Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-08-01

VOCABULARY HAcA We co4IS ~ span
.boaI CD and CHRIST aud heasen- We
ride few Old words 10 death when
there Is sQca illinItatle resources.
Shakespeare employed fifteen thousand
different words for dramatic Purposes.
hilton sne4oyea slght thoassnd differ
snt words for poetic purposes. Rufus
Cboate employed over elsyen Thousand
dinereus words for legal purposes. but
tas most OF Tar have less than = thousand
words that NE can manage. less than
6ss hundred. aud that nlakes n -
stupid.
When We come 20 set forth the love
Of Christ We are going To take the ten
derest phraseology wherever We find IL.
and r it has never been used III that
direction before. all the more shall we
use it. When We come 70 speak Of tho
glory Of Christ, the como ueror, we are
going 20 draw our SMILES from tn
umphaI areh and orato1o ana every
thing grand and stupendous. The French
navy have eighteen flags by which they
give signal: but thoee eighteen flags
they can put into sixry-six thousand
different com binations. And l have 70
tell You that these standards Of ths
cross may De lifted into combinations
infinite and varieties everlasting. And
iet me say To young men who are after
awhile going 10 preach Jesus Christ,
you viii have the largest liberty and
unlimited resource. You only have To
present Christ In your own way.
EVERY MAN HATH HIS PROPER GIFT OF
GOD.
Jonathan Edwards preached Christ in
kae seyerest argument ever penned, and
soan Banysn preached Christ In the sub
FINEST allegory ever composed. Edward
Payson, sick and exhausted, leaned up
against the side of the pulpit and wept
out bis discourse. while George White
field, with the manner, and the Voice,
and the start of an actor, overwhelmed
his auditory. Ii would have been a diff
ferent thing IL Jonathan Edwards had
tried 10 write and dream about the Pill
grim's progress to the celestial city or
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 no
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-
lest agony. Brightest hope for grim
NEST death. Grandest resurrection for
darkest sepulcher.
Oh, what gospel to preach! 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 faith? Christ is its object. Do
we have love? 1t fastens ON Jesus.
Have we fondness for the church? It
is because Christ died for it. Have We
hope Of heaven? 1t is because Jesus
went ahead, the herald and the forerun-
ner.
The royal robe of Demetrius was so
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 a Latin Bible that
had made him quake, and nothing else
ever did make him quake; and when he
found how, through Christ, he was par
doned and saved he wrote to q friend,
saying: 'Come over and join Us great
and awful sinners saved by the grace Of
God. You seem to DO only . slender
sinner, and you don't much extol the
mercy of God: but we who have been
such very awful sinners praise his grace
the more now that we have been re-
deemed"
Can il 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 yo,,
are scarless and immaculate? What
you need is a looking glass. and here it
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 putrefying
sores. No health in MS. And then take
the fact that Christ gathered mp all the
notes against as and paid them and
then offered us the receipt.
And how much we need him in our
sorrowsl We are independent Of cir
cumstances il We have his grace. Why.
he made Paul sing in the dungeon. and
under that grace ST. John from desolste
Patmos heard the blast Of the apocalyp-
tic tfumpets. After ell other candles
have been snuffed out. 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 trampled
into deep mire, at the foot Of the eternal
rock the Christian, from cups Of granite,
hly rimmed and vine covered, puts out
the thirst OF his soul
THERE Is So OTHER NAME.
Again. | remark that Christ il above
al in dying alleviatioas. have not aay
sympathy with the morbidity abroad
sbont our demise. The emperor Of Con
stantinople arranged that ON the dav OF