The Penn's Grove record., 1891-10-23
PENIS GROVE, N. j.. FRIDAY. OCTOBER %. 1891.

from the prison cell OF the Mamertine, he has
been outrageously treated, and he Is waiting
10 die. How does he spend his last hoursf
Telling the world how badly he feels, AMI de-
ycribing the rheumatism that he got in
prison, the rheumatism affecting his limbs,
| or the neuralgia piercing his temples, or the
| thirst that fevers his tonguef On, no. His
lnst words are the battle shout for Christen-
dom: II am now ready to be offered, and
the time of my departure is at hand; l have
fought the good fight" And so his dying
hand clave unto the sword.
10 was In the front room on the second
door that my father lay a-dying. 1t was
Saturday morning, four o'clock. Just three
years before that day my mother had left
him for the skies, and he had been homesick
to join her company. He was eighty-three
years of age. Ministers of the Gospel came
IN to comfort him, but he comforted them.
How wonderfully the words sounded out
from bis dying pillow, Il have been young
and now am old, yet have l never seen
Che righteous forsaksp, or his seed begging
bread" They bathed his brow, they bnthed
bis hands, and they bathei his feet and they
ucceeded In Strengthening out the feet; but
they did not succeed in bathing open tbs
hand 90 It would stay open. They bsthed
the hand open, but it came shut. They
bathed It open again, but 1t anne shut.
What was the matter with the thumb and
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70 long clutched the sword Of Christian con-
dict that 'his hand clave unto the sword"
/ preach this sermon as a tonic. l want
you to hold the truth with ineradic1ble grip,
and want you to strike so hard for God
that 1t will react and while you take the
sword, the sword will take you.
You noticed that the officers Of the North
arm army a few years ago assembled at
Denver, and you noticed that the officers OF
theS Southern army assembled at Lexington.
Soldiers coming together are very apt to re-
count their experiences and to show their
gears. Here is a soldier who pulls up his
sleeve and says, There, l was wounded in
that arm" aud shows the scar. And an
other soldier pulls down his collar, aud says,
.There, l was wounde In the neck" And
another soldier says, AZ have had no use Of
teet m since the gun-shot fracture.n Oh
my friends, when the battle of life is over
and the resurrection has come and our
bodies rise from the dead, will
We ms nave Ter COZ on T Us any ", :, scars 81
covered with scars. Scars on the brow,
scars on the hand, scars on the feet scars all
over the heart, won In the battle Of rede up
tion. And all heaven will sob aloud with
emotion as they look on those scars. Igna-
titus will be there and he will point out the
places where the tooth and paw Of the lion
Seized him In the Coliseum; aud John Huss
will be there, and he will show where the
coal first scorched the foot on that day when
bis spirit took wing of flame from Constance.
MMillan and Campbell and Freeman,
American missionaries in India, will be
there-the men who with their wives and
children vent down in the awful massacre at
Cawnpore. and they will show where the
aaggers of the Sepoys struck them.
The Waldenses will be there, and they will
lhow where their bones were broken on that
day when the Piedmontese soldiery pitched
khem over the rocks. And there will be those
there who took care Of the sick and who
looked after the poor, and they will nave
evidences Of earthly exhaustion. And Christ,
with His Scared hand waving over the
Scared multitude, will say, you suffered
with Ne on earth; now be gloriied with Me
In heaven And then the great organs of
Dternity will take up the chant and st. John
will play, These are they who came out of
treat trlbulation and had their robes washai
I'D made white In the blood Of the Lamb.
But what will your chagrin and mine be
u 1t 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
~ one ridge on the palm of the al to show
that just once in the battle for God and the
truth, w just once grasped the sword SO
firmly, and struck so hard that the sword
and the hand stuck together, and the hand
claye to the sword. o my Lord Jesus, rouss
Us TO Thy service.
Thy saints in all this glorious war
ghall conquer though they die;
They see the triumph from afar.
And seize 1t with the eye.
when that ilustrious day shall rise.
And all Thy armies shine
In robes of victory through tbs SKIES
The glory shall be Thine.