Milford chronicle., 1895-03-29


without a direct communication from q
throne Of God, in response to prayerf
solicitation We may find many interes
ing things about the Bible without especi
illumination, as how many horses Sol
mon had in his stables or how long W,
Noah's ark. or who was tho only woma
whose full name is given in the Sorir
lures, or which is the middle verse of Il
Bible, and all that will do you no MOI
good than TO be able to tell how man
beanpoles there are in your neighbor
garden
The learned Earl of Chatham heard tb
famous Mr. Cecil preach about the HoI
Ghost and said to a friend on the wa
home from church Il could not undel
stand it, and do you suppose anybody ur
derstood it? Oh, yes, said his Chris
tian friend there were uneducated won
en- and some little children present VIII
understood it. 1 warrant you that tb
English soldier had under supernal infiu
enco read the book, for after the battle o
Inkorman was over he was found dea,
with his hand glued to the page of tn
open Bible by bis own blood and tn,
words adhered to his hands as they burie,
him, Il am the resurrection and the life
he that believeth in me though dead. vel
shall he live
As a Regeneration.
Next consider the Holy Ghost as a hu-
man reconstructor We must be made
over again, Christ and Nicodemus talked
about it. Theologians call it regeneration
l do not care what you call it, but we have
to be reconstructed by the Holy Ghost.
We become new creatures, hating what
we once loved and loving what we once
hated. If sin were a luxury it must be-
come detestation If we preferred bad
associations, we must prefer good associa-
tions- In most cases it is such complete
change that the world notices the differ
ence and begins to ASK: What has come
over that man2 Whom has he been WITH
What has so affected him2 What has ran
sacked his entire nature? What has turned
him square ab0utf Take two pictures Of
Paul-one on the road to Damascus to kill
the disciples Of Christi the other on the
road to Ostia to die for Christ Come
nearer home and look at tho man who
found his chief delight in a low class Of
olubrooms. hiccoughing around the card
table and then stumbling down the front
steps after midnight and staggering
and that same man one week
lfterward with his family on the way to a
prayer meeting What has done it? It
must be something tremendous 1t must
DO God 1t must be the Holy Ghost
Notice the Holy Ghost as the soIacer Of
lroken hearts Christ calls him the com
orter Nothing does the world so much
want as comfort The most of people have
,een abused misrepresented, cheated, lied
bout, swindled, boreft What is needed
S balsam for the wounds lantern for dark
Dads, rescue from maligning pursuers
lift from the marble slab of tombstones
life TO most has been a semifaiiure They
ave not got what they wanted They
ave not reached that which they started
lr Friends betray Change of business
tand loses old custom and does not bring
nOugh custom to make up for the loss.
lealth becomes precarious when one most
eeds strong muscle, and steady nerve,
nd clear brain. Out of this audience of
and thousands, if / should ask
Il those who have been unhurt in the
ruggle of life to stand up, or all stand
lg to hold up their right hand, not one
Ould move Oh, how much we need the
oily Ghost as confortorl He recites the
veet gospel promises TO the hardly
'stead He assures of mercy mingled
ith the seventies He consoles with
oughts of coming release He tells of
heaven where tear is never wept, and
lrden is never carried and injustice is
,ver suffered Comfort for all the young
ople who are maltreated at home, or re- E
i've insufficient income or are robbed of
cir schooling, or kept back from posi-
ms they have earned by the putting
rward of Others less worthy Comfort i
: all these men and women midway in s
@ path Of life worn out with what they (
We already gone through and with no n
ghtening future Comfort for these o
ed ones amid many inhmities and who v
j themselves to be in the way in the h
me or business which themselves estab f
he'd with their own grit
Comfort From Within. S,
The Holy Ghost comfort / think general 3
comes in the shape of a soliloquy You it
4 yourself saying to yourself. Well, n
yht not to go on this way about my n
theirs death She had suffered enough ev
3 had borne other peoples burdens long D,
ugh. am glad that father and moth SC
are together in heaven. and they will tC
waiting to greet US, and it win be only it
title while anyhow and God makes no Ii
stakes or you soliloquize, saying: 1T al
ard to lose my property / am sure 1 bI
'ked hard enough for 1t. But God will th
@ care of us, and, as to the children, the W
ley might have spoiled them, and we fu
that those who have to struggle for
nselves generally turn out hest, and it vi
all be well if this upsetting Of our ov
Idly resources leads US to lay up treas or
) in heaven. Or you soliloquize, say til
1t was hard to give up that boy ca
N the Lord took him I expected great
lgs of him. and, oh, how we miss him Gle
of the house, and there are so many vi.
gs come across that make one think VIC
i'm, and he was such splendid fellow. Gel
then what an escape he has made from
and sorrows which come Oh
all who grow up and It is a grand toe
g to have him safe from all possible DIT,
n, and there are all those Bible prom Do
for parents who have lost children
we shall feel a drawing heavenward ~, a.
we could not have otherwise expert ~
d. And after you have said that you W.
that relief which comes from an out ai
L Of tears / do not say to you, as ~
3 say, do not cry. God pity people in ~ ~
bic who have the parebed eyeball, and ~
dry eyelid, and cannot shed a tear 81
J makes maniacs To Gods people 10
are the dews OF the night dashed an
sunrise am so glad you can weep as as
you think these things you say to ~ ~
self are only soliloquies No, no ~ ~
are the Comforter who is the Holy ~ ~
,tice also the Holy Ghost as the preach ~ ~
reinforcement You ana / have ~
yn preachers encyclopedia in know "B
brilliant as an iceberg when the sun tho
es it. and with Chesteriieldian ad bel
, and rhetorical hand uplifted with
ond big enough to dazzle an assem-.
and so surcharged with vocabulary Ho
when they left this life it might be eleC
Of each Of them as De Quincy said Of ton
her that in the act of dying he com viii
ID a robbery, absconding with valu VIII
polyglot dictionary, yet no awaken inv
OF converting OF sanctifying result, ing
} some plain man, with humbiest mai
ieology, has seen audiences wheImed leri
religious influence. 1t was the Holy wir
6 What useful thing it would be fror
lry minister would give the history acre
is sernonsi Years ago at an out in I