The Monitor-register., 1896-07-17
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SHOWS more nupIi1Jy OF character man
some human specimens that we wot of
but the NANCY ours of the oriental cities
as know by my own observation. ara
utterly detestable. Mephibosheth o;vas
the utmost term of self loathing who,
he compares himself to dog, and dead
at that
Consider the analogy. When the COM
mand is given from the palace of heaven
to the human soul to come, the soul be.
gins to tremble. 1t says: ''What is God
going to do with me now? Is he poino
to destroy me? Is he going to wreak his
vengeance upon me?" There is more
than one Mephibosheth trembling now
because God has summoned him to the
palace OF divine grace. What are Won
trembling about? God has no pleasure
in the death of a sinner He does NOT
send for you to hurt you. He sends for
you to do you good. A Scotch preacher
had the following circumstances broupbt
under his observation: There was n moor
woman In the parish who was about to
be turned out because she could not pay
her rent. One night she heard a loud
knocking at the door, and she made no
answer and hid herself. The rapping
continued louder, louder, louder, but
she made no answer and continued to
hide herself. She was almost frightened
unto death. She said, That's the Off
Ger of the law come to throw me out of
my home.
A few days after Christian philan-
thropist met her i'll the street and said:
MY poor woman, where We're you the
other night? came round to your house
to pay your rent Why didn't you let
me in? Were you at homer" "Why,"
she replied. twas that you?" Eyes,
that was me. l came to pay your rent" "
why" she said, ''if 1 had had any
idea it was you 1 would have let you
In. thought it was an officer come to
cast me out of my home" o soul. that
loud knocking at the gate today is not
the sheriff come to put you in Jail it is
the best friend you ever had come to be
your security. You shiver with terror
because you think it is wrath 1t is
mercy. Why, then, tremble before the
King OF heaven and earth calls you to
his palace? Stop trembling and start
right away. "Oh," you say, 81 can't
start have been so famed by sin and
SO lamed by evil habit can't start. I
am lame in both feet. - My friend, we
come out with our prayers and sympa-
thies to help you up to the palace. If
you want to get to the palace, you may
get there. Start now. The Holy Spirit
will help you. All you have to do is
| just to throw yourself on your face at
the feet Of the King, as Mephibosheth
| did.
Gods Mercy.
Mephibosheth's caninal comparison
seems extravagant to the world, but
when a man has seen himself as he
really is and seen how he has been treat
| ing the Lord there is no term vehement
enough to express his self condemna-
ton. The dead dog of Mephibosheth'
comparison fails to describe the mans
utter loathing of himself Mephibo-
sheth's posturing does not seem too pros
trate. When a soul is convicted, first
he prays upright. Then the muscles of
his neck relax, and he is able to bow
his head. After awhile, by an almost
superhuman effort, he kneels down to
! pray. After awhile, when he has seen
God and seen himself, he throws him
self fiat on his face at the feet of the
king, just like Mephibosheth. The fact
is if we could see ourselves as God sees
US, we would perish at the spectacle.
You would have no time to overhaul
other people. Your Cry would be. ''God
be merciful to me, sinner.
And again, Mephibosheth in my text
stands for the disabled human soul
saved for the sake of another. Mephib-
osheth would never have got into the
palace on his own account. Why did
David ransack the realm to find that
poor man and then bestow upon him a
great fortune and command farmer
of the name of Ziba to culture the estate
and give to this invalid Mephibosheth
half the proceeds every year? Why did
King David make such mighty stir
about poor fellow who would never be
Of any use to the throne of Israel? 1t
was for Jonathan's sake. 1t was what
Robert Burns calls for ''auld lang syne. !"
David could not forget what Jonathan
had done for him in other days. Three
times this chapter has it that all this
kindness on the part of David to Mephib-
osheth was for his father Jonathan g
sake The daughter of Peter Martyr,
through the vice Of her husband, came
down to penury, and the senate of Zu-
rich took care of her for her father g
sake. Sometimes person has applied
to you for help and you have refused
him, but when you found he was the
SON or brother of some one who had
been your benefactor in former days.
and by glance you saw the resem-
blance of your old friend i'll the face OF
the applicant, you relented, and you
said, "Oh, will do this for your IA
theirs sake" You know by your expert
ence what my text means. Now, my
friends it is on that principle that you
and are to get into the Kings palace.
For Christ's Sake.
The most important part of every
prayer is the last three or four words of
it, ''For Christ sake" Do not rattle
off those words as though they were
merely the finishing stroke of the prayer.
They are the most important part of the
prayer. When in earnestness you go be-
fore God and say, "For Christ's sake, -
it rolls in, as it-were, upon Gods mind
all the memories Of Bethlehem and
Gennesaret and Golgotha When you say
before God, "For Christ's sake, you
hold before Gods mind every groan, ev-
ery tear, every crimson drop of his only
begotten Son If there is anything in
ali the universe that will move God to
an act of royal benefaction, it is to say,
"For Christ's sake. " God is Omnipo-
tent, but he is not strong enough to re-
sist that cry, For Christ's sake. F" If a
little child should kneel behind God S
throne and should say, "For Christ's
sake,'' the great Jehovah would turn
around on his throne to look at her and
listen No prayer ever gets to heaven
but for Christ's sake. No soul is ever
comforted but for Christs sake. The
world will never be redeemed but for
Christ's sake. Our nanya however IL
lustrious it may be among men, before
God stands only for inconsistency and
sin, but there is name, potent name,
a blessed name, a glorious name, an
everlasting name, that we may put up
ON our lips as sacrament and upon our
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