Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-08-04
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triumphal arch and oratorio and
everything grand and stupendous.
The French navy has eigh-
teen flags by which they give signal;
but those eighteen flags they can put
into 10000 different combinations.
And have to tell you that these stand
ards of the cross may be lifted into
combinations infinite and varieties
everlasting, And let me say to young
men who are after while going To
preach Jesus Christ, you will have the
largest liberty and unlimited resource.
You only have To present Christ in your
own way.
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 in
tense scehe for the artist, and they
are to the ambassador of the sky all
enthusiasm. Complete pardon fordircst
guilt. Sweetest comfort for ghastliest
agony. Brightest hope for grimmcst
death, Grandest resurrection for dark
est sepulchre Oh, what Gospel to
prcach Christ overall in IL. His birth,
his suffering, his miracles, his parallels,
his sweat, his tears, his blood, his
atoncmcnt, his intercession--wh
glorious themes! DO we exercise faith?
Christ is its object, DO we have love?
II fastens ON Jesus. Have we fond
ness for the church? II is because
Christ died for II. Have we hope Of
Heaven? II Is because Jesus went
ahead, the herald and the forcrunncr.
The royal robe of Dcmctrius was so
costly, so beautiful, that after he had
pu5 it oil no one ever dared put il on;
bit this robe of Christ, richer than
that, the poorest and the wancst and
the worst may wear, "Whcre sin
ahoundcd grace may much more
abound"
80, my sins, my sins" said Martin
Luther 10 Staupitz, my sins, my sinsr'
The fact is, that the brawny German
student had found 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
doncd and saved, he wrote To friend.
saying: Come over and join rs great
and awful sinners saved by the
grace of God. You seem 10
be only slender sinner, and
you don't much cxto the mercy Of
God; but we who have been such very
awful sinners praise his grace the more
now that we have been redeemed"
Can IL be that you are so desperately
cgotistical that you feel yourself In first
rate spiritual trim, and that from the
root Of the hair 10 the tip Of the toe
you are scarlcss and and immaculate?
What you need Is u loolsing-glnss, and
here IL is in the Bible. Poor, and
wrctchcd, and miserable, and
blind, and naked from the crown Of tho
head 10 the sole of the foot, full Of
wounds and putrefying sores. No
health In Ms. And then take the fact
that Christ gathered up all the notes
against us and paid them, and then
offered Ms u receipt.
And how much we need him In our
sorrows! We independent Of circum-
stances II we have his grace. Why, he
made Paul sing in the dungeon, and
under that grace 81. John from DESC
late Pntmos heard the blast Of the apo.
calyptic trumpcts. After oil 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
tramplcd into deep mirc, at the foot
Of the eternal rock the Christian, from
cups Of granite, lily trimmed and vine
covered, puts out the thirst of his soul
Again | remark, that Christ is above
all in dying alterations have not
any sympathy with the morbidity
abroad about our demise The En-
peror Of Constantinople arranged that
on the day Of his coronation the stone
mason should come and consult him
about his tombstone that after while
he would need. And there are men
who are monomaniaca on ths subject
of departure from this life by death, :
and the more they think Of IL the less
they are prepared To go. This is an
unmaniness not worthy of you, not
worthy of me.
y ~
Edward !, was so anxious to go to the
Holy Land that when he was about to
expire he bequcathcd 100000 to have
his heart, after his deccase, taken To
the Holy Land in Asia Minor, and his
request was complied with. But there
are hundreds to-day whose hearts arc
already i'm the Holy Land Of heaven.
Where your treasures are, there
are your hearts also. John Bun
yam, of whom ! spoke ut the
opening of the discourse, caught
n glimpse of that place, and in
his quaint way he said: "And | heard
in my dream, and 10! the bells of the
city rang again for joy; and as they
opened the gates TO let in the men
looked in after them, and 10! the city
shonc like the sun, and there were
streets of gold, and men walked on
them, harps in their hands 10 sing
praises with all; and after that they
shut up the gates, which when | had
seen wished myself among them"