Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-10-16

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wi not. at believe in God the Father
Almighty, Maker of heaven ana earth,
and I'm Jesus Christ, and in the holy
| Catholic church. and in the communion
of saints, and in the life everlasting.
Amen. Oh, when see Eleazar TAX
ing such stout grip of the sword in
the battle aga nst sin and for right
eousness, come to the conclusion that
we ought to take n stouter grin Of
Gods eternal truth, the sword OF
righteousness
AsI lock at Elea2ar's hanl / also
notice his spirit of elfthoughtfulness.
He did not notice that the hilt OF the
sword was eating through the palm of
his hand. He did not know IL hurt
him. AS he went out into the con Aict
he was so anxious for the victory he
| forgot himself, and that hilt might go
ever SO deeply into the palm of his
| hand, 1t could not disturb him ''H 8
hand clave unto the sword" o 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 misrepresentation, or
abuse, or persecution in a conflict like
this? 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 kleazar did not think
H. l., L..
| 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
stacle. just after the battle of YorA-
| town, in tle American revolution,
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
merciful discovery OF anes ,hetlcs. He
said, mo, don t fasten me TO that
| table; get me a violin" A violin was
brought to him, ana he said: Snow
go to work as | begin to play" and for
forty IN nutes, daring the awful pangs
of amputation, he moved not a muscle
nor dropped note, while he played
some swcet tune. Oh, is it not strange
| that with the music of the gospel IF
Jesus Christ, and with this grand
march OF the ch arch mi liant on the
way to become the church iumphaDJ
we canao5 forget ourselves and forget
all pang and all sorrow and all perse-
cution and all perturbation?
We know what men accomplish
under worldly opposition. Men do not
shrink back for antagonism, or for
hardship. \ GU have admired Prescott's
Conquest of Mexico" as brilliant and
| beautiful history as was ever written;
but some Of you may not know under
what disadvantages it was written
that Con quest of .deXico-for Prescott
was To ally blind, and he had
two pieces of wood parallel
to each other fastened, and totally
blind, with his pen between those
pieces of wood ne 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 wool
telling how tar The pen must go in the
other way. oh, how much men will
endure Tor worldly knowledge aud for
worldly su zee S, and yet how little we
endure for Jesus CHRIST.
We have got to expel from our
churches Christians who eat the sacra-
ment on Sunday and devour widows
houses all Che week. We have got to
stop our Indignation against the Hit
titles and the Jebusites and the Gerg-
ishites, and let those poor wretches
go, and apply 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
Stay the sin the sw0-u will adhere to
your own hand.
You and | have seen IL many 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 name is emeritus" or the word"
are: "A minister without charged
Thev were a heroic race. They has
small salaries, and but few books, and
they swan spring freshets TO meet
their appointments. But they did
in their day mighty work for God.
They took off m re of the heads of
Philistine iniquity than you could
count from noon to shutdown. You
put that old minister of the Gospel
now into a prayer meeting, or oc-
casional pulpit. or a sick-room where
there is some one to be comforted, and
it is the anne old ring to his voice and
the same old story of pardon and
peace and Christ and Heaven. His
hand has so long clutched the sword
in Christian conflict he cannot drop it.
ellis hand ave unto the sword"
had in my parish in Philadelphia a
very aged man who in his early life
had been the companion and adviser of
the early presidents. Madison and Mon
roe. He had welded vast influence,
but only knew him as a very aged
man. The most remarkable thing
about him was his ardor for Christ.
When he could not stand up in the
meetings without propping, he would
throw his arm around a pillar of the
church, and though his mind was par
TALLY gone, his love for Christ was so
great that all were in deep respect and
profound admiration, and were moved
when he spoke. 1 was called to see him
die. / entered the room, and he said:
Mr.. Talmage, / cannot speak to you
now" He w0s in very pleasant de-
lirirsr, as he imagined he had an au-
0ience before him. He said: II must