Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-09-28


Revolution musician, wounded. was told
he must have his limbs amputated, and
they were about to fasten him to
the surgeons table, for it was
anasthetics. He said: mo; don't fasten
me to that table. Get me violin"
violin was brought to him, and he said,
Now, go to work as begin to play" and
for forty minutes. during the awful pangs
Of amputation, he moved not muscle nor
dropped note. while he played some
sweet tune. Oh, is 1t not strange that with
the music OF the Gospel OF Jesus Christ,
and with this grand m rrch OF the church
militant on the way to become the church
triumphant, we cannot forget ourselves
and forget all Iang and all sorrow and all
persecution and all perturbation?
We know what men accomplish under
worldly opposition. Men do not shrink back
for antagonism or for hardship You have
admired Pre- colts Conquest OF Mexico"
as brilliant and beautiful history as was
ever written, but some Of you may not
know under what disadvantages it was
written-that Conquest Of Mexico"-for
Prescott was totally blind, and he had two
pieces OF wood parallel to each other fast
ened, and totally blind. with his pen be-
tween those pieces OF wood, he wrote the
stroke against one piece of wood telling
how far the ZEN must go in one way, the
stroke against the other piece of wood tell.
ing how far the pen mus. go the other way.
Oh, how much men will endure for worldly
how little we endure for Jesus Christi How
many Christians there are that go around
saying, "Oh, my hand: OH my hand, my
hurt hand! Don't you sea there is blood on
the sword?" while Eleazar, with the bilt i'm
bedded in the flesh OF his right hand, does
not know 1t.
Must be carried to the skies
On fowery beds OF ease
While others fought to win the prize
Or sailed through bloody seas?
What have we suffered in comparison with
those who expired with suifocation or were
burned or were chopped to pieces for the
| truths sake? We talk OF the persecution
| of olden times. There is just much per-
! secution going on now in various ways. In
| 1s49 in Madagascar. eighteen men were put
| to death for Christ's sake. They were to
| be hurled over the rocks, and before they
we're hurled over the rocks, in order &c
make their death the more dreadful in an
| ticipation, they we're put in baskets and
swung to and fro over the precipice that
| they might see how many hundred feet they
| would have to be dashed down, and while
they were swinging in these baskets over
the rocks they sang:
| Jesus, lover of my soul,
| Let me to Thy bosom fly
| While the billows near me roll.
While the tempest still is high.
Then they were dashed down 10 death.
! Oh, how much others have endured for
| Christ and how little we endure for
| Christi We want to ride to heaven in a
Pullman sleeping car. our feet soft
| plush, the bed made up early, so we can
sleep all the way, the black porter Of death
| to wake US up only in time to enter the
golden city. We want all the surgeons to
| fix our hand up. Let them bring on all ths
lint and all the bandages and all the salve.
| for our hand is hurt, while Eleazar does
not know his hand is hurt. His hand
clave unto the sword"
As look at Eleazar's hand come to the
| conclusion that he has done a great deal Of
hard hitting. am not surprised when /
| see that these four men-Eleazar and his
three companions drove back the army OF
Philistines-that Eleazars sword elave to
| his hand for every time he struck an enemy
| with one end of the sword the other end OF
| the sword wounded him. When he took
! hold of the sword, the sword took hold OF
him.
oh, we have found an enemy who cannot
be conquered by rosewater and soft
! speeches. II must be sharp stroke and
! straight thrust. There is intemperauce,
| and there is fraud, and there is gam bling,
and there is lust. and there are 10 600 bat
talions OF iniquity, armed Philistine in
! iquity. How are they to be captured and
overthrown? Soft sermons in morocco
| cases laid down in front OF an exquisite au-
| dience will not do it. You have got TO call
things by their right name. You have got
to expel from our churches Christians who
| widows houses all the week. We have
| got to stop our indignation against the
| Hittites and the Jebusites and the Cir.
| gashites and let those poor wretches &C
and apply our indignation to the mod
! ern transgressions which need to be
| dragged out and slain. Ahabs here,
| Herods here, Jezebels here, the massacre
| of the infants here. Strike for God so hard
| that while you slay the sin the sword Will
| adhere to your own hand. / tell you, my
via Ia mt tat oh
| John Wesleys in the Christian church to-
| day. The whole tendency is to refine on
Christian work. We keep on refining on ii
until we send apologetic word TO iniquity
we are about to capture it. And we must
go with sword silver chased and presented
by the ladies, and we must ride or
| white palfrey under embroidered hous-
ing, putting the spurs in only just
enough to make the charger dance
! gracefully and then we must send a
missive, delicate as wedding card. to
ask the old black giant of sin If he viii
not surrender. Women saved by the
grace of God and on glorious mission
sent. detained from Sabbath classes be-
cause their new hat is not done. Churches
! that shook our cities with great reyivals
sending around to ask some demoDstratiye
worshper if he will not please to say
| Amen" and ''halleluiah' a little softer. Il
seems as il in our churches We wanted
baptism of cologne and balm OF a thousand
| flowers when we actually need a baptism
Of fire from the Lord God OF Penteeost
But we are so afraid somebody will criti-
| else our sermons CT criticse our prayers
| or criticise our religious work that our
/ anxiety for the worlds redemption is lost
] in the fear we will get our hand hurt,
| while Eleazar went into the conhet, and
| his hand clave unto the sword"
But see in the next place what hard
thing ii was for Eleazar to get his hand and
his sword parted. The muscles and the
sinews had been SO long grasped around
| the sword he could not drop it when he
proposed TO drop it, and his three com
rades, supp ose, came up and tried 10 help
| him. and they bathed he back part OF his
/ hand, hoping the sinews and muscles would
relax. But no. His hand clare unto the
sword. Then they tried to pull open the
! fingers and to pull back the thumb, but nc
sooner were they pulled back than they
closed again, 'tand his hand clave unto the
| sword" But after awhile they were sue
| cessful. and then they noticed that the