The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-10-17

makes the hand tremble worse thai
hunger. for II pulls upon the stomach
J and the stomach pulls upon the brain
and the brain pulls upon the nerves
and the agitated nerves makes the
hand quake. On the top of all THU
evaporation came abuse. What sober
man ever wanted to be called drunk
ard? but Christ was called one. What
respecter Of the Lords day wants tc
be called n abbath-breaker? but He
was called one.
What man, careful of the company
he keeps, wants to be called the asso.
ciate of profigatesp But He was &C
called. What loyal man wants to be
charged with treason? But He was
charged with it What man of dcvout
speechwants to be called blasphemer9
But He was so termed. What man of
self-respect wants to be struck in the
mouth? But that is where they struck
Him. Or to be the victim Of vilest ex.
pectoration? But under that He
stopped. Oh, He was worn-out Christ.
That is the reason He died so soon up
on the cross. Many victims OF cruci-
fixion lived day after day upon
the cross; but Christ was in
the courtroom at I2 o'clock of
noon and He had expired ut
three o'clock in the afternoon Of the
same day. Subtracting from the
three hours between ~ and q o'clock
the time taken to travel from the
court room to the place of execution
and the time that must have been
taken in getting ready for the tragedy,
there could not have been much more
than two hours left Why did Christ
live only two hours upon the cross.
when others had lived 4S hours? Ali!
he was worn out before He got there,
and you wonderT oh, child of God,
that, looking into the volumes
OF Heaven for your name you
find it was written with a
trembling penmanship-tre trembling
with every letter of your name,
II it be your earthly name, or
trembling with every letter of your
heavenly name, il that be different
and more euphonious That will not
be the first time you saw the mark of
a quivering pen. for did you not, oh
man, years ago see your name so writ
WI Sh buS oaSh VI IL LUIGI, anu YOU
opened it, saying. "Why, here is let
ter from mother" or Here is letter
from father" and after you opened
it you found all the words, be-
cause of old age. were traced irregu-
larly and uncertain, so that you could
hardly read it at all. But after much
study you make it out-a letter from
home, telling you how much they
missed you, and how much they prayed
for you. and how much they wanted to
see you, and if it might not be on
earth that SO it might be in the world
where there are no partings. Yes,
your name is written in Heaven, if
written at all, with trembling chirog-
raphy.
Again, in examination of your name
in the heavenly archives, il you find it
there at all, you will find H. written
with bold hand. Yos have seen
many a signature that because of
sickness or old age had q
tremor in it, yet it was as
bold rs the man who wrote IL.
Many an order written on the BATTLE
field and amid the thunder of this
ment in every word and every letter
and in the speed with which it was
folded,and handed to the officer as he
put his foot in the swift stirrups, and
yet that commander, Notwithstanding
his trembling hand, gives a boldness
of order that shows itself in every
word written. You do not need to be
told that trembling hand does not
always mean cowardly hand. 1t
was with a very trembling hand
Charles Carroll, of Carrollton, signed
his name to the Declaration of Ameri-
can Independence. but no signer had
more courage, and when some one
said, There are many Charles Car
rolls, and it will not be known which
one it is" he resumed the pen and
wrote Charles Carroll of Carrollton.
Trembl ing hand no sign of timidity.
The daring and defiance seen in the
way your name is written in Heaven
is challenge to all earth and hell to
come on if they can to defeat your
ransomed soul. The way your name
is written there is as much as to say:
Il have redeemed him; died for him;
AIN kOlnR W CIoWh
him. Nothing shall ever happen down
in that world where he now lives
to defeat my determination to keep
him, to shelter him, to save him. BY
my almighty grace am going to fetch
him here. He may slip and slide, but
he has got to come here. BY my ON
nipotent sword, by the combined
strength of all Heavens principalities
and powers and dominions, by the 20
900 chariots of the Lord Almighty, l
am going to see him through" Bold
handwriting! 1t is the boldest thing
ever written to write my name there
and your name there. He knows our
weaknesses and bad propensities bet
ter than we know them ourselves.
He knows all the apollyonic hosts that
are sworn to down US if they can. He
knows all the temptations that will
assail us between now and the moment
of our last pulsation of the heart, and
yet he dares to write our name there.
Boldness! Nothing at Saragossa, or
Chalons, or Marathon, or Thermopylae