Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1896-10-03

bling hand does not always mean a COW
ardly hand. II was with very trembling
hand Charles Carroll Of Carrollton signed
his name to the Declaration Of American
Independence, but no signcr had more
courage and when some one said There
are many Charles CAROLS. and it will not
he known which one IL is he resumed the
pen and wrote Charles Carroll of Carroll
ton Trembling hand no sign Of timidity.
The daring and defiance seen in the way
your name Is written in heaven is "A chal-
lenge to all earth and hell Ia come on II
they can to defeat your ransomcd soul
The WAY your name Is written there is rs
much as to say: ~ have redeemed him;
died for him; am going To crown and
cnthrunc him Nothing shall even 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 10 fetch him here. He
may slip and slide. but he has got Ia come
here by my omnipotcnt sword, by the
combined strength of all heavens princi-
palitics and powers and dominiuns, by the
90, 000 chariots ~ the Lord Almighty ann
going To see him through. - Bold hand
writing Ii is the boldest thing ever writ
ten to write my name there and your name
there. lie knows our weaknesses and bad
prnpcnsities better than we know them
ourselves He knows all the ApollyOnic
hosts that are sworn to down us II they
can. lie knows all the temptations that
will aSsail us between now and the mo
ncnt OF our last pulsation Of the heart,
and yet he dares 10 write our name there.
Boldncssl Nothing nj Saragossa or Chalons
or Marathon or Thermopyln 10 equal it.
one English soldier carried under the biaz-
ing artillery Of the Mohammedans and
blew up the gate of Delhi Can you not
see the holiness in the pcnmanship that
has already written our names there:
Apostle Peter. what do you ,hink Of it:
And he answers, Kept by the power of
God through faith unto complete saliva
ton" oh. blessed Christ, what doSt thou
mean by III And lac answers. They shall
never perish, neither shall any man pluck
them out Of my hand. Your names
are written in heaven.
Plain Writing.
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 unmistakahlc.
Some people have come to consider indis
tinct and almost unrcadahic pcnmanship
mark Of genius, and 50 they affect it.
Because every paragraph that Thomas
Chalmers and Dean Stanley and Lord
Byron and Rufus Choatc and other potent
men wrote was "a puzzle. imi,ators make
their pcnmanship u puzzle. Alexandra
Dumas says that plain penman>hip is the
brcvct Of iucapacity Then there are some
who, through too much demand upon
their energies and through lack of time.
lose the capacity of making the pen intel
ligiblr and much Of the writing of this
world is indeciphcrable We have seen
piles OF incxpiicable photography. and we
ourselves have helped Augment the Inagni
tudc We have not been sure of the name
signed. or the sentiment expressed, or
whether tire reply was affirmative or mega
tive. Through indistinct penmanship last
wills and tcStaments have been defeated,
widows and orphans robbed of their inner
itancc, railroad trains brought into COLI
sion through the dim words of a telegram
put into the hand II conductor, and rcI
menis in this wise, installing their in
structions, have been sacrificed in battle.
| asked Bishop Cowie, in Auckland,
! New Zealand, the bishop having been in
many Of the wars. what Icnnyson, in his
I
/ Brigade, . meant by the words. Some one
| had Numbered. 80 and the bishop said that
the awful carnage at Ialaklava was the re
4 suit Of AN indistinctly written and wrongly
read military order some one had blum
dercd" But your name once written in
the Lambs book of life, will he 50 I'M
mistak;hle that all heaven can read 1t NJ
I the first glance II will not bc taken for
the name OF some other, So that in regard
/ to il there shall come To bc diSputa-
/ ton Not one Of the millions and
/ billions and quadrillions of the finally
saved viii 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 promiscunus
way. Not put into u lloriiicd mob. No,
no Though YOU came up tho worst sin
ncr that was ever saved and somebody
! who knew you in this world nj one time as
] absolutely abandoned and dissolute should
say, never heard OF yoUr conversion and
/ ] do not believe you have "A right Ia lie
/ here, yuu could Just laugh laugh of tri
nmph, and turning over the leaves con
! tanning the names Of the redeemed, SAY;
Read il for yourself That i my name,
written out in iull. and d. you not rccog-
nize the handwriting; No young scribe of
heaven entered that Nuanunymous writer
put II there DO you not see the trcmor in
the lincss Do you not also see thu bold
ness Of the lettcrss Is IL not rs plain as
/ yoncer throne, as plain as yonder gate: Is
I not the name unmistakahlc and the hand
writing unmistakahlcs The crucifcd Lord
/ wrote 10 there the day rcpcntcd and turn
cd. Hear IL, Hear it, My name is writ
ten there There
The List of Names.
j have sometimes been tempted To think
that there will I've So many of us in heaven
that we will me lost in the crowd. No.
/ Each one of us will he as distinctly picked
out and recognized ms was Abel when he
entered from earth. the very first sinner
saved. and at the head Of that long process
sion Of sinners saved in all the centuries.
/ My dear hearers, II we once get there. | do
not want II left uncertain as to whether
we are 10 stay there. After you and get
fairly settled there in our heavenly home
we do not want our title proved defective.
We do not want To be elected from the
heavenly premises We do not want some
one 10 say: This is not your room in the
! house Of many mansions and you have on
an attire that you ought not to have taken
from the heavenly wardrobe, and that Is
not really your name on the book. II You
had more carefully examined the writing
in the register nj the gate, you would
] have found that the name was not yours
/ ut ALL but mine. Now, move out while
move in" Oh, what wrctchcdncss. after
once worShiping in heavenly temples, To
/ be compelled To turn your back on the
music. and after having Joined the society
! of the blessed 10 hc fur,Scd To quit il for
] "a.
! lost kindred in heavenly embrace Ia have
another separation. What an agony would
/ there be in such "A gcodhy Ia heaven!
/ Glory be to God on high that our names
will he so plainly written in those volumes
that neither saint nor chcrub nor scraph
nor archangcl shall doubt il for one mo
mcnt, for 800 ctcrDitics. IL there were room
| for So many. The oldest inhabtant Of
heaven can read ii, and the child that left
/ its mothers lap last night for heaven can
read il. You will not just look ut your
name and close tho book, but YOU will
| stand and soliloquze and say: is it not
wonderful that my name is there at all:
/ How much il cost my Lord 10 get il there
! Unworthy am | 10 have il in the game
book with the sons and daughters of mar
tyrdom and with the choice spirits uf all
time! But there 1t is, and so plain the
word aud so plain all the letters,
! And you will turn forward and back
ward the leaves and see other names there
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