Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1891-10-21

could not disturb him Ills hand clave
unto the sword" o. my brothers and
sisters, let us go into Christian conflict
with the spirit of sclf-abnegation. Who
cares whether the world praises ms or
denounces us? What do we care for
misrepresentation. or abuse. or persc-
cution in n conflict like this? Let us
forget ourselves That man who is
afraid of getting his hand hurt will
never kill n Philistine. Who cares
whether you get hurt or not IL you get
the victory? Oh. how many Christians
there are who are all the time worry
ing about the way the world treats
them. They are SO tired. they are so
abused. and they are so tempted, when
Eleazar did not think whether he had
hand. or an arm. or n foot All he want
ed 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 physi-
cal fatigue. and all annoyance and all
obstacle. Just after the battle Of York
town, in the American revolution.
musician. wounded. was told he must
have his limbs amputatcd, and they
were about TO fasten him To the sur
gcon's TABLETOP IT was long before the
mcrciful discovery OF anmsthetics. He
said: mo. don't fastcn me TO that ia
BILE; get me violin" A violin WINS
brought TO him and he said: "Now go 10
work as begin to play" and for forty
minutes during the awful pangs of am
putation, he moved not u muscle nor
dropped n note, while he played some
sweet tune. Oh. is IL not strange that
with the music of the Gospel of Jesus
Christ, and with this grand march of
the church militant on the way to be-
come the church triumphant, we can not
forget ourselves and forget all pang
and all sorrow and all persecution and
all perturbation?
We know what men accomplish un.
der worldly opposition. Men do not
shrink back for antagonism. or for
hardship. You have admired Prescott's
Conquest of Mexico" rs brilliant and
beautiful history rs was ever writ
ten; but some of you may not know un-
der what disadvantages il was written
that Conquest of Mcxico-for Pres
colt was totally blind. and he had two
pieces of wood parallel TO each other
fastened, and totally blind. with his
pen between those two pieces of wood
he wrote, the stroke against one piece
of wood telling how fur the pen must
so in one way. the stroke against the
other piece of wood telling how far the
| pen must go in tho other way. oh,
how much men will endure for worldly
! knowledge and for worldly success,
and yet how little we endure for Jesus
Christ How many Christians there
~. tl,nt
hand, my hand, my hurt hand; don't
you see there is blood on my hand.
and there is blood ON tho sword?"
while Eleazar, with the hilt imbcdded
in the flesh of his right hand, does not
know IT,
What have we suffered in COMPARE
son with those who expired with suffo-
cation, or were burned, or were chop.
ped to pieces for the truths salSep We
talk of the persecution of olden times.
There is just rs much persecution go-
ing on now in various ways. In 1s49.
in Madagascar, eighteen men were put
to death for Christ's sake. They were
TO be hurled over the rocks, and before
they wcr' hurled over the rocks. in or
der To M. their death the more dread.
ful in anticipation, they were put in
baskets and swung to and fro over the
precipice, that they might see how
many hundred feet they would have to
be dashed down, and while they were
swinging in these baskets over the
rocks they sang;
| Jesus lover of my soul,
Let me to Thy bosom fly
While tho pillows near mo roll
| While tho tempest stu Is high.
| Then they were dashed down to
death. Oh, how much others have en-
dured for Christ, and how little we en-
dure for Christ We want to ride to
Heaven In Pullman sleeping car, our
feet on soft plush, the bed made up
early so we can sleep all the way, the
black porter of death to wake us up
only re tin to enter the golden city.
We want all the surgeons to fix our
hand mp. Let them bring on all the
lint aud all the bandagcs and all the
salvc for our hand is hurt. while Flea
EAR does not know his hand is hurt.
Ellis hand ciave unto the sword"
| AS look NJ Eleazar's hand / come 10
the conclusion that lac has done n great
deal ~ GARD hitting. I am not sur
priscd when / see that these four men
ElcuHar and his three companions
/ N.t'N AAt ~ NY VI HlilNllnCNs In0t
EleaznrS sword clave 10 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. On we have found an enemy
who can not be conquered by rose
water 'fnd soft speeches. IL must he
sharp stroke and straight thrust There
is intcmp rance. and there is fraud. aud
there Is gambling and there Is lust,
and th"r" ur ten thousand battalions
of inquty. armed Philistine iniquity.
How are they to be captured and over
thrown? Soft sermons In morocco cases
laid down In front OF an exquisite audi.
ence will not do H. You have got TO
call things by their right name.
We have got 20 expel from our
churches Christians who eat the sacra-
ment on Sunday and dcvour widows
houses all the week. We have got to
stop our indignation against the Hit
tites and the Jebusites. and the Ger
gishites, and let those poor wrctch-s
go. and apply our indignation TO the
modern transgressions which need 10
| hc drRpQcd ont and slim Ahnfs E.-.