Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1893-05-15


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htikhts fdntoin ON his wny 10 inaugul
ration ~ washington was waited for by
a. es@ifs. hut he took another tfsin and
acieed the despersdoes We have hish
example n The fact that sometimes
man will servo God best by disappear.
ine from this or that place. this or that
environment.
A mob brought Christ TO Che top Of
the rocks back of Nazareth They did
not like his preaching, and they proposed
10 hnf1 him down the precipice. Bat
while they were getting ready for the
massacre Christ darted into the crowd
and amid the confusion escaped to Ca
pernaum and continued exercising dew
liz and cooling fevers and filling fsh nets
and giving healthy circulation Of blood
10 paralysis and curing dementia and
turning corpses into living men and
women and doing his chief work.
Whist q good thing he lodged the
crowd on the rocks back Of Nazareth
Likewise at Jerusalem one day, while he
was sauntering mp and down in Solo
mons porch waiting for an opportunity
TO say kind words or do useful deed,
the people proposed TO pay him for his
self sacrifices by stoning him TO death,
but the record is. "TIe escaped out Of
their hands,"
oAusELEss HATRED.
| See also in my subject the unreason-
able attitude Of javelin toward harp.
What had that harp in David's hand
done to the javelin in Saul's hand? Had
the vibrating strings of the one hurt the
keen edge of the other2 Was there an
old grudge between the two families Of
sweet sound and sharp cut? Had the tri-
angle ever insulted the polished shaft2
| why the deadly aim Of the destroying
weapon against the instrument of sooth-
ing, calming, healing sound?
Well, ! will answer that If you will
tell me why the hostility Of SO many to
the gospel. why the virulent attacks
against Christian religion, why the angry
antipathy Of so many to the most genial,
most inviting, most salutary influence
under all the heavens. Why will men
give their lives to writing and speak
ing and warning against Christ and
the gospelf Why the javelin of the
worlds hatred and rage against the
harp OF heavenly. lover You know
and / know men who get wrathfully
red in the face and foaming at the
mouth and use the gesture Of the clinch-
ed fist and put down their feet with in
dignant emphasis and invoke all sar.
casm and irony and vituperation and
scorn and spite at the Christian reli.
gion. What has the Christian religion
done that it should be so assailedl
Whom hath 1t bitten and left with by
drophobia virus in their veins that II
should sometimes be chased as though Il
were maddened canine?
To head off and trip up and pusl
down and corner our religion was tn,
dominant thought in the life of Davit
Hume and Voltaire and Shaftesbury
and even the Earl of Rochester, unit
one day In a princely house, in which
they blasphemously put God on trial
and the Earl of Rochester was the attor
ney against God and religion and re
ceived the applause Of the whole com
pany, when suddenly the earl was strucl
under conviction and cried: "Good God
that q man who walks uprightly, wht
sees the wonderful works Of God ant
has the use Of his senses and reason
should use them In defying his Creator
wish had been q crawling leper in I
, ditch rather than have acted towar(
God as / have DONE"
Javelin Of wit, javelin of irony, javelir
.. Of scurrility. javelin Of sophistry, jave
lin of human and diabolic hostility hav'
! been flying for hundreds of years and arr
.. flying now. But aimed at what? A
something that has come to devastat'
tho world2 At something that slays ma
,. tions? At something that would mau
and trample under foot and excruciat
and crush the human racer
: THE WONDERFUL HARP.
No, aimed at the gospel harp-harl
on which prophets played with some
what lingering and uncertain fingers
but harp on which apostles played wit
sublime certainty. and martyrs playe'
! while their fingers were on fire. Har
! that was dripping with the blood Of tn
.. Christ, out Of whose heartstrings tn
harp was chorded and from whose dyin
groan the strings were keyed. Oh, got
Del harp! All thy nerves a-trembi
with stories of self sacrifice. Har
thrummed by fingers long ago turne
to dust. Harp that made heaven liste
. and viii yet make all the earth hear
Harp that sounded pardon to my sinfu
soul and peace over the grave where m
: dead sleep. Harp that will lead tn
|, chant of the blood washed throng n
: deemed around the throne. May a javt
: lin slay me before fling javelin O
: that. Harp which 1t seems almost TO
J. sacred for me TO touch. and 30 ! ca
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