Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1896-12-10

the arrogance of Haman, they have only
to go over and ask Mordecai. If they want
to know how the Red sea boiled when it
was cloven, they have only to go over and
ask Moses. If they want to know the
particulars about the Bethlehem advent,
they have only to go over and ask the
serenading angels who, stood that Christ
mas night in the balconies of crystal If
they want to know more of the particulars
of the crucifxion, they have only to GO
over and ask those who were personal
spectators while the mountains crouched
and the heavens got black in the face at
the spectacle. If they want to know more
about the sufferings of the Scotch Cove
nanters, they have only to go over and ask
Andrew Melville. If they want to know
more about the old time reviyals, they
have only to 60 over to ask Whitefeld and
Wesley, and Livingston, and Fletcher, and
Nettleton, and Finney.
Going Right ON With Work.
Oh, what place to visit inl If eternity
were one minute shorter, it would not be
long enough for such sociality. Think of
our friends who IN this world were pas.
sionately fond of flowers turned into para
disel Think Of eur friends who were very
fond of raising superb fruit turned into
the orchard where each tree has ~ kinds
of fruit at once, and bearing the fruit all
the year roundt What are our departed
Christian friends doing In heaven those
who on earth found their chief joy in the
gospel ministry They are visiting their
old congregations. Most of those old min
listers have got their peopls around them
already. When get to hcaven-as by the
grace of God am destined to go to that
place-r will come and see you ALL Yes,
I will come to all the people to whom
have administered in the gospel and to the
millions of souls to whom, through the
kindness of the printing press am per-
mitted to preach every week in this land
and in the uttermost parts of the earth. I
win visit them all. I give them fair no.
tice. Our departed friends of the ministry
are now engaged in that delectable enter
tainment and undertaking.
But what are our departed Christian
friends who in all departments of useful
ness were busy finding their chief joy in
doing good-what are they doing nowP
Going right on with the work. John
AAo"ohA N'oAokhB uohEOOhbJ blO uOdu WOLl-
en- of northern and southern battlefields
still abroad looking for the wounded;
George Peabody still watching the poor;
Thomas Clarkson still looking after the
enslaved-all of those who did good on
earth buster since death than before; the
tombstone not the terminus, but the start
ing post What are our departed Chris
tian friends who found their chief joy in
studying God doing now? Studying God
yet. No need of revelation now, for, un-
blanched, they are face to face. Now they
can handle the omnipotent thunderbolts
just as a child handles the sword of a fa-
ther come back from victorious battle.
They have no sin; no fear, consequently.
Studying Christ, not through revelation
save the revelation of the scars-that deep
lettering which brings it all up quick
enough. Studying the Christ Of the Beth
lehem caravansary; the Christ of the awful
massacre, with its hemorrhage of head
the shattered mausoleum; Christ the sac
rifice, the Star, the Son, the Man, the God,
the Goldman, the Man-God. But bark |!
The bell of the cathedral rings--the cathe-
dral bell of heaven. What is the matter
now? There is going to be great meet
ing in the temple; worshipers all COM
ing through the aisles Make room for the
Conqueror. Christ standing in the tenn
pie. All heaven gathering around him.
Those who loved the beautiful come to
look at the Rose of Sharon. Those who
loved music come to listen to his voice.
Those who were mathematicians come
to count the years of his reign Those who
were explorers come to discoverthe height
and the depth and the length and breadth
of his love. Those who had the military
spirit on earth sanctifed, and the mill
tary spirit in heaven, como to look at the
Captain of their salvation. The astrono-
mers come to look at the Morning Star.
The men of the law come to look at him
who is tho judge Of quick and dead. The
men who Healed the sick come to look at
him who was wounded for our transgres-
sions. All different and different forever
in many respects, yet all alike in admira-
tion for Christ, in worship for Christ, and
all alike in joining in the doxo xology, "Unto
him who washed us from our sins in his
own blood, and made us kings and priests
unto God; to him be glory in the church
throughout all ages, world without end Z"
Amen.
To show you thatyour departed friends
are more alive than they ever were, to
make you homesick for heaven, to give
you an enlarged view of the glories to be
revealed, l have preached this sermon.