The Monitor-register. [volume] (Woodstown, Salem Co., N.J.) 1892-1972, 1896-11-13

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ore uolng for the rectifcatio, Of ', th;S
piahet' and they will do that -nt;, '-. as
hIe 81, ciose OF life, the pastor opens a
a LICK COOK at the head of their casket
snu reads, Blessed are the dead WIZ
ulo III 'he Lord; they rest from their 10.
MS MS ana their works do follow them
lhe sense OF the ludicrous is so thor
ougLly developed in me that when
near tnese Scripture words read at the
opsequles of one of the RELIGIONS 40
f 60, III the churches it is too much
.ur my gravity "Their works do follow
'nei what works? And in what di-
Iectlon do they follow them-up or
Gown! And do they follow on foot or on
.he wing! And how long will they follow
oe1ore they catch up? More appropriate
funeral text for all such religious dead.
beats would be the words in Matthew
XIV. ., "Our lamps are gone ont. /" One
would think that such Christians would
snow at least under whose banner thew
are enlisted. In one of the Napoleonic
| wars woman, Jeanette by name. took
her position with the troops and shout
dered a broomstick. The colonel said.
Jeannette, why do you take such a
useless weapon into the ranks:''
WELL" she said, ~ can show at least
which side am on. -
Now, the object of this sermon is to
SUR at least one-fourth of you to an am
| bltlon for that which my text presents
IN blazing vocabulary-namely, @ pas
sion for souls To prove that it is DOS
slble to have much of that spirit, bring
the conservation of 1880 foreign mis-
slonarles. 1t is usually estimated that
there are at least 5000 missionaries. /
make liberal allowance and admit
there may be 10 bad missionaries out of
the 5000. but 1 do not believe there is
one. All English and American mer-
chants leave Bombay, Calcutta, Annoy
and PekiHg as soon as they make their
fortunes. Why? Because no European
| or American in his senses would stay
in that climate after monetary induce
ments have ceased. Now, the mission
aries there are put down on the barest
necessities, and most of them do not
lay up 81 in 20 years. Why, then, do
| they stay in those lands of intolerable
heat and cobras and raging fevers, the
thermometer sometimes playing at 100
| and 14O degrees of oppressiveness, 49,
600 miles from home, because of the
| unhealthy climate and the prevailing
immoralities of those regions compelled
to send their children to England OR
Scotland CT America, probably never to
zee them again? o blessed Christi Can
| it be anything but passion for souls?
| 1t is easy to understand all this frequent
depreciation of foreign missionaries
when you know that they are all oppos.
| I'd 10 the opium traffic, and that inter-
iares with commerce, and then the mis-
fiCnaries are moral, and that is an Of
tense to many Of the merchants-not
| all CT them, but many of them-who,
absent from all home restraint, are so
| immoral that we can make only faint
| allusion to the monstrosity Of their
| denominations. Oh, would like to be at
| the gate of heaven when those mission
| aries go in, to see how they will have
| the pick Ct coronets and thrones and
mansions On the best streets of heaven.
We who have had easy pulpits and low
| ing congregations, entering heaven will,
in my opinion, have to take our turn
| ard wait fer the Christian workers
who, amid physical sufferings and men
tai privation and environment of squa-
| lor, have done their work, and on the
| principle that in proportion as one has
been self sacrificing and suffering for
| Christ's sake on earth will be their CO.
lestial preferment.
| Poor Anne Boleyn.
Who is that young woman on the
worst street in Washington, New York
| or London. Bible in hand and little
| package III which are small walls Of
| medicines, and another bundle in which
| are biscuits? How dare she risk herself
among those "roughs,' and where is
she going? She is one of the queens of
| heaven. hunting up the sick and hun
cry, and before night she will have read
Christ's "Let not your heart be trou-
| bled" in eight or ten places and count
| ed out from those walls the right num-
Der of drops to ease pain and given food
| to family that would otherwise have
! had nothing TO eat today and taken the
measure Of dead child that she may
| prepare for it shroud, her every act Of
| kindness for the body accompanied with
| a benediction for the soul. You see
nothing but the filthy street along which
/ 81, ID ba toi,
which she climbs, but she is accom-
| panied by an unseen cohort of angels
with drawn swords to defend her, and
| with gaf1ands twisted for her victories,
| all up and down the tenement house
| districts. / tell you there was not SO
| much excitement when Anne Boleyn,
on her way to her coronation, found the
| Thames stirred by 80 gilded barges,
with brilliant flags, in which hung
small bells, rung by each motion of the
wind, noblemen standing in scarlet,
and wharf spread with cloth of gold,
and all the gateways surmounted by
.huzzsllR admirers, and the streets
hung With crimson velvet, and trumpets
andcarnons sounding the jubilee, and
| Anne, dressed in surcoat Of silver It's
sue, and brow cleaning with oirclet
| of rubies, and amid fountains that
| poured Rhenish wine, passed on to
| Westminster hall and rode in on ca
parisoned palfrey, its hoofs Gathering on
the classic floor, and, dismounting, pass
ed into Westminster abbey, and, be-
tween the choir and high altar, was
crowned queen amido rgans and choirs
chanting the "Te Deum''-I say there
was not much in all that glory which
dazzles the eyes of history when it is
CON pared with the heavenly reception
which that ministering spirit of the
back alley shall receive when she goes
up to coronation. When she goes in,
| what welcome on the river of life, its
banks Of pearl lined with splendors Sc
raphic, and in temples of eternal wor-
ship, whose music is commanded by
swing of archangelic scepter, and before
thrones where sit those who have reign
ed thousand years, but have just be-
gun their dominion. Poor Anne Boleyn
in Two years after that pageant lost life
and throne by one stroke of headsman,
| but those who ON earth have a divine
passion for souls shall never lose their
thloLes. They shall reign forever and
| ever.
But after all, the best way to cult
vate HAT divine passion for souls is to
work for their salvation Under God