Connecticut western news., 1893-05-04

"In the name of Jesus, will endure it no longerr' and the issue of battle was joined. There is time to pray. There is time to fight.
 THE TERRoRS OF DEVOTED LOVE.
 Second-That true love in Christ has it's terrible hours in such world. There are aspects of love beyond the mere ex- precision of tenderness and of kindly feel ing. Love has it's hours of the terrible and of the sublime, when death Is pref erable to dishonor, and when violence Is to be desired above the baser things that come with submission. A Virginius could kill his own child for love's sake, and we cannot say that the awful deed of such father transcended the limits of the real expression of fathers love. Let us remember that Jesus was not only capable of anger, but that he was angry. Let us remember that Jesus was the supreme expression of the love of God. If this be so, love living in this world must be confronted with hours in which wrath and indignation rule su- preme. It cannot be otherwise. The love which filled the soul of Christ was a consuming fire, and before 1t evil must be burned up.
 We are told that his baptism was the baptism of the Holy Ghost and of fire. Upon more than one occasion in his life we are told that he was angry. He said himself that he came to bring not peace, but sword. Such scenes in the life of Jesus, such utterances from his lips, can not be reconciled with the sentimental slush of certain school of Christianity which continues to cry "Peace, peace" when there is no peace, when there can be no peace with the forces of hell. There is large amount of unadulterat- cd hypocrisy in the cry for the gentle ness of the gospel in this hour. It will be found in scores of cases to emanate from men who hate the gospel of Christ with all their soul, and who cry for its gentleness and it's sweetness because they feel the touch of the sword of Christ, of his truth and his indignation and his anger in their inmost souls.
 Jesus sacrificed himself. Christianity means the sacrifice of self. live would be the disciples of Christ, we must be willing to sacrifice self. The man who sacrifices himself must displease the self ish. It is an arraignment of them and of their life. One of the most difficult sacrifices for the follower of Christ to make today is to count his reputation as nothing for Christ's sake; is to be willing to be hissed and cursed and spit on by the people. The most difficult sacrifice which Christianity demands of it's fol lowers today is that they be willing to be unpopular. It is an easy thing to pan der to vitiated public sentiment. It is an easy thing to sell ones soul for this cheap applause. The follower of Christ who does it has betrayed his Master, has belied his profession and is untrue to the first principles of his life-the sacrifice of self.
 The world hated Jesus Christ. He was not popular preacher in the sense that he pleased the powers that ruled society. They hated him with the bitterest in- tensity of their dark souls. It is impos sible for any man to live true Christian life in this world, following Jesus in spirit and in truth, and not be hated. Jesus says it himself in so many words. Hear him: "If ye were of the world, the world would love it's own. But because ye are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you. They persecuted me. They will also prosecute you. Yea, the hour cometh that whosoever klleth you shall think he offereth service unto God"
 THE SWORD OF CHRISTIANITY.
 There is and there must be of neces- sity point of contact with evil at which Christianity bursts into a con- stunning flame The Christianity inca pablo of such Q consummation, of such violence, if you please, is dead, not liv- ing. Nor is this in any wise. incon- sistent with the highest conception of Jesus. In his personality was blended the tenderest, the divinest love, with all the clements of sternest, moral warfare We see these clements combined ire quently in the character of the stern warrior. Prince Henry, the brother of Frederick the Great, king of Prussia, leads his army through Saxony, upon mission of death, and yet he is careful of every field of grain. If soldier bU0ppCu Out Ol bllo ulTtCb TOdu, Gn0 C8D tain was punished.
 One day in the harvest season the prince saw the peasants hurrying to save their crops from an approaching storm. Immediately he had every horse taken from the baggage wagons and sent to the assistance of the farmers, who were amazed at this sympathy from great general and an enemy. On one occasion 300 French officers were taken prisoners and brought before him. He was indig- nant that they had been deprived of their swords and restored them at once. The wounded among the prisoners he cared for as carefully as if they belonged to his own army. When he learned that 30 of them were without money, he pro vided for them from his own purse and at considerable inconvenience to himself. It is possible to fight and yet to love your enemy. It is possible to fight for princi- pie and truth and right and in the very battle seek the salvation of those against whom we fight.
 And after these wars for righteous principle it happens again and again in the history of the world that those against whom we fight are brought to see that they were wrong and that the battle was for their own good, even though they were blind and could not see 1t. We have most striking ex- ample of this result in remarkable con- fession recently made by Arabi Pasha, the Egypt patriot. Twelve years ago he was the most powerful man in Egypt