Milford chronicle., 1896-04-24

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have read how the Swiss, when they
are far away from their native country, al
the sound OF their national air get SO home
sick that they fall into melancholy ant
sometimes they die under tho homesiok
ness. But oh, the homesickness ol
Christ. Poverty homesick for celestial
riches. Persecution homesick for no
sauna. WEAKNESS homesick for rest
Homesick for angelic and arohangcllC
companionship Homesicz to get out OF
the night and the storm and the world's
execration. HOmesickness will make a
week seem ms long as a month and il
seems to me that the three decades OF
Christ's residence on earth must have
seemed to him almost interminable. You
1 have often tried to measure the other
pangs of Christ, but you have never tried
! to measure the magnitude and ponderosity
Of a Saviour's homesickness.
! take a step farther and tell you that
| Christ was in an exile which he knew
would end in assassination. Holman
Hunt, the master painter, has picture in
which he represents Jesus Christ in the
Nazarene carpenter shop. Around him
are the saws, the hammers, the axes, the
drills of carpentry. The picture represents
Christ as rising from the carpenters work
ing bench and YEARLY stretching out his
arms as one will after boing in contracted
or uncomfortable posture and the light of
that picture is so arranged that the arms
Of Christ, wearily stretched forth, together
with his body, throw on the wall the
shadow Of the cross. Oh, my friends, that
shadow was on everything in Christ's life
time. Shadow of a cross on the Bethlehem
swaddling clothes; shadow of a cross on
the road over which the three fugitiyes fled
into Egypt; shadow of a cross on Lake
Galilee as Christ walked its mosaic floor
of opal and emerald and crystal; shadow
of cross on the road to Emmaus; shadow
of cross on the brook Kedron, and on the
temple, and on the side of Olivet; shadow
of cross on sunrise and sunset. Con-
stantine, marching with his army, saw
just once cross in the sky, but Christ
saw tho cross all the time.
The Doom of a Desperate.
On rough journey we cheer ourselves
with the fact that it will end in warm hos
pitality, but Christ knew that his rough
path would end at a defoliaged tree, with
out one leaf and with only two branches,
bearing fruit of such bitterness as no hui
man lips had ever tasted. Oh, what an
exile, starting in an infancy without any
cradle and ending in assassination Thirst
without any water, day without any sun
light The doom of Desperate for more
than angelic excellence. For what that
repatriation and that exilcY Worldly good
sometimes comes from worldly evil, The
accidental glance Of sharp blade from a
razor grinders wheel put out the eye of
Gambetta and excited sympathies which
gained him an education and started him
on a career that made his name more ma
jestic among Frenchmen than any other
name in the last 90 years Haw horne,
turned out Of the office Of collector at Sa-
lem, gent home IN despair. His wife
touched him on tho shoulder and said,
g Now is the time to write your book Il"
and his famous Scarlet Letter" was the
BRILLIANT consequence.
Worldly good sometimes comes from
worldly evil. Then DO not unbolieying
when l tell you that from the greatest
crime of all eternity and Of the whole uni
verse, the murder of the Son of God, there
shall come results which shall eclipse all
the grandeurs of eternity past and eternity
to come. Christ, an exile from heaven
opening the way for the deportation to-
ward haayeR ENG to heayeR Of all those
who will accept tho proifeF. Atonoment,
4 ship large enough to take all the passen=
gers that will come aboard it.
A Land Of Voluntary Exile.
For this royal exile bespeak the love
md service of all the exiles here present,
md, in one sense or the other, that in
dudes all of us. The gates of this CONT
lent have been so widely opened that there
.ro here many voluntary eXiles from other
ands. Some Of you are Scotchmen. see
{ in your high cheek bones and in the
iolor that illumines your face when I
mention the land of your nativity. Bon
~ Sootlandl Dear old kirk Some of
our ancestors sleeping in Greyfriars
OF by tho deep loohs llled put
# the pitchers of heaven, or under che
leather, sometimes SO deep of color it
makes one think of the blood of the Cove
lanteFs who signed their names for
christ, dipping theiE peps into the veins
# their own arms opened for that purpose,
low every fiber of your nature thrills as
mention the names of Robert Bruce and
he Campbells and Cochrane. I bespeak
or this royal exile of my text the love and
be service of all Scotch exiles. Some Of
GU are Englishmen. Your ancestry served
he Lord. Have 1 not read of the suffer
ngs Of the Haymarket? And have not
cen in Oxford the very spot where Ridley
nd Latimer mounted the red chariot
ONE of your ancestors heard George White
cid thunder, OF beard Charles Wesley
ing, or heard John Bunyan tell his dream
f the celestial city, and the oathedrals un'
er the shadow Of which some of you were
orn had in their grandest organ roll the I
anne Of the Messiah.
bespeak for the royal exile of my SER ]
i 81. p
ziles Yes, some of you came from the I
land of distress over which hunger, on /
throne Of human Skeletons sat queen.
Il efforts at amelioration halted by mas
lore. Procession Of famines, procession c
martyEdOms maFchjng from nOrthern '
lannel to Cape Clear and from the Irish !
"a across to the Atlantic. An island not
FUNDED as gengraphers tell US, but as c
lery philanthrnplst knows bounded on
10 north and the south and the east and
10 west by woe which no human politics !
IN alleviate and only Almighty God can
isuago. Land of Goldsmith rhythm, |
nd Sheridan wit, and O'Connells clio /
lenoe, and Edmund Burke's statesman t
Zip, and O'Brien's sacrifice. Another o
atmOs with its apocalypse Of blood. Yet +
~ cannot think of it today without hav- Il
g your eyes blinded with emOtionl for 4
iere your ancestors sleep il graves, some 1
which they entered for lnck Of bread p
Of this royal exile of my sermon I be-
ealS the love and the service Of all Irish
lies Yes, some of you are from Ger,
any tho land Of Luther, and some Of
u ore from Italy, the land Of Garibaldi, '
ID some of you are from France the land e
John Calvin, one of the three mighties Il
the glorious reformation. Some of you s.
Q descendants of tho Puritans, and they fl
Gro exiles, and some of you are descend ID
It's of the Huguenots, and they were ex- p
IS, and some Of you are descendants Of O.
Q Holland refugees, and they were ex-
IS. b
Heaven the EKile's Hgme, 81
Some Of you were born on the banks Of a.
e Yazoo or the Savannah, and you are ST
w living in this latitudel some Of you Fl
the banks Of the Kennebec OF at the IL
NJ of tho f1pnar at,orrnfofnc and Won ara