The Forrest City times., 1891-10-16

nsr took at Eieazar's han al7' notice his spirit of self-thoughtfulness He did not notice that the hilt ot the sword was eating through the palm oI bis hand. He did not know it hurt him. As he went out into the conflict he was so anxious for the victory ne forgot himself and that hilt might go ever so deeply into the palm of his hand. 1t could not disturb him. Ills hand clave unto the sword" my brothers and sisters, let us go into Christian conflict with the snirit of self-abnegation. Who caras whether the world praises us or denounces us? what do we care for misrepresentation, or abuse, or persecution in conflict like this? Let us forget ourselves That man who is afraid of getting his nano hurt will never kill Philistine. Who cares whether you get hurt or not II you get the victory? Oh, how many christians there are who are all the tune worrying about the way the world treats them. They are so tired, and they are so abused, and they are SD tempted. when EleaZar did not think whether he had hand, or arm, or foot. All he wanted 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 physical fatigue and all annoyance and all oD- stacle. Just after the battle of orA- town, in the American revolution, musician, wounded, was told he must have his limbs amputated, and they were about to fasten him to the sur peon's table-for it was long before the merciful discovery of an9sthetics lie said, No. don't faston me to that table; get me a violin" A violin was brought to him, ana he said: "Now 20 to work as l begin to play" and for forty minutes, during the awful bangs of amputation. he moved not a muscle nor dropped note, while he played some sweet tune Oh, is it not strange that with the music of the gospel ot 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 perse- cution and all perturbation?
 We know HA.it Gcl accomplish under worldly opposition. Men do not shrink back for antagonism, or Tor hardship. You have admired Prescott "Conquest of Mexico" as brilliant and beautiful history as was ever written; but some of you may not know unoer what disadvantages 1t was written that Conquest of Mexico flor Prescott was totally blind, and he had two pieces of wood parallel to each other fastened, and totally blind, with his pen between those 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 succe $, and yet how little we l endure for Jesus Christ.
 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 Gerg- ishites, and let those poor wretches go and apply our indignation to the modern 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.
 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 ths 1 heavenly soIdiery. 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, we just once grasped the sword so firmly, and strucs so hard that the sword and the hand stuck together, and the hand clave tc the sword. 0 my Lord Jesus, rouse u: 1 to thy service.
 Thy saints in nll this glorious war Shall conquer though they die: They see the triumph from afar,
 AEd seize 1t with the eye.
 When that iilustrious day shall rise.
 And all thy armies shine
 In robes of victory through the skies,
 The glory shall be thine.