The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-03-18

Just now lie looks In Heaven we can
not say. writer IL: the time of Christ
says, describing the Saviour's personal
appearance, that He had blue eyes and
light complexion, and very graceful
structure; but / suppose it was all
guesswork. The painters of the diff
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 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 Be-
hold 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 deafest
SOUL saying Look unto Me, all we
ends of the earth. and be we saved, for
/ am God, and there is none else"
Proclamation of universal emaucipa-
ton for all slaves. Proclamation of
On, wonderful invitation You can
take it to-day, and stand at the head
of the darkest alley in any city, aud
say: Come! Clothes for your rags,
salve for your sores, a throne for your
eternal 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. ] 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 shacllles. | want to hear that
voice which pronounced my deliver
ance. Behold Him. little children, for
IL you live to three-score years and
ten, you will see none so fair Behold
Him, We aged ones. for lie only can
shine through the dimness fyour fail
ing eyesight. Behold Him, earth. Be-
hold 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.
stoned. The world has always wanted
to get rid of good men. Their very
life is an as ault upon wicledness.
Out with stephen through the gates OF
the city. Down with him over the
precipice. 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 transfiXed 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 cody 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 will show
you men who utterly abhor him.
If all men speak well of you, it is
because you are either laggard or a
dolt. II n steamer makes rapid prog
ress through the waves, the water win
boil and foam all arount it. Brave
soldiers of Jesus Christ will hear the
d
with voice, and money, and influence
all on the right side, and some carica.
ture him, and some sneer at him, and
some denounce him, and men who pre-.
tend to be actuated by right motives
conspire to cripple him, to cast him
out, to destroy him, | say: "Stephen
stoned"
When ! see man in some great
moral or religious reform battling
against grogshops, exposing wicked
ness 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 denounce 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 a good
man, but you cannot kill him.
On the day of his death Stephen
spoNc DclOre IL lew people III Jne san
hedrim; now he addresses all Christen.
dom. Paul the apostle stood on Mars
hill addressing handful of philoso.
pliers who knew not so much about
science as IA modern schoolgirl. To-
day he talks to all the millions OF
Christendom about the wonders of
justification and the glories of resur-
rection. John Wesley was howled
down by the mob to whom he
preached, and they threw bricks at
him, and they jostled him, and they
spat upon him, and yet to-day, in all
lands, he is admitted to be the great
father of Methodism Booths bullet
vacated the presidential chair; but from
that spot of coagulated blood on the
floor in the box of Ford's theater there
sprang up the new life of nation.
stephen stoned, but Stephen alive.
Pass on now and see Stephen in his
dying prayer. His first thought was
not how the stouaS hurt hio haad no,