The Newtown bee., 1899-04-21

the domain of power; in Hebrew, the
 tongue that expresses God. He knew
 not, but we see, he was unwittingly plac-
 ing a crown upon the brow of him who coming down the centuries is gathering
 up the worlds learning, it's power, it's hearts; is warming the nations of the earth in his saving love until truly he be
 KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.
 Will you then with me search out with sympathetic and fearful hearts these
 words of our text, He saved others, himself he could not save" They who ieered had not forgotten: One day he had fed 5000 people with few loaves and fishes; it was reported he had walk ed upon the sea 8 man born blind could now see; he had cured the nobleman's son when miles away; of late he had raised from the dead Lazarus, for four days in the tomb,so that he walked forth with the grave clothes upon him. Yet Jesus went hungry, was beaten, was cruci3ed and lifted no hand to save him. self. Those who now sneered, perhaps, quailed before his flashing eye that drove the money changers from the tem pie, and before whom in Gethsemane tn,
 Roman soldiery, the worlds bravest, fell back to the ground. And yet he sank down as did the others under the pains of the nails and heat of the sun. It was not for lack of resources nor because he bad not courage. Could he not save him. self from these? Who says he could not? Yet he did not, because he was too great and too good-tOo great and too good, 1 repeat. Had he been but half such 8 giant of character, he might have saved himself. Let me fret illustrate. When Jane Seymour was in travail, the physi- clans told Henry: (Which will you do, allow her to live, or die and give birth to a king?" Put yourself in her place. Should she save herself and lose Edward or lose herself and save the Prince? Could she do either one she pleased? You say, "Yes,' but 1 say No" Had she been an ordinary woman, she might have saved herself for anoth- CT day, but she loved England more than life and died to give birth to 8 King ]! "She saved others; herself she could not save"
 Do you recall the career of the great William of Netherland. The greatest empire of the world at that time was oR %ho was the land of William, which had be- come Protestant. The great bigoted bully could not endure to see liberty and thrift and true religion In this little coun- try, and sent bloody Alba with mighty armies as 8 deluge of fire and sword over the fair field of freedom. For years the brave patriots stood, her sons dying in thousands, homes pillaged, city saved by the ocean flood. In the midst stood William, of wealthy and refined parents, a Prince. What do you say did he have these alternatives: to stay at home, sub- init to the foreign tyrant, live in peace ; or secondly, enlist as he did for his home and his sires in the midst of battle? A lesser man might have sought safety; one of his moral courage could only en- list. Finally, under the hand of hired assassin, he breathed his last word: II commit my brave people to God, and my- self to Gods great captain, Christi"
 HE SAVED HIS COUNTRY, HIMSELF HE
 COULD NOT SAVE.
 Then come with me to Westminster Abbey, hallowed with centuries of heroic British memory; take your seat with the of England's greatest and best as they listen to Susi, his face black ened in African suns. What story does he tell? Why a man, true. manlike, 6 Jdlike came from England's sunny | home of loved ones to enter Africa, $ | forests of beasts ard Arabian brutes and slaves. He sees the slave gang, each man chained and beaten for the market, representing four, for three are killed to every one captured. Burnt villages, ruined women, streets of slain, children follow in the wake of the slave gang. Susi tells of this man, who, his great heart bleeding with the awful wrong, spent his lifas in those forests, re- used to return with Stanley to his be- owed country, his body racked with ma aria, his face tanned yellow with 30 eyers, st Last lay down in his final rest, with one whom he had rescued to mlnis- CT auch comfort as he could. Hero, martyr. ChFistian speak on: ssMay Gods li