The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-03-15
NEW HAVEN MORNING

refuse to share any responsibility with Him, but it is not what God delights to do, not the relation he is seeking with His people, and it is doubtful if any mans christianity is really much to be depended on until he conceive of himself not as an employee of the king dom but the kingdom itself. There a man will stand to his post and you will know where to find him.
 Why thou myself" said the knights to Arthur when he chided them for following wandering fires "hads't gone on the quest of thou hads't seen the vision. Hardly" replied Arthur, "see- ing that the king must ever guard that which is his own." The,very essence of Trinitarianism is that even God cannot leave His post, the Son must go. Give us man who identifies himself with the king and we have got the most val uable thing in the world, a man who can be depended on. He will be an infinitely modest man too. It is not men who conceive themselves one with the kingdom that are assertive and ar rogant but men who only conceive themselves to have Etgh place in the kingdom. To be one with Christ that is to be servant of all.
 might relate anecdotes of the more familiar life among us of the one who has gone by the hour, who in this par ish cannot! But some of the best and most characteristic things he ever did cannot be related, they belong to the state secrets of the kingdom, some of them known only to his own heart. We Ioa H. ,fo the past how much he must have over looked, how readily he must have sacri- feed his own feelings and wishes. Verify he had his reward for the church he loved better than anything else on earth, except his home, re- mained unbroken communion. Not alone to him, of course, but fairly to him more than to any other one man, this church owes it's peace and power to-day. It is most delightful memory that almost the last day of his life, a fair day when we were all here, he could move among oursunbroken ranks with the elements, proud, happy, bouy- ant, with a bouyancy that might have | been taken as fair warning of the com | ing end, the flash of the old fire as the coals are seized and borne away.
 I count it one of the most fortunate 1 things in my life that early recogniz- | ed the fact that in thought and feeling i I had a hundred more points in com mon with this man than in difference, | But it was his way of holding the | truth. He held it with the grip and con fidence of a Roman in his sword, but | it never irritated you even if it was 1 not the truth you held. There was nothing you could not talk with him on from modern amusements to foreordin- ation and not be the wiser for it with out being at all repelled. And it is inn possible to believe that he is not with us still, that he has other work which removes him from the chosen loves of his life. say it not of him alone but of all who living in Christ never see death. It is impossible to believe that they do not know what we do, if we do anything worth their knowing. All such knowledge must pass the censor ship of Christ Lawless winds and ru- mors no longer beat on them at for tunes caprice We have no direct com munication with them, but we can speak to Christ and he can speak to N them, only one between us and that ! one the lover of us both! It were not hlong nor far for messages to travel l only remitter and receiver must be in l Christ.
 Much he can do for us still doubtless l and yet we have lost something too
 another of our mighty men has fallen
 and how hard it is to get a man te
 even begin to do right, how rare strong
 men are. It is irreparable loss unless the answer of this church to this stroke
 of Providence shall be the answer o1
 the nation to the guns that fired or
 Sumter, a rally in every home in this
 church to the side of the Lord, a com
 ing forward of men to do and endure
 and suffer, to bear the cross and forget
 themselves to stand by the prayer
 meeting this man never forsook tC
 work in the Sunday school, where ht
 taught life time, to protect the Sab
 bath that was holy in his eyes to ut
 terly put away the contemptibilities O
 purposeless and spiritually idle lives, tc
 see God imminent, incarnate, absolute
 but fathomless nj His mercy to then
 who will receive Him.
 He was our oldest desciple and las left of great fellowship. Like another who had been with Christ more thai . half century unbelief was to hin anti-Christ because it was to deny tn
 incarnate love, the hope of mercy t. men. Like that desciple too he lab
 ored all his life for peace and unit, and could we hear him speaking nov his message to us would be John Little children loye one another"