The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-11-13

and talking good sense and rallying each
other in pleasantries and In every posi-
bic way forwarding good neighborhood;
no looking askance, no whispered back
billings. no strut of pretensi0n. no obliv-
Ion Of some ones presence because you
do not want to know him; each one hap
by, determined ON making some one else
happy; words Of honest appreciation in
stead of hollow fattery: suavities and
genialities instead of mutations and POM
posities: equipage and upholstery and
sculpture and painting paid for; two
hours of mental and moral improvement;
all the guests able to walk as steadily
down the steps of that mansion as when
they assembled them: no awaking next
morning with aching head and bloodshot
eye and incompetent for the days duties:
the social life as perfect as refinement
and common sense and culture and pros
perity and religion can make it; the earth
made better than 1t was at the start. and
oil through gospelizing influences, direct
ly or indirectly.
suppose the greatest tidal wave that
ever rolled the seas was that which In
1868 was started by the Peruvian earth
quake. At africa. Peru, the wave was
30 feet high and swung warships a mile
forward on the land. AT San Pedro.
CAL, the wave was go feet high. 1t
moved on to the Sandwich Islands and
submerged some of them and beat
against the shores of New Zealand and
rolled up the beach of Japan and stopped
not until 1t had encircled the entire globe.
Oh, what a wave! But the earthquake
that shook the mountain where our Lord
died started higher and swifter and
and round the earth until all its rebel
lions and denominations have gone under.
That was an exciting scene after the
battle Of Bosworth, which was fought
between Richard III and the Earl Of
Richmond, the king falling and the earl
triumphing, when Lord Stanley brought
the crown and handed it to the earl,
seated on horseback, while the dying and
the dead of the battle were lying all
around. But 1t is a more thrilling specta-
Gle as we look forward through the CEN
turtles and see TIE last armed and impe-
rial iniIuity of the world slain and the
crown of universal victory put upon the
conqueror on the white horse of the
Apocalypse and all nations "bail the
power of Jesus name" That the whole
earth will be redeemed is one Of the
things long ago settled in heaven.
The Plan of Salvation.
Another thing decided In that high
place is that all who are adjoined to the
unparalleled One of Bethlehem and Naz-
areth and Golgotha will be the subjects
of supernal felicity without any taking
off. The old adage says that "beggars
must not be choosers." and the human
race in its depleted state had better not
be critical of the mode by which God
would empalace all of us. l could easily
think Of plan more complimentary to
our fallen humanity than that which is
called the "plan of salvation" II God
had allowed us to do part Of the work Of
recovery and he do the rest. if we could
do three-iuarters of it and he do the last
quarter, if we could accomplish most Of
it and he just put on the finishing
touches, many could look with more com.
placency upon the projected reinstate-
ment of the human family. No, no! We
must have our pride subjugated, our
stubborn will made flexible and super
natural power demonstrated In lis at
every step. A pretty plan of salvation
that would be, of human drafting and
manufacturing! 1t would be doxology
sung to ourselves. God must have all
the glory, not one step of our heavenly
throne made by earthly carpentry; not
one string could we twist of the harp Of
our eternal rejoicing. Accept all as an
unmerited donation from the Skies or we
will never have 1t at all.
''Now," says some one, IF Christ Is
the only way what about the heather,
who have never heard of him? But you
are not heather, and why divert us from
the question of our personal salvationl
Satan is always introducing something
irrelevant. He wants to take it out Of
personality into an abstraction. Get Our
own salvation settled, and then we will
discuss the salvation of other people.
"But," says some one, what percentage
Of the human race will be saved? What
will be the comparative number saved
and lost" There satan thrusts in the
mathematics Of redemption: He suggests
that you find out the mathematical pro-
portion of the redeemed. But be not
deceived I am now discussing the eter-
nal welfare of only two persons. yourself
and myself. Get ourselves right before
we bother ourselves about getting Others
right. 0 Christ, come hither and master
our case! Here are our sins--pardon
them our wounds--heal them; our bur-
dens-lift them; our sorrows-comfort
them. We want the Christ Of Bartimeus
to open our blind eyes, the Christ of
Martha to help us in our domestic cares,
the Christ of Olivet to help us preach our
sermons, the Christ of Lake Galilee to
still our tempests, the Christ of Lazarus
to raise our dead. Not too tired is he to
come, though he has on his whipped
shoulders so long carried the worlds woe
and on his lacerated feet walked this
way to accept our salutation.
Waiting For the Redeemed.
BY the bloody Slroes of the mountain
on which Jesus died, and by the sepul-
cher where his mutiated body was in
closed in darkened crypt and by the
Olivet from which he arose, while aston
ished disciples clutched for his robes to
detain him in their companionship, and
by the radiant and olnnipotent throne on
which he sits waiting for the coming of
ull those whose redemption was settled
In heaven, implore you bow your head
in immediate and final submission. Once
exercise sorrow for what you have done
and exercise trust in him for what he is
willing to do, and all is well for both
worlds. Then you can swing out defiance
to all opposition. human and diabolic. In
conquerng his foes he conquered yours.
And have you noticed that passage in
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