The morning news., 1891-10-12

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world praises us or denounces US! What 90
we care for misrepresentation, or abuse, OF
persecution in a conflict ike tnlss Let US
forget ourselves. That man VINO 10 al @ !aiu
of getting his hand hurt VIII never AlII d I.
PhiIistiae. Who cares whether you Se1
hurt or nor IL you get the vlctorys On,
nov many Ch istiaus there are VINO are az
tha tipa worrying about the Way tne " .Tlu
t,.o.ts them rhey are so tired, ana tbey
are SO abused, and they are So telnp'eu'
when Fleazar, did Do5 think whetueI no
had a hand. or an arm, or Ioot, All ne
wanted was victory. .
worldly achievement. We have often seen
mon who in order to achieve worldly sue
cess. will forget all physical fatigue and an
ANNOYANCE and all obstacle. just alter tue
battle of Yorktown, in the American reNo-
luton, a musician, wounded, was toId ne
must have his limbs emputa.ed, ana 'hey
were about to fasten him to tne surgeon
tabie-for it was long before the merci. ui
discovery of apasthetlcs. de sald No'
don't fasten me to that table; get me Vio-
linz violin was trought TO him, and he
said: "Now. go TO work as begin TO play,
and for forty minutes, during the s"IuI
papps of amputation, he moved not a mus,
Gle nor dropped q note, while che plsyeu
some sweet tune. o, is 1t not strange toaI
with the music of the gospel OF Je'us
Ch ist, and with this grand narch OIL tns
church militant on the way TO bec0tne tue
church triumphant, we caunot torgse our
selves and forget all pang ara ali sorTo"
and all persecution and all perturbalionf
We know what men acc c1mplish under
worldly opposition. Men do not shrink
back for antagonism, or far hardship. You
haze admired Prescott's Conquest of
Mexico.n as brilliant and beautiful his
tory as was ever write i; but some of you
may not know under what disadvantages
it was written-that Conquest OF Mexico
for Prescott was totally blind, and be had
two pieces Of wood parallel to each other
fastened. and totally blind, with his pen be-
tween those pieces Of wood he wrote, the
stroke against one piece of wood telling
how fer the pen must go in one way, the
stroke against the other piece of wood tell
aug how lar the pen must go In the other
way. o, how much men will endure for
worldly knowledge and for worldly sue
cess, and yet how little we endure for Jesus
Christ How many Christians there are
that 20 around saying: 30, my hand, my
hand. my hurt hand; don't you see there is
blood on the hand, and there Is blood on
the swordr' while Eleazsr. with the hill
Embedded in the flesh OF his right hand, does
not know it.
Must I be carried to the skies
On fiowery beds or ease,
While others fought to win the prize
Or sailed through bloody seas!
What have we suffered in comparison
with those who expired with slfPccation, or
were burned, or were chopped to pieces for
the truths sake9 We talk of the,persecutiJ u
of olden times. There is just as mucn per
secution going on now in various ways. In
1919 ID Madagascar, eighteen men were
put 10 death for Christ's sake. They were
TO be hurled over the rocks, aud before
they were hurled over the rocks, in order to
make their death the more dreadful In an
ticipation, they were put in ba,kets and
swung 70 and fro over the precipice that
they might see how many hundl ed feet they
would have to be dashed down, aud while
they we're swinging In these baskets over
the rocks they sang:
Jesus, lover of my soul,
Let me to thy bosom fly,
While the pillows near me roll.
While the tempest still is high.
Then they were dashed down to death.
o, how much others have endured for
Christ, and how little we endure for Christ.
We want to ride to heaven in Pullman
slee ping car, our feet A soft plush, the cd
made up early so we can sleep all the way,
the black porter of death to wake us up
only III time to enter the golden city. We
want all the surgeons to fix our hand up.
Let them bring on all the lint and all the
bandazes and all the salve, for our hand is
hu t while Eleezer es not know his hand
is burt. "Hls hand clave unto the sword
As l look at Eleazer's hand, | come to
the co clusion that he has done a great
deaf OF hard hitting. | am not surprised
when see that these four men-Eieazar
ard bis three companions-drove back the
army Of Pm listines, that Eieazar's sword
claye Co his ha d, for every time he struck
an eaemy with one end OF the Sword, the
other end of the sword wounded nim.
When be took hold of tie sword, the sword
took hold Of him. o, We have found an
enemy who cannot be conquered by rose
water and soft speeches. It must be sharp
stroke and straight thrust. There is in
temperance, and there IS fraud, and there
is gambling and there is lust, and there are
ten thousand battalions of iniquity, armed
Philisti Q iniqulty. How are they to be
captured and owe thrownl Soft sermons in
morocco cases laid down in front of an ex-
Quisite audience will not do it. You have
got to call things by their right name
We have got to expel from our churches
Christians who eat the sacrament on Sun
aay and devour widows houses all the
week. We have got to stop our iudigna-
tion against the Hittites and the Jebusites
and the Gergishites and let those Door
wretches go. and apply our Indignation to
the modern transgressions which need to he
dragged out and slain. Ahabs here Herods
here. Jezebels here. The massacre of the
infants here. St Ike for God so hard that
while you slay the sin the sword will ad-
here to your own hand. / tell you, my
friends, we want few John Knoxes and
John Wesleysi theChristian church to-day.
The whole tendency is to refine on Chris
tian work. We keep on refining on it, until
we send Apologize word to iuiquity we are
about to capture 1t. And we must go with
sword S slver-chased and presented by the
ladies, and we must ride on white palfrey
under embroidered housing, putting tue
spurs IN only just enough to make the
charger dance gracefully and then we must
send mlssive, delicate as a wedding card
10 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 Sab
bath classes because their new hat is not
done. Churcces that shook our cities with
great revivals sending around to ask some
demonsIratlve worshiper il he will not
please to say 'amenn and "halleluiah" a
little softer. 1t seems as if in our churches
we wanted baptis n of cologne and balm
of thousand flowers. when we actually
need baptism OF fire from the Lord God
of Pentecost. But we are SO afraid some
body will criticise our sermons, or critlcist
our prayers, or criticise our religious work
that our anxiety for the worlds redemption
is lost in tie fear we Will get our hand hurt
while Eleazar went into tie conflict, land
his hand claVe unto thA sword