News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-10-15

eousness, l came to the conclusion that
we ought to take stouter grip of
Gods eternal truth, the sword of right
eousness.
ABSOLUTE DEVOTION TO TRUTH.
As | look at Eleazer's hand | also
notice his spirit of self forgetfulness
He did not notice that the hilt of the
sword was eating through the palm of
his hand. He did not know it hurt
him. As he went out into the conflict
he was so anxious for the victory he
forgot himself, and that hilt might go
never SO deeply into the palm of his
hand, it could not disturb him. His
hand clave unto the sword" Oh, my
brothers and sisters, let us go into
Christian conflict with the spirit of self
abnegation. Who cares whether the
world praises us or denounces us?
What do we care for misrepresenta-
ton or abuse or persecution in con-
flict like this2 Let US forget ourselves.
That man who is afraid of getting his
hand hurt will never kill Philistine.
Who cares whether you get hurt or
not if you get the victory? Oh, how
many Christians there are who are all
the time worrying about the way the
world treats them. They are so tired,
and they are so abused, and they are
SO tempted, when Eleazar did not think
whether he had a hand or an arm or a
foot. All he wanted was victory.
We see how men forget themselves
in worldly achievement. We have
often seen men who in order to achieve
worldly success will forget all physical
fatigue and all annoyance and all OBJ
staele. Just after the battle of York
town, in the American Revolution, a
musician, wounded, was told he must
have his limbs amputated, and they
were about to fasten him to the sur
geon's TABLETOP it was long before the
mercifuI discovery of anesthetics He
said. mo, don't fasten me to that ia
BILE; get me a violin" A violin was
brought to him and lie said, Nov go
to work as l begin to play" and for
forty minutes during the awful pangs
of amputation he moved not a muscle
nor dropped a note, while he played
some sweet tune. Oh, is it not strange
that with the music of the Gospel of
Jesus Christ, and with this grand
march of the church militant on the
way to become the church triumphant,
we cannot forget ourselves and forget
all pang, and all sorrow and all persecu-
ton and all perturbation3
We know what men accomplish un-
der worldly opposition. hsn do not
shrink back for antagonisn or for hard
ship You have admired Prescott's
Conquest of Mexico" as brilliant and
beautiful a history as was ever. written;
but some of you may not know under
what disadvantages it was written
that Conquest of Mexico"-for Pres
colt was totally blind, and he had two
pieces of wood parallel to each other
fastened, and totally blind, with his
pen between those pieces of wood, he
wrote the stroke against one piece OF
wood telling how far the pen must go
in one way, the stroke against the
other piece of wood telling how far the
pen must GO in the other way. Oh,
how much men will endure for worldly
knowledge and for worldly success, and
yet how little we endure for Jesus
Christ How many Christians there
are that go around saying, ooh, my
hand. my hand, my hurt hand; don't
YOU see there is blood on the hand and
there is blood ON the sword2" while
Eleazar, with the hilt imbedded in the
flesh of his right hand, does not know it.
Must be carried to the skies