The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1892-04-08


against this generation and condemn IL;
for she came from the uttermost parts
of the earth TO hear the wisdom Of Sol
ONION; and, behold! greater than Sol
onion is here" God help me TO break
up the infatuation of those people who
are sitting down in idleness expecting
to be saved. "Strive to enter in Mt the
strait gate. Ask, and IL shall be given
you; seek, and We shall find; knock, and
it shall be opened to you" Take the
kingdom of Heaven by violence. Urge
on the camels!
Again, my subject impresses me with
any one that gets it. This story of the
new religion in Jerusalem and of the
glory of King Solomon, who was a type
of Christ, that story rolls on and on and
Is told by every traveller coming back
from Jerusalem. The news goes on the
wing of every ship and with every car
AVIAN, and you know n story enlarges
as IL is retold, and, by the time the
story gets down into the southern part
of Arabia Felix and the Queen Of Sheba
hears it, IT must be tremendous story.
And yet this Queen declares in regard
to IL, although she had heard so much
and had her anticipations raised so
high, the half-the half was not told
her.
So religion Is always surprise to
any one that gets it The story of
grace--an old story. Apostles preached
it with rattle of chain; martyrs de-
clared IL with arm of fire; death beds
have affirmed it with visions of glory,
and ministers of religion have sounded
it through the lanes, and the highways,
and the chapels, and the cathedrals 1t
has been cut into stone with chisel, and
spread on the canvas with pencil; and
It has been recited in the doxology of
great congregations And yet when
man first come to look on the palace of
Gods mercy, and to see the royalty of
Christ, and the wealth of the banquet,
and the luxuriance of His attendants,
and the loneliness of his face, and the
Joy of His service, he exclaims with
prayers, with tears, with signs, with
triumphs: THE half-the half was not
told mer'
l appeal to those in this house who
are Christians. Compare the idea you
had Of the Joy of the Christian life be-
fore you became Christian with the
appreciation Of that Joy you have now,
since you have become a Christian, and
you are willing to attest before angels
and men that you never in the days of
your spiritual bondage had any appre-
citation of what is to come. You are
ready to-day to answer, and if gave
you an opportunity in the midst of this
assemblage, you would speak out and
say in regard to the discoveries you
have made of the mercy, and the grace,
and the goodness. 1.-THE half--the half
was not told TO me!'
Well we hear good deal about the
good time that is coming in this world,
when it is to be girded with salvation.
Holiness on the bells Of the horses.
The lions name patted by the hand of
a babe. Ships of Tarshish bringing
cargoes for Jesus, and the hard, dry,
barren, winter -bleached, storm SCARED,
thunder-split rocks breaking into floods
of bright water Deserts into which
dromedaries thrust their nostrils,
because they were afraid of the
simoon-deserts blooming into carna.
ton roses and silver-tipped lilies.
1t is the old story. Everybody tells
it. Isaiah told it, John told it, Paul told
it, Ezekiel told it, Luther told it, Calvin
told it, John Milton told 1t; everybody
tells it; and yet-and yet when the
midnight shall fly the hills, and Christ
shall marshal His great army, and
China, dashing her idols into the dust,
shall hear the voice of God and wheel
into line; and India, destroying her
juggernaut, and snatching up her little
children from the Ganges, shall hear
the voice of God and wheel into line;
and vine.covered Italy and all the ma
tons OF the earth shall hear the voice
of God and fall into line: then the
church, which has been toiling and
through the centuries, robed
and garlanded like bride adorned for
her husband, shall put aside her veil
and look up into the face of her Lord
King and say: THE half-the half was
not told me-"
Well, there is coming a greater sur
prise to every Christian-a greater sur
prise than any thing have depicted
Heaven is an old story. Every body
talks about it. There is hardly hymn
in the hymn book that does not refer
to it. Children read about il in their
Sabbath-school book. Aged men put
on their spectacles to study it We
say it is a harbor from the storm.
We call il our home.
We say it is the house OF many man
sions. We weave together all sweet,
beautiful, delicate, exhilarant words;
we weave them into letters and then
we spell ii out in rose and lily and
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