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field, with the manner, and the voice
and the start Of an actor, overwhelmed
his auditory. II would have been diff
ferent thing If Jonathan Edwards had
tried to write and dream about the pill.
grim's progress to the celestial city OF
John Bunyan had attempted an essay on
the human will.
Brighter than the light, fresher than
the fountains, deeper than the seas are
all these Gospel themes. Song has nc
melody, flowers have no sweetness, sun.
set sky has no color compared with these
glorious themes. These harvests of grace
spring up quicker than we can 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, and
they are to the ambassador of the sky
all enthusiasm. Complete pardon for
direst guilt. Sweetest comfort for ghast-
Hest agony. Brightest hope for grim.
NEST death. Grandest resurrection for
darkest sepulcher.
Oh, what gospel to preachl Christ
over all in it. His birth, his suffering,
his miracles, his parallels, his sweat, his
tears, his blood, his atonement, his in.
tercession, what glorious themes! Do we
exercise faith2 Christ is its object. Dc
we have love? 1t fastens on Jesus
Have we fondness for the church? II
is because Christ died for 1t. Have we
hope of heaven? 1t is because Jesus
went ahead, the herald and the forerun.
ner.
The royal robe of Demetrius was sc
costly, so beautiful, that after he had
put it off no one ever dared put it on
but this robe of Christ, richer than that
the poorest and the wanest and the
worst may wear. where sin abounded
grace may much more abound"
"Oh, my sins, my SINS" said Martin
Luther to Staupitz; "my sins, my sins!'
The fact is that the brawny German
student had found Latin Bible that
had made him quake, and nothing else
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found how, through Christ, he was par.
doned and saved he wrote to friend
saying: "Come over and join us great
and awful sinners saved by the grace OF
God. You seem to be only slender
sinner, and you don't much extol the
mercy of God; but we who have beer
such very awful sinners praise his grace
the more now that we have been re-
deemed"
Can it be that you are so desperately
egotistical that you feel yourself in first
rate spiritual trim. and that from the
root of the hair to the tip of the toe yot
are scarless and immaculate? What
you need is looking glass, and here Il
is in the Bible. Poor and wretched and
miserable and blind, and naked from
the crown of the head to the sole of the
foot, full of wounds and putrefyine
sores. No health in us. And then take
the fact that Christ gathered up all the
notes against us and paid them and
| then offered us the receipt.
And how much we need him in oul
sorrows! We are Independent of cir
cumstances if we have his grace. Why
he made Paul sing in the dungeon, ano
under that grace st. John from desolatt
Patmos heard the blast Of the apocalyp
tic trumpets. After all other candles
have been snuffed out, this is the ight
that gets brighter and brighter unto the
perfect day; and after, under the hare
hoofs of calamity, all the pools o.
worldly enjoyment have been tramplet
into deep mire, at the foot of the eterna
rock the Christian, from cups of granite
lily trimmed and vine covered, puts ou
the thirst of his soul.
THERE IS NO OTHER NAME.
| Again, remark that Christ is above
all in dying alleviations. have not any
sympathy with the morbidity abroad
! about our demise. The emperor of Con
stantinople arranged that ON the day O.
his coronation the stonemason should
come and consult him about his tomb
stone that aeer awhile he would need
| And there are men who are monomani
acal on the subject of departure from
this life by death, and the more they
think of it the less they are prepared
to go. This is an unmanliness no
worthy of you, not worthy of me.
Saladin, the greatest conqueror of hi
day, while dying, ordered the tunic HI
had on him to be carried after his dealt
on spear at the head of his army, ant
then the soldier, ever and anon, should
stop and say: "Behold, all that is lef
of Saladin, the emperor and conqueror
Of all the states he conquered, of al
the wealth he accumulated, nothing die
he retain but this shroud." have NJ
sympathy with such behavior or sucl
absurd demonstration or with mucl
that we hear uttered In regard to de
parture from this life to the next. Their,
is commonsensical idea on this sub
| ject that you and l need to consider
that there are only two styles Of de
parture.
A thousau! feet underground, by ligh
of torch, toiling in a miners shaft, 6
ledge of rock may fall upon us, and we
may die miners death. Far out to sea
falling from the slippery ratlines and
| DlohOi Oii oiiC hApi I'll NO. We may uiO
sailors death. On mission of mercy il
hospital, amid broken bones and reel1ine
leprosies and raging fevers, we may dit
a philanthropist's death. On the fielt
of battle, serving God and our country
the gun carriage may roll over us ant
we may die a patriots death. But, afte,
all, there are only two styles of depar
ture; the death of the righteous and tn
Ieath of the wicked, and we all want t.
lie the former.
God grant that when that hour come
you may be at home! You want tn
hand of your kindred in your hand. Yol
want your children to surround you
You want the light on your pillow from
eyes that have long reflected your love
You want the room still. You do no
want any curious strangers standing
around watching you. You want you
kindred from afar to hear your las
prayer. think that is the wish of al
| of us Rl1t is that alp Can earthl-