Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-04-26

ma !. t5-,.sfh I'd thai 9. he said -rha li--L-r-I
yr5r.i % PRAYER would roll hack ga me Lk'
rocks on a drowning MAJ. 1 have r11r G.
tta boar oft-si. hal a clau-s, hat jog
irit-i IL. | believed ia a liar, aul D. - %.
me iu the lur.h. Mary. bring me- Tom A.n'
that hook that / swIrr hy AMI hYri hs
aud pitch il into the fire. and lri . burn 'ii
burn a. I my-alf shall soon buru- An la.H'
with the foam GA has lip ami his hands '--
Ing wildly IN the air, be cried OUT "a on 50
n,.s- or darkness. Oh, my u.i. To il.
AMI the spirits Of darkness whistiel az .Ft.
him. stripping the slain.
Sin l. a luxury now, b is exclamation naE
IL is victory now. But auer awhile IL J. COZ
lision. IL i defeat; q j. determinations u D.
iarkalism: IL Is rUhhiug tn dead 10 j. stnp
ling the slain. Give IL up to-day gave Il
uu, ON. how YOU have l--n car..tri ul, my
brother. from one thing O. another. Al
these year- you have been under an "Ni
mastery that you understood not. What
have YOUR companions done Tor You. Nhai
have they done for your health. Nearly
ruined IL by rarDusal. What have iheN done
for Your fortune. Almost scattered u hl
speuithrilt behavior. What have they done
for your rcputgtiUUt Almost ruined u with
good men. What have they done for your
immortal -ouly Almost insured it, uver,
throw.
You are Fastening on toward the cuu-uu-
nation Of all that Is sal. To-day g,u stop and
think, but II Is only fora moment, and then
you VIII tramp on. ami az the close OF TINS
service YOU viii 40 out. uu1 the question
will br. How did You like the sermon:
And one mau will SAY. Il liked 1t very we'll.
and another man will say, Il didn't like Il
at all, ~ but neither Of the answers will touch
the tremendous fact that II imprnitrEi You
are going at thirty knots an hour toward
shipwreck. Yea YOU are In battle WHERE
YOU will fall, and while your surviving re-
utiyes will take your remaining estate aud
the cemetery will take your body the mgs-su-
gers OF darkness will take your soul and
come and 20 about you, stripping the slain.
Many are CRYING out, II admit | am slain.
! admit it. On what battlefield, my broth
ersl BY what weapon Polluted iwaStuu-
ton. says one man; Intoxicating liquor,
SAWS another man; Ny own hard heart,
saws another man. Do you realize thi-y
Then | come 70 tell YOU that the omnipo-
tent Christ Is ready 10 walk across this bat
tlciield and revive and resu-citate ana resur-
rect your dead soul Let Him take your
hand and rub away the numbnes- your head
and battle on the aching, your heart and
stop its wild throb. He brought Lazarus TO
life. He brought Jairus's daughter 10 life. He
brought tho young man Of Main to life, and
these are three proofs anyhow that H. can
bring you to life.
When the Philistiues came down on the
field, they stepped between the cOrpses and
they rolled over the dead. and they took
away everything that was valuable. And -
ii was with the people that followed after the
armies at Charlottesville and at PittSburg
Landing and at Stone River and at Atlanta,
stripping the slain, but the Northern and
Southern womcn-God bless them-came on
the field with basins and pads and towels
and lint AMI curdials and Christian en-
couragemgnt, and the poor fellows that lay
there lifted uY their arms AMI said. "Oh.
how good that does feel since You dressed
it, And others looked up and said "Oh.
how you make me think Of my mother"
And others said, Tell the folks at home l
died thinking about them And another
looked up and said. Miss. won't You sing
me verse % Home, Sweet Home. before
( die And then the tattoo was sounded. and
! the hats wer" OIL. and the service was read
| Il am the resurrection and the life. And
! in honor OF the departed the mu.kets were
| loaded and the command given. Present
/ fire. And there was a 7hiuglr set up at tho
| head of the grave. with the clituph 81
| Lieutenant -- in the Fourteenth NGS-g-
! chusttts regular or Captain - in the
/ Fifteenth regiment Of South Carolina youu-
| tccrs. Aud so now, across this great field
| Of moral and spiritual battle, the angels Of
/ God come walking among the slain, and
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| one night I saw tragedy on the corner
! OF Broadway and Houston street. young
/ man, evidently doubling a. to which diru.-
! ton he had better take, his hat lifted high
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