Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1891-10-29

cry OF an9SthetlcS. he salu, mo,
don't fasten, me to that table; get me
a VIOLIN" A violin was brought to
him and he said: .sNow go to work
as I begin to play" and for 40 min
utes, during the awful pangs OF ampu-
tation, 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-
tion 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 Pres
colts Conquest of Mexico" as bril-
liant and beautiful a history as was
ever written; but some OF you may
not know under what disadvantages
il was written-that Conquest of
Mexico"-for Prescott was totally
blind, and he had two pieces OF wood
parallel to each other fastened, and,
totally blind, with pen between those
pieces of wood, he wrote, the stroke
against one piece ofwood telling howfar
the pen must 60 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 vet how little we endure
for Jesus Christ. -! ::
What have we suffered in compare
son with those who
EXPIRED WITH sUFFOCATION,
or were burned, or were chopped to
pieces for the truths sake? We talk
OF the persecution Of olden times:
there is just as much persecution going
on now in various ways.
Oh, how much others have endured
for Christ, and how little we endure
for Christ. We want to ride to heaven
in a Pullman sleeping car, our feet. on
soft plush, the bed made up early so
we can sleep all the way, the black
porter of death to wake us up only i'll
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 bandages and all the
salve, for our hand is hurt, while
Eleazer does not know that his hand
is hurt. ellis hand clave unto the
sword"
AS look at Eleazar's hand I come
to the conclusion that he mas done
great deal ofhard hitting. Iamnot sur
prised when I see that these four men
-Eleazer and his three companions
drove back the army of the Philis-
tines, that Eleazar's sword clave to
his hand, for every time he struck an
enemy with one end of the sword, the
other end of the sword wounded him.
When he took hold of the sword, the
sword took hold of him. Oh, we have
found an enemy who cannot be con-
quered by rosewater and soft speeches.
1t must be sharp stroke and straight
thrust. There is intemperance, and
there is fraud, and there is gambling,
and there is lust, and there are ten
thousand battalions ofiniquity. How
are they to be captured and over
cases laid down in front of an exqui-
site 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 sac
rament on Sunday and devour wild
ows' houses all theweek. We have
got to stop our Indignation against
the Utilities and the Jebusites and the
Gergishites, and let thosepoor wretch
es 60, and apply our indignation to
THE MODERN TRANsGREssIoNs
which need to be dragged out and
slain. Ahabs here, Herods here, Jeze-
bells here. The massacre of the infants
here Strike for God so hard that
while youslay the sin the sword will
adhere to your own hand. The whole
tendency is to refine on Christian
work. We keep on refining on it, I'M
til we send apologize word to iniqui-
ty we are about to capture it. And
we must go with sword silver-chased
and presented by the ladies, and we
must ride on white palfrey under en-
broidered housings, putting the spurs
in only just enough to make the charg-
er dance gracefully, and then we must
send a missive, delicate as q wedding
card, to ask the old black giant OF sin
if he will not surrender.
Women saved by the grace of God
and on glorious mission sent, de-
tanned from Sabbath classes because
their new hat is not done. Churches
that shook our cities with great re-
vivals sending around to ask some
demonstrative worshiper if he would
not please to say amen" and hallelu-
jah'' little softer. 1t seems as if in
our churches we wanted q baptism of
cologne and balm OF g. thousand
flowers, when we actually need a bap-
tism of fire from the Lord God of
Pentecost.
But see in the next place what
hard thing it was for Eleazar to get
his hand and his sword parted. The
muscles and the sinews had been so
long grasped around the sword he
could not drop it when he proposed to
drop it, and his three comrades,
suppose, came up and tried to help
him, and they bathed the back part
OF the hand, hoping the sinews and
muscles would relax But no bis
hand clave to thesword." Then they