The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1895-11-02

II tiC PooE NlCtlul itli Iou CRY,
''Shame! Shamer' at such
But the King, in this case, is our
brother, and He will see that we have
fair play. He will forbid the rushing
out of more lions han we can meet;
He will not suffer us to be tempted
above that we are able. Thank Godl
The King is i'm the gallery His eyes
are On us. His heart is with ms. His
hand will deliver US blessed are all
they who put their trust in Him.
look again, aud l see the angelic
gallery. There they are; the angel
that swung the sword at the gate of
Eden, the same hat Ezekiel say up
holding the throne OF God, and from
which l look away, for the splendor is
insufferable. Here are the guardian
angels. That one watched q patriarch;
this u protected a child. That one
has been pulling q soul out Of tempta-
ton! All these are messengers of
light! Those drove the Spanish
Armada on the rocks. This turned
Sennacherib's living hosts into q
heap of one hundred and eighty.
five thousand corpses. Those, yon-
der. chanted the Christmas carol over
Bethlehem, until the chant awoke the
shepherds. These, at creation. stood
in the balcony OF Heaven, and serenad-
ed the new born world wrapped in
swaddling clothes Of light. And there,
holier and mightier than all, Is Mi.
chael, the archangel. To command an
earthly host gives dignity; but this
one is leader of the twenty tho usand
chariots of God, and Of ten thousand
times ten thousand angels. I think
God gives command TO the archangel,
and the archangel TO the seraphim, and
the seraphim to the oherubim, until all
the lower orders OF Heaven hear the
command, and 60 forth on the high be-
hest
Now, bring on your lions! Who can
fear? All the spectators In the angelic
gallery are our friends. HE shall
give His angels charge over thee, 10
keep thee in all thy ways. They shall
bear thee up in their hands, lest thou
dash thy foot against . stone. Thou
shalt tread upon the lion and adder;
the young lion and the dragon shalt
thou trample under foot" Though
the arena be crowded with tempta-
tions, we shall, with the angelic help,
strike them down In the name Of our
God, and leap on their fallen carcassssi
Hook again and I Q the gallery Of
the prophets and apostles. Who are
those mighty ones up yonder? Hosea
and jeremiah and Daniel and Isaiah
and Paul and Peter and John and
James. There sits Noah, waiting for
all the world TO come into the ark; and
Moses. waiting till the last Red sec
shall divide; and Jeremiah, waiting for
the Jews to return; and John, of the
Apocalypse, waiting for the swearing
Of the angel that Time shall be no
longer. Glorious spiritsl Ye were
howled at; ye were stoned; ye were
spit upon! They have been In the
fight themselves, and they are all with
III Daniel knows all about lions.
Paul fought with beasts at Ephesua.
In the ancient amphitheater the peo-
pie got 10 excited that they would
shout from the galleries to the men In
the arena: AT It again. "Forwardw.
Zone moro stro,seg" Look outr' Fall
backr" ''Huzzai huxzar' So in that
gallery, prophetic and apostolic. they
cannot keep their peace. Daniel cries
out: Thy God will deliver thee from
The mouth Of the liousr David sx-
claims: HE will not suffer thy foot
to be movedr' Isaiah calls out: Fear
not! I am with theel Be not dis.
msyedr Paul exclaims: Victory
through our Lord Jesus Christi" That
throng Of prophets and apostles csn.
not L~>o .SnI Th>u -ola A. c,>ll-S-
ring with shouting and hallelujahs.
look again, and I see the gallery Of
the martyrs. Who IL that? Hugh
Latimer. lure enoughi He would not
apologize for the truth preached; md
70 he died. the night before, swinging
from the bedpost In perfect glee at the
thought Of emancipation. Who are that
army of 6,666P They are the Thebau
legion who died for the faith. Here is
. larger host in magnificent array
ss4. O00-who perishsd for Christ In the
prosecutions Of Diocletian. Youdsr
Ii . family group, Felicitaa, Of
Rome, and her children. While
they we're dying for the faith she
stood encouraging them. Ono son ives
whipped to death BY thorns; another
was dung from . rock; another was be-
headed. AZ last tho mother became q
martyr. There they are together
family group In Hsavsni
II all the martyrs stakes that
have bsen kindled could be set II
proper distances, they would make the
midnight, all the world over, bright a
noondayi And now they sit yonder Ia
the martyrs gallery. For them the
ares Of persecution have gone out.
The swords are sheathed and the moi
hushed. Now they watch us with an
sll-observing sympathy. They know
all the pain, all the hardship. all the
anguish. all the injustice, oil the pri.
walton. They cannot keep still. They
cry: Courage! The Gre will not con.
sumo. Tho fire will not consume.
Tho foods cannot drown. The lions
cannot devouri Courage! down there
In the arena
I look again and I 300 smother gal,
lery, that of eminent Christians. What
strikes me strangely Is the mixing IN
compauionship Of those who on earth
copld not agree. There I zee Martin
Luther, aud beside him . Roman Cath
Ollie who looked beyond the supersti'
tions Of his church and Is saved.
There IL Albert Barnes, and around
him the presbytery who tried him
for heteroioxy! Yonder il Ly'
man Beecher aud the church court
that denounced him! Stranger than
all, there Il John Calvin and James
Arminiusi Who would have thought
that they would sit 90 lovingly
together. There ID George Whitefeld
and the bishops who would not let him
come into their pulpits because they
thought him q fanatic. There are the
sweet siugers, Toplady. Montgomery.
Charles Wesley, Isaac Watts and Mrs
SiRourney. II Heaven had had nc
music before they went up they would
have started the singing. And there,
the band of missionaries: David
Abeel, talking Of China redeemed
and John Scudder, of India saved
and David Brainerd, Of the aboriginei
evangelized; and Mrs. Adonirau
Judson. whose prayers for Bur
NAH took Heaven by violencei AL
these Christians are looking into the
srens. Our struggle Is nothing e
theirs. Do we. in Christ's cause. suffer
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