Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-03-14

appearance, that he had blue eyes and
light complexion, and very graceful
structure, but suppose 1t was all guess
work. The painters OF the different ages
have tried to imagine the features OF
Christ and put them upon canvas, but
we will have to wait until with our
own eyes we see him and with our own
ears we can hear him. And yet there
is way Of seeing and hearing him
now. I have to tell you that unless you
see and hear Christ on earth you will
never see and hear him in heaven. Look!
There he is! Behold the Lamb of God
Can you not see him? Then pray to God
to take the scales off your eyes. Look
that way-try to look that way. His
voice comes down to you this day
comes down to the blindest. to the deaf
est soul, saying, "Look unto me, all ye
ends of the earth, and be We saved, for
am Gcd, and there is none else. = Proc
lamation of universal emancipation for
all slaves! Proclamation of universal
amnesty for all rebels! Belshazzar gath
cred the Babylonish mobiles to his table;
George | entertained the lords of Eng
land at banquet; Napoleon III well
of Turkey to his feast; the emperor Of
Germany was glad to have our minis
ter, George Bancroft, sit down with him
at his table, hut tell me, ye who know
most of the worlds history, what other
king ever asked the abandoned and the
forlorn and the wretched and the out
cast to come and sit beside him?
Oh, wonderful invitation! You can
take it today and stand at the head of
the darkest alley in any city and say
"Come! Clothes for your rags, salve for
your sores, throne for your eternal
reigning." A Christ that talks like that
and acts like that and pardOns like that
do you wonder that Stephen stood
looking at him? I hope to spend eternity
doing the same thing. [ must see him.
I must look upon that face once clouded
with my sin, but now radiant with my
pardon / want to touch that hand that
knocked off my shackles. 1 want to hear
that voice which pronounced my deliv-
erance. Behold him, little children, for
if you live to threescore years and ten
you will see none so fair. Behold him,
ye aged ones, for he only can shine
through the dimness of your failing
eyesight. Behold him, earth. Behold
him, heaven. What a moment when all
the nations Of the saved shall gather
around Christ! All faces that way. All
thrones that way, gazing on Jesus.
His worth if all the nations knew
Sure the whole earth would love him too.
Death of a Martyr.
I pass on now and look at Stephen
stoned The world has always wanted
to get rid of good men. Their very life
is an assault upon wickedness. Out with
Stephen through the gates of the city.
Down with him over the precipices
Let every man come up and drop
stone upon his head. But these men did
not SO much kill Stephen as they killed
themselves. Every stone rebounded
upon them. While these murderers
were transfxed by the scorn of all good
men, Stephen lives in the admiration
of all Christendom. Stephen stoned, but
Stephen alive. So all good men must be
pelted. All who will live godly in
Christ Jesus must suffer persecution. 1t
is no eulogy of man to say that every
body likes him. Show me any one who
is doing all his duty to state or church,
and 1 will show you men who utterly
abhor him.
If all men speak we'll of you, it is be-
cause you are either laggard or dolt.
If steamer makes rapid progress
through the waves, the water will boil
and foam all around it. Brave soldiers
of Jesus Christ will hear the carbines
click. When see man with voice and
money and influence all on the right
side, and some caricature him, and some
sheer at him, and some denounce him,
and men who pretend to be actuated by
right motives conspire to cripple him,
to cast him out, to destroy him, say,
"Stephen stoned"
When [ see a man in some great NOR
al or religious reform battling against
grogshops, exposing wickedness in high
places, by active means trying to puri-
fly tie churchand better the world IS es-
tate, and find that some of the news
papers anathematize him, and men,
even good men, oppose him and de-
nounce him, because, though he does
good, he does not do it in their way, [
say, Stephen, stoned. The world, with
infinite spite, took after John Frederick
Oberlin and Paul and Stephen of the
text. But you notice, my friends, that
while they assaulted him they did not
succeed really in killing him. You may
assault good man, but you cannot kill
him.
The Way to the City.
On the day of his death Stephen spoke
before few people in the sanhedrin;
now he addresses all Christendom. Paul
the apostle stood on Mars hill address
ing handful of philosophers who knew
not SO much about science as a modern
schoolgirl. Today he talks to all the
millions of Christendom about the won
ders Of justification and the glories Of
resurrection. John Wesley was howled
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