The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-09-13

qucrOT we are gong TO uTaW y
SMILES from t-irmphal arch and or
J torio and everything grand and st
pendous, The French navy ha,
eighteen flags by which they CIV
signal. but those eighteen hags the
can put into sixty-six thousand diffe
ent combinations And have to te
you that these standards of the Gro.
may be lifted into combinations il
finite and varieties everlasting. An
| let me say to these young men VIII
come from the theological seminarie
into our services, and are, afterawhile
going to preach Jesus Christ Yo
| will have the largest liberty and I'M
limited resource. You only have t.
present Christ in your own way.
Brighter than the light, fresher thar
the fountains, deeper than the seas
are all these Gospel themes. Song hal
no melody, flowers no sweetness. sun
set sky no color compared with these
glorious themes. These harvests Of
grace spring up quicker than we can
sickle them Kindling pulpits with
their fire, and producing revolutions
with their glory, they are the sweet
est thought for the poet, and they are
the most thrilling illustration for the
orator, and they offer the most intense
scene for the artist, and they are to
the ambassador of the sky all en-
thnsiasn Complete pardon for
direst guilt. Sweetest comfort
for g.lastliest agony. Bright
est hope for grimmest death.
Grandest resurrection for darkest
sepulcher. Oh. what a Gospel to
preach! Christ the Chief. His birth,
His suffering, His miracles. His para
bles, His sweat. His tears, His blood,
His atonement, His intercession-what
glorious themesl Do we exercise
'aith? Christ is its object Do we
rave love? 1t fastens on Jesus. Have
We fondness for the church? 1t is
because Christ died for it. Have we
rope of Heaven? 1t is because Jesus
vent there, the herald and the fore
unner. The royal robe of Demetrius
vas so costly, so beautiful, that after
e had put it off no one ever dared to
rS it on; but the robe of Christ,
cher than that, the poorest and the
'eakest and the worst may wear
Where sin abounded, grace may much
ore abound"
"Oh. my sins, my sinsl" said Martin
luther to Staupitz, my sins, my sins!"
he fact is that the brawny German
udent had found a Latin Bible that s
AIDE him quake; and when he found I
NV, through Christ, he was pardoned
ID saved, he wrote to friend, say Q
g: Come over and join us great and t
'ful sinners saved by the grace OF t
d. You seem to be only slender q
lner, and you don't much extol the b
roy of God; but we that have been n
n very awful sinners praise His q
ice the more now that you are so a
'perately egostistical that you feel Il
,rself in first-rate spiritual trim, RI
that from the root of
hair to the tip of the toe i
are scarless and immaculate? IS
at you need is looking glass, and as
g it is in the Bible. Poor and tn
tched and miserable and blind and ia
ed from the crown of the head to CT
sole of the foot, full of wounds Sc
purifying sores. No health in us. sp
then take the fact that Christ ly
lered mp all the notes against us
paid them, and then offered us the an
ipt! And how much we need Him gi'
lr sorrows! We are independent ga
IL va Lar. uis sill
e. Why, He made Paul sing in the I'M
,eon, and under that grace St pu
l from desolate Patmos heard the tnt
of the apocalytic trumpets. Az oes
III other candles have been snuffed Tie
this is the light that gets brighter AM
brighter unto the perfect day; and we
:, under the hard hoofs of ca 'es
ty, all the pools of worldly enjoy ant
have been trampled into deep ant
at the foot OF the eternal rock cia
Christian, from cups of granite oes
puts out the thirst of his Die
the
ain | remark, that Christ is chief pro
ing alterations. have not anv Inc
athy with the morbidity abroad
onr demise. The emperor of wh'
arranged that on the wht
II his coronation the stonemason God
d come and consult him about bon
that after awhile he graz
need And there are men who VINO
nonomaniacal ON the subject of mot
ture from this life by death. and We
lore they think of II the loss tb.n viii
prepared to GO This is an nm graz
ness not worthy of you, not eacf
" of me. erar
ldin, the greatest conqueror of enei
he had ON him be oaur;sS -. viii,
ath on his spear at the he ad of rec
my. and that then the soldier, Oh u
nd anon, should stop and saw: 20