L
..SSiAuui sea 70 sea, continent TO continent. ana
Ut .1ie song ot the worlds redemption rising
'iie heavens. like great sounding board
s stillll strike back the shout Of salvation r.
- IA until ltrebounds again to the thron,
VI Tod ana all heaven. risinrr an tlai,
l1r ones baat time with their scontsrs Oh o.
s mhat an humble beginning What a glor;olt,
ehlIng Throne linked to q Manager. henveniv
mansions TO stable. --''' e'4i'
MY subject also impresses mo wifi, ~, %
80 OF Chrlsts mission upward and dovVr
| CT u. SI2ryi TO God, peace to man. when
c 60 senV Ills Son into the world, angels dis
! SSoNered something new in God s1netlins,
lney had never seen before. MOI noyrs,. ,,,i
s"lsuohl, not love. They knew ali that ba-
toIe; But when Col sent His Son into tbis
SOri1 Then the angels saw the sDirit of ssIf-
S ZEN IN God, the spirit of selfsacrifice in
t III. IL Is easier TO love an angel ON His
=; Snf1 ~. than a thief on the cross. n seraDh
c,;,.e %ygylI,shlp theu an adultereSs in her
eii-ne. hen the angels saw God-the God
VINO would not allow the most iusirrificant
~ nHsel IN heaven TO be hurt-give up lis SON
LIS son, His only, only Son thev esw
something that they had never thourbf Of
before, AMI do not wonder that when Christ
starved out On that pilgrimage the angels in
III - "a capped thelr wings in triumph and
On an the hosts OF heaven to help them
SSgteofate 1t, and sang so loud that the Beth
iehem shepherds heard it: GLORY to God in
tine highestn ~ OA IL
!. bu1 II was also 70 be mission of peace to
man Infinite -accumulatei de-
Prtvlty. How could they ever come to-
S'thar! The Gospel bridges over the dis.
6lASs- it brings God to us. 1t takes us to
U0l. 60I IN Us, and we in God. Atone
menu! At0lenantl Justice satisfied sins
forgiven, eternal life secured, heaven built
on a nangar 0'-'
But it was also to be the pacification OF all
individual and International animosities
W nat a sound this word of peace had in the
roman Empire that boosted Of the number
OF people it had maSsacred. that prideI itself
on the number of the slain that reioiced
at the trembling provinces Sicily and Cor
slc9 AMI Sardinia and Macedonia and Egypt
hal bowed TO her sword and crouched at the
cry OF her war e1gles. She gave her chief
honor to ScipiO and Fabius and Casar-all
m IN OF blood. What contempt they must
have had there for the panniless, ttnarmed
Christ in the garb OF q Nqzarine starting ont
TO conquer all nations. There never yvas a
place on earth where that word peace sounded
50 oIenslYely to the ears of the multitude as in
the Roman Empire They did not want peace.
The greatest music they ever heard was tho
clanking chains of their captives. If all the
blood that has been shed in battle could be
gathered together it would upbear a navy.
The club that struck Abel to the earth has is
echo in the butcheries of all ages. Edmund
Burke who gave no wild statistics, said that
there had been spent in slaughter thirty-liYe
thousand millions of dollars, or what would
be equal TO that; but he had not seen into
our times when in our own day, in America.
we expended three thousand millions Of dol
lars in civil war
Oh, if we could now take our position on
some high point and see the worlds armies
march pestl What a spectacle it would be
There go the hosts of Israel through a score
of Red seas-one of water. the rest of blood
There go Cyrus and his army with mfuriate
yell rejoicing over the fall of the gates of
Babylon There goes Alexander leading
forth his hosts and cOnquering all the world
but himself. the earth reeling with the bat
tie cash of Arbela and Persepolis. There
goes Ferdinand Cortes, leaving his buthered
enemies on the table lands once fra
grant with vanilla and covered over
with groves of Towering cacao There
goes the great Frenchman, leading his army
down through Egypt like one Of It's plaques,
and up through Russia like one of its own icy
blasts. Yonder is the grave trench under the
sAdlph VI A1Gld1Aollul 1 ucLt al c tllt runs
of Delhi and Allahabad, and yOnder are the
inhuman Sepoys and the brave regiments
under Havelock avenging the insulted flagof
Britain; while cut right through the heart of
my native land is a trench in which there lie
one million Northern and Southern dead.
