Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-07-31

And this Jesus they plucked by the
beard, and they spat in his FACE, and
they called him ''this fellow!" All the
great enterprises in and out of the
church have at times been scoffed at,
and there have been n great multitude
who have thought that the chariot
Of Gods truth would fall to pieces
If it once got out of the old rut.
( And so there are those who have no
patience with anything like improve
ment in church architecture, or with
anything like good, hearty, earnest
/ church singing, and they deride any
! form of religious discussion which
goes down walking among everyday
men rather than that which makes an
excursion on rhetorical stills. oh. That
the church of God would wake up 10
an adaptability of work! We must adj
NIT the simple fact that the churches
of Jesus Christ in this day do
not reach the great masses. There are
fifty thousand people in Edinburgh who
never hear the gospel. There are one
million people in London who never
hear the gospel. There are at least
three hundred thousand souls in the
city of Brooklyn who come not under
the immediate ministrations of Christ's
truth: and the church of God In this
day, instead of being place full of
| living epistles, read and known of all
men, is more like a "dead-letter' post
office.
! All, my friends, there is work for You
and me TO do in order TO gain this
| grand accomplishment Here is pull
pit and n clergyman breaches in it,.
Your pulpit is the bank. Your pulpit is
the store. Your pulpit is the editorial
chair. Your pulpit is the anvil. Your
pulpit is the house scaffolding. Your
pulpit is the mechanics shop. l may
stand in this place and, through
cowardice or through self-seek-
! ing, may keep back the word
| / ought to utter, while you, with
sleeve rolled up and brow besweated
with toll, may utter the word that will
! jar the foundation of heaven with the
shout of great victory. Oh, that to-
day this whole audience might feel that
the Lord Almighty is putting upon
| them the hands of ordination. Every
one, go forth and preach this Gospel.
You have as much right to preach as
have, or as any man has. Only
find out the pulpit where God will
have you preach, and there preach.
! Hedley Wears was a wicked man in the
English army. The grace of God came
to him. He became an earnest and emil
nent Christian. They scoffed at him,
and said: "You are a hypocrite; You
are as bad as you ever were" Still he
kept his faith in Christ, and after
awhile, finding that they could
not turn him aside by calling
him a hypocrite, they said to him:
ooh, you are nothing but fanatic. :"
That did not disturb him. He went on
performing his Christian duty until he
had formed all his troop into a Bible
class, and the whole encampment was
shaken with the presence of God. So
Havelock went into the heather temple
in India while the English army wa
there, ard put a candle in the hand OF
each of the heather gods that stood
around in the heather temple, and by
the light of those candles, held up by
the idols, General Havelock preached
righteousness, temperance and judg-
ment to come. And who will say on
earth that Havelock had not the right
to preach?
L think that before the sun of this
century shall set the last tyranny may
fall, and with a spl endor of demonstra-
tion that shall be the establishment OF
the universe God will set forth the
brightness and pomp and glory and
perpetuty of his eternal government.
Out of the starry flags and the emilia.
zoned insignia of this world. God will
make path for his own trium phi. and
returning from universal inquest, he
will sit down, the grandest, strong est
highest throne of earth his footstcol.
Then shall all nations song ascend
To thee. our Ruler, Father, Erie Id.
/ Till heavens high arch reSOunds again
i With Peace on earth, good will 20 men,
/ preach this sermon because / want
to encourage all Christian workers in
every possible department. Hosts OF
the living God, march on march on
His spirit will bless you. His
shield will defend you. His sword
will strike for you. March on
march on! The last despot
ism will fall, and paganism will burn
its idols, and Mohammedanism will
give up its false prophet, and the great
walls of superstition will come down
in thunder and wreck at the long, loud
blast of the Gospel trumpet. March
on! march on! The Disagreement will
soon be en- ded. Only few more steps
on the Ion & way; only a few more stur
dy blows; only few more battle-cries
then God will put the laurel upon your
brow, and from the living fountains
of heaven will battle off the sweat
and the heat and the dust of the
conflict. March on! march on! Fol
you the time of work will soon be
passed, and amid the outfashings OF
the Judgment throne, and the trumpet
ing of resurrection angels, and the up
heaving of world of graves, and the
hosanna of the saved and the grooming
of the lost, we shall be rewarded foi
our faithfulness or punished for oui
stupidity Blessed be the Lord God OF
Israel from everlasting to everlasting
and let the whole earth be filed with
his glory. Amen and Amen.
lie Had.