Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1891-07-31

And this Jesus they plucked NY the
beard, and they spat in his -ace, and
they called him ''this fellow" All the
great enterprises in and ont of the
/ church have at times been scoffed at,
and there have been n great multitude
who have thought that the chariot
Of Gods truth would fall To pieces
( II IL once got out of the old rut.
! And so there are those who have no
patience with anything like improve
ment in church architecture, or with
anything like good, hearty, earnest
church singing, and they deride any
form of religious discussion which
goes down walking among everyday
men rather than that which makes an
excursion on rhetorical stills. Oh. that
the church of God would wake up to
an adaptability of work! We must adj
init the simple fact that the churches
of Jesus Christ in this day do
not reach the great masses There are
fifty thousand people in Edinburgh who
never hear the gospel. There are one
million people in London who never
hear the gospel. There are at least
three hundred thousand souls in tho
city of Brooklyn who come not under
the immediate ministrations of Christ's
truth: and the church of God in this
day, instead of being "A place full of
living epistles, read and known of all
men, is more like a "dead-letter' post
office.
All, nv friends. there is work for you
and me TO do in order to gain this
grand accomplishment! Here is a pull
pit and clergyman breaches in it.
Your pulpit is the bank. Your pulpit is
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chair. Your pulpit is the anvil Your
pulpit is the house scaffolding. Your
pulpit is the mechanics shop. l may
stand in this place and, through
cowardice or through self-seek-
ing, may keep back the word
/ ought to utter, whilo you, with
sleeve rolled up and brow besweated
with toll, may utter the word that will
jar the foundation of heaven with the
shout of great victory. Oh, that to-
day this whole audience might feel that
the Lord Almighty is putting upon
them the hands of ordination. Every
one, go forth and preach this Gospel.
You have as much right TO preach as
i have, or as any man has. Only
find out the pulpit where God will
have you preach, and there preach.
Hedley Wears was wicked man in the
English army. The grace of God came
10 him. He became an earnest and emf
nent Christian. They scoffed at him,
and said: You are hypocrite; you
are as bad as you ever were" Still he
kept his faith in Christ, and after
awhile, finding that they could
not turn him aside by calling
him a hypocrite, they said to him:
sob, you are nothing but a fanatic. "
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performing his Christian duty until he
had formed all his troop into Bible
class, and the whole eucampment was
shaken with the presence of God. SO
HavelocS went into the heather temple
in India while the English army wa
there, ard put a candle in the hand of
each of the heather gods that stood
around in the heather temple, and by
the light of those candles, held up by
the idols, General llavclock preached
righteousness, temperance and judg-
ment TO come And who will say on
earth that Havelock had not the right
to preach!
think that before the sun of this
century shall set the last tyranny may
fall, and with a splcndor of demonstra-
ton that shall be the astonishment of
the universe God will set forth the
brightness and pomp and glory and
perpetuity of his eternal government.
Out of the starry flags and the emilia
zoned insignia of this world, Tod will
make path for his own trium phi, and.
returning from universal conquest, he
will sit down, the grandest, strong est,
highest throne of earth his footstCol.
Then shall all nations song ascend
TO thee, our Ruler, Father, Friepd.
Till heavens high arch resounds again
With Peace on earth, good Will 10 men
preach this sermon because ! want
TO encourage all Christian workers in
every possible department. Hosts of
the living God, march on! march on,
His spirit will bless you. His
will strike for YOU. March on
march on! The last despot;
ism will fall, and paganism will burn
its idols, and Mohammedanism will
give up its false prophet, and the great
walls of superstition will come down
in thunder and wreck at the long, loud
blast Of the Gospel trumpet. March
on! march on The besiegement will
soon be en- ded. Only few more steps
on the lon & way; only few more stur-
dy blows; only a few more battle-cries,
then God will put the laurel upon your
brow, and from the living fountains
of heaven will battle off the sweat
and the heat and the dust OF the
conflict. March on! march on! For
you the time of work will soon be
passed. and amid the outhashings of
the Judgment throne, and the trumpet
ing of resurrection angels, and the up
heaving of world of graves, and the
hosanna of the saved and the grooming
of the lost, we shall be rewarded for
our faithfulness or punished for our
stupidity. Blessed be the Lord God OF
Israel from everlasting to everlasting,
and let the whole earth be filled with
his glory. Amen aud Amen.
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