Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1894-04-19


is not ashamed to carry bundle OF
clothes up that dark alley to the poor.
Which of those young men do you ad-
mire the better? The one sham the
other prince imperial
o, do you know Of anything my
hearer. that is more beautiful than u
see a young man start out for CHRISTI
Here is some one falling; he lifts him
up Here is a vagabond boy; he intro
duces him to a mission school. Here
is a family freezing TO death; he car
ries them a seuttle of coal Inere are
eight hundred millions perishing in
midnight heather darkness; by all pos
sible means he tries to send them the
! gospel He may be laughed at ana he
may be sneered at. and he may be carl
| catured but he is not ashamed 10 go
everywhere. saying: II am not
ashamed of the gospel of Christ. IL IS
the power of God and the wisdom OF
/ God unto salvation. Such young
man can go through everything There
is no force on earth or in hell that can
resist him. | show you three specta-
/ cles. Spectacle the first: Napoleon
passes by with the host that went
down with him to Egypt and up with
/ him through Russia, and crossed the
/ continent on the bleeding heart OF
which he set his iron heel, and across
the quivering flesh of which he went
4 grinding the wheels Of his gun-car-
riages-in his dying moment asking
his attendants to put on his military
boots for him.
Spectacle the second: Voltaire bright
and learned and witty and eloquent.
with tongue and voice and strategem
Internal warning against God and poi
soninq whole kingdoms with his inn
delity, vet appauded by the elapping
hands of thrones and empires and CON
tinents-his last words, in delirium,
supposing Christ standing by the bed
side his last words: Crush thar
wretch
Spectacle the third: Paul-Paul in
significant in person, thrust out from
all refined association, scourged, spai
! on, bounded like wild beast from city
to city. vet trying TO make the world
good and Heaven full: announcing res
direction to those who mourned at the
barred gates OF the dead; spea sing con.
solutions which light up the eyes OF
widowhood and orphanage aud want
with glow of certain and eternal re-
lease: undaunted before those who
could take his life. his cheek flushed
with transport and his eye on Heaven;
with one hand shaking defiance at all
the foes of earth and all the principal
tiles of hell, and with the other hand
reckoning messenger angels to come
and bear him away, as he says: II an
now ready to be offered, and the tim
of my departure is at hand: ! have
fought the good fight. have tinishes
my course, have kept the faith; hence
forth there is laid up for me crown
of Righteousness which the Lord, the
righteous Judge, will give me. :
Which OF the three spectacles do yo,
most admire? When the wind Of dealt
struck the eonqueror and the intidel
they were tossed like seagulls in ten
pest, drenched Of the wave and tori
of the hurricane, their dismal voice,
heard through the everlasting storm
but when the wave and the wind o
death struck Paul, like an albatros
he made a throne of the tempest, an,
one day floated away into the calm
clear summers of Heaven, brighte
than the dove. its wings covered viii
silver and its feathers of yellow gold
O. are YOU not in love with such re
lipion-a religion that can Do 50 mucl
for man while he lives. and so mucl
for man when he comes to die2
/ suppose you NAV have noticed tn,
contrast between the dera Of /,
Christian and the departure Of an in
fdel Diodorus. diving in c1agrin be
cause he could not compose a joli,
, equal to the Joke uttered at the othei
end of his table; IeuXs. dying in a fl
of laughter at tae sketch Of an ageC
woman-a sketch made by his owl
hand: Mazarin. dying PLAYING cards
his friend no ding his hands because
, he was unable 70 hold them himself
All that on one side, compared will
the departure of the Scotch ministe
who said to his friends. Il have NJ
interest as to whether live or die;
| die. / shall be- with my Lord: and if
} live. the Lord will be with me-. Q
, the last words Of Washington 1T i
{ we'll" Or the last words of Mcintosh
: the learned and the great "Iiappy,'
Or the last words of Hannah More
the Christian poetess, joy Or thos
thousands of Christians who have gone
: saving; Lord Jesus receive my spirit
] Come Lord Jesus, come quickly '''
+ DEATH where is thy sting? o grave
? where is thy vietory?"
/ Behold the contrast Behold IN
/. charm of the one, behold the darkness
!; of the other Now. know it is yer
) popular in this day for young men /
: think there is something more charm
/ ing in skeptieism than in religion
They are ashamed of the old-fashione
2 religion of the cross and they prid
p themselves on their free-thinking C
!, all these subjects. My young friends
!. / want to tell you what | know fror
5 observation; that while skepticism is
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