The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1891-10-14

ready to be offered, and the time OF my
departure Is at hand; have fought the
rood fight" And so his dying hand
claye INTO the sword.
Il was In the front room on the sec
ond foor that my father lay a-dying.
II was Saturday morning, four o'clock.
Just three years before that day, myI
mother had left him for the skies, and
he had been home-sick to join her COM
pany. 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 his dying pillow: II have
been young and now am old, yet have
\ | never seen the righteous forsaken, or
his seed begging bread" They bathed,
his brow, and they bathed his hands,
and they bathed his feet, and they sue
ceeded IN strengthening out the feet; but
tbey did not succeed In bathing open
the hand so II would stay open. They
bathed the hand open, but It came shut
They bathed 1t open again, but ~ came
shut. What was the matter with the
thumb and the fingers Of that old hand?
Ahi II had 30 long clutched the SWORD
| Of Christian conflict that his hand ciave
| unto the sword" "
preach this sermon as tonic. 1
want You TO hold the truth with in
eradicable grip, and ! want you to
strike so hard for God that IT will react,
and while you take the sword, the sword
| will take you.
You noticed that the officers of the
northern army few years ago assem-
bled at Denver, and you noticed that
the officers of the southern army as
sembled at Lexington. Soldiers coming
| together are very apt TO recount their
| experiences and to show their scars.
Here Is soldier who pulls up his sleeve,
and saws. "There was wounded In that
arm" and shows the scar. And another
soldier pulls down his collar, and says,
"Tbere, was wounded In the neck" !"
And another soldier says, 81 have had
no use OF that limb since the gunshot
fracture" o, my friends, when the
battle Of life is over, and the resurrec-
ton has come, and our bodies rise from
the dead, will we have on us any scars
of bravery for God? Christ will be all
covered withs cars. Scars on the brow,
scars on the hand, scars on the feet,
scars all over the heart won
in the battle OF redemption. And
! Heaven will sob aloud with emotion as
they look at these scars. Ignatius will
be there, and he will point out the place
where the tooth and the paw OF the
lion seized him In the Coliseum, and
John Huss will be there, and he will
show where the coal first scorched the
foot on that day his spirit took wing Of
flame from Constance. Mcmillan, anc
| Campbell, and Freeman, American mis-
r sionaries in India, will be there
the men who with their wives ant
, children went down In the awfu
massacre at Cawnpore, and they
will show where the daggers o.
the Sepoys struck them. The Walden
: ses will be there, and they will show
. where their bones were broken on tha
> day when the Piedmontese soldierI
pitched them over the rocks And Their
will be those there who took care OF tn
sick and looked after the poor, and the.
will have evidence OF earthly exhaus
tion. And Christ, with His scarre'
Q hand waving over the SCARED multitude
s will say: "You suffered with Me o.
v earth; now be glorihed with Me 1
/ heaven And then the great organs
" cLtInlly Will bdhC up thO Nhoast s-N>~
: John will play: .'These are they. VIII
!, came out Of great tribulation and ha
!, their robes washed and made white
u the blood OF the Lamb .
But what viii your chagrin and min
J. be IL Il shall be told that day on tn
o streets Of Heaven that on earth W
n shrank from all toll and sacrifice an
a hardships No scars 10 show th
4 heavenly soldiery. Not so much as on
= ridge on the palm Of the hand TO sho'
Z that Just once In the battle for God an
g the truth, we Just once grasped th
Is sword so firmly, and struck so har
n that the sword and the hand stuc
Is together, and the hand clave to Il
sword. 0 my Lord Jesus, rouse US
n Thy service
A Thy saints in all this glorious war
- Shall conquer though they diei
10 They see the triumph from afar,
=. And seize II with the eye.
III When that iliustrious day shall rise,
And all Thy armies shine
l. In robes OF Victory through the skies,
N X The glory shall be Thine.
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