Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1894-03-22

| uylug. reel Tor yourself OF the Wrlst'
the pulse is feebler. Feel under the
arm; the warmth is less. He is dying.
| Aye. they pronouce Him dead. And just
at that moment that they pronounce
Him dead He rallied. and from His
| wounds He unsheathed weapon which
staggered the Roman legions down the
hill and hurled the satanic battalions
into the pit. 1t was weapon of love.
infinite love, all-conquering love.
Mightier than javelin or spear, it tri-
nmphed over all. Put back, We armies
of earth and hell! The tide of battle
turns. Jesus hath overcome. Let the
people stand apart and make a line,
that He may pass down from Calvary
to Jerusalem. and thence on and out
all around the world The battle is
fought. The victory is achieved. The
triumphal march is begun. Hank to
the hoofs of the warriors steed and the
tramping of a great multitude For He
has many friends now. The Hero of
earth and heaven advances. Cheer.
cheer! WHO is this that cometh from
Edom, with dyed garments from Boz
rah' travelling in the greatness of His
strength?'
We behold here new revelation of
a blessed and startling fact People
talk of Christ as though He We're going
to do something grand for us after
awhile. He has done it. People talk
as though ten or twenty years from
now, in the closing hours of our life, or
in some terrible pass Of life, Jesus VIII
help us He has done the work al-
ready. He did it eighteen hundred
and siXty-one years ago You might
as well talk of Washington as though
he were going to achieve our national
independence in 1850 as to speak of
Christ as though He were going to
achieve our salvation in the future.
He died it in the year of our Lord 53.
eighteen hundred and sixty-one years
ago, on the field of Bozrah, the Cap
tail of our salvation fighting unto
death for your and my emancipation.
All we have to do is TO accept that fact
in our heart of hearts, and we are Tree
for this world, and we are free for the
world to come. But, lest we might
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to-day, travelling in the greatness of
His strength not to tell you that He is
going to fight for you some battles in
the future, but to tell you that the bal
tie is already fought and the victory
already won.
You have noticed that when soldiers
come home from the wars, they carry
Flaas,. A..re H.. .f h 1,st
fields where they were distinguished
The Englishman coming back has on
his banner Inkermann and Balakiava.
the Frenchman, Jena and Eylau the
German, Versailles and Sedan. And
Christ has on the banner He carries a.
conqueror the names of ten thousan
battle-felds lie won for you and for
me. He rides past all our homes OF
bereavement-by the door-bell swathed
in sorrow, by the wardrobe black with
woe, by the dismantled fortress Of our
strength. Come out and greet Him to-
day, o, ye peoplel See the namns 81
all the battle-passes on His flag. 4e
who are poor. read on this ensign the
story of Christ's hard crusts and pill
lowless head. We who are persscutei
read here of the ruffians who chased
Him from His first breath to His last.
Mighty to soothe your troubles mighty
to balk your calamities, mighty 10
tread down your foes. travelling in the
greatness of His strength" Though
His horse be brown with the dust Of
the march, and the fetlocks be wet
with the carnage, and the bit be red
with the blood of your spiritual foes,
He comes up now, not exhausted from
the battle, but fresh as when he went
into it-coming up from Bozrah, 'trav
cling in the greatness of His strength. -
You know that when Augustus, and
Constantine, and Trajan and Titus
came back from the wars, what time
there was You know they came on
or in chariots, and there
were trophies before and there were
eaptives behind, and there were peo-
pie shouting on all sides, and there I
were garlands flung from the window. I
and over the highway triumphal arch (
was sprung. The solid masonry to-day /
at Beneventum, Rimini, and Rome. (
still tell their admiration Tor those I
heroes, And shall we let our Conqueror /
go without lifting any acclaim? Have 4
we no flowers red enough to depict the
carnage, white enough to celebrate the
fragrant enough to breathe
the iov? Those men of whom | Just
spoke dragged their victims at the
chariot wheels: but Christ, cur Lord
takes those who once were captives
and invites them into His chariot TO
ride, while He puts around them the
arm of His strength, saying: 81 haso
loved thee with an everlasting love
and the waters shall not drown IT. and
The fires shall not burn it, and eternity
,hall not exhaust it."
II this be true. / cannot see how any
nan can carry his sorrows a grea
while. If this conqueror from Bozrah
; going to beat back all your griefs.
vhv not trust him? o. do you not feel
inder this gospel your griefs falling
Jack, and your tears drying up, as You