Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1894-03-15

non Of love. Mightier than javelin "a
smear, it triumphed over all. Put oack.
ye armies of earth and hell!
The tide of battles turns. Jesus hatn
overcome. Let the people staiit apart
and make a line that he may pass dowp
from Calvary TO Jerusalem n thence
ON and out all around the world. Inc
battle is fought. The victory Is
achieved. The trfumphal march Is De
c,n Hank TO the hoofs OF the war
rior's steed and the tramping OF a great
multitude. for he has many friends
now, The hero of heaven and earth
advances. Cheer, cheer! WHO Is TINS
that cometh from Edom, with dyed
garments from Bozrah, travelling III inc
Greatness of his Strength
We behold here a new revelation 0l
4 blessed and startling fact. People
talk OF Christ as though he were going
To do something grand FOR us al'ot
while. He has done ii. People tax
az though ten Or twenty years from
now, in the closing hours of our life or
10 some terrible pass of life, Jesds VIII
uelp us. He has done the work al
ready. He did it 1851 years ago. You
might as well talk Of Washington as
though he were going to achieve our
national independence in 1850 as TO
sneak of Christ as though he were
going TO achieve u salvation In thc
future. He did it in the year OF ops
Lord 33-1.S61 years ago-on the HELD
of Bozrah, the captain Of our salvatloh
sighting unto death for your II Lily
emancipation.
All we have 10 do is to accept that
fact in our hearts, and we are free for
this world, and we are free for ths
world to come. But, lest we might moi
accept, Christ comes through here to-
day travelling in the greatness of his
strength" not to tell you that he IS
going to fight for you some battle
in the future. but to tell You that the
battle is already fought and the vic
tory already won.
You know that when Augustus and
Constantine and Trajan and Titus CAME
back from the wars what a time there
was. You know they came on horse
back or in ChariotS, and there were trO-
piles before, and there were captives
behind. and there were people snoutin.
on all sides, and there were garlandS
flung from the window, and over the
highway a triumphal arch was sprung
The solid masonry to-day at Benevento,
Rimini and Rome still tell their admit
ration for those heroes. And shall We
let our conquerOr 60 without lifting
any acclaim? Have we nOt flowers rcd
enough to depict the carnage, white
enough to celebrate the victory, fra
grant enough 10 breathe the joy.
Those men OF whom l just spoke
dragged their victims ut the chariot
wheels, but Christ, our Lord, takes
those who one were captiveS and TO-
viteS them into his chariot to ride,
while he puts around them the arm Of
strength, saying, II have loved thee
with an everlasting love, and the wa
UerS shall not drown it, and the fires
shall not burn it, and eternity shall 10
exhaust it,
If this be true, ! cannot see how any
man can carry his sorrows Il great
while. If the COnqueror from BoZrah
Is going to beat back all your griefS.
why not trust him? Oh, do you not
feel under this gospel your griefs fail
ing back and your tears drying up rs
you hear the tramp of a thousand illus
iriOus promises led on by the conquer
or from Bozrah, travelling, travelling
N the greatness of his strength"
IN that Friday which The Episcopal
church rightly celebrates. calling it
Good Friday" your soul and mine
were contended for. On that day Jesus
proved himself mightier than earth and
he'll, and when the lances struck him
he gathered them up into a sheaf Us a
reaper gathers the grain, and he
stacked them. Mounting the horse OF
the Apocalypse, he rode down through
the ages travelling in the greatness OF
MS strength" On hat day your sin
and mine persisted, if we will onlv
lieve 1t.