Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-11-17


our stubborn will made flexible end
supernatural power demonstrated in
us at every step. A pretty plan of
salvation that would be, of human
drafting and manufacturing Itwould
be doxology sung to ourselves. God
must have all the glory, not one step
Of our heavenly throne made by earth
ly carpentry; not one string could we
twist of the harp of our eternal re-
joicing. Accept all as an unmerited
donation from the skies, or we viii
never have it 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 sal
walton? Satan is always introducing
something irrelevant. He wants to
take it out of personality into an
abstraction. Get our own salvation set
tied, and then we will discuss the saliva
ion 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 mathemat-
les of redemption. He suggests that
you find out the mathematical proper
ton of thu redeemed. But be not 6e-
ceived. I am now discussing the eter-
nal welfare of oily two persons, your
self and myself. Get ourselves right
before we bother ourselves about get
ting others right. o Christ, come hith-
er and master our easel Here are our
sins-pardon them; our wounds-heal
them; our burdens-lift them; our SCR
rows-comfort them. We want the
Christ of 1iartimeus to open our blind
eyes, the Christ of Martha to help US in
our domestic cares, the Christ of Oil
vet to help US preach our sermons, the
Christ of Lake Galilee 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
ders so long carried the world woe and
on His lacerated feet walked this way to
accept our saiuIation.
BY the bloody throes of tie noun
tain on which Jesus died, and by the
sepulcher where His mutilated body
was inclosed in Garkened 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-
otent throne on which He sits waiting
for the coming of all those whose re-
Gemption was settled in Heaven, i'm
plore you to bow your head in imme-
date and final submission. Once eXer-
else 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 de-
f1anna I'll nnnncifiO11 h1Iroor do
bolic. In conquering His foes He
conquered yours. Ard have you no.
ticcd that passage in Colossians that
represents Him having despoi1ed prin-
cipalities and powers. He made show
of them, openly triumphing,'' so bring
ing before us that overwhelming spec
tacle of Roman triumph?
When Pompey landed at Brindisi,
Italy, returned from his victories, he
disbanded the brave men who had
fought under him and sent them re-
joicing to their homes, and, entering
Rome, his emblazoned chariot was fol-
lowed by princes in chains from king
doms he had conquered, and flowers
such as only grew under those Italian
skies strewed the way, and he came
under arches inscribed with the names
of battlefelds on which he had tr:-
umphed and rode by columns which told
of the $500 cities he had destroyed and
the 100000 people he had conquered
or slain. Then the banquet was spread,
and out of the chalices filed to tho
brim they drank to the health of The
conqueror. Belisarius, 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 feastS,
and amid the splendors of kingdoms
overcome he was hailed to the hippo
drome by shouts such as had seldom
rung through the capital. Then also
came the convivialities. In the year 374
Aurelian made his entrance to Rome in
triumpha1 car, in which he stood while
a winged figure of Victory held
wreath above his mead. Zenob:a. cap
tive queen of Palmyra, walked behind
his chariot, her person encircled with
letters OF gold. under the weight of
which she nearly tainted, but still cap
tive. And there were in the procession
200 lions and tigers and beasts Of many
lands and ], 500 gladiators excused from
the cruel amphitheater that they might
decorate the day, and Persian and Arab
ian and Ethiopian ambassadors were in
the procession and the long lines of cap
tives, Egyptians, Syrians, Gauls. Goths
and Vandals.
It was to such scenes that the New
Testament refers when it spoke of
Christ Having despoiled principalities
and powers, He made a show of them,
<-;, PIT oh he
ference in those triumphs! The Ro-
man triumph represented arrogance.
cruelty, oppression and wrong, but
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