Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-10-15

self, and that hilt might go ever SO
deeply into the palm of his hand, it
could not disturb him. ellis hand clave
unto the sword' Oh, my brothers and
sisters, let US go into Christian conflict
with the spirit of self abnegation. Who
! cares whether the world praises US or
denounces US? What do we care for mis-
representation or abuse or persecution in
a conflict like this? Let US forget our
selves. That man who is afraid of get
ting his hand hurt will never Kill
Phiistine. Who cares whether you get
| hurt or not if you get the victory? Oh,
/ how many Christians there are who are
all the time worrying about the way the
world treaties them. They are so tired,
and they are so abused, and they are so
tempted, when Eleazar did not think
whether he had hand or an 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 obstacle. Just
after the battle of Yorktown, in the
| American Revolution, musician,
wounded, was told he must have his limbs
amputated, and they were about to
fasten him to the surgeons table-for
it was long before the merciful discovery
of aDasthetics. He said. ''No, don't
| fasten me to that table; get me a violin"
A violin was brought to him and he
said, Nov go to work as [ begin to
play" and for forty minutes during the
awful pangs 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 of Jesus Christ, and with this
grand march of the church militant on
the way to become the church triumph
ant, we cannot forget ourselves and for
get all pang, and all sorrow and all per-
secution and all perturbation?
We know what men accomplish under
worldly opposition. Men do not shrink
back for worldly antagonism or for hard
ship You have admired Prescott's
conquest of Mexico as brilliant and
beautiful history as was ever written;
but some of you may not know under
what disadvantages it was Written-that
| ''COnuuest of MeXico''-for 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 en-
dure for worldly knowledge and for
worldly success, and yet how little we
endure for Jesus Christ. How many
Christians there are that go around say
saying, ooh, my hand, my hand, my
hunt hand; don't you see there is blood
on the hand and there is blood on the
sword?" while EreaZar with the hilt i'm
bedded in the flesh of his right hand,
does not know it.
Must be carried to the skies
| On fOwery beds of ease,
While others fought to win the prize
| Or sailed through bloody seas.
What have we suffered in comparison
with those who expired with sutfocation,
Or were burned, or were chopped to
pieces for the truths sake? We talk of
the persecution of Olden times. There
is just as much persecution going on
now in various ways. In 1910, in NADIA
gascar, eighteen men were put to death
for Christ's sake. They were to be
hurled over the rocks, and before they
were hurled over the rocks, in order to
make their death the more dreadful in
| anticipation, they were put in baskets
and swung to and fro over the precipice
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 the pillows near me roll,
While the tempest still is high.
Then they were dashed down to death.
Oh how much others have endured for
Christ, and how little we endure 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 in time to en-
ter the golden city. We want all the
surgeons to fix our hand up. Let them
bring on all the lint and bandages and
all tie salve, for our hand is hurt, while
Eleazer does not know his hand is hurt.
His hand Clave unto the sword"
As | look at EleaZar's hand, | come to
the conclusion that he has done a great
deal or hard hitting. | AIN not surprised
when | see that these four men-Eleazar
and his three panions-droye back
the enemy Of Philistines, that Eleazar's
| sword claYe 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 an enemy who can
not be conquered by rose water and soft
speeches, 1t must be sharp stroke and
straight thrust. There is intemperance,
and there is fraud, and there is gamb-
ling. and there is lust, and there are
100, 900 battaliOns of iniquity, armed
Phlistne iniquity. How are they to be
captured and overthrown? Soft ser
mons 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 sacrament on
Sunday and devour widows houses all
the week. We have got to stop our
indignation against the Hittites. and the