Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1891-10-29
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called to see him die. /. ente(ed the
room, and he said: chr. TalIlage,
cannot speak to you now" He was
in a very pleasant delirium, as Ne i'm
aeined he had an audience before him.
He said: ~ must tell these people to
come to Christ and prepare for heav-
en-" And then in this pleasant delir-
ium, both arms lifted, this ,octogen-
arian preached Christ and told of the
glories of the world to come. There,
lying on his dying pillow, his dying
hand clave to his sword.
You and have seen it many time.
There are in the United States, today
many aged ministers. of the gospel.
They are too feeble now to preach. In
the church records the word opposite
their name is emeritus, orthe words
are, "a minister without a charge. /"
They were- q hero race. They had
small salaries, and but. few. books,
and they swan spring freshets tomeet
their appointments. But they did in
their day - -: -.
It was in the ,front room on the sec
ond floor, that my father lay a-dyins.
1t was Saturday morning, 4o'clock.
Juststhree days: before that: day my
mother had lett him forsthe skies, and
he had BEEN homesick, to join her COM
.pany.f. He was SO years of age. Min
listers Of the Gospel calnein to comfort
him, but he comforted' them. How
wonderfully the words sounded out
from,his dying pillow; II have been
young and now. am old, yet 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
succeeded IN Strengthening out hisfeet;
but they did not succeed in bathing
open his 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 fingers
of that old hand? Ali 1t had so long
clutched the sword OF Christian con-
fict that CHS hand clave unto the
sword"
preach this sermon
AS ATOMIC.
l want you to hold the truth with
ineradicable grip, and want you to
strike so hard for God that it will re-
act, and while you take the sword,
the sword will take you.
You noticed that the officers of the
Northern army a few years ago as
sembled at Denver, and you noticed
that the officers of the Southern army
assembled at Lexington. Soldiers
coming together are very apt to re-
count their experiences and to show
their scars. Here is a soldier who pulls
up his sleeve and says: "There. l was
wounded in that arm,' and shows the
scar. And another soldier pulls down
his collar, and says: :"There, I was
wounded in the neck" And another
soldier says, ~ have no use of that
limb since the gunshot fracture" O
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 God? Christ will be there all COW
cred with scars on the brow, scars on
the head, scars on the feet, scars all
over the heart won in the battle OF re-
delnptlon. And all heaven will sob
aloud with emotion as they look at
those scars. Ienatius 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 the coal
FIRST sCORCHED THE FOOT
on that day when his spirit took
wing of flame from Constance. M'Mil-
Ian, and Campbell, and Freeman,
American missionaries in India, will
be there-the men who with their
wives and children went down in the
awful massacre at Cawnpore. and
they will show where the dagger of the
Sepoys struck them. The Waldenses
will be there, and they will show
where their bones were broken on
that day when the Piedmontese
soldiery pitched them over the rocks.
And there will be those who took care
of the sick and who looked after the
poor, and they will have evidences Of
earthly exhaustion And Christ with
his sacred hand waving over the
SCARED multitude, will say. "You
suffered with me on earth, now be
gloritied with me 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 tribulation and had their
robes washed and made white in the
blood OF the Lamb"
But what will your chagrin and
mine be if it shall be told that day on
the streets Of heaven that on earth we
shrank back from all toll and sacrifice
and hardship. No scars to show the
heavenly soldiery. 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, wejust once grasp.
ed the sword SO firmly, and struck so
hard that the sword and the hand
stuck together, and the hand clave to
the sword. 0 my Lord Jesus rouse
us to thy service.
HONEYMOON CASH,