St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-01-28

hitration, which is to garland the tomb
OF this century and coronet the brow OK
the coming century, is consequent upon
the midnight anthem above Bethlehem.
| two bars to that music. the first of d.
vine ascription, and the second of earth
~ pacification. GLORY TO God and
peace to men," In His manhood
Christ pronounced the same doctrine:
BLESSED are the mcrciful." Before the
Bethlehem star flashed its significance
the theory was: blessed is wholesale
cutthrcatery. Blessed are those who
can kill the most antagonists. Blessed
are those who can most shillfuuy
WELD the battleax. Blessed are thoes.
who can stab the deepest with spear or
roll a chariot wheel over the most
wounded or put his chargers hoof on
| the most dead" The entirely new the
DRY Of our Christ was blessing for ours
ing; prayer for those who despitefui.y
use you: fccndries to turn spears into
pruning hooks. redhot furnaces TO
melt swords into mods shaped like
plowshares. If gigantic acerbitics and
| worldwide tigerisms had, without any
Gospel opposition, gene on until now
ard been augmented by 1885 years OF
ferccity. by this time what would this
world have been turned into? You
need not remind me OF the awful wars
since the opening of the year OF our
! Christian era. for il the earth has been
again and again lacerateG into an Acel-
DANA, through improved weaponry OF
death ard more rapidity of fire. Prus-
sian breechloacer. which in 1866
startled the nations with unpreceden'-
ed havoc. ec,ipsed by contrivances that
can sweep vaster numbers to death by
ore volley. and biography adding to
aunnery new facilities for slaughter by
Instantly ordering armies 10 where
| they can do the most wholesale nlurde.
i saw il all this woe has been wrought.
how much worse would il have been If
the Christly revelation had not been
let down from Heaven on five-runged
ladder OF musical scale. and there had
been no preaching OF good will oil up
ard down Christendom for 10 CEN
turtles. The bethlehem manger has
given the most potent suggestion OF
peace the world has ever received. The
cavalry horses cannot eat out OF that
nanger. --St
take another step forward in show
ing the narrow escape You and had
and the world had In the secretion CT
Christ's birthplace from the Hercdic de-
tectives ard the clubs with which they
would have dashed the Babes life out
when I say that without the life that
began that night in Bethlehem the
world would have had no illamined
deathbeds. Before the time OF Christ
good people closed their earthly lives
in peace while depending upon the
Christ 10 come, and there were ante
diluyiaa saints. ard Assyrian saints.
and Egyptian saints and Grecian saints.
and Jerusalem saints long before the
clouds above Bethlehem became bal
cony filed with the best singers of a
world where they all sing, but cannot
read that taere was anything more
than a qu;eting guess that came TO
those before Christ deathbeds. Job
said something bordering on the conf
Gent. but il was mixed up with story
OF skin worms" that would destroy his
body. Abraham ard Jacob had little
Ugh, on the dying pillow, but. COM
pared with the after Christ death5eds.
il was like the dim taiiow candle OF old
beside the modern cluster of lights
electric. l know Elijah went up in
memorable manner. but il was terri
bic way to goa whirlwind ct fire that
| must have been splendid to look ut by
those who stood on the banks Of the
Jordan. but it was style of ascent that
required more nerve than YOU and l
ever had, to be placid occupant OF a
chariot drawn by such a wild team.
The triumphant deathbeds, as far as
know. were the after Christ deathbeds.
What a procession of hosannas have
marched through the dying room OF the
saints Of the last 10 centuries! What
ea!icped through the dying visions OF
the last s.oc0 years save 100! Peaceful
Geathbeds In the years B. G.! Trium-
plant deathbeds. for the most part, re-
served for the years \. D.! Behold the
ceathbeds of the Wesleys, Of the Dodd-
ridges. Of the Leigh Richmonds, of the
Edward Paysons, of Vara. the convert
ed heather chieftain. crying in his last
moments: The canoe is in the sea.
The sails are spread. She is ready for
the gale. l have good pilot to guide
ne. My outside man and my inside
man differ. Let the one 70. till the
trumpet shall sound, but let my soul
wing her way to the throne of Jesus"
OF dying John Fletcher, VINO entered
his pulpit TO preach, though his doc
tors forbade him, and then descended
TO the communion table, saying: u
am going TO throw myself under the
wings Of the cherubim before the mercy
eeat," thousands of people few days
after following him TO the grave. sing
ing:
With heavenly weapons he has fought
The battles Of the Lord.
Finished his course and kept the faith
And gained the great reward.
OF Pastor Emile Cook, the great
French evangelist, who SGT in my
church in Brooklyn one Sunday morn
ing. and in few days shipwrecked and
dying after his wife had said to him:
God will help you, my dear; lie will
give you peace" replying: "But have
it-peace. have it," Of Prince Albert.
quoting with lis last breath:l Rock
OF Ages cleft for me, let me hide my
self in thee!" OF the dying soldier who
had been shot through the mouth and
could not talk. and when the chaplain
approached him, anotioned for pencil
and paper and wrote: II am a Chris
tan. prepared to die. Rally round the
flag. Rally round the fiag!" OF John
Brown, of Haddingtcn, who said: Il
desire to depart and be with Christ.
aud, though have lived GO years very
comfortably in this world. would
turn my back upon you all TO be with
Christ. There is no one Ike Christ