The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1898-03-26

cdnVhS, out we Will nave TO walt unit
with our own eyes we see Him AM
with our own eyes we can hear Him
And yet there is a way of seeing
and hearing Him now. have to tel
you tina: unless you see and hear Chris
on earth you will never see and hear
Him in Heaven. Look! There He 10
Behold the Lamb of God. Can you no
see Him? Then, pray To God to take
the scales OFF your eyes. Locke that
way-try to book that way. His voic.
comes down to you this day-comes
down to the blindcst, to the dcafes,
soul, saying: Look unto Me, all W
ends of the earth, and be We saved, for
l am God, and there is none else ;
Proclamation of universal eman.
cipation for all slaves. Procla.
nation of universal amnesty for all
rebels. Belshazzar gathered the Ba-
bylonish mobiles to his table; George |.
entertained the lords of England at a
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
most OF the worlds history, what other
king ever asked the abandoned and the
forlorn and the wretchcd and the out
! cast to come and sit beside him?
Oh, wonderful invitation! You can
take it to-day, and stand at the head of
the darkest alley in any city, and say:
Come! Clothes for your rags, salve
for your sores, a 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 at Him? / hope
to spend eternity doing the same thing.
l must see Him; l must look upon that
face, once clouded with my sin, but
now radiant with my pardon want
to touch that hand that IsnoclScd off
my shackles. | want to hear that
voice which pronounced my deliver
ance. Behold Him, little children. for
If you live to three-scorc years and ten,
you. Will see none SO fair. Behold
Him, ye aged onGs, for lie only can
shine through thGdimness OF your fail
ing eycsight. Behold Him. earth. Be-
hold Him, Heaven. What 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 II all the nations knew
Sure the whole earth would love Him. too
pass on now, and look at Stephen
stoned. The world has always wanted
to get rid of good men. Their very
lif" is an assault upon wickcdness.
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 so much kill Stephen as
they killed themselves. Every stone
rcboundcd upon them. While these
mlrrdcrcrs were transfixed by the scorn
of all good men, Stephen lives in the
admiration of all Christcndom. Ste
phen stoned, but Stephen alive So all |
good men must be peltcd All who
live godly in Christ Jesus must |
suffer persecution. 1t is no culogy of
u man to say that everybody likes him.
Show me anyone who is doing all his
duty to state or church and will show
you men who utterly abhor him.
If all men speak well of you, it is
because you are either "a laggard or a
dolt. If a steamer makes rapid pro-
5ress through the waves, the water
will boil and foam all around it.
Brave soldiers of Jesus Christ will hear
,he carbnes click. When l see a man
With voice, and money, and influence
Ill on the right side, and some car
eaturc him, and some sheer at him,
md some denounce him, and men who
pretend to be actuated by right mo-
ives conspire to cripple him, to cast
lin out, to destroy him, l say: stephen
toned"
When l see man in some great
II religious reform battling against
'rog-shops, exposing wickedness in
Ugh places, by active means trying to !
'urify the church and better the 1
worlds estate, and | find that some ,
newspapers anathematize him, and !
nen, even good men, oppose him and I
enounce him, because, though he does
God, he does not do it in their way, | /
ay: stephen stoned" The world, i
With infinite spite, took after John 6
frederick Oberlin, and Paul, and S
tephen of the text. But you notice,
~ friends, that while they assaulted {
i'm they did not succeed really in kill |
lg him. You may assault good man, 9
ut you can not kill him. l
On the day of his death Stephen |
poke before few people in the san
cdrim; now he addresses all Christen- v
ON. Paul the Apostle stood on Mars t
ill addressing handful of philoso-
hers who knew not so mucL about I
,iencc as modern schoolgirl. To- a
NY he talks to all the millions of n
about the wonders of Jus v
fication and the glories of resurrec- d
on. John Wesley was howled down O
Y the mob to whom lie preached, and "
icy threw bricks ut him, and they a
enounced him, and they jostled him, n
nd they spat upon him, and yet to- Il
ny, in all lands, he is admitted to be t,
lc great father of Methodism Booths d
ullet vacated the presidents. chair;
ut from that spot of coajulatcd blood, /
a the fioor in the box of Fopd's the-1 /.
ter there sprang up the new Jtfc of
alton. Stephen stoned, but Stephan
i've.
Pass on now and see Stephen in his