The Monitor-register., 1896-10-09
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letter of your heavenly name. if that bo
different and more e%uphonious. That
will not be the first time you saw the
mark OF a qulvering pen, for did Won
not, on, man, years ago see your name
so written on the back of a letter and
you opened it, saying, "Why, here is q
letter from mother" or "Here ;s a lo+
ter from father" and after you opened
it you found all the words becansa of
old age were traced irregularly and nm
certain' SO that you could hardly read
IL at an! But after much study you
made 1t out-a letter from home fell
ing you how much they missed you. and
now much they prayed for you, and how
much they wanted to see you, and if If
might not be on earth that SO it MIGHT
De IN the world where there are no mart
lngs. Yes, your name is written in
heaven, If written at all, with trem-
bling chirography.
Some Autographs.
Again. in examination of your name
In the heavenly archives, if you find if
there at all, you will find it written
with a bold hand. You have seen MANY
a signature that because of sickness or
ola age a a tremor in it, yet it was as
bold as the man who wrote it. MANY an
d written on the battlefield and
amid the thunder of the cannonade has
had evidence of excitement in every
word n 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 it.
self in every word written. You do not
need to be told that a trembling hand
does not always mean a cowardIy hand.
IL was with a very trembling hand
Charles Carroll of Carrollton signed his
name to the Declaration of American
Independence, but no signer had more
courage. And when some one said,
"There are many Charles CAROLS, and
it will not be known which one it is"
he resumed the pen and wrote Charles
Carroll OF Carrollton. Trembling hand
no sign of timidity! The daring and de-
fiance seen in the way your name is
written in heaven are a 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: ST have redeemed
him. I died for him. I am going to
crown and enthrone 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 1 am going
to fetch him here. He may slip and
slide, but he has got to come here. By
my o%mnipotent sword, by the combined
strength of all heavens pr~incipalities
and powers and dominions, by the 20,-
900 chariots of the Lord Almighty, /
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 better
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 as
sail US between now and the moment of
our last pulsation of the heart, and yet
he dares to write our name there. Bold
ness! Nothing at Saragossa Or Chalons
or Marathon or Thermopyl8 to equal
it. Nothing in the sack of gun powder
which one English soldier carried under
the blazing artillery of the Mohamme-
dams and blew up the gate of Delhi. Can
you not see the boldness in the penman-
ship that has already written our anne
there? Apostle Peter, what do you think
of it? And he answers, "Kept by the
power of God through faith unto COM
plete salvation" Oh, blessed Christ,
what dost thou mean by it? And he an
swers: "They shall never perish.
Neither shall any man pluck them out
of my hand. ''Your names are written
in heaven"
Eternal Volumes.
Again, if, according to the promise
of the text, you are permitted to look
into the volumes of eternity and shall
see your name there, you will find it
written in lines, in words, in letters
unmistakable. Some people have come
to consider indistinct and almost un-
readable penmanship a mark of genius,
and SO they affect it. Because every
paragraph that Thomas Chalmers and
Dean Stanley and Lord Byron and Ru-
fus Choate and other potent men wrote
was a puzzle. imitators make their PEN
manship a puzzle. Alexandra Dumas
says that plain penmanship is the brevet
of incapacity. Then there are some
r-I0 4bro,,vh too nnnnh dpnanH nnnn
their energies and through lack OF time,
lose the capacity of making the pen in
t%elligible, and much of the writing OF
this world is indecipherable. We have
seen piles of inexplicable chirography,
and we ourselves have helped augment
the magnitude. We have not been sure
of the name signed, or the sentiment
expressed, or whether the reply was al
frmative or negative. Through lndls-
tinct penmanship last wills and tesla
ments have been defeated, widows and
orphans robbed of their inheritance,
railroad trains brought into collision
through the dim words of a telegram
put into the hand of a conductor, and
regiments in this wise, mistaking their
instructions, have been sacrificed in
battle.
l asked Bishop Cowie, in Auckland,
New Zealand, the bishop having been
in many of the wars, what T%ennyson, in
his immortal poem, 1.-THE Charge of the
Light Brigade meant by the words,
.'Some one had b~lundered, and the
bishop said that the awful carnage at
Balaklava was the result of an indis-
tinctly written and wrongly read mill
tary order, 'tSome one had Numbered. J"
But your name, once written in the
Lambs book of life, will be SO unmis-
taxable that all heaven can read 1t at
the first glance. 1t will not be taken
for the name of some other, SO that in
regard to it there shall come to be dis
mutation. Not one of the millions and
billions and quadrilIions of the finally
saved will doubt that it means you and
only you. Oh, the glorious, the raptur-
GUS gertrude of that entrance on the
heavenly roll. Not saved in a promiscu-
GUS way. Not put into a gloriied mob.
No, mol Though you came up the worst
sinner that was ever saved, and some
body who knew you in this world at one
time as absolutely abandoned and disso-
lutte should say, 81 never heard of your
conversion, and 1 do not believe you
have a right to be here, you could just
laugh a laugh of triumph, and turning
over the leaves containing the names of
the redeemed, say: "Read it for your
self. That is my name, written out in
full, and do you not recognize the hand
writing? No young scribe of heaven en-
tered that. No anonymous writer put it
there. Do you not see the tremor in the
lines? Do you not also see the boldness
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