Connecticut western news., 1891-10-15
concerning Israel. His dying hand

There is the headless body of Paul on the road to Ostea. His great brain and his great heart have been severed. The enwood rods had stung him fear fully When the corn ship broke up he sw,nn 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 supernatural light fell, down to this day when he is sixty eight years of age and old and decrepit from the prison cell of the Manertine, he has been out rageously treated. and he is waiting to die. How does he spend his last hoursi Telling the world how badly he feels, and describing the rheumatism that he got in prison. the rheumatism afflicting his limbs. or the neuralgia piercing his temples or the thirst that levers bis tongue9 Oh. mo- His last words are the battle shout for Christendom: 'sI am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure Is at hand; have fought the good fight" And 50 his dying hand clave unto the sword.
 It was in the front room on the sec. ond floor that my sather lay a-dying. It was Saturday morning, four o'clock. Just three years before that day my mother had left him for the skies, and he had been homesick to join her com. pany He was eighty-three years of age Ministers of the Gospel came in to comfort him, but he comforted them. How wonderfully the words sounded, out from his dying pillow, II have l never seen the righteous forsaken or his seed begging bread" They bathed his brow, and they bathed his hands and they bathed his feet and they suc- ceeded in strengthening out the feet, but they did not succeed in bathing open the hand SO it would stay open. They bathed the hand open, but it came shut They bathed it open again, but it came shut What was the mat ter, with the thumb and the fingers of that old hand2 Ahl it had so long clutched the sword of Christian con aict that His hand clave unto the sword"
 HONORABLE WOUNDS IN HOLY WAR
 preach this sermon as 8 tonic. want you to hold the truth with in- eradicable grip and want you to strike so hard for God that 1t will re- act, and while you take the sword the sword will take you.
 You noticed that the officers of the northern army few years ago assem- bied at Denver, and you noticed that the officers of the southern army e. sembled at Lexington. Soldiers com ing together are very apt to recount their experiences and to show their scars Here is soldier who pulls up his sleeve and says, There, was wounded in that arm, and shows the scar And another soldier pulls down his collar and says. There. was wounded in the neck" And another soldier says. "I have had no use of that limb since the gunshot fracture. Oh. my friends when the battle of life | is over and the resurrection has come, and our bodies rise from the dead. will we have on us any scars of bravery for GodS Christ will be there all covered with scars Sears on the brow scars on the hand. scars on the feet, scars all over the heart won in the battle of re- demption And all heaven will sob aloud with emotion as they look at those scars. Ignatius will be there. and he will point out the place where the tooth and the paw of the lion seized him in the Coliseum: and John Huss will be there. and he will show where day when his spirit took wing of flame from CoiEt,nce M'Millan and Camp bell and Freeman, American mission aries in India. will be there the Inen who with their wives and children went down in the awful massacre al Cawnpore, and they will show where tie daggers of the Sepoys struck them The Waldenses will be there. and they will show where | theii bones were broken on that day when the Piedinontese soldiery f,;tcheu them over the rocks And there will be those there who took care of the sick and who looked after the poor. and they will have evidences of earthly exhaustion And Christ. with his ~-rrci hand waving over the scarred multitude, will say: You sui fered with me on earth. now be glori
 fled with ine in heaven. And then the great organs of eternity will take up the chant and St. John will play,
 These are they who came out of great tribulstIun and had theil robes washed and made white in the blood of the
 Lamb
 Bu, what will your cllagrin and mine be if it shall be told that day on the streets ni heaven that on earth we sllr.,nk back from all toil and sacrifice and lIardsIlipa No scars to show the hcavrrIy soidiery Not so much as one
 ridge on the palm of the hand to show that just once in the battle for God and
 the truth we just once grasped the | sword so firmly and struck so hard that
 the sword and the hand stuck together. l and the hand rlavp to the sword. Oh. my Lord Jesus. rouse us to thy service Thy saints in all this glorious war Shall conquer though they die; They the triumph from afar
 And seize it with the eye.
 When that illus, ,ous day shall rise, And all thy armies shine
 In robes of victory through the skfes. The glory shall be thinA.
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