The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1899-04-15

that is good. Oh. hold on I'll Do not
take part Of il and throw the rest away.
Hold on 10 all Of Il. There are 80 many
people nov who do not know. You ask
them IL the soul Is immortal and they
say; u guess IL is; ! don't know. Per-
haps Il is; perhaps II isn't" lsthe Bible
truee "Well. perhaps It is. and perhaps
II isn't. Perhaps It may be, hgurative-
ly. and perhaps it may be partly, and
perhaps II may not be at ALL" They
despise what they call the apostolic
creed, but II their own creed were writ
ten out II would read like this; II
believe in nothing, the maker Of heaven
and earth, and in nothing which II hath
sent which nothing was born of moth
ing and which nothing was dead and
buried and descended into nothing and
o from nothing and assembled TO
nothing and nov stitch at the right
hand OF nothing, from which II win
come to judge nothing. / believe in the
holy agnostic church and in the eom-
munion Of nothingarians and In the
forgiveness of nothing, and the resur-
rection of nothing and in the life that
never shall be. Amenl" Tint is the
creed OF tens Of thousands Of people
in this day. nyou have q mind to adopt
such q theory. l will not Il believe In
God the Father Almighty, Maker Of
heaven and Garth, and In Jesus Christ
and in the holy Catholic church and
in the communion Of saints and In the
life everlasting. Amen" Oh, when I
see EleAzAr taking such q stout grip
Of the sword in the battle against sin
and for righteousness, / come to the
conclusion that we ought to take a
stoutsr grip Of Gods eternal truth
the sword Of righteousness.
As I look at EleaLar's hand / also no.
tiee his spirit of self forgettulness. He
did not notice that the hilt Of the sword
was eating through the palm of his
hand. He did not know 1t hurt him.
As he went out into the conflict he was
so snxious for the victory he forgot
himself, and that hilt might go never
so deeply into the palm Of his hand,
IL could not disturb him. "His hand
clave unto the sword" Oh. my brothers
and sisters, LET Us go into the Christian
conflict with the spirit Of self abnega-
ton. Who cares whether the world
praises us or denounees usF What do
we care for Misrepresentation or abnse
or persecution in q canfict like this?
Let NJ forget ourselves. That man
who Is afraid Of getting his hand hurt
will never kill a Philistine. Who cares
whether you get hurt or not II you get
the victory? Oh, how many Christians
there are who are all the time worry
ing about the way the world treats
them. They are so tired, and they are
so abused. and they are so tempted.
when Eleazar did not think whether
he had a hand OF IN arm or a foot. All
he wanted was victory.
We see how men forget themselves in
worldly achievement. We have often
seen men who. in order to achieve
worldly success, will forget all physical
fatigue and oil annoyance and all OBJ
staele. just after the battle OF York
town IN The American r-svolu,,or n
musician wounded was lola no mnst
have his limbs ANIMATED and tbev
were about 10 fas,en him 70 N. spr.
geon's table, for II wal long before tho
m.rciful discovery of onaeStb.tIcs He
said HNo don't fas,en me m that ,able.
get me n violin" A violin was brought
10 him. and he said. .Nov 90 70 work
ns I begin 70 nlay." and for 40 minutes
during The awful manga OF amputation
he moyed not a muscle nor dropped a
note. while he PLAYED some sweet tune.
oh. ia Il not strange that with the music
of the gospel of Jesus Christ and with
this grand march of the church mill.
tant on the way 10 become the church
triumphant we cannot forget ourselves
and forget all panR and ali sorrow and
all persecution and all perturbation?
We know what men accomplish un-
der worldly opposition. Men do no,
shrink back for ~antagonism or for hard.
ship. You have admired Prescott's
Conquest Of Mexico" as brilliant and
beautiful a history as was ever writ
ten, but some of you may not know
under what disadvantages 1t was writ.
ten-that Conquest Of Mexico"-for
Prescott was totally blind, and he had
two pieces Of wood parallel to each
other fastened, and, totally blind, with
his pan between those pieces of wood
he wrote, the stroke against one piece
Of wood telling how far the pen mus,
20 in one way, the stroke against the
other piece Of wood telling how far the
pen must 90 the other way. Oh, how
much men will endure for world,
knowledge and for worldly success
and vet how little we endure for Jesu,
Christi How MANY Christians Their,
are that 20 around saying: "Oh, MI
hand; oh, my hand, my hurt hand,
ME- non -. ,hara 4. hlood ~. ~.
DVn' q .ne.e % N'oou w ~
hand, and there 10 blood on the sword?'
while Eleazar, with the hilt imbeddet
in the flesh of his right hand, does no
know II.
What have we suffered In comparI
son with those who expired with SUI
location or were burned or werl
chopped TO pieces for the truths sake
We talk Of the persecution of olde,
times. There 10 just a. much persecu
ton going on now in various ways
In 1slp, in Madagascar, 10 men wer
put 10 death for Christ's sake. The.
were 10 be hurled over the rocks, an,
before they were hurled over the rockI
In order 70 make their death the NOR
dreadful In anticipation, they were pu
in baskets and swung 70 and fro owe
the p~reoipics that they might see no,
many hundred feet thew would hay
to be dashed down, and while they wei