Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1896-02-29
4 NOTE or TRIUMPH.
eEv OR. TALmsGE's SERMON OF RE-
JOGGING.

christ IL Arising From the Abuse of the
world-HsA Name the Most Popular on
Esrth-seoisrs Have become worship-
ers-snndeis Return to God.
wAel.fNarox. Feb. 23.-This sermon
sounds the note Of triumph. note that
all will be glad to bear in these times.
wllen so many are uttering and writing
iiarenliads CT discouragement DIR. Tai
image took Us his text Genesis xix, 10,
Unto him shall the gathering Of the
people be. .
Through a supernatural lens, or what
I might call a prophescope, dying Jacob
Ieaks down through the corridors Of the
Centuries until he secs Christ the center
+ Of all popular attraction and the greatest
being in all the world, so everywhere
acknowledged. 1t was not always so.
THE world tried hard to put him down
and to put him ont. In the year 1900,
while excavating for antiquities 53
miles northeast Of Rome, copper plate
tablet was found containing the death
warrant of the Lord Jesus Christ, read
ing III this wise:
"In the year II Of the empire of Ii
berius Cesar, and on the 25th of March,
/. Pontius plate, governor Of the Pra-
tore, condemn Jesus of Nazareth to die
between two thieves, Quintius Cor
nelius to lead him forth to the place of
execution
The death warrant was signed by
several names. First, by Daniel, rabbi
PhaTisee; secondly, by Johannes. rabbi !;
thirdly, by Raphael fourthly, by Capet,
a private citizen. This capital punish
neub was executed according to law.
The name Of the thief cruciiied on the
right hand side Of Christ was Dismas.
Tho name OF the thief crucified on the
lett hand side Of Christ was Gestus.
Pontius plate describing the tragedy
SAYS the whole world lighted candles
from noon until night. Thirty three
years Of maltreatment They ascribe his
birth to bastaFdy and his death to ex-
crnciation. A wall Of the city, built
about these times and recently exposed
by ale!mologists, shows earicature of
jesus Christ, eyidencing the contempt
IN which he was held by many in his
day, that caricature OH the wall repre-
senting cross and a donkey nailed to
it and under it the inscription, "This is
the Christ whom the people worship"
But rejoice that that day is gone by.
Cur Christ is coming out from under
the worlds abuse. The most popular
name on earth today is the name of
Christ. Where be had one friend Christ
has thousand friends The scoffers
have become the worshipers OF the 90
most celebrated infidels IN Great Britain
in our day 16 have come back to Christ,
t4ying -te--aflo the blatant mischief of
their lives-16 out of the 20. Every
man who writes a letter or signs a doc
ument. Willingly or unwittingly, honors
Jesus Christ. We date everything as B.
G. or A. D-B. c., before Christ; A.
D., Ammo Domini, in the year of our
Lord All the ages of history on the
pivot Of the upright beam of the cross
of the Son Of God, B. c., A. d. 1 do
not care what you call him-whether
Conqueror or King or Morning Star or
Sun Of Righteousness or Balm of Gilead
or Lebanon Cedar or Brother or Friend
OF take the name used in the verse from
which I take my text and call him
Shiloh, which means his Son, or the
TranquiIator, or the Peacemaker, Shi-
loh. 1 only want to tell you that "unto
him shall the gathering of the people
be- -
Gathering Around Christ.
In the first place, the people are gath
cred around Christ for pardon. No SEN
sible man or BEAUTIFULLY ambitious man
is satisfied with his past life. A fool
may think be is all right. A sensible
man knows he is not. / do not care
who the thoughtful man is the review
of his lifetime behavior before God and
man gives to him no especial satisfac-
ton. ooh, :" be says. "there have been
( so many things have done / ought not
to baye done; there have been SO many
things L have said fought never to have
said; there have been SO many things
have written ought never to have
written; there have been so many
things l have thought ought never to
have thoughtl I must somehow get
things raadjUsted. l must somehow
( have tho past reconstructed. There are
I days and moths and years which cry
out against ms III horrible vociferation. !"
+ All, my brother, Christ adjusts the past
by obliteTating it. He does not erase
I the record Of our misdoing with dash
( Of ink from a registers pen, but lifting
/ his right band, crushed, red at the
1 palm, he puts it against his bleeding
/ brow and then against his pierced side,
/ aud with the crimson accumulation of
! all those wounds horubs out the accusa-
/ tory chapter. He blots out our iniqui-
/ ties. Oh, never be anxious about the
/ future; better be anxious about the
past put it not at the end of my SER
mon; l put it at the front-mercy and
pardon through Shiloh. the sin pardon
ing Christ unto him shall the gath
ering Of the people be. " "Ob," says
some man, Il have for 10 years been as
bad as 1 conld be, and is there any mer-
cy for mes" Mercy for You. ooh" says
some one here, 81 had grand ancestry,
the hottest Of fathers and the tenderest
Of mothers, and for my perfdy there is
no excused Do you think there is any
mercy for me:" Mercy for you. "But, "
says another man, 81 fear l have COM
mitted what they call the objectionable
sin, and the Bible says if a man COM
NIT that sin he IS neither to be forgiven
in this world nor the world to come.
Do you think there is any mercy for
me?' The fact that you have any solicit
tude about the matter at all proves posi-
lively that you have not committed the
Hnpudonable sin. Mercy for you? Oh,
I the grace Of God which bringeth saliva
ton
Gods ETercy ImmeasurabIe.
The grace Of Godl Let Us take the
Surveyors chain and try tc measure
Gods mercy through Jesus Christ. Let
one Surveyor take thaE chain and go to