Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-10-12


2 Int only knew him as very age
? man. The most remarkable thin
> about him was his ardor for Chris
When he could not stand up in th
meetings without propping he woul
throw his arm around pillar of tn
church. and though his mind was pal
TALLY gone, his love for Christ was s
great that all were in deep respect an,
profound admiration. and were move'
when he spoke was called to Sc
him die ! entered the room and h,
said. Mr.. TalnIage. ] cannot speak Il
you now" He was in a very pleasan
delirium. as he imagined he had al
audience before him. He said, -
must tell these people to come TO Chris
and prepare for heaven" Aud ther
in this. pleasant delirium. both arms
lifted, this octogenarian preached Christ
and told OF the glories of the world tC
come. There. lying on his dying pill
low, his dying hand clave to his sword.
THE SUBLIME LEssoN OF JOSHUA.
Oh, If there ever was any one who
had right to -etire from the conflict it
was old Joshua Soldiers come back
from battle have the names of the bat
ties on their flags. showing where they
distinguished themselves and it is a
very appropriate inscription. Look at
the flag OF Old General Joshua On il.
Jericho. Gibeon, Hazar, City Of All,
and instead of the stars sprini;lad on
the flag. the sun and the moon which
stood still There he is. n hundred and
ten years old. He is lying Hat cn his
back. but he is preaching Ills dying
words are battle charge agllt.j idol
airy, and a raliying cry for the i.0Td of
Hosts as he says, Behold this day |
go the way OF all the earth, and God
hath not failed to fulfill his promise
concerning Israel" His dying hand
clave unto tie sword
There is the headless body of Paul
on the road to Ostea. His great brain
and his great heart have been severed
The elmwood rods had stung him fear
fully. When the corn ship broke up
he swain ashore, coming up drenched
with the brine. Every day since that
day when the horse reared under him
in the suburbs of Damascus as the
light fell, down 10 this
day when he is sixty eight years of age
and old and decrepit from the prison
cell of the Mamertine. he has been out |
treated, and he is waiting to |
lie. How does he spend hi; last hours |
Telling the world how badly he feels,
md describing the rheumatism that he
got in prison, the rheumatism affecting |
lis limbs, or the neuralgia piercing his
or the thirst that fevers his
tonguel Oh, no. His last words are
lhe battle shout for Christendom: 81
am now ready to be offered, and the |
lime of my departure is at hand; |
nave fought the good fight And so
his dying hand clave unto the sword
1t was in the front room on the sec
md floor that my father lay a-dying.
t was Saturday morning, four o'clock.
'ust three years before that day my
mother had left him for the skies, and
e had been hOnCsick to Join her com
ANY, He was eighty-three years of
ge. Ministers Of the Gospel came in to
onfort him, but he comforted them.
low wonderfully the words sounded
ut from his dying pillow, II have
een young and now am old, yet have
never seen the righteous forsaken or
lis seed begging bread They bathed
lis brow, and they bathed his hands,
nd they bathed his feet and they sue
eeded in STRENGTHENING out the feet,
,ut they did not succeed in bathing
pen the hand so ii would stay open.
'hey bathed the hand open. but it
anne shut. They bathed it open again,
,ut it came shut What was the mat
er with the thumb and the fingers of
hat old hand Ali it had so long
lutched the sword of Christian con
lict that Ills hand claye unto the
word.
HONORABLE WOUNDS IN HOLY WAR.
FARR.
! preach this sermon MS Il tonic. |
want you to hold the truth with in.
radicable grip, and want you TO
trike so hard for God that it will re.
ct, and while you take tie sword the
word will take you.
You noticed that the officers of the
Iorthern army few years ago assem-
lied at Denver, and you noticed that
ba offfaarS nf rho SD,trl...,, or,,,- a, !
embled at Lexington. Soldiers com
ng together are very apt TO recount
heir experiences and to show their
cars, Here is a soldier who pulls up
lis sleeve and says, There, was
wounded in that arm, aud shows the
car, And another soldier pulls down
his collar aud says There. | was
wounded in the neck, And another
older says, II have had no use of that
imb since the gunshot fracture"
Oh, my friends, when the battle of life
5 over, and the resurrection has come,
md our bodies rise from the dead, will
We have on us any scars of bravery for
iodI Christ will be there all covered
With sears. Sears on the brow, sears
IN the hand, sears on the feet, scars all
'ver the heart won in the battle of re
And all heaven will sob
aloud with emotion as they look at
hose scars. lgnatius will be there, and
he will point out the place where the
Doth and the paw OF the lion seized
lim In the Coliseum; and John Huss