Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-09-27

On the day % his death stephen SPOKE b.
fore few people In the sanhelEin. This
sabbath morning he Addresses Christ-n-
Som. Paul, the apostle. stood on Mars
bid. Addressing q handful Of philosophers
who knew not - much about science ~ a
modem schoolgirl. To-day he talks 70 all
the millions % Christrni0m about the won
ieg- ~ Justification AMI the elDries % the
resurrection. John Wesley was h1wlsi
down hy the mob 20 whom he Preached. and
they threw bricks az him, aui they de-
nouu'el him. aUt they josiiel him. and
they -gat upon him. sud We, today. in all
lIuls, hs j. admitted % De- the great father
10 Msth1li-n. Booths bullet vacated the
Presidential chai- hut from that splt 0f
roacIlatei blood on the iioor In the box 81
Ford's Theatre there spranL mp the new life
Of a Nation. stephen stoned, but stephen
alive
Pass on now and sea Stephen in his diving
prayer. His first thought was not how tho
stones hurt his head. nor what would be-
come Of his body. His first thought was
about his shirt Lord Jesus reeeive my
spirit. The murderer standing on the trap
door, the black cap being drawn over his
head before the execution, may grimace
about the future. but YOU and ] have no
shame in cOnfeSsing some anxiety abOu:
where We are going to come out. You are
not all body. There is within YOU a soul.
see II CLEAN from your eyes to-day. and
see 1t lrradiating your cOuntenance. Some
times | am abashed before an audience,
not because | come under your physical
rvesight hut because I raaliza the truth
that l stand before so many immortal
spirits. The probability ia that your body
Will az last lind a sepulcher In some Of the
cemeteries that surround this city. There IL
no doubt that your obsequies will be decent
aud respectful and you will be able to pillow
your head under the maple, or the Norway
spruce. or the cypress or the blOssoming tlr
but this spirit about which Stephen prayed,
what direction will that take? What guide
will escort III What gate will open 10 re-
ceiveit2 What cloud will be cleft for its
pathway? After il has got beyond che light
Of our sun will there be- torches lighted for
1t the rest OF the wav?
Will the soul have to travel through long
deserts before It reaches the good landI II
we should lose our pathway will there be
castle at whose gate Wa may ask the way to
the city2 Oh, this mysterious spirit within
Us. 1t has two wings. but it is in a cage now.
It ia locked fast to keep it, but let the door
OF this cage open the least, and that soul is
OH. Eagles wing could not catch it. The
lightnlngs are not swift enough to come up
with il. When the soul leaves the body It
takes fifty worlds at a bound. And have |
no anxiety about it? Have you no anxiety
about it,
do not care what you DO with my body
when nv soul Is zone or whether Won be.
ieye in cremation Or inhumatiop. | shall
slpan inst AZ we'll in ., yrraDpino, nf -anLolotb
As in satin lined with eagles down. But NV
Soul-before I close this discourse viii find
out where it will land TbauL; God for tns
ntimation of my text that when we die
Jesus takes US. That answers all questions
for me. What though there were massive
bars between here and tho City Of Light
Jesus could remove them. What
though thers were great SaharaS Of
darkness. jesus could Hume them.
What though get weary On the wav. Christ
could lift me On His omuipotent shoulder.
What though there We're rhasms q cross
His hand could transport me-. Then let
Stephens PRAYER be NV diving itanv. Lord
Jesus. receive my spirit Il NAV De in that
hour we will be too fre.Is to say a long
prayer. It may be in that hour we will not
be Able to say the Lords PRAYER for If has
seven petitions Perhaps we may 5e too fee
bic even to say the infant PRAYER our mothers
taught Us, which john Quincy Adams, sew
enty years OF age. said every night when hs
put his head uuOn hi, pillow.
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