The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-01-03
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/ gize. ! won't forgive them until the,
ask me to forgive them. " You are n,
Christian then--I say you are no Chris
tian, or you are very lnconslsten
Christian. If you forgive not mel
their trespasses, how can you expec
your heavenly Father to forgive you,
Forgive them If they ask your forgive
ness. and forgive them anyhow. Shake
hands ali around. Good will te
men,"
0 my Lord Jesus drop that spirit
| into all our hearts this Christmas time
I tell you what the world wants more
than anything else-more helping
hands, more sympathetic hearts, more
kind words that never die, more dispo-
sition to give other people ride and
to carry the heay end of the load and
give other people the light end, and to
nscribe good motives instead Of bad,
and to fnd our happiness in making
others happy.
Out of that Bethlehem crib let the
bear and the lion eat straw like an OK.
GOOD will to men," That principle
will yet settle all controversies, and
under 1t the world will keep on i'm.
proving until there will be only two
antagonistists in all the earth, and
they will side by side take the jubilant
sleigh ride intimated by the prophet
when he said, holiness shall be on
the bells of the horses
Again, remark that born that
Christmas night in the village barn
was sympathetic union with other
worlds. From that supernatural
grouping of the cloud banks over
Bethlehem, and from the especial
trains that ran down to the scene,
find that our world is beautifully and
gloriously and magnifcently sur
rounded The meteors are with us
for ono of them ran to point down to
the birthplace. The heavens are with
us, because at the thought of our re-
demption they roll hosannas out of the
midnight sky.
Oh, yes, l do not know but that our
world may be better surrounded than
we have sometimes imagined, and |
when a child is born angels bring it,
and when it dies angels take it, and
when an old man bends under the !,
weight of yeurs angels uphold him,
and when heart breaks angels soothe
L. Angels in the hospital take care of
she sick. Angels in the cemetery to
watch our dead Angels in the church
'eady to fly heavenward with the news
IT repentant souls Angels above the
world. Angels under the world. An.
sels all around the world
Rub the dust of human imperfection
nut of your eyes and look into the
leavens and see angels of pity, angels
# mercy, angels of pardon, angels Of
lelp, angels crowned, angels charioted
The world defended by angels, Cir
led by angels, cohorted by angels
louds of angels Hear David cry out:
The chariots of God are 20, 600, even
housandsof angels. But the mightiest
ngel stood not that night in the
louds over Bethlehem; the mightiest
NIGEL that night lay among the cattle
the angel of the new covenant
As the clean white linen was being
trapped around the little form of that
hid emperor, not cherub, not a
Graph, not an angel, not world but
'ept and thrilled and shouted. Oh,
es, our world has plenty of sympa- :
,izers! Our world is only silver !
ing of great ladder at the top of I
hich is our Fathers house. No mere
ellar solitariness for our world, no a
her friendless planets spun out into u
race to freeze, but world in the
osom of Divine maternity. a star har- $
essed to manger.
Again, remark that that night born !,
that village barn was the offenders
'pe. Some sermonizers may say l n
lght to have projected this thought a
the beginning of the sermon. Oh, =
}, wanted you to rise toward 1t.
anted you to examine the comedians, =
I'd the jaspers, and the crystals, be-
re l showed you the Kohinoor-the g
own jewel of the ages Oh. that c.
wei had very poor settingi The c.
ID of bear is born amid the grand old N
liars of the forest, the whelp of lion n
kes its first step from the jungle of c.
xuriant leaf and wild flower, the kid o
goat is born in cavern chandeliered m
til stalactite and pillared with stall Jc
mite. Christ was born in bare
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Yet that nativity was the offenders fe
pc. Over the door of Heaven are II
'itten these words: None but the II
Hess may enter here" ''0h, horror" ID
u say, that shuts us all out" No. W
rist came to the world in one door ~
d He departed through another door Pr
J came through the door of the man
r, and He departed through the door =
the sepulcher, and His business was y
wash away our sin that after we are 81
ad there will be no more sin abont M
than about the eternal God know "
1t Is putting 1t strongly, but that Is ye