The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1898-03-19
eas Rev. DR.. Talmage Presents a Sc
ries of Five Pictures.
stephen Looking Into Heaven-Stephe en-
Looking ut Christ-Stephen Stoned
Stephen In His Dying Pray
eR-Stephen Asleep.

- TO the great congregation throughout
the land. The subject is the martyr
dom of Stephen, being based on the
text:
vii. 506l
stephen had been preaching rous-
ing sermon, and the people could not
stand it, They resolved to do as men
a5s.sscmetines would like to do in this day,
It they dared. with some plain preacher
Of r1ghtcOusness-kill him. The only
way to silence this man was to knock
the breath out of him. So they rushed
Stephen out of the gates of the city
and with curse and whoop and below
they brought him to the cliff, as was
t~s~fhe custom when they wanted to take
away life by stoning. Having brought
sdihim 70 the edge Of the cliff, they pushed
him off. After he had fallen they
~ eeme and looked down, and seeing that
he was not yet dead they began to drop
go otoaes upon him, stone after stone.
Amid this horrible rain of missiles,
Stephen Chambers up on his knees and
folds his hands, while the blood drips
~ from his temples to his cheeks, and
ss~-aFon -his checks to his garments, from
~ pa garments to the ground; and then,
docking up, he makes two prayers
one for himself and one for his murder
$50 era .l.ord Jesus; receive my spirit;'i
that was for himself. Lord, lay not
this. sineto their charges" that was for
- sassntlants. Then, from pain and
s.Scssso blood, he swooned away and fell
asleep.
q l want to show YOU to-day Ave pic
ssseaares yStephen gazing into Heaven
! n oAoking mt Christ. stephen stoned.
:" Osephcn In hts dying prayer. Stephen
asleep.
First, look at Stephen getting into
on UxaF HG$<> Al
want totknow where you are going to
land. K:fore you climb ladder you
want t. Know to what point the ladder
sSeeche> And It, was right that Ste
phen. within a few moments of Heav-
On, I'D be gazing into it. We
would NJ do we'll to be found in the
same psiture. There is enough in
'$s sheave.sSo keep u.s. gazing. A man of
raerge W -.fth, may have statuary in the
hall, AN paintings in the sitting
SOON, a..l works of art in all parts
- ths honse, but he has the chief pict-
y ases In 4 le art gallery, and there hour
As a1ter .hpar you walk with catalogue
saoAd glass and @ever-increasing admire
zion. Well, Heaven is the gallery where
God had gathered the chief treasures of
= His realm. The whole universe is His |
So Niace- ln.his lower room where we
stop there are many adornments; |
49, 11OShf ~ duAetnySIs ana on
She winding cloud-stairs are stretched |
. out caa:,asses on which commingle |
- A1ure. an Y purple, and saffron, and |
8; gold. hut Heaven is the gallery in |
which the chief glories are gathered |
There are the brightest robes There
arc the richest crowns. There are the
.sss highest exh atiOns- Jolan..asays of J.
~: fhc kings of the earth shall
bring their honor and glory into it."
- And = See the procession forming, and
{ In the line come NIL empires, and the
9 stars spring up into an arch for the
hosts to march under. The hosts keep
step to ting sound of earthquake and
the pitch OF avalanche from the noun
tains' alist the flag they bear is the
dasnc OF consuming world, and all
HNAVAn turns out VIII IA harms n !, a 4.,.,.. |