The Forrest City times., 1892-04-15

Bridge the glOry of our e0nt'ucnt- must have two zrehitscts prpstrzi 7d- the one slain ty his tolls and the other for a lifetime invzlided. The greatest rietures of tEe world had. in tbeir rsrhes. eolo-iny, the blood of the ar szs-s who made them The mightsest ora.orios that ever rolled through the ehu-rheS- had. in their p&tb1s. the ss-hS and groans of the eomposers. ~ho wore their lives out in writing tlie harmony Azericau IndeneRcence was triumphant, tut j. moved oa over the lifeleSS forms of tens Of thousands of men who fell at Bunker Hill and York town and the battles between which were the hemorrhzges Of the nation The Kingdom of God advances in all the earth but it must he over the lives of missionaries who die of malaria in the iauxlss or Christian workers who
 preach and pray and toll and die in
 the service. The >aFioEx trIurnpAs n all direc.1onS-bzt beauty and strength must be torn down from the palm trees et Christian hero Ism and conseerztion and thrown Tn
 his pathway To whz. better Esc oszs-s1 those palm trees on the Southern shoulder of Mount 0livet and clear down into the VAlley of Gethsenane put their branches than to surrender
 them for the making of Christ's journey
 toxzrd Jerusalem the more picturesque. the more memorable and the more
 triumphant And 10 what better use could we pat cur lives than into the sacrifice for Christ and his cause and
 the happiness of our fellow ereatUres7
 Shall we not be willing to be torn down
 that righteousness shall have triumph ant wzy2 Christ was torn down
 for us Can we not afford to be torn
 down for hin2 If Christ could suffer
 so much for us. can xe not suffer 3 little for Cllrists If he can afford on
 Palm Sunday to travel to Jerusalem to
 earry a cross. can we not afford few leaves from our branches 10 make
 emerald his war?
 The process is going on every mo-
 rneus in all directions Christ Is again
 on the march. not from Bethpage to
 Jerusalem, bat for the conquest of the world He will surely
 take it, but who will furnish the palm
 branches for the triumphant wayi
 Self-szerifice is the word There ].
 more money paid tO destroy the world
 than to save 1t. There are more build ings pg: up to ruin the race than
 churches to eTangelize it There !.
 more depraved literature to blast men
 than good literature to eleYate them Oh. for 3 power to descend upon ns all
 hke that which whelmed Charles C. Finney with mercy, when. kneeling iE
 his law office, a.sd before he entered
 upon his apostolic career of evangeliza-
 ton. he said: '"The Holy Ghost de srended on me in manner that
 seemed to 20 through me, body and soul l could feel the impression
 like wave of electricity going through and through me. Indeed il seemed t1 come in waves and waves of liquid love l. seemed like the breath oi God can recollect distinctly that Il seemed to fan me like immense wings wept aloud with joy and love. These waves came over me and over me, ont after another. and, until. recoilect, cried out: I shall die if these waTei continue to pass over me said Lord, cannot bear any more" And
 when a gentleman came into the office
 and said: "Mr. Finney. you are ir pain?'' he replied: No, but so happy that cannot ge-"
 My hearers. the time will come when upon the whole church of God will ce- seend such an avalanche of blessing and then the bringing of the world tc ! God will be matter of few years perhaps a few days, or a few hours. 1 Ride on. o Christ, for the evangelizatioE of all nations Thou Christ who dids I ride on the unbroken colt down thu sides of Olivet, on the white horse O eternal victory ride through al nations, and may we, by Ou | prayers and our self-sacrifise'
 and our contributions and our consecra ton, throw palm branches in the way clap my hands at the coming victory ! feel this morning as did the Israelitei when on their march to Canaan, the. came not under the shadow of one pain 1 tree. but of seventy palm trees stand [ ing in an oasis among dozen gushini 1 fountains CT as the Book puts II 1 Twelve wells of water and three SCOT and ten palm trees" Surely there ar
 more than seventy such great and gl0 ] rious souls present to-day. Indeed it a mighty grove of palm trees and
 feel something of the raptures which I shall feel when our last bat tie fought and our last bur l den carried and our last tear wept. w shall become one of the muititudes st 1 John describes ''clothed in white robe and palms in their hands Hail tbO1 | bright, thou swift-advancing, thol 1 everlasting Palm Sunday of the skies yictors over sin and sorrow and deatl
 and woe, from the hills and valleys o ! the heavenly Palestine, they hav | plucked the long, broad, green leaves
 and all the ransomed some in gates O | pearl, and some on battlements O | amethyst, and some on streets of gold and some on seas of sapphire, the,
 shall stand in numbers like the stars
 in splendor like the morn, waving thei
 palms!
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