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conquering orator, he was poet OF
the highest type. He had a nature
that could swamp the leading men
of his own day, and hurled
against the Sanhedrim, he made it
tremble. He learned all he could get
in the school of his native village; then
he had gone to higher school, and
there mastered the Greek and the He
brew, and perfected himself in bellies
lettres, until in after years he aston
! ished the Cretans, and the Corinthians,
and the Athenians, by quotations from
their own authors. l have never found
anything in Carlyle, or Goethe, or Her
! bert Spencer, that could compare in
strength or beauty with Pauls Epistles.
l do not think there is anything in the
writings of Sir William Hamilton that
shows such mental discipline as you
find in Paurs argument about justlti-
cation and the resurrection. l have
not found anythingin in Milton finer in
the way of imagination than can
find in st. Pauls illustrations
drawn from the amphitheater.
There was nothing in Robert Emmet
pleading for his life, or in Edmund
Burke arraigning Warren Hastings in
Westminster hall, that compared with
the scene in the court room, when be-
fore robed officials Paul bowed and be-
gan his speech, saying: Il think my
self happy, King Agrippa, because l
shall answer for myself this day" re-
peat, that a religion that can capture a
man like that must have some power
in it. 1t is time you stopped talking
as though all the brain of the world
were opposed to Christianity. Where
Paul leads, we can afford to fol
low | am glad to know that
Christ has in the different ages of the
world had in His discipleship Mozart
and Handel in music; Raphael and
Reynolds in painting; an Angelo and
a Canova in sculpture; a Rush and a
Harvey in medicine; a Grotius and a
Washington in craftsmanship; a Black
stone, Marshall and a Kent in law
and the time will come when the re-
ligion of Christ will conquer all the OBJ
servatories and universities, and phi
losophy will through her telescope be
hold the morning star of Jesus anC
in her laboratory see that all thing:
work together for good" and will
her geological hammer discover the
, Rock of Ages" Oh, instead OF
covering and shivering when the skep
tic stands before you and talks religion
as though it were a pusillanlmous thing
: instead of that, take your Testamen
from your pocket and show him the
picture of the intellectual giant of al
: the ages, prostrated on the road t.
Damascus while his horse is flying
wildly away; then ask your skepti
what it was that frightened the on,
, and threw the other. Oh, no; it is NJ
weak Gospel. 1t is glorious Gospel
!. 1t is an all-conquering Gospel. 1t i
an omnipotent Gospel 1t is the powe
: of God and the widom of God unto sal
> vation.
Again, learn from the text mar
can not become Christian until he i
unhorsed. The trouble is, we want t.
, ride into the kingdom of God, just a
! the knight rode into the castle gate OF
! palfrey, beautifully caparisoned w
, want to come into the kingdom of Co
= in fine style. No kneeling down a
q the altar, no sitting on anxious seats,
n no crying over sin; no beggin,
at the door of Gods mercy
Clear the road, and let us come in al
y prancing in the pride of our soul. No
h we will never get into Heaven tha
\ way. We must dismount. There i.
o no knight-errantry in religion, n
q fringed trappings of repentance, bu
a an utter prostrat tion before God, &c
: ing down in the dust with the cry
|, "Unclean, unclean!"-a bewailing O
p the soul, like David from the belly O
= hell-a going down in the dust, unit
\ Christ by His grace lifts us up as H
/ er, you must get off that horse. Ma
n light from the throne of God bright
J. er than the sun throw you! Com
d down into the dust and cry for pardon
r and life, and Heaven.
o Again, learn from this scene of tn
}, text that the grace of God can ove1
is come the prosecutor. Christ and PAT
st were boys at the same time in differer
It villages, and Paul's antipathy to Chris
II was increasing. He hated everythin
If about Christ. He was going dow
l. then with writs in his pockets to hav
is Christ's disciples arrested. He was nc
1t going as a sheriff goes, to arrest ma
1T against whom he had no spite, br
lie Paul was going down to arrest thos
S, people because he was glad to arres
them. The Bible says: "He breathe
,r out slaughter. He wanted them car
If tured, and he wanted them butcheret
D l hear the click and clash and clatte
e of the hoofs of the galloping steeds O
o to Damascus. Oh! do you think thu
Is proud man on horse back can ever bt
h come Christian? Yes, there is
/. voice from Heaven like thunder-cla
d uttering two words, the second tn
d same as the first, but uttered wit
It more emphasis, SO that the prou
e equestrian may have no doubt a
l. to who is meant: saul! Saul
It That man was saved, and h
5. was prosecutor; and so God can by H
d grace overcome any prosecutor. Tn
|, days of sword and fire for Christian