The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1895-09-28

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ing Him and hearing Him now.
have to tell You that unless you see
and hear Christ on earth, you will
never see or hear Him In Heaven.
Look There He isl Behold the
Lamb of God! Can you not see
Him? Then pray to God to take
the scales Off your eyes. Look
that way-try to look that way. His
voice comes down to You this day
comes down to the blindest. to the
deafest soul. saying: "Lools unto me.
all We ends OF the earth, and be We
saved, for am God, and there ii none
else" Proclamation of universal
emancipation for all slaves. Tell me,
We who know most Of the worlds his
tory. what other king ever asked
the abandoned. and the forlorn,
and the wretched, and the out
cast to come and sit beside himf
Oh, wonderful invitation You can
take it to-day, and stand ut the head
of the darkest alley in all this city,
and say: ''Come Clothes for your
rags, salve for your sores, throne for
your eternal reigning." A Christ that
talks like that, and acts like that. and
pardons like that-do you wonder
that Stephen stood looking at HimP
/ hope to spend eternity doing tho
same thing. l must see Him; l must
look upon that face once clouded with
my sin, but how radiant with my par
don. / want to hear the voice that
pronounced my deliverance. Behold
Him, little children, for if you live to
threc-score years and ten, you will see
none so fair. Behold Him, We aged
ones; for lie only can shine through
the dimness of your failing eyesight.
Behold Him, earth. Behold Him,
Heaven. What a moment when all
the nations of the saved shall gather
around Christ! All faces that way. All
thrones that way, gazing on Jesus.
| His worth IL all the nations knew
Sure the whole earth W ould love Him, too.
pass on now, and look at Stephen
stoned. The world has always wanted
to get rid of good men. Their very life
is an assault upon wickedness. Out
with stephen through the gates Of the
city. Down with him over the preci-
pieces. Let every man come up and
drop Stone upon his head. But these
men did not so much kill Stephen as
they killed themselves. Every stone
rebounded upon them. While these
murderers were transfxed by the scorn
of all good men, Stephen lives in the
admiration of all christendom. Ste
phen stoned, but Stephen alive. So all
good men must be pelted. 'All who
will live godly in Christ Jesus must
suffer persecution" 1t is no eulogy OF
man to say that every body likes him.
Show me any one who is doing all his
duty to state or church, and / will
show Won scores of men who utterly
abhor him.
If all the men speak well of you it is
because you are either q luggard or n
dolt If a steamer makes rapid prog
ress through the waves, the water will
boil and foam all around il. Brave
soldiers Of Jesus Christ will hear the
carbines click. When see man with
voice, and money, and influence all on
the right side, and some caricature
him. and some sneer ut him, and some
denounce him. and men who pretend
to be actuated by right motives con-
spire to cripple him, to cast him out,
to destroy him, l say: stephen
stoned"
When see a man In some great
moral or religious reform battling
against grogshops, exposing wicked
ness in high places, by active means
trying to purify the church and better
the worlds estate, and find that the
newspapers anathematize him, and
men, even good men, oppose him and
denounce him. because, though lie
does good, he does not do it in their
way, l say: stephen stoned" But
you notice. my friends, that while
they assaulted Stephen. they did not
succeed really in killing him. You
may assault good man, but you can
not kill him. On the day of his
death, Stephen spoke before a few
people in the Sanhedrim; this Sab
bath morning he addresses all Chris
tendon. Paul the apostle stood
on Mars hill addressing hand
full of philosophers who knew not so
much about science as modern school
girl. To-day he talks to all the mil
lions of Chrstendom about tile won
ders of Justification and the glories of
resurrection. John Wesley was howled
down by the mob to whom he preached,
and they threw bricks ut him, and they
denounced him, and they spat upon
him, and yet to-day, in all lands, he is
admitted to be the great father of
Methodism. Booths bullet vacated the
presidential chair; but from that spot
of coagulated blood on the floor in the
box OF Ford's theater there sprang up
the new life OF n nation. Stephen
stoned, but Stephenlalive.
Will the soul have to travel through
long deserts before it reaches the good
land? If we should lose our pathway,
will there be castle at whose gate we
may ask the way to the city? Oh, this
mysterious spirit within usl 1t has
two wings, but it is in a cage now. 1t
is locked fast to keep it; but let the
door OF the cage open the least and
that soul Is off. Eagles wing could
not catch it. The lightnings are not
swift enough to come up with it.
When the soul leaves the body il takes
| fifty worlds at n bound. And have 1 no
anxiety about it? Have you no anxiety
about it?
Pass on now and sea Stenhen in HE