Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-09-05


Once in Che ancient amnhithearer n noI
with one paw caught the combatant
sword and with his other paw caught hi
shield. The man took his knife from hi
! girdle and slew the beast. I'll Tie king. sit
ting in the gallery, said. THAT was no
fair; the lion must be slain by sword. ,
Other lions were turned out and the poo
victim fell. You cry. "Shamel shamep' a
| such meanness. But the King in this cas-,
is our brother, and he will see that w,
have fair play. He will forbid the rushing
| out of more lions than we can meet: h,
will not suffer us to be tempted above thai
we are able. Thank Godl The King is il
| the gallery His eyes are on u.s. His hear
| Is with us. His hand will deliver us
"Blessed are all they who put their trust
| in him.
| ALL THE GOOD ANGELS sYSfPATHIzE.
/ look again, and see the angelic gal
lery. There they are the angel that
swung the sword at the gate of Eden, the
same that Ezekiel saw unfolding the
throne Of God, and from which I look
away, for the splendor Is instiffefabie
Here are the guardian angels That one
| watched patriarch; this one protected a
child. That one has been pulling soul
out of temptationi All these are messenge
OF light Those drove the Spanish armada
| ON the rocks This turned Sennacherib,s
living hosts into heap OF one hundred and
| eighty-five thousand corpses Those, yon-
| der, chanted the Christmas carol over
Bethlehem until the chant awoke the shep.
herds. These, at creation, stood In the
balcony OF heaven and serenaded the new
born world wrapped in swaddling clothes
of light And there, holier and mightier
than ALL is Michael, the archangel. To
command an earthly host gives dignity;
but this one Is leader of the ten thousand
chariots Of God, and Of the ten thousand
times ten thousand angels. ! think God
gives command to the archangel, and the
archangel to the seraphim, and the SER
aphim to the cherubim. until all the lower
orders OF heaven hear the command and
go forth on the high behest.
Now, bring on your lions Who con
fearS All the spectators in the angelic
gallery are our friends HE shall give
his angels charge over thee, to keep thee
In all thy ways. They shall bear thee
up In their hands, lest thou dash thy foot
against stone. Thou shalt tread upon
the lion and adder; the young lion and the
dragon shalt thou trample under foot"
Though the arena be crowded with
temptations we shall, with the angelic
help, strike them down in the name of our
God and leap on their fallen carcassesl
Oh, bending throng of bright angelic faces
and swift wings and lightning footi /
hail you today from the dust and struggle
of the arenal
THE PROPHETS AND APOSTLES.
look again and ! see the gallery Of the
prophets and apostles. Who are those
mighty ones up yonders Hosea and Jere
miah and Daniel and Isaiah and Paul and
Peter and John and James. There sits
Noah waiting for all the world to come
into the ark, and Moses, waiting till the
last Red sea shall divide; and jeremiah
waiting for the Jews to return; and John,
of the Apocalypse, waiting for the swear.
ing of the angel that Time shall be no
longer. Glorious spiritsl Ye were howled
at. We were stoned, ye were spit uponl
They have been in this fight themselves,
and they are all with us. Daniel knows
all about lions. Paul fought with beasts
at Ephesus.
In the ancient amphitheater the people
got so excited that they would shout from
the galleries to the men in the arena. "At
1t againW "Forwardp' some more
strokeW look outp' "Fall backp'
"Huzzai Huzzap' So in that gallery,
prophetic and apostolic, they cannot keep
their peace. Daniel cries ont, "Thy God
will deliver thee from the mouth Of the
lionsp David exclaims, "He will not
suffer thy foot to be movedw Isaiah calls
out: Pear mott l am with theel Be not
dismayed" Paul exclaims, "Victory
through our Lord Jesus Christr' That
throng of prophets and apostles cannot
keep still. They make the welkin ring
with shouting and halleluiahs
THE NOBLE ARMY OF MARTYRS
/ look again and see the gallery of the
martyrs. Who is thatf Hugh Latimer,
sure enoughl He would not apologize for
the truth preached, and SO he died the
night before swinging from the bedpost in
perfect glee at the thought of emancipa-
ton. Who are that army of six Thousand
six hundred and sixty-sixi They are the
Theban legion, who died for the faith.
Here is a larger host in magnificent array
eight hundred and eighty-four thou
sand--who persisted for Christ In the perse-
cutions of Diocletian.
Yonder Is family group, Felicitas of
Rome, and her children While they were
dying for the faith she stood encouraging
them. One son was whipped to death by
thorns; another was flung from rock;
another was beheaded. AT last the mother
became martyr. There they are together
"a family group in heaven Yonder is
John Bradford, who said In the fire, 1--WE
shall have merry supper with the Lord
tonightp Yonder is Henry Woes, who ex-
claimed as he died. "If had ten heads
they should all fall off for Christp
The great throng Of the martyrsl They
had hot lead poured down their throats;
horses were fastened to their hands, and
other horses TO their feet, and thus they
were pulled apart; they had their tongues
pulled out by red hot pincers; they were
sewed up in the skins of animals and then
thrown to the dogs; they were daubed with
combustibles and set on fre II all the
martyrs stakes that had been kindled
could be set at proper distances they would
make the midnight all the world over
bright as monday.
THE EMINENT CHRISTIANS.
And now they sit yonder In the martyrs
gallery. For them the fires of persecution
have gone out. The swords are sheathed
and the mob hushed. Now they watch us
with an all observing sympathy. They
know all the pain, all the hardship, all the
anguish, all the injustice, all the priyation
They cannot keep still. They cry: "Cour-
agei The fire will not consume. The
floods cannot drown. The lions cannot oe
vouri Couragei down there in the arena"
What, are they all lookingi This nignt
we answer back the salutation they give,
and cry, "Hail sons and daughters Of the
flrel"
look again, and see another gallery
that of eminent Christians. What strikes