St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1897-02-06

pearls of His Heavenly royalty. Down
until there was NO other harrassmebl
to suffer. poor until there was No
other pauperism to torture. Billions
Of dollars spent in wars to destroy
men, who will furnish the statistics Of
the value of that precious blood that
WAS shed to save US? "Ye know the
grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that,
though He was rich, yet for your sake
He became poor"
Only those who study this text in
two places can fully realize it, power.
the Holy Land of Asia Minor and the
holy land of Heaven. wish that some
day you might 60 TO the Holy Land and
take drink out Of Jacobs we'll. and
take a sail on Galilee, and read the
sermon of the Mount while standing
on Olivet, and see the wilderness
where Christ was tempted. and be some
afternoon on Calvary 1t about three
o'clock-the hour At which closed the
crucifixion-and sit under the syca.
mores and by the side of brooks, and
think and dream and pray about tho
proverty of Him who came our souls
to save. BUT you may be do.
MED that, and 80 here, In another
continent and In another hemi-
sphere, and In scenes as differ
ent as possible, We recount ~ well
we may, how poor. was our Heavenly
Prince. But In the other holy land
above we may all study the riches that
He left behind when He started for
earthly expedition. Come, let us bar
the Fathers mansion, or ON the bank
Of the river just where It rolls from
under the throne, or at the outside
gate. Jesus got the contrast BY ex-
changing that world for this; we will
get it by exchanging this world for
that. There and then you will under
stand more Of the wonders of tho
grace Of our Lord Jesus Christ, who.
though He was rich, yet for your
sakes became poor"
Yes, grace, free grace, sovereign
grace omnipotent grscel Among the
thousands of words In the language
there Is NO more queenly word. 1t
means free and unmerited Kindness.
My text has no monopoly of the word.
One hundred and tweDty-nine times
does the Bible eulogize grace. 1t II .
door swung wide open to let into the
pardon of God all the millions who
chose to enter It
John Newton sang of 1t when he
wrote;
Amazing grace, how sweet the sound,
That saved the wretch like me.
PHI lip Doddridge put it into all hymn
ology when he wrote:
Grace, It's charming sound.
Harmonious to the ear:
Heaven with the echo shall resound.
And ali the earth shall hear.
One of John Bunyan's great books
is entitled ''Grace AboundinR." 1T il
all Of grace that am saved" has been
on the lips of hundreds of dying Chris
tians. The boy Sammy was right
when being examined for admission
into church membership he was
asked, ''Whose work was your saliva.
tion?" and he answered, Part
mine and part Gods" Then the
examiner asked, "What part did you
do, Sammy" and the answer was, II
opposed God al could, and He did
the rest!' Oh. the height of 1t, the
breath of it, the Grace of God! Mr..
Fletcher having written q pamphlet
that pleased the king. the king offered
to compensate him, and Fletcher
'There is only one thing
want, and that is more grace"
Yes, yes; for your sakes! 1t was not
on a pleasure excursion that He came.
for it was all pain. 1t was not an as
Economical exploration, for He knew
this world as well before He alighted
as afterward. It was not becuse He
was compelled to come. for He volun-
tcered. 1t was not because It was
easy, for He knew that 1t would be
thorn, and spike, and hunger,
and thirst, and vociferation of
angry moba "For your sakes!"
To wipe away your tears. to for.
give your wrongdoing. to companion
ship your Loneliness, to soothe your
sorrows. to sit with you by the newI
made grave. to bind your wounds in
the ugly battle with the world. and
bring you home at last, kindling mp
the mists that fall on your
dying vision with the sunlight
Of glorious morn. "For your
sakesl' No; 1 will change that
Paul will not care and Christ will not
care il change it, for must get into
the blessedness of the text myself, and
so l say: For our sakes!" For We all
have our temptations and bereave-
ments and conflicts. For our sakesl
We who deserve for our sins to bo ex-
patt lated into . world ~ much poorer
than this rs this earth 10 poorersthsn
Heaven. For our sakes! But what .
coming down to take M
upl
When Artaxerxes was hunting, Tire
bazus, who was attending him. showed
the king rent In his garments, tho
king said: "How shall mend it7" by
giving 1t to me" }" said Tirebszus. Then
the king gave him the robe, but COM
manded him never to wear IL, ~ it
would be inappropriate. But zee tho
and comforting fact. while our
Prince throws of the robe, He not
only allows us to wear il, but COM
mands us to wear It, and It will be-
come us well, and for tho poverties Of
our spiritual state We may put ON the
splendors Of Heavenly regalement
For our sakesi Oh, the personality Of
this religion! Not an abstraction, not
an arch under which We walk to b.
hold elaborate masonry, mot IN
ice castle like that which tho
Empress Elizabeth Of Russia over
. hundred years ago ordered
to Be constructed, winter with it,
trowels Of crystal cementing the huge
blocks that had been quarTied from
the frozen rivers Of the north, but our
Fathers house, with the wide hearth