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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 lie is.
Behold the Lamb of God. Can you not
see Him? Then pray to God to take
the scales off yoar 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
l am God, and there is none else. y
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
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 it today. and stand at the head of
the darkest alley in any city, and say:
Come! 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 at Him? hops
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 of
my shackles. | 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, we aged ones, for He only can
shine through the dimness of your fail.
ing eyesight Behold Him, earth. Be
hold Him, Heaven. What moment
when all the nations of the saved shall
gather around Christ! All faces tina,
way. All thrones that way, gazing on
Jesus.
His worth II all the nations knew
Sure the whole earth would love Him. too.
Ipass on now, and look at Stepher
stoned. The world has always wanted
to get rid of good men. Their very
life is an assault upon wickedness
Out with stephen through the gates o
the city. Down with him over tn,
precipice. Let every man come up ant
drop stone upon his head. But thes
men did not so much kill Stephen a
they killed themselves. Every ston
rebounded upon them. While thes,
murderers were transixed by the scorl
of all good men, Stephen lives in tn,
admiration of ali Christendom. Ste
phen stoned, but Stephen alive. So al
good men must be pelted All VIII,
live godly in Christ Jesus mus
suffer persecution. 1t is no culogy o
man to say that everybody likes him
Show me anyone who is doing all hi
duty to state or church and will show
you men who utterly abhor him.
II all men speak well of you, it Il
because you are either laggard or I
dolt. If n steamer makes rapid pro
gress through the waves, the wateI
will boil and foam all around it
Brave soldiers of Jesus Christ will hcal
the carbines click. When | see maj
with voice, and money, and innuenc,
all on the right side, and soma car
feature him, and some sheer at him
and some denou1ce him, and men who
pretend to be actuated by right mo
tives conspire to cripple him. TO cas-
him ont, to destroy him, say: "Stepher
stoned"
When see man in some grea
or religious reform battling agains
grog-shops, exposing wickedness il
high places, by active means trying u
purify the church and better tn
worlds estate, and | find that som
newspapers mathematics him, an
men, even good men, oppose him an
denounce him, because, though he doe
good, he does not do it in their way,
say: stephen stoned" The wo.'l9
with infinite spite, took after job
Frederick Oberlin, and Paul, an
Stephen of the text. But you notice
my friends, that while they assaulte
him they did not succeed really in kill
ing him. You may assault good man
but you can not kill him.
On the day OF his death Stephen
spoke before a few people in the sar
hedrim; now he addresses all Christen
dom. Paul the Apostle stood on Mar
Hill addressing a handful of philosc
piers who knew not so much abou
science as a modern schoolgirl. To
day he talks to all the millions O
Christendom about the wonders of jus
tification and the glories Of resurreC
ton. John Wesley was howled dow
by the mob to whom he preached, an
they threw bricks at him, and the
denounced him, and they jostled him
and they spat upon him, and yet Il
day, in all lands, he is admitted to b
the great father of Methodism. Booth
bullet vacated the presidential chair
but from that spot of coajulated bloc
on the floor in the box of Ford's tn,
alter there sprang up the new life of
nation. Stephen stoned, but Stephe
alive.
Pass on now and sec Stephen in hi
dying prayer. His first thought wa
not how the stones hurt his head, nc
what would become of his body. II
first thought was about his spiri
"Lord Jesus, receive my spirit" Th
murderer standing on the trap-doo
the black cap being drawn over hi
head before the execution, may grimat
about the future, but you and | hay
no shame in confessing some anxiet
about where we dre going to come ou