The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1895-11-09

end hear Christ en- earth, you will |
never see or hear Him in Heaven.
Looki There He is! 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
deafcst 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 out
cast to come and sit beside him?
Oh, wonderful invitationl You can
take it to-day. aud stand at 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 Him?
I hope to spend eternity doing thu
same thing. l must see Him; / 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
three-score years and ten, you will see
none so fair. Behold Him, we aged
ones; for He only can shine through
the dimness of your falling eyesight.
Behold Him, earth. Behold Him,
Heaven. What moment when all
the natious Of the saved shall gather
around Christ! All faces that way. AL
thrones that way, gazing on Jesus.
HIS worth If 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. Theirvery 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. Bat these
| men did not so much kill Stephen as
thew killed themselves. Every stone
rebounded upon them. While these
murderers were transfixed by the scorn
of all good men, Stephen liTes in the
admiration of all christendom. Ste
phen stoned. but Stephen alive. So al
good men must be pelted. "All who
will live cody in Christ Jesus mus
suffer persecution" 1t is no eulogy o.
a man to say that everybody likes him
Show me any one who is doing all hi:
duty to state or church, and l viii
show You scores of men who utterl!
abhcr him.
If all the men speak well of you it i
because you are either laggard or
doft. II steamer makes rapid prog
ress through tho waves, the water Wi
boil and foam all around it. Brav
soldiers of Jesus Christ will hear tn
carbines click. When see man wit
voice, and money, and influence all o.
the right side, and some caricatur
him, aud some sheer at him, and som
. denounce him. aud men who preten
, to be actuated by right motives cor
spire to cripple him, to cast him out
/: to destroy him, say: "Stephe
. ston ed"
II When | see a man In some gres
. moral or religious reform bastiin
5 against grogshops, exposing wicke'
|, ness in high places, by active NEAR
= trying to purify the church and bette
[ the worlds estate, and find that tn
l newspapers anathematize him, an
a men, even good men, oppose him an
n denounce him, because, though
s does good. he does not do it In the
( way, i say: stephen stoned" ii
J. you notice. my friends, that viii
? they assaulted Stephen they did n
Il succeed really in killing him. "
|, may assault a good man, but you c;
(? not kill him. On the day OF b
death, Stephen spoke before fe
e people in the Sanhedrim; this Sa
\ bath morning he addresses all Chr
n tendon. Paul the apostle sto'
Il on Mars hill addressing han
5. full of philosophers who knew not
N much about science as modern sehc
J. girl. To-day he talks to all the IN
r. lions of Christendom about the we
N ders of justification and the glories
a. resurrection. John Wesley was howl
m down by the mob to whom he preache
lie and they threw bricks at him, and tn
ID denounced him, and they 'spat up
y, him, and yet to-day, in all lands. he
il admitted to be the great father
10 Methodism. Booths bullet vacated
lr presidential chair; but from that sE
u of coagulated blood on the floor in t
IN box OF Ford's theater there sprang
I'd the new life Of nation. Steph
at stoned, but Stephen alive.
IN Will the soul have to travel thron
of long deserts before it reaches the &c
land? If we should lose our pathw;
M will there be a castle at whose gate
VS. NAV ask the way to the city? Oh. t
SIX mysterious spirit within us! 1t
nd two wings, but it is In cage now.
W. is locked fast to keep it: but let
Ike door of the cage open the least
on that soul is off. Eagles wing CO.
zee not catch it. The lightnings are !
if swift enough to come up with
w. When the soul leaves the body it Ia
lie. fifty worlds at bound. And have |
de- anxiety about it? Have you no anxi
oh about it?
ev Pass on now, and see Stephen In
cir diving prayer. His first thought '
ON not how the stones hurt his head,
nd what would become of his body.
ZEN first thought was about his spi
If .I,ord Jesus receive my spirit"