The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1898-03-17

Just how Chrise lsoksd In this world
Just how he looks IN heaven. We can
not say. A writer In the time Of
Christ says. describing the Saviour's
personal appearance. that he had blue
eyes and light complexion and q very
graceful structure. but suppose It waf
all guesswork. The painters Of the
different 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 ears we can hear him. AND
yet there is way Of seeing and hear
ing him now. l have to tell you tnal
unless you see and hear Christ on
earth you will never see and hear him
in heaven.
Belshazzar gathered the Babylonish
mobiles to his table. George l enter
tained the lords of England at a ban.
Quet. Napoleon III, welcomed the car
Of Russia and the sultan of Turkey tc
his feast. and the emperor Of Germany
was glad to have our minister, George
Bancroft. sit down with him at his ta-
BILE. but tell me. 70 who know most OF
the worlds history. what other king
ever asked the abandoned and the for
lorn and the wretchsd and the outcas,
to come and sit beside him?
Oh. wonderful invitation! You can
take 1t today 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 pardons
like that-do you wonder that Stephen
stood looking at him! hope to spend
eternity doing the same thing. mus,
see him; l must look upon that face
once clouded with my sin, but now ra-
diant with my pardon. want to
touch that hand that knocked off my
shackles. want to hear that voice
which pronounced my deliverance. Be-
hold him. little children. for il you live
to threescore years and ten you will
see none 30 fair. Behold him. we aged
ones, for he only can shine through
the dimness Of your failing eyesisht
Behold him, earth. Behold him, heav-
en-. What moment when all the ma
tions of the saved shall gather around
Christ! All faces that way. All
thrones that way, gazing on Jesus.
pass on now and look at Stephen
stoned. The world has always wan,s
to get rid OF good men. Their vc. =
life is an assault upon wickedneEs. ";
with Stephen through the gates OF the
city. Down with him over the r.cti-
pices. Let every man come up and
drop stone upon his head. But these
men did not SO much kill Stephen IS
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. Ste
phen stoned, but Stephen alive. So all
good men must be pelted. All who
will live godly in Christ Jesus must
suffer persecution. It Is no eulogy Of a
man to say that everybody likes him.
Show me any one man who Is doing all
his duty to state or church, and l will
show you men who utterly abhor him.
II all men speak we'll Of you, it is
either because you are laggard or a
dolt. II steamer makes rapid prog
ress through the waves, the water will
boil and foam all around it. Brave
soldiers Of Jesus Christ will hear the
carbines click. When l see a man with
voice and money and influence all on
the right side and some caricature him
and some sneer at him and some de-
nounce him and men who pretend to
be actuated by right motives conspire
to cripple him, to cast him out, to de-
stroy him. | say, stephen stoned!"
When see man In some great NOR
al or religious reform battling against
grog-shops, exposing wickedness in
high places, by active means trying to
purify the church and better the
worlds estate. and I find that some Of
the newspapers anathematize him and
men-even good men-oppose him and
denounce him because, though he does
good, he does not do 1t in their way,
l say, stephen stoned!" The world,
with infinite spite, took after John
Frederick Oberlin and Paul and Ste
phen Of the text, but you notice, my
friends, that while they assaulted him
they did not succeed really In killing
him. You may assault good man, but
you cannot kill him.
On the day of his death Stephen
spoke before few people In the sanhe-
drin. Now he addresses all Christen.
dom. Paul the apostle stood on Mars
hill addressing a handful of philoso-
piers who knew not 30 much about SCI
ence as a modern schoolgirl. Today
he talks to all the millions Of Christen-
dom about the wonders Of justification
and the glories Of resurrection. John
Wesley was howled down by the mob
to whom he preached. and they threw
bricks at him, and they denounced