The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1891-11-13

nothing which IL hath sent, which
nothing was born of nothing. and which
nothing was dead and buried and de-
scended into nothing, and arose from
nothing, and assembled TO nothing, and
now stitch at the right hand of moth
ing; from which it will come TO judge
nothing. believe in the holy agnostic
church and In the communion of moth
ingarians, and in the forgiveness of
nothing, and the resurrection OF moth
ing, and in the life that never shall be.
Amen!" That is the creed of tens of
thousands Of people in this day. II you
have a mind to adopt such theory
will not IL believe in God the Father
and in Jesus Christ, and in the Holy
Catholic church, and in the communion
of saints, and in the life everlasting,
Amen. o. when l see Eleazar taking
such stout grip on the sword in the
battle against sin and for righteousness.
l came to the conclusion that we ought
TO take stouter grip of Gods eternal
truth, the sword of righteousness. AS
look at Eleazar's hand also notice his
VI uiu uOb
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 him
self, 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" 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 perse-
cution 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 worry
them. They are so tired, they are so
abused, and they are so tempted, when
Eleazar did not think whether he had .
hand, or an arm, or n foot All he want
ed 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 physi-
cal fatigue, and all annoyance and all
obstacle. 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
merciful discovery Of an@sthetics. He
said: mo, don't fasten me to that Ia
Bile; get me a violin" A violin was
brought to him and he said "Now go to
work as l begin to play" and for forty
minutes during the awful pangs of am
putation, he moved not muscle nor
dropped 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 be-
come the church triumphant, we can not
forget ourselves and forget all pang
and all sorrow and all persecution and
all perturbation?
We know what men accomplish I'M
der worldly opposition. Men do not
shrink back for antagonism, or for
hardship. You have admired Prescott's
Conquest of Mexico" as brilliant and
beautiful n history as was ever writ
ten; but some of you may not know un-
der 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 two 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: 20 my
hand, my hand, my hurt hand; don't
you see there Is blood on my hand,
and there is blood on the sword?"
while Eleazar with the hilt imbedded
in the flesh of his right hand, does not
know it.
What have we suffered in COMPARE
son with those who expired with suffo-
cation, or were burned, or were chop
ped to pieces for the truths sake? We
talk of the persecution of olden times.
There is just as much persecution GO
ing on now in various ways. In 1S49,
in Madagascar, eighteen men were put
to death for Christ's sake. They were
TO be hurled over the rocks, and before
they were hurled over the rocks, in or
der to make their death the more dread.
full in anticipation, they were put in
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