Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-04-06

Is
man. His apparel may not be so good,
his education may not be SO thorough.
He lives for others His happiness
is to make others happy. He
is az self denying as that
dying soldier falling in the
ranks, when he said: Colonel,
there is no need of those boys firing
themselves by carrying me to the
hospital; let me die just where l am"
Oh, do you know of anything, my
nearer, that is more beautiful than to
see young man start out for Christ?
Here is some one falling; he lifts him
up Here is a vagabond boy; he in
| PRODUCES him to o mission school Here
is a family freezing to death; he car
ries them scuttle of coal. There are
500, 100000 perishing in midnight
heather darkness; by all possible
means he tries to send them the
gospel He may be laughed at, and he
may be sneered at, and he may be
caricatured, but he is not ashamed to
go everywhere, saying: II am not
ashamed of the Gospel of Christ. 1t is
the power of God nnd the wisdom of
God unto salvation. Such young
man can go through every
thing There is no force on earth
or in hell that can resist him. show
you three spectacles. 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 grinding the
wheels OF his gun carriages-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
stratagem Internal, warning against
God and poisoning whole kingdoms
! with his infdelity, yet applauded by
| the clapping hands of thrones and en-
! pires and continents-hls last words,
in delirium supposing Christ standing
by the bedside-his last words: Crush
! that wretch!"
Spectacle the third Paul--Paul, in
| significant in person, thrust out from
| all refined association, scourged, spat
on, bounded like a wild beast from
city to city, yet trying to make the
world good and heaven full; announc-
| ing resurrection to those who mourned
at the barred gates of the dead; speak
! ing consultations which light up the
eyes of widowhood and orphanage and
want, with glow of certain and eternal
release; undaunted before those who
could take his life, his cheek flushed
with transport and his eye on heaven;
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: 81
am now ready to be offered, and the
time of ny departure is at hand; have
fought the good fight, 1 have finished
my course, have kept the faith;
henceforth there is laid up for me a
crown of righteousness which the
Lord, the righteous judge, will give
me-"
Which of the three spectacles do you
most admire? When the wind of death
struck the conqueror and the infdel,
they were tossed like sea gulls in a
tempest, drenched of the wave and
torn of the hurricane, their dismal
voices heard through the everlasting
storm; but when the wave and the
wind of death struck Paul, like an al
batross he made n throne of the tenn
pest, and one day foated away into the
calm, clear summer of heaven, brighter
than the dove, Its wings covered with
silver, and its feathers with yellow
gold. Oh, are you not in love with
such religion religion that can do
so much for man while he lives, and
SO much for man when he comes to
die?
suppose you may have noticed the
contrast between the departure of a
Christian and the departure of an in
fideL Diodorus, dying in chagrin be-
cause he could not compose joke
equal to the joke uttered at the other
end of his table; Zeuxis, dying in fit
of laughter at the sketch of an aged
woman-a sketch made by his own
hand; Mazarin, dying playing cards,
his friend holding his hands because
he was unable to hold them himself
All that on one side, compared with
the departure of the Scotch minister,
who said to his friends: 81 have no
interest as to whether live or die; if
die, l shall be with the Lord; and if
live, the Lord will be with me-" Or
the last words of Washington: "lt is
we'll" Or the last words of Mcintosh,
the learned and the great: Happy"
Or the last words of Hannah More the
Christisz poetess: "Joyp Or those
thousands of Christians who have gone,
saying: Lord Jesus receive my
spirit! Come, Lord Jesus come quick
ly!" 80 death! where is thy sting?
o grave! where is thy victory?"
"Oh," you say, religion am going
to have; it is only question of
time" My brother. l am afraid that
you may lose heaven the way Louis
Philippe lost his empire. The Partisan
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