Oh, the tearsl Oh the blood! Oh, the long
marchesl oh, the hospital woundsi Oh, the
martyrdoml Oh, the DEATH But brighter
than the light which flashed on all thess
swords and shields and musl,etry is the light |
Mat fell on Bethlehem, and louder than the /
bray of the trumpets, and the neighing OF the
chargers, and the crash Of the walls, and the /.
grooming of the dying armies, is the song
that unrollS this moment from the sky, I
sweet as though all the bells Of heaven I
rung jubilee: Peace on earth, good Will (
toward men" Oh, when will the day come I
God hasten iti-when the swords shall be .
turned into plOwshaIes, and the fortresses /
shall be remOdeled into churches and the .
men of blood battling for renOwn shall be-
come good soldiers OF Jesus Christ, and the .
cannon now striking down whole columns Of
leath shall thunder the victories of the
truth.
When we think of the whole world saved
we are apt to think of the few people that
now inhabit it. Only very few compared
with the populations to come. And what
small part cultivated Do you know it has
been authenticity estimated that three
iOuIAlLS u I@llblt - ltl III EuETEnnESS. D
and that nine hundred and ninety-one
part Of the entire
globe is uncultivated? This is all
to be cultivated, all inhabited and
al gospelized. Oh, what tears OF
repentance when nations begin to weepl Oh,
what supphcations when continents begin tC
prayl Oh, what rejoicing when hemisphere
Begin to singl Churches will worship on the
)laces where this very hour smokes the blood
# human sacrifice, and wandering through
he snake infested jungles of Africa Christ's
ieel will bruise the serpents head. Oh when
he trumpet of salvation shall be sounded
and the nations are re-
semed: Light viii fall I2Gn
I'll upon Bethlehem, and more overWhelm-
" than the song that fell on the pasture
elds where the focks fed, there will be a
Ong louder than the voice of the storm
flied oceans "Glory to God in the highest"
nd from all nations and kindred and people
nd tongues will come the response, 'And
N earth peace, good will toward menm On
his Christmas Eve bring you good tidings
+ great joy. Pardon for all sin, comfort
or all trouble and life for the dead. Shall
Te now take this Christ into our
carts? The time is passing. This is tho
losing of the year. How the time speeds by.
ut your hand on your heart-one two
lree. Three times less it will beat Life is
assing like gazelles over the plain. Sorrows
over like petrels over the sea. Death swoops
ke a vulture from the mountains. Misery
Dlls up TO our ears like waves. Heavenly
,ngs fall to US like stars.
/ wish you a merry Christmas not with
-orldly designations but merry with Gospel
ladness, merry with pardoned sin, merry
nth hope of reunion in the skies with all
our loved ones who have preceded you. In
nat grandest and best senss a merry
hristmas.
And God grant that in our final moment
may have as bright n vision as did the
ring girl when she said: Mother
& with her thin white hand through the
what is that beautiful
nd out yonder beyond the mountains, the
Ugh mountains "Oh," said the mother,
ny darling, there are no mountains within
ght Of our home" "Oh, yes" she said,
lon't you see them-that beautiful land be
md the mountains out there, just beyond
e high mountains"
The mother looked down into the face ~
er dying child and said: my dear, 1 think
lat must be heaven that you see" "Well,
len" she said, father, you come, and with
'ur strong arms carry me over those mount
rs into that beautiful land beyond the high
ountaiDs." mo" said the weeping father,
my darling, 1 can't go with you" "Well,"
e said, clapping her hands, never mind,
'ver mind; l see yonder shining one COM
3. He is coming now, in His strong arms
carry me over the mountains to the beau
nj land-over the mountains, over the high
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