The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1899-11-18

us at every step. A pretty plan OF
salvation that would be, of human
drafting and manufacturing! 1t would
be doXology sung to ourselves. Goo
must have all the glory, not one steI
of our heavenly throne made by earth
ly carpentry; not one string could we
twist OF the harp of our eternal re-
ioicing. Accept all as an unmerited
donation from the skies, or we will
never have it at all
"Now," says some ore, "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 sal
walton? Satan is always introducing
something irrelevant. lie wants to
take il out of u personality into an
abstraction. Get our own salvation set
tied, and then we will discuss the saliva
zion of other people. But" says some
one, what percentage of the human
race will be saved? What will be the
comparative number saved and lcst"'
| There Satan thrusts in the mathemat-
les of redemption. He suggests that
YOU find out the mathematical proper
| ton of thu redeemed. But be not de-
ceived. | am now discussing the eter-
nal welfare of Only two persons, your.
| self and myself Get ourselves right
| before we bother ourselves about get
| ting others right. O Christ, come hith-
| or and master our case. Here are our
sins-pardon them; cur wounGs-heal
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rows comfort them. We want the
Christ of l.ariimeus to open our blind
eyes, the Christ of Martha TO help us ib
our domestic cares, the Christ of OH
vet to help us preach our sermons. the
Christ Of Lake Galilec to still our tenn
pests, the Christ Of Lazarus to raise
our dead. Not too tired is He TO come.
though lie has on His whipped shout
Gcrs SO long carried the world 5 woe anG
on Ills lacerstcd feet walked this way to
accept our salutation.
by the bloody ;hroes of TIE noun
tain on which Jesus died, and by the
scpulchcr where Ills mutilated body
WAS Enclosed in Garkcned crypt and by
the Olivet from which He arose. While
aStOnished disciples clutched for His
robes to detain Him in their compan-
ionship, and by the radiant and omnip-
0tcnt throne on which lie sits waiting
for the coming of all those whose re-
Gemption was settled in Heaven. i'm
plorc you TO bow your head in mmc-
Giate and final Submission. Once eNer-
else sorrow for VIVA, YOU have done
and exercise trust in linn for what lie
is willing TO do, and all is well for both
worlds. Then you can swing out de-
lance to all opposition, human and da-
bolic. In conquering His foes lie
conquered yours. And have you no.
tic,G that passage III ColossiaEs that
represents Him '',aving despOled piir-
cipa!itics and powers. lie made show
Of them. openly triumphing," So bring
ing befor. us that overwhelming spec
taclc of Roman triumph?
When Pompey landed at Brindisi,
Italy, returned from his victories, he
t'isbanded the brave men who had
fought under him and sent them re-
ioicing to their homes, and, entering
Rome, his emblazoned chariot was fol-
lowed by princes in chains from king
Goms he had conquered. ard flowers
such as only grew under those Italian
skies strcwcd the way, and he came
under arches inscribed with the names
Of battictields on which he had IT,
umphcd aud rode by columns which told
of the 1900 cities he had destroyed and
the l2,0O0,0C0 people he had conquered
or slain. Then the banquet was spread,
and out of the chalices filled TO thu
brim they drank to the health Of The
conqueror. Eelisarius. the great sol
der, returned from his military
achievements and was robed in purple,
and in The procession were brought
golden thrones and pillars OF precious
stones and the furniture Of royal feas,&,
aad amid the splendors of Kingdoms
| overcome he was hailed to the hippo
| Gromc by shouts such as had seldom
rung through the capital. Then also
came the convivialities. In the year 374
| Aurclian made his entrance TO Rome in
| triumphal car, in which he stood while
Il winged figure of Victory held a
| wreath above his mead. Zenob;a. cap
| tive queen of Pa ,nyra, walked behind
| his chariot, her person cncircled with
letters Of gold. under the weight of
which she nearly tainted Nbut still cap
tive. And there were in the procession
200 lions and tigers and beasts Of many
lands and 1000 gladiators excused from
the cruel amphitheatcr that they might
decorate the day, and Persian and Arab
ian and Ethiopian ambassadors were in
the procession and the long lines of cap
tive yEgyptians, Syrians, Gauls, Goths
am Nandals.
was to such scenes that the New
| Testament refers when it spoke of
Christ "having despoiled principalitics
and powers, lie made show of them,
openly triumphing." But, oh, the diff
ference in those triumphs! The Ro-
man triumph represented arrogance.
cruelty, oppression and wrong, but
Christ's triumph meant emancipation
and holiness and joy. The former was
n procession OF groans accompanied by
a cank of chains, the other process
sion of hosannas by millions set for
ever free. The only shackled ones OF
Christ's triumph will be Satan and his
cohorts tied 10 our Lords chariot wheel,
with all the denominations of all the