Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1893-12-21

| AtC vas y iicbd PIT ! >lCldfts hC W % oA' ~se
conquering orator, he was poet Of The
highest type. lie had nature thai
could swamp the leading men of hi
own day, and. hurled against the San
hedrim, he made it trem5le. He learned
all he could get in the school OF his ma.
tive villages; then he had gone to a
! hitsher school, and there mastered the
| Greek and the Hebrew, and perfected
| himself in belles-lettres. until in after
years he astonished the Cretans, and
| the Corinthians and the Atnenians, by
| quotation from their own authors.
have never found anything in CARLYLE,
| or Goethe. or Herbert Spencer that
| could compare in strength or beauty
| with Paui's Epistles. | do not think
| there is anything in the writing of ST.
| William Hamilton that shows such
mental discipline as you find in PauFs
| argument about justification and the
| resurrection. | have not found any
| thing in Milton finer in the way of inn
agination than | can find in Paul IL
Illustrations drawn from the amphithea-
ter There was nothing in Robert En-
met pleading for his life, or in Edmune
Burke arraigning Warren Hastings IN
Westminster hall, that compared with
scene in the court room. when,
before ROBBED officials Paul bowed and
began his speech saying: 81 think my
self happy. King Agrippa. because
| shall answer for myself this day" !
repeat. that religion that can cap
ture man like that must have some
power in IL. 1t is time you stopped
talking as though all the brain Of the
world were opposed to Christianity.
Where Paul leads we can afford 10 fol-
low. / am glad to know that Christ
has in the different ages Of the world
had in his discipleship Mozart and
Handel in music; Raphael and Rey-
nolds in painting; an Angelo and a
Canova in sculpture; Rush and liar-
vey in medicine; a Grotius and a Wash
ington in craftsmanship: Blackstone.
Marshall, and Kent in law; and the
time viii come when the religion of
Christ will conquer all the Observable
ries and universities, and Philosophy
will through her telescope behold the
morning star of Jesus. and in her labo-
ratory see that all things work to-
gether for good" and with her gfolor.
ical hammer discover the Rock 81
Ages" o, instead of covering ard
shivering when the slseptic stands Se-
fore you and talks Of religion as though
it were pusillanilnons thing -instead
of that take your New Testament from
your pocket and show him the picture
of the intellectual giant OF all the ages,
prostrated ON the road 20 Damascus,
while his horse is lging wildly away;
then ask your slseptc what il was that
frightened the one and threw the
other? o no, it is no weak gospel
II is a glorious gospel. II is an all
conquering gospel. Ii is an omnipo-
tent gospel 1t is the power OF God
and the wisdom of God unto salvation.
Again. learn from the text man
cannot become Christian until he is
endorsed. The trouble is, we want Ia
ride into the kingdom of God. just as
the knight rode into castle gate ON pal.
frey, beautifully caparisoned. We
want to come into the kingdom of God
in fine style. No kneeling down AT the
altar, no sitting on anxious seats" no
crying over sin, no begging at the door
of Gods mercy. Clear the road and
let us come in, all prancing in the pride
OF our soul No, we viii never get
into Heaven that way. We must dis.
mount. There is no knight-errantry
in religion. no fringed trappings of re-
pentance, but an utter prostration be,
fore God, going down in the dust.
with the cry, ''unclean, unclean!'--a
bewailing of the soul, like David from
the belly of hell-a going down in the
dust, until Christ shall by His graco
lift us up as He lifted Paul o. proud
hearted nearer. you must get off tina, |
horse. May light from the throne OF
God brighter than the sun throw YOU |
Come down into the dust and cry for |
pardon, and life and Heaven.
Again, learn from this scene of the
text that the grace of God can over
come the prosecutor. Christ and Paul
we're boys at the same time in different
villages, and Paul's antipathy to Christ
was increasing. He hated everything
about Christ. He was going down then
with writs in his pockets to have
Christ's disciples arrested. lie was no,
going as q sheriff goes, to arrest a man
against whom he had no spite. but
Paul was going down to arrest thoss
people because he was glad to arrest
them. The Bible says: He breathed
put slaughter. He wanted them cap
tured, and he wanted them butchered.
! hear the click. and clash. and clatter
IF the hoofs of the galloping steeds on
che way to Damacus. O, do you think
that proud man on horseback can ever
become a Christian? Yes! there is a
roice from heaven like a thunder clan
altering two words, the second word
The same as the first, but uttered with
more emphasis, so that the proud
equestrian may have no doubt as &c
Who is meant, ''Saul, Saulr' That
nan was saved. and he was a perseeu.
or; and SO God can BY His
race overcome any prosecutor.