Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1898-03-24

Lot answer; and perhaps sometimes
you make the experiment, and when no
one but God and yourself ate there you
distinctly call their names and listen,
and sit gazing into Heaven.
Pass on row, and see Stephen looking
upon Christ. My text says he saw the
Son of Man at the right hand Of God.
Just how Christ looked in this world.
lust how He looks in Heaven, we can
not say. writer in the time of Christ
says, describing the Saviour's personal
appearance, that He had blue eyes and
light complexion, and very graceful
structures; but | suppose 1t was all
guesswork. The painters of the dit.
ferent 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 eyes we can hear Him.
And yet there is a way of seeing
and hearing Him now. 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 HimP 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 dcafest
soul, saying: "Loolt unto Me, all we
ends Of the earth, and be We saved, for
! am God, and there is none else.
Proclamation OF universal eman-
cipation for all slaves Procla.
nation OF universal amnesty for all
rebels. Bclshazzar gathered the Ba.
bylonish mobiles to his table, George |.
entertained the lords OF England at
banquet Napoleon Iii. welcomed the
car of Russia and the sultan OF Tur.
key to his feast; the emperor OF Ger.
many was glad to have our minister,
George Bancroft, sit down with him at
his table; but tell me, We 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 1t to-day. and stand ut the head Of
the darkest alley in any city, and say:
"Comc Clothes for your rags, salve
for your sores, throne for your eter-
nal reigning" A Christ that talks
like that, and acts like that, and par
dons like that-do you wonder that
Stephen stood looking ut Him? hope
to spend eternity doing tho same thing.
| must see Him; | 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 shacltles. want to hear that
voice which pronounced my deliver
ance. Behold Him, little children, for
If you live to three-score years and ten,
you will see none so fair. Behold
Him, ye aged ones, for He only cnu
shine through the dimness OF your fail
ing eyesight. Behold Him, earth. Be-
hold Him, Heaven. What u moment
when all the nations of the saved shall
gather around Christi All faces that
way. All thrones that way, gazing ON
Jesus.
His worth Il all the nations knew,
Sure the whole earth would love Him. too.
pass ON now, and look Mt Stephen
stoned. The world has always wanted
to get rid Of good men. Their very
life Is IN assault upon wickedness.
Out with Stephen through the gates of
the city Down with him over the
prccipice. Let every man come up and
drop stone upon his head, But these
men did not 80 much kill Stephen as
they killed themselves. Every stone
rebounded upon them. While these
murderers were transtixed by the scorn
of oil good men, stephen lives in the
admiration OF all Christcndom Ste.
phen stoned, but Stephen alive. So all
good men must be pcltod, All who
live godly in Christ Jesus must
suffer persecution, 1t is no eulogy of
man to say that everybody likes him.
Show me anyone who is doing NIL his
duty to- state or church and | will show
you men who utterly abhor him.
Ii all men speak well OF You, it is
because You arc either lnggnrd or n
dolt. II II steamer makes rapid pro-
gresS through the waves, the water
will boil and foam all around it.
brave soldiers of Jesus Christ will hear
the carhiues click. When | see man
with voice, and money, and influence
NIL on the right side, and some car
feature him, and some sneer Mt him,
and sonH deuounco him, and mon who
pretend TO be actuated by right mo-
tives conspire to cripple him, to cast
him out, To destroy him, say: stephen
stoned"
When | SOC II man IN some great
or religious reform battling against
eroS shops, exposing wiclledness in
high places, by active means trying to
purify the church and better the
worlds estate, and find that some
newspapers anathematize him, and
men, even good men, oppose him and
denouncc him, because, though he does
good, he does not do it in their way,
say: stephen stoned The wotld,
with infinite spite, took after John
Frederick Obcrlin, and Paul, and
Stephen of the text. But you notice.
my friends, that while they assaulted
! him they did not succeed really in kill.
ing him. You may assault good man,
| but YOU can not kill him,