The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-10-16


saying: 80 my hand, my hand, my
hurt hand; don't you see there is blood
on the hand, and there Is blood on the
sword?r while Eleazar. with the hilt
imbedded in the flesh OF his right hand
does not know it.
Arnst be carried to the skies .t-
On fioWery beds Of ease
While others fought to win the prize
or sailed through bloody scasS
What have we suffered in comparison
with those who expired with suffOca-
ton. or were burned or were chopped
to pieces for the truths sake? We talk
Of the persecution of Oiden times There
is just as much persecution going on
now in various ways IusG549, - NADIA
gascar, eighteen men were pat to. death
for Christ's sake They were to be
hurled over the rocks, and before they
were hurled over the rocks, in order
to make their death the more dread
full in anticipation, they were put in
baskets and swung to and fro over the
precipice that they might see how
many hundred feet they wOulG have to
be dashed down. and while they were
swinging in these baskets over the
rocks they sang:
Jesus, lover Of my soul.
Let unsSo Thy bosom ny,
While the pillows near me roll,
While the tempest still Is high.
Then they were dashed down to
death o. how much others have en-
dured for Christ. and how little We en-
dure for Christ We want to ride to
Heaven In q pullman sleeping car, our
feet on soft plush the bed made up
early SO we can sleep All the way, tbs
black porter Of death to wake us mp
only in time to enter the Golden City
AS look at Eleazars hand I come 70
the conclusion that he has done a great
deal of hard hitting. 1 am not sur
prised when see that these four men
Eleazar and his three coInpanions-
drove back the army OF Philistines,
that Eleazar's sword clave to mis- hand,
for every time he struck an enemy
with one end of the sword the other
end wounded him When he took hold
of the sword the sword took hold of
MIN o. we have found an enemy that
cannot be conquered by rOsewater and
soft speeches 1t must be sharp stroke
and straight thrust. There is intern
perance and there is fraud and there is
lust and there are ten thousand battal-
ions of iniquity, armed Philistine in
EQUITY. How are they to be captured
and overthrown? Soft sermons in
morocco cases laid down Ia front of an
exquisite audience will not do it. You
have got to call things by their right
names.
We have got to expeI from our
churches Christians who eat the sacra-
ment on Sunday and devour widows
| houses all the week. We have got to
/ stop our indignation against the Hittites
and the Jebusites and the Gergishites
and let these poor wretches go and ap-
/ ply our Indignation to the modern
! transgressiOns which need to be
dragged out and slain. Ahabs here.
Herods here. Jezebels here. The
massacre of the infants here. Strike
for God so hard that while you sIay the
/ efv4
hand tell you, my friends, we want
/ a few John KnOxes and John Wesleys
| in the Christian church to-day.
The whole tendency is to refine on
/ Christian work. We keep on refining
it until we send apologize word to
/ iniquity we are about to capture it
| And we must go with sword silver
chased and presented by the ladies, aud
we must ride on white palfrey under
| embroidered housing, putting the spurs
/ in only just enough to make the charger
dance gracefully, and then We must
| send n missive, delicate as a wedding
card, to ask the old black giant of sin
/ if he will not surrender.
Women saved by the grace of God
and on glorious mission sent detained
from Sabbath classes because their ne "
hat is not done Churches that shook
/ our cities with great revivals sending
4 around to ask some demonstrative wor-
| shipper if he will not please to say
amen" and ''hailelujah" little soft
er. 1t seems as il in our churches we
wanted a baptism of cologne and balm
/ Of thousand flowers, when we actual
1y need "A baptism of fire from the Lord
/ God of PentecOst But we are 50 afraid
/ somebody will criticise our sermons, or
criticise our prayers, or criticise our
religious work, that our anxiety for
the worlds redemption is lost in the
fear that we will get our hand hurt,
/ while Eleazar went into the conflict
land his hand clave unto the sword"
But I see in the next place what a
I hard thing is was for Eleazar to get
his hand and his sword parted. The
muscles and the sinews had been SC
| long grasped around the sword he could
not drop it when he proposed to drop it.
/ and his three comrades. 7 suppose,
came up and tried to help him, and
they bathed the back part of the hand,
hoping the sinews and muscles would
relax. But no. Ills hand clave to the
4 sword" Then they tried to pull open
the fingers and to pull back the thum b.
4 but no sooner were they pulled back
than they closed sgaiR, land his hand
/ clave unto the sword" But after a
/ while they We're successful, and then
they noticed that the curve in the palm
of the hand correspondent exactly with
the curve OF the hilt His hand clave
unto the sword"
You and have seen it many a time.
There are in the United States to-day
many aged ministers of the gospel
They are too feeble now to preach. In
the church records the word opposite
their names is emeritus, " or the words
/ are, "a minister without charge" They
were a heroic race. They had small
salaries, and but few books. and they
swan spring freshets to meet their ap-
/ pOiutments- But they did in their day
q mighty work for God They took on
more of the heads of Philistine iniquity
than you could count from noon to sun
I down You put that old minister OF
the gospel now into a prayer meeting,
or occasional pulpit or a sick room
/ where there is some one to be comfort
ed, and it is the same old ring to his
voice and the same old story of pardon
and peace and Christ and Heaven His
hand-ha so long clutched The sword in
l Christian conflict he canlot drop it
''His hand clsve unto the sword. -