Milford chronicle., 1891-10-16

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worldly achievement We have often see
men who in order TO achieve worldly su
cess will forget all physical fatigue aud a
annoyance and all obstacles Just afts
!, the battle Of Yorktown. in the America
Revolution, a musician. wounded was tOl
> he must have his limbs Hmputated, an
they were about 10 fasten him TO the su
geOn's table-for it was long before th
merciful discovery OF anusthetics II
/, said. mo, don't fasten me to that tabl,
Z get me VIOLIN a violin was brought {
I him and he said, Now go to work as bs
gin to play" and for forty minutes, durin
the awful pangs OF amputation, he move
, not muscle nor dropped note while
. played some sweet tune. Oh, Il II no
strange that with the music Of the Gospe
Of Jesus Christ and with this grand marcl
OF the church militant on the way to be
come the church triumphant, we canno
forget ourselves and forget all pang nnC
all sorrow and all persecution and all per
turbationP
THE ENDURANCE OF HEROIC MEN.
We know what men accomplish under
worldly opposition Men do not shrink
back for antagOuism or for hardship You
have admired Prescott's Conquest OF
Mexico" as brilliant and beautiful his
tory as was ever written, but some Of you
may not know under what disadvantages
it was written-that Conquest 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 90 in one way, the
/ stroke against the other piece of wood tell
! ing how far the pen must 60 in the 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 are
that go around saying, "Oh. my hand, my
hand, my hurt hand; don't you see there
is blood on the hand, and there is blood on
the sword?" while Eleazar, with the hilt
imbedded 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 10 win the prize
Or sailed through bloody seas?
What have we suffered in comparison
with those who expired with suiTocation,
or were burned, or were chopped to pieces
for the truths sake? We talk of the per
secution of Olden times. There is just as
much persecution going on now in various
ways In 1919, il Madagascar, 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 dread
full in anticipation, they were put in bas-
kets and swung TO and fro over the preci-
pice that they might see how many hun
dred 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 deathl /
Oh, how much others have endured for !
Christ, and how little we endure for Christi |
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 MS up
only in time 10 enter the golden city. We |
want all the surgeons to fix our hand up, |
Let them bring on all the lint, and all the
bandages and all the salve, for our hand is
hurt, while Eleazar 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 of
hard hitting. am not surprised when
see that these four men-Eleazar and his
three companions-drove back the army of
Philistines that Eleazars sword clave 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
ook hold of the sword the sword took hold
If him. Oh, we have found an enemy who
,annot be conquered by rose water and soft
Il L.. IL.
straight thrust. There is intemperance,
md there is fraud, and there is gambling,
md there is lust. and there are ten thou
and battalions Of in1luity. armed Philis
inc iniquity. How are they TO be captured {
nd overthrown2 Soft sermons in mcroc-
o cases laid down in front Of an exquisite
audience will not do it. You have got to {
all things by their right names {
IMPERATIVE NEED OF AN AWAKENING.
We have got to eXpel from our churches
christians who eat the sacrament on Sun s
ay and devour widows houses all the
feek. We have got to stop our indigna-
ion against the Hittites and the Jebusites 4
nd the Gergishites, and let those poor
'retches go. and apply our Indignation to G
be modern transgressOus which need to 5
e dragged out and slain. Ahabs here. a
Ierods here. Iezebels here The maSsa-
re of the infants here. SJrike for God so y
ard that while you slay the sin the sword I
ill adhere TO your own hand. tell you, o
~ friends, we want few John Knoxes o
nd John Wesleys in the Christian church a
,day. The whole tendency is to refine ON 81
hristian work We keep on refining on o
until wesenl apologize word to iniquity fl
c are about to capture il. And we must b
} with sword silver chased and presented il
Z the ladies, aud we must ride on white d
lfFey under embroidered housing put ,t
ng the spurs ia only just enough to make u
e charger dance gracefully, aud then we
ust send Missiye, delicate as IL wedding N.
rd, to ask the old black giant Of sin if he n,
i'll not surrender. nj
Women saltd by the grace Of God and =,
glorious mission sent, detained from III
Ibbath classes because their new hat is m
u done. Churches that shook our cities Il,
ia great reviyals sending around to ask h,
me demonslrative worshiper IL he will -
It please to say "amen" and "hallelujah" az
little softer Il seems us if in cur A
urches we wanted a baptism Of cologne "a
d balm Of thousand flowers when we 40
tually need a baptism OF fire from the -,
'rd God Of Pentecost. Bnt we are so an
raid somebody will criticise our sermons,
~ AbtIAFE Jul RAtA1 VI IAA1tIASG QAI TO
,rlds redemption is lost in the fear we he
il get our hand hurt, while Eleazar went all
to the conflict. And bis hand clave unto Sc
e sword SO
But see in the next place what bard ha
ing il was for Eleazar to get his hand fol
d his sword parted The muscles and th
e sinews had been 50 long graspei around tn
: sword he could not drop it when he &c
opposed to drop IT, and his three comrades.
uppose, came up and tried to help him.
d they hathed the back part Of the hand
ping the sinews and muscles would re
But no. "Iis hand clHve unto the
ord. " Then they tried 10 pull open the
gers and TO pull back the thumb. but
sooner were they pulled back than they
sed again, land his hand claye unto the
ord But after awhile they were sue
sful, and then they noticed that the
rye in the palm of the hand corresponded \
lctly with the curve Of the hilG "His -,