Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1892-08-11

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If Jonathan Edwards had tried to WRIT
and dream about the pilgrims progress
the celestial city or John Bunyan had at
tempted an essay on the human will.
Brighter than the light, fresher than tn
fountains, deeper than the seas are al
these Gospel themes Song has no melody
flowers have no sweetness. sunset sky ha.
no color compared with these gloriou
themes. These harvests of grace spring
up quicker than we can sickle them Kin
ding pulpits with their fire, and producing
revolutions with their power, lighting vi
dying beds with their glory, they are tbs
sweetest thought for the poet. and the
are the most thrilling illustration for tn
orator, and they offer the most intens,
hcene for the artist and they are to the
ambassador of the sky all enthusiasm
Complete pardon for direst guilt Sweet
est comfort for ghastliest agony. Bright
est hope for griinmest death. Grandest
resurrection for darkest sepulcher.
Oh, what Gospel to preachl Chri.
over all in it. His birth, his suffering
his miracles, his parallels, his sweat, his
tears, his blood, his atonement, his inter
cession-what glorious themesl Do we
exercise faith! Christ is its object. D.,
we have love? II fastens on Jesus. Have
we fondness for the church, 1t is be
cause Christ died for it, Have we hope
of heaven? 1t is because Jesus went
ahead, the herald and the forerunner.
The royal robe of Demetrius was 81
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 poor
est, and the wanest and the worst may
wear Where sin abounded grace may
much more abound"
THE JOY or THE CONVERTED.
''Oh, my sins, my sins, said Martin
Luther to Staupitz; my sins. my sinsw
The fact is that the brawny German stu
dent 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 pardoned
and saved, he wrote to friend, saying.
"Come over and join us great and awful
sinners saved by the grace Of God. You
seem to be only a slender sinner, and you
don't much extol the mercy of God; but
we who have been such very awful sin
ners praise his grace the more now that
we have been redeemed"
Can it be that you are so desperately
egotistcal that you feel yourself in first
rate spiritual TRIM and that from the root
of the hair to the tip of the toe you are
scarless and immaculateg What you need
is 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 heath
in us And then take the fact that Christ
gathered up all the notes against us and
paid them, and then offered us the receipt
Ard how much we need him in our sor
rows We are independent of circum-
stances if we have his grace. Why, he
made Paul sing in the dungeon, and under
that grace St. John from desolate Patmos
heard the blast of the apocalyptic trum-
pets. After all other candles have been
snuired out, this is the light that gets
brighter and brighter unto the perfect day.
and after. under the hard hoofs of ealam-
ity, all the pools of worldly enjoyment
have been trampled into deep mire, at
the foot of the eternal rock the Chris
tian, 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 alleviations have not any sym
pathy with the morbidity abroad about
our demise. The emperor of Constantine
pie arranged that on the day of his corona
ton the stonemason should come and con
suit him about his tombstone that after
awhile he would need. And there are
men who are monomanical on the subject
of departure from this life by death, and
the more they think of it the less they are
prepared to go. This is an unmanliness
not worthy of you, not worthy of me.
THE HERDS DEATH.
Saladin, the greatest conqueror of his
day, while dying, ordered the tunic he had
ON him to be carried after his death on
spear at the head of his army, and then the
soldier ever and anon should stop and say:
Behold, all that is left of Saladin, the EN-
peror and conqueror! OF all the states he
conquered, of all the wealth he accumu-
lated. nothing did he retain but this
shroudr' / have no sympathy with such
behavior, or such absurd demonstration,
or with much that we hear uttered in re-
gard to departure from this life to the
next. There is a commonsensical idea on
this subject that you and need to consid-
er-that there are only two styles of de-
parture.
A thousand feet underground, by light
of torch toiling in a miners shaft, a ledge
of rock may fall upon us and we may die
miners death. Far out at sea, falling
from the slippery ratlines and broken on
the halyards we may die sailors death.
On mission of mercy in hospital, amid
broken bones and reeking leprosies and
raging fevers we may die philanthro-
phist's death. On the field of battle, serv-
ing God and our country, the gun carriage
may roll over us and we may die patriots
death. But after all there are only two
styles of departure-thed death of the right
eous and the death of the wicked, and we
all want to die the former.
God grant that when that hour comes
you may be at homel You want the hand
of your kindred in your hand. You want
your children to surround you. You want
the light on your pillow from eyes that
have long reflected your love. You want
the room still. You do not want any Curl
Gus strangers standing around watching
you. You want your Kindred from afar to