Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1895-10-10

i WIN OUT own eyes We Scc I'LL du'
with our own ears we can hear Film
And yet there is way Of seeing Hin
and hearing Him now. I have to tel
! you that unless you see and hear Chris
on earth, you will never see and heal
/ Him in Heaven.
1 Lookl There He is! Behold the Lamf
Of God! Can you not see Himp Their
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, "Look unto
me, all We ends of the earth, and be We
saved, for am God, and there is 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 outcast to come
and sit beside him? o, wonderful in
vitationl You can take it to-day, and
stand at the head of the dark
est 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 Him?
hope to spend eternity doing the same
thing. must see Him; must look
upon that face once clouded with my
sin, but now radiant with my pardon.
want to touch that hand that knocked
off my shackles. / want to hear the
voice that pronounced my deliverance.
Behold Him, little children; for if you
live to three score years and ten, you
will see none so fair. Behold Him, ye
aged ones; for He only can shine
through the dimness Of your failing
eyesight. Behold Him, earth. Behold
Him, Heaven. What q moment when
all the nations Of the saved shall gath
er around Christi All faces that way.
All thrones that way. gazing on Jesus.
His worth II all the nations knew
Sure the whole earth would love Him. too.
pass on now, and look at Stephen
stoned. The world has always wanted
to get rid of young men. Their very
life is an assault upon wickedness.
Out with Stephen through the gates of
the city. Down with him over the
precipices Let every man come up
and drop a 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.
II all men speak well Of you, it is be-
cause you are either laggard or dolt.
1t steamer makes rapid progress
through the waves, the water will boil
and foam all around it. Brave soldiers
of Jesus Christ will hear the carbines
click. When I see man with voice,
and money, and influence all on the
right side, and some caricature him,
and some sneer at him, and some de-
nounce him, and men who pretend to |
be actuated by right motives conspire
to cripple him. to cast him out, to de-
stroy him, l say, stephen stoned"
When see man in some great moral |
or religious reform battling against
grogshops, exposing wickedness in
high places, by active means trying to |
purify the church and better the worlds
estates, and ! find that the newspapers
anathematize him, and men, even good
men, oppose him and denounce him be-
cause, though he does good, he does not
do It in their way, 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
cannot kill him. On the day Of his
death, Stephen spoke before few peo-
pie in the sanhedrin; this Sabbath
morning he addresses all Christendom.
Paul the apostle stood on Mars hill
addressing handful of philosophers
who knew not so much about science
IS modern school girl. To-day he
talks to all the millions of Christendom
about the wonders Of justification and
the glories of resurrection. John Wes-
ey was howled down by the mob to
whom he preached, and they threw
bricks at him, and they denounced him,
Ind they jostled him, and they spat
Upon him, and yet to-day, in all lands.
le is admitted to be the great father Of
Methodism. Booths bullet vacated the
presidential chair; but from that spot
u coagulated blood on the floor in the
box OF Ford's theater there sprang up
he new life Of a nation. Stephen
toned, but Stephen alive.
Pass on now, and see Stephen in his
lying prayer. His first thought was
lot how the stones hurt his head. nor
What would become of his body. His
irst thought was about his spirit.
Lord Jesus, receive my spirit" The
murderer standing on the trapdoor, the
black cap being drawn over his head
before the execution may grimace
bout the future; but you and Ave
70 shame in confessing some anxiety
bout where we are going to come out.
lou are not all body. There is within
'ou soul. l see it CLEAN from your
yes to-day, and I see it irradiating
our countenance. Sometimes I am
dashed before an audience, not be-
ause come under your physical eve
lght, but because ! realize the truth