The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1890-02-20
IE GLORIOUS CHRIST.
PARDON FOR ALL SINS.
.tove Must Stand Above All Elso in
All True Preaching.

T. ont upon the platform. The finger
I'm diamonded with light pointed down
li;,n from the Bethlehem sky, was only "A
.sGgation Of the finger of prophecy, tho
,'-sr Of genealogy, the finger of chronology.
SegnreT OF ovents-all FIVE fingers pointing
ope direction. Christ is the oyertopping
-, ~ ali time. He Is the vox humana in
n,uic the gracefulest line in III sculp.
- the most exquisite mingling OF lights
- shades in all painting the acme of all
n.s,es the dome OF all cathedraled gran
a. and the peroration of all splendid Ian
Tse Greek alphabet is made up OF twenty
| e., letters and when Christ compared Him
T, the first letter and the last letter, the
.pha and the omega, He appropriated
y Himself all the splendors that you
Y. spell out either with those two let
~ and all the letters between them. III
=. the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning
- the end the first and the last Or. II
,rn rrefer the words OF the text, above
'wha, does II mcan' IL means. nfter you
,,ye piled up all Alpine and Himalayan
.s,uies the glory Of Christ would have TO
. 60 TO touch those SUBMITS. Pelion, a
~ mountain OF Thessaly; Ossa, n high
~nu,ain. and Olympus, n high mountain;
T =, mythology tells us when tho giants
| ,,rrsd against the gods they piled up these
a-se mountains. and from the top of them
| ,-,p1s,,l 60 scale the heavens; but the height
- NOT great enough, and there was COM
SO failure. And after all the giants
ialah and Paul, prophetic and apostolic
o,nts. Raphael and Michael Angelo, artistic
ssni. cheIubim and seraphim and arch
.sypl celestial giants have failed 10 climb
N ibe ton Of ChrisCs glory they might all
rsn unite in the words OF the text and say:
agethat comcth from above Is above all. ."
first Christ must be above all else in our
,r,,ching. There arc 40 many books on
loniletics scattered through tho country
,hat all laymen, rs well as all clergymen,
haye made up their minds what sermons
msht ~ be- That sermon is most eftectual
which most pointedly puts forth Christ as
No usr,lon of nll sin and the correction OF all
Cil-indiyidual, social, political, national
Tber, is no reason why we should ring the
spd,-,s changes on few phrases. There are
,bos, who think that IL an exhortation or
discourse have frequent mention of justi-
fcation, sanctiiication. covenant OF
work, and covenant of grace, that
therefore It must be profoundly evangelical
while they are suspicious OF discourse
which presents the samo truth, but under
different phrnseology. Now, | say there is
nothing in all the opulent realm of Anglo
SaIoni,m. ot all the word treasures that we
inherited from th~ Latin and the Greek and
uc mdo.l,moppan. but we have right 10
marshal il in religious discussion. Christ
s,, the example His illustrations were from
the gra., the flowers, the spittlc, the salve,
The hnnyard fowl, the crystals of salt, as
well a, from the seas and the stars; and We
do not propose i'm our Sabbath-school teach
ing AMI in our pulpit address to DO put on the
limits.
know that there is great deal said in our
day against words, as though they were
nothing. They may be- misused, but they
have an imperial power. They are the
bridge between soul and soul, between Al
mighty God and the human race. What did
God write upon the tables OF stones? Words.
What did Christ utter on Mount Olivety
Words Out Of what did Christ strike the
spark for the illumination of the universeg
0ut Of words. Lot there be light and
light was. or course thought is tho cargo,
and words are only the ship; but how fast
would your cargo get on without the
ship What you need, my friends,
IN all your work, in your Sabbath
school class in your refOrmatory
Institutions, and what we all need is 10 en-
large our vocabulary when wo come to speak
aboul God and Christ aud heavcn. Wo ride
. few old words to death when there is such
illmitabC resource. Shakespeare employed
fifteen thousand different words fol dra-
matte purposes; Milton employed eight thou
sand different words for poetic purposes:
Rulu, cGOatc employed over eleven thou
sand different words for legal purposes; but
The most Of us have less than q thousand
words that we can manage, less than five
hundre'l, and that makes us 81 stupid.
When we come To set forth the love OF
CHRIST we are going to take tendcrest
phraseolugy wherever we find il, and il il
has never been used in that direction before,
oil the more shall We use it. When wo
come to speak Of the glory OF Christ. tho
Conqueror, we are going TO draw our Similcs
from triumphal arch and oratorio aud
everything grand and stupcndous. Tho
French navy have eighteen flags by
winch they give signal, but those
eighteen flags they can put into sixty-siN
thouSlmd different combinations. And
rave To tell you that these standards of tho
cross may be lifted into combinations infinite
ana varieties everlasting. And let me say
10 These young men who come from the the
mVsloai Seminaries into our services every
SABBATH, and are after a while going 10
preach Jesus Christ, you Will have the
hugest liberty and unlimited resource. You
only have 10 present Christ In yonr own way.
Jonathan Edwards preached Christ in the
,scNereNt argument ever penned, and John
ibuhyan preached Christ in the sublimest al-
ies9ry ever composed. Edward Payson, sick
anu anu exhausted, leaned mp against the side of
G Gie pulpit and wept out his discourse whilp
ueTse W Nhitiield, with the manner and the
hce hoce ana the start of an actor, overwhelmed
w, uls AUDITORY. IL would have been n different
lnhS n Jonathan Edwards hal tried 10
mrite ana dream about the pilgrims progress
,e ~ the celestial city, or john Bunyan had at
"imliPlel an essay on the human will
Or nl! gutter than the light, freshcr than tn,
nN ans deeper than the seas, are all these
pposPel Themes Song has no melody. flowers
s,',,s HarS nD sweetness, sunset sky has no color
Lplrel with these glorious th1mas TheS,
harvests Of grace spring up quicker than we
~ 'lCAIe them. kinlling pulpitS with
tho! higm IRE, and producing revolutions with
tIoiI power lighting up dying beds with
ta, glory, they arc the sweetest thought
IN, iu, ,ne poet aud they are the most thrilling
,h a'loh Tor the orator, and they offer
- most intense scene for tho artist
~ I',i Vney are 20 the ambassador of the
az u" enthusiasm. Complete pardon for
a' aIeat sult' Sweetest comfort Tor CHASTITY
G1sny; brightest hopo for grimmest death.
Ci h"nleSl resurrection for darkest sepulcirc
In /. "hhi Gospel TO preach! Christ over all
"a II, :" llls birth, His suffering, His miracles,
III parabies, His sweat, His tears, His blood,
no., ".'1helnent, His intercession what glo-
il ~, 'nehnes' DO we exercise faithy Christ
%, Is - ooJect. Do we have lover II fastens
~ Hh Jesus, Have we a fondness for the church,
~ "ecause Christ died for il. Have We
~ pP% OF heayeny IL is because Jesus went
M the herald and the forerunner.
a, uc royal robe OF Demetrius was SO costly,
ora oeautlful, that after he hal put il Off no
Cbrie,' 'rr dared put it on; but this robe of
yva,,,c IIcher Than that, the poorest and the
~, ee' anu tue worst NAV wear "Whers