Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-04-04

| am" So this young man Of whom
speak loves God, wants all the world to
love him, Is not ashamed TO caYrl a bun
die OF clothes up that dark alley TO the
poor. Which Of those young mn 10
you admire the better? The onca siId,n,
the other prince imperial
Oh, do you know of anything. my
nearer, that is more beautiful than to sec
young man start out for Chr 81? Here
lssome one falling; he lifts him up. Eere
Is a vagabond boy; he introduces him to
mission school. Here is a family freez-
ing to death; he carries them a scuttle of
coal. There are 100000, COO peilsning in
midnight heather darkness Dy all pos
sible means he tries to send them the
gospel. He may he laughed at, and hd
may be sneered at, and he may be carl.
catured, but he is not ashamed to 20
everywhere saying: Il am not ashamed
of the gospel of Christ. It is the power
of God and the wisdom of God unto sal
vation."
Such young man can go through
everything. There is no force on earth
or in hell that can resist him. l show
! you three spectacles:
CERTAIN sPECTACLEs.
Spectacle the First-Napoleon passed
| 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 Che wheels of his
gun carriages-in his dying moment ask
ing 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 poisoning whole
kingdoms with his infdelity, yet APP
plauded by the clapping hands of thrones.
and empires and continents-his last
words, in delirium supposing Christ
standing by the bedside-his last words,
! Crush that wretchv
Spectacle the Third-Paul-Pau in
significant in person, thrust out from all
| refined association, scourged, spat on,
bounded like wild beast from city to
city, yet trying to make the world good
to those who mourned at the barred gates
of the dead; speaking consultations which
light up the eyes of widowhood and
orphanage and want with glow of GER
tain and eternal release; undaunted be-
fore those who could take his life, his
cheek flushed with transport and his eye
on heaven; with one hand shaking de-
fiance at all the foes of earth and all the
principalities of hell, and with the other
hand beckoning messenger angels to
come and bear him away as he says: Il
am now ready to be offered, and the
time of my departure is at hand. 1 have
fought the good fight; have finished my
course; have kept the faith Hence
forth there is laid up foT me a crown of
righteousness, which the Lord, the right
eous Judge, will give me-"
Which of the three spectacles do you
most admire? When the wind of death
struck the conqueror and the infidel,
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 albatross, he
made throne of the tempest 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 a religion-a
religion that can do so much for a man
while he lives and so much for a man
when he comes to die?
A CONTRAST
l suppose you may have noticed the
contrast between the departure of a
Christian and the departure of an infidel.
Diodorus, dying in chagrin because 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 eide, compared with
the departure of the Scotch minister
who said to his friends: II have no in
terest as TO whether live or die. If
Qle, l sndll DO NlLu llle LOfu, anu II 4
live the Lord will be with me-" Or the
last words of Washington, cit is'well."
Or the last word of Mcintosh, the learn
ed and the great, Happy Or the last
words of Hannah More, the Christian
poetess, "Joyp Or those thousands of
Christians who have gone, saying; Lord
Jesus, receive my spirit Come, Lord
Jesus, come quicklyw 80 death, where
is thy sting? o grave, where is thy VIC
tory?'
Behold the contrast. Behold the charm
of the one, behold the darkness of the
other. Now, know it is very popular
in this day for young men to think there
is something more charming in skepti-
cism than in religion. They are ashamed
of the old fashioned religion of the cross,
and they pride themselves on their free
thinking on all these subjects. Ny
young friends, want to tell You what
know from observation that while skep-
ticism is beautiful land at the start, il
is a great Sahara desert at the last.