Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-10-12

Jesus. lover Of my soul.
Let me TO Thy bosom ny.
While tho pillows near mo roll,
While the tempest still II high.
Then they were dashed down I
death Oh, how much others hav
endured for Christ, aud how little "
endure for Christ We want to ride {
heaven in a Pullman sleeping car, on
feet on soft plush. the bed made a
early so we can sleep all the way, tn
black porter Of death to wake us al
only in time to enter the golden city
We want all the surgeons to fix ou
l hand up. Let them bring on all th,
I lint and bandages and all the salve
| for our hand is hurt, while Eleazer doe
> not know his hand is hurt His hanC
clave unto the sword
As look at Eleazar's hand. | come
/ to the conclusion that he has done d
> great deal of hard hitting am moi
surprised when see that these -four
men Eleazar and his three companions
drove back the army of Philistines,
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 al
enemy who cannot be conquered by
rose water and soft speeches 1t must
be sharp stroke and straight thrust
There is intelnperance, and there is
fraud, and there is gambling, and there
is lust, and there are ten thousand bat
talions of iniquity, armed Philstine
iniquity. How are they to be captur
ed and overthrown9 Soft sermons in
morocco cases laid down in front of an
exquisite audience will not do it. You
have got to call things by their right
names.
We have got to expel from our
churches Christians who eat the sacra
ment ON Sunday and devour widows
houses all the week. We have got to
stop our indignation against the Hit
tites. and the Jebusites, and the Gerga-
shites, and let these poor wretches go,
and apply our Indignation to the mod
ern 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 slay the |
sin the sword will adhere to your own
hand. | tell you, my friends, we want
a few John Knoxes and John Wesleys |
in the Christian church today. The |
whole tendency is to refine on Chris
tian work. We keep on refining it, un-
til we send apologetic word to iniquity
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 embroid-
cred housings, putting the spurs in only
just enough to make the charger dance
gracefully, and then we must send
niSsive, delicate as wedding card, to
ask the old black giant of sin if he will
not surrender.
THE WEAK AND sELFIsH.
Women saved by the grace of God
and on glorious mission sent, detained
from Sabbath classes because their new
hat is not done. Churches that shook
our cities with great revivals sending
around to ask some demonstrative wor-
shipper If he will not please to say
''amen" and "hallelujah" little softer.
1t seems as if in our churches we want
ed a baptism of cologne and balm of
thousand flowers, when we actually
need a baptism of fire from the Lord
God of Pentecost. But we are so
afraid somebody will criticise our ser
mons, or criticise our prayers, or criti-
else our religious work that our anxiety
for the world redemption is lost in the
fear we will get our hand hurt, while
Eleazer went into the conflict, land
his hand clave unto the sword.
But ! see in the next place what a
hard thing il was for Eleazar to get his
hand and his sword parted The mus
,es and the sinews had been so long
yrasped around the sword he could not
drop it when he proposed to drop it,
and his three comrades, Isuppose, came
up and tried to help him, and they
S'NhNN 'hS pSSh part VI Tue manu-,
hoping the sinews and muscles would
relax. But no. His hand clave unto
the sword" Then they tried to pull
open the fingers and to pull back the
thumb; but no sooner were they pulled
back than they closed again, 'and his
hand clave unto the sword" But after
a while they We're successful, and then
they noticed that the curve in the palm
Of the hand corTesponded exactly with
the curve of the hilt, His hand clave
unto the sword"
You and have seen il many a 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" or the words
are, "a minister without charge" They
were an heroic race They had small
salaries and but few books, and they
swan spring treshets TO meet their ap-
poinunents, But they did in their day
a mighty work for God, They took oil /
more of the heads of Philistine tniquity
than you could count from noon 70 \
sundown. You put that old minister
of the Gospel now into prayer meet /
ing or occasional pulpit, or a Sickroom
where there is some one to be com |
forted, and il is the same old ring TO 1
his voice and the same old story Of I