The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-07-06


GOD separated between the waters
which were above the armament and
the waters beneath the armament
science tells us that this earth shrank
and IT got it's crust and then It shrank
under the crust and wrinkled 30 the
mountain ranges appeared and the
continents were brought out. The
Book says, land the dry land ap-
peared." Science gives US the success
sion Of vegetable life in the water and
on land and animal life In the water
and on land. The Book follows the
order. Science goes on to man and
puts him forth as the great and tri-
umphant production of nature. The
Book says, And God said let us make
man In our likeness and image" Sci
ence says 1t has not found anything
since man; the Book makes no refer
ence to anything since man.
Now tell me, when for all ages,
among all classes of men, everywhere
poets, thinkers, spectators, men who
followed their Imagination all sorts Of
writer's and thinkers, throughout all
ages, not one of the ever ventured upon
detailed order of creation only this
OLD man Moses, wandering yonder in
the desert, with band of contraband
slaves at his heels, without colleges or
universities or telescopes or accumu-
lated observation, this old man Moses
the only man in all the ages, ventures
upon an order of creation-who told
him? Somebody that knew. God told
him. And the eternal silence has been
broken, God has come out to us. We
are not worms, but we have His word
and His Fatherly care and He Is
watching over us, walking with us by
his resistless providence, step by STEP
Behind this tower and within it the
troops Of Israel can stand forever.
And over the gateway I find tower
at the right of the gate. You will call
1t what science calls 1t, If you please,
"Altruism," or, what the Book calls it,
sacrifice" the giving of self for others
l look out on the races of mankind and
I see a long and endless train of men
coming out Of all lands and out of all
races, from the islands of the sea and
from every continent, thronging into
their great procession and marching on
and on and on, beating on their
breasts, wailing out after God, coming
from their victims and sacrifices, offer
ing the f1ocks of the field and the fruit
Of the orchard and vintage of the grape
vine, Offering everything within their
reach, crying out ooh, that I knew
where 1 could find HIM" And 1 say,
''That is my race I belong to that COM
pany, that is what I want" The vul-
ture of my guilt is perched upon my
own heart and with his red-hot beak he
is beaking and beaking upon the core
of my heart and I am crying out with
the multitude, ooh, that I could find
Himp' And wind my fingers into the
locks of my first born and trample him
beneath my feet. and as the warm
blood spurts up into my face I cry
out, II will give the fruit of my body
for the sin Of my Soul!' and in my dis
tress hunting and crying after Him.
Yonder, just outside the city wall, on
the knoll, I see one standing with his
arms outstretched, aye, hanging as on
a cross, and he cries to me, Come unto
me and 1 will receive you" Him that
cometh unto me I will in no wise cast
out" Come unto me, all We that labor
and are heavy laden, and 1 will give you
rest" And in this, the supreme sacri-
fee, Swallowed beneath me, harbored
about me, revealed before me, find the
test and hope by which I can stand;
and this tower the gate of the city shall
not give way.
PLACE OF DEATH.
On the other side of the city gate is
another toWer-Watch we'll that easiest
place of access. It has on the front the
skull and cross-bones. I know we do
not like to look at it, for death is
monster. The shadow is before us, we
shudder at It, He pursues us, we trem-
BILE in his presence, and the mother
looks over into the cradle at her smil-
ing, dreaming, helpless babe. That
horrid thing, with no flesh on his bones
and no eyes in his sockets, no brain in
his skull and no heart under his ribs
crawls up and looks over into the
cradle on the other side and he keeps
even step with us all down the journey
of life. Just outside the hedge we
know he will spring upon us and we
watch thinking perhaps at that corner
or from behind that tree or beyond this
stone he may leap upon US, and we
hope by alertness to carry his blow and
continue our journey. He is a monster
We are afraid Of him-I am. If he
should come up here after me, you
would see me go out that door as quick
as I could go.
And yet 1 have taken him by the
neck an loked him in the eye and
looked him out of countenance, and 1
know he will come back to the last
struggle. 1 am not afraid of him and I
will tell you why. / went once in my
thought, with that little company of
women, out through the Damascus
gate out to that little place called
Galgotha, and I saw that little squad
of German soldiers that came down
from the castle of Antonio with that
Simon from Africa bearing the cross
on his shoulders dragging it up that
little summit, and 1 saw him pitch
down the cross on the rock, and the
centurion heckon to the executioner
and his men down there, and / saw
him go and l heard the spikes rattle
in his hand, and I saw him take hold
of this unsandaled peasant from Gal
lice and seat him on the beam of that
cross and then bend him over until
his shoulders touched the cross BEAM
and / saw him take his hand and put
1t down on the cross-beam, and as it
went down 1 noticed that not a muscle
stiffened, 1t went easily down, and
something whispered in my ear, HE
laid down his life for the sheep" mo
man took his life from him." Then I
saw the executioner put the spike in
the palm of his hand, and 1 turned
away for I could not see him drive
And then he put down the other hand
and fastened that. Then I saw one Of
those stout Germans come up and take
/ hold of the corner and tip it up on its
edge and slip his arm under it and
straighten 1t up and push 1t around on
his shoulder and get 1t poised upon him
and then slide 1t along on the ground
until the foot went down into the CHS
eled rock, and saw him as it struck
the bottom settle on the spikes, and I
! turned away sick and went yonder
with the women far off, to watch. 2
And / went with them out yonder and
saw great company, sixty stout Ger
mans from that castle Of Antonio, and
they came around his sepulchre and
there came the Roman authority and
rolled this stone that stood on It's edge
right in front of the door Of the sepul-
chre rolling IL over until ~ filed tho