The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1892-09-09

varieties everlasting. And let me say
TO young men who arc after awhile go-
ing TO preach Jesus Christ, you will
lave the largest liberty and unlimited
resource. You only have 10 present
Christ in your own way.
Jonathan Edwards preached Christ Ia
the sevcrcst argument ever pcnned. aud
John Buayan preached Christ In the
sublimcst allegory ever composed. Ed
ward Payson. sick and exhausted, lean
ed up against the side of the pulpit and
wept out his discourse. while George
Whiteficld, with the manner and the
voice and the start OF an actor. over
whclmcd his auditory. IL would have
been n different thing II Jonathan Ed
wards had tried TO write aud dream
about tho pilgrims progress To the
celestial city, or John Bunyan had at
tempted mn essay on the human will
Brighter than the light, frcshcr than
the fountain, deeper than the seas are
Nil these Gospel themes. Song has no
melody, flowers have no sweetness.
sunset sky has no color compared with
these glorious themes. These harvcSts
W kAhNN w AlhlNhtI AilNll wv Ntll
sickle them. Kindling pulpits with
their fire. and producing revolutions
with their power, lighting up dying
beds with their glory, they are the
sweetest thought for the poet and they
are the most thrilling illustration for
the orator, and they offer the most
intense scene for the artist, aud they
are 20 the ambassador of the sky
all enthusiasm. Complete pardon for
direct guilt Sweetest comfort for
ghastlicst agony. Brightest hope for
grimmest death. Grandcst rcsurrcc-
ton for darkest sepulchcr. Oh, what
n Gospel TO preach! Christ over all in
IL. His birth. His suffering Ills mir
aclcs, sparablcs. His sweat, His tears.
His blood, His atonemcnt His intcrces-
sion--what glorious themes, DO we ex-
crcisc faith? Christ is its object. DO
we have love? II fastcus on Jesus.
Have we fondncss for the church? II
Is because Christ died for IT, Have we
n hope Of Heaven? II is because Jesus
went ahead, the herald and the fore
runner.
The royal robe Of Dametrius was so
costly, so beautiful, that after he put IL
off no one ever dared Ia put IL on; but
this robe Of Christ. richer than that. the
poorest and the wnncst and the worst
may wear, Where sin nboundcd grace
may much more abound"
"Oh. my sins, my sins" said Martin
Luther 10 Staupitz, my sins, my SINS"
The fact is, that the brawny German
I Ct 81.
had made him quake; and when he
found how, through Christ, he was par
doned and saved. he wrote 10 n friend.
saying: Come over and join MS great
and awful sinners saved by the grace of
God. You seem 10 bc only slender
sinner, and You don't much cXtol tho
mercy OF God; hut we who have been
such very awful sinners praise His
grace the more now that we have been
redeemed" Can il Ice that you are 50
desperately cgotistical that you feel
yourself in frst-rate spiritual trim, and
that from the root of the hair Ia
the tip Of the toe You are scarlcSs and
immaculate? What You need Is "a look
inC-glass, and here II is in the Bible.
Poor and wrctchcd. and miserable and
blind, and naked from the crown Of the
head To the sole Of the foot, fun Of
wounds and putrcfying sores. No
health in Us And then take the fact
that Christ gathered up all the notes
against us and paid them. and then of
fcrcd us the receipt,
And how much we need Him I'm our
sorrows! We are independent uf cir.
80, - lty,., ANlt.s
he made Paul sing ia the dungeon. and
under that grace -. John from dcso!atc
Paunos heard the blast Of the apoculyp-
tic trumpctS After all other candles
have been suuffcd ont this Is the light
that gets brighter and brighter unto
the perfect day, and, after. under the
hard hoofs of calamity. all the pools Of
worldly enjoyment have been tramplcd
into deep mirc at the foot Of the eternal
rock the Christian, from cups OF gran
tie, lily-rimmcd and vins-cuycrcd, puts
out the thirstof his soul.
Again, remark, that Christ is above
MI in dying allc' iations ! have not
any sympathy with the morbidity
abroad about our demise. The cm-
peror Of Constantinoplc arranged that
ON the day of his coronation the stone
maSbn should come and consult him
about his tombstone that after y while
he would need And there are men who
are monomanincnl ON the subject of de-
parturc from tits lifc by death. and the
more they think 81 IL the less they are
prepared 10 go, This Is an unmaulincss
not worthy az you, not worthy Of me.
AulaIiV IA ffe.n4. ..npg g his
day, while dying, ordered the tunie ne