St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-12-16
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There ore those who viii never forgive
you If you have more -emoluments or
honor or ease than they have. To take
YOU down is the dominant wish of most
of those who are not as high as you
are. They will spend hours and days
and years to entrap you. They will
hover around newspaper Offices to get
one mean line printed depreciating you.
Your heaven is their hell.
Another thing decided in that high
place is that all who are adjoined to the
unparalleled One of Bethlehem and
Nazareth and Golgotha will be the sub
iects of a supernal felicity without any
taking off. The old adage says that
.'beggars must rot be chooscrs," and
the human race in its depleted state
had better not be critical of the mode
by which God would empalace all of us.
I could easily think of plan more
complimentary to our fallen humanity
than that which is called the ''plan of
salvation" If God had allowed us to
do part of the work of recovery and He
do the rest, if we could do three-quar-
tiers of it and He do the last quarter,
il we could accomplish most of it and
He just put on the finishing touches,
many could look with more compla-
cency upon the projected reinstate-
ment Of the human family. No, no!
We must have our pride subjugated,
our stubborn will made flexible and a
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
" 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 will
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 as
from the question of our personal sal.
walton? Satan is always introducing.
| something irrelevant. He wants to
take il out of personality into an
abstraction. Get our own salvation set
tied, and then we will discuss the saliva
lion 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 'e-
ceived. l 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-
| err and master our case! Here are our
sins-pardon them; our wounds-heal
| them; our burdens-lift them; our SCR
rows--comfort them. We want the
Christ Of Eartimeus 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 worlds woe and
on His lacerated feet walked this way to
accept our salutaticn.
I,y the bloody :hroes of tie noun
tain OH 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 wha. 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.
iapce to all opposition. human and dia-
bolic. In conquering His foes He
conquered yours. Ard have you no
tied that passage in Colossians that
represents Him .'i.aving despoiled pin
cipalities end powers, He made show
of them, openly tI;umphing." SO bring
| ing befor. us that overwhelming spec
tacle of Roman triumph?
When Pompey landed at Brindisi,
Italy, returned from his victories, he
disbandej 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
dcms he had conquered, and flowers
such as only grew under those Italian
skies strcwed the way, and he came
under arches inscribed with the numes
Of battiefields on which he had to-
umphed and rode by columns which told
of the 1900 cities he had destroyed and
the $4,000, 900 people he had conquered
or slain. Then the banquet was spread,
and out of the chalices filed to tn
brim they drank 10 the health of the
conqueror. Belisarius, the great sol
dicr, 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
drcme 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 stooG while
a winged figure of Victory held u
wreath above his mead. Zenob:a. cep.
tive queen Of Pa ,nyra, walked behind
his chariot, her person encircled with
letters of gold. under the weight OF
which she nearly tainted, but still a cap.
tive. And there were in the procession
200 lions and tigers and beasts of many
lands and 1000 gladiators excused from
the cruel amphitheaterth that they might
decorate the day, and Persian and Ara b
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