The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1897-04-11

blue-syod girl They have found NE 4
a strurgie Oh. tell them how Christ
has helped you all the way through.
They are In bowilderment Oh, ten !
them with how many hands OF JOY
heaven beckons you upward. when
Greek meets Greek. then comes the
tug OF war" but when warm-hearted
/ Christian meets man who needs par
| don and sympathy and comfort ana
/ eternal life, then comes victory. II you
can. by some Incident OF self-saerihce'
bring 20 such scholarly men and WON
on what Christ has done for their eter-
nal rescue. you may bring them In
where Demosthenic eloquence and ho-
merle imagery would fall. a kindly
heart-throb may succeed. A gentleman
Of this city sends me the statement oil
what occurred a few days ago among
, the mines OF British Columbia. II seems
r that Frank Conson and Jem smith /
r were down in the narrow shaft OF a
A mine They had loaded an iron bucket |
y with coal. and Jim Hemsworth, stand
1 ing above ground. was hauling the
bucket up by windlass when the wind
n, lass broke and the loaded bucket was
m descending upon the two miners. Then
Ar lin Hemsworth seeing what must be
40 certain death 10 the miners beneath.
sk threw himself against the cogs OF the
ss whirllng wlndlass. and though his
q, flesh was torn and his bones were
us broken he stopped the whlrllng wind
la lass and arrested the descending bucket
80 and saved the lives OF the two miners
IA beneath. The superintendent OF the
., mine Few 10 the rescue and blocked the
machinery. when Jim Hemsworth'i
bleeding and broken body was put OF
An a litter and carried humeward. ant
some one exclaimed: Jim. this Is aw
IL +" hlr' ne replied: "Oh. what's the dit
ference so long as ! saved the boys!
a.. What An illustration Is was OF suffering
for others. and what a text from whlcl
10 illustrate the behavior OF our Christ
an. thinning and lacerated and broken an
TORN and crushed In the work OF stop
we ming the descending ruin that woul
bave destroyed our souls! Try such
srene OF yicarious suffering as this o
-, mat man capable OF oyeTthrowlng a
~. vour arguments for the truth. and
AIN slt down and weep. Draw your !
~, lYstratlons from the classics, and u
w IN him an old story. but Lcyden ia
al. and electric batteries aud telescope
~ and Greek drama will all surrender
I've Inc story Of Jim Hemsworth's 20
o'' what's the difference so long as saw,
the boys?'
Then n your illustration Of Chris
'o'' self-sacrihce. drawn from some scene
W todayand your story OF what Christ h
- a. done for you does not quite fetch b
49, into the right way. just say TO hi
80. "Professor-D octor-Judge' Why "
''uel n that Paul declared he was a deb
"a 10 the Greeks?" Ask your learn
- friend 10 take his Greek Testam'
80, and translate for you. In his own VI
' - from Greek into English. the splenU
- peroratlon OF Paurs sermon on Nj
49, Hm. under the power OF which
-, scholarly Dlonysius surrendered, NAT
-. Is: "The times OF this Ignorance {
,,,,.,i winked at. but now commandeth
nn,,- men everywhere to repent: because
:, a. hath appointed a day In the which
.cn ., will Judge the world In righteousn
srJ by that man whom he hath ordair
whereof he hath given assurance d
,ch,, an men. In that he hath raised
surIng from the dead" By the time he
rmor. eo, through the translation from
Atbe. Greek I think you viii see his lip u
mnbel BILE and there win come a pallor on
ont II face like the pailor on the sky a,
a the, break. By the eternal salvation
i'd YOU that scholar. that great thinker,
TO sui. splendid man. you will have Z
,us on: something 70 help pay your lndet
power ness 10 the Greeks And now 10
J. Your the Father. God the son, and God
are % Holy Ghost. be- honor and glory.
, brIng dominion and victory and sons "
Gus In without end. Amen.