The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1900-01-12
FARMYILIE VA. FRIDAY. JANUARY r. 1900.


drafting and manufacturing 1t would
be n 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 will
never have il 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 ii out of a 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 lost"
There Satan thrusts in the mathemat-
les of redemption. He suggests that
YOU find out the mathematical proper
tion Jf tha redeemed. But be not de-
ceiyed ! 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-
cr and master our easel Here are our
sins-pardon them; our wounds heal
them; our burdens-lift them; our sor-
rows comfort them. We want the
Christ Of l,artimeus TO open our blind
eyes. the Christ of Martha TO help us in
our domestic cares, the Christ OF OH
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 shoul-
ders so long carried the world S woe and
on His lacerated feet walked this way to
accept our saluiation.
by the bloody ;hroes Of the noun
tain on which Jesus died, and by the
sepulcher where His mutilated body
was inclosed in darkened crypt and by
the Olivei from which He arose, while
astonished disciples clutched for His
robes to detain Him in their conipan-
ionship, and by the radiant and oInnip-
0teat 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 inme-
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-
fiance to all opposition, human and dia-
bolic. In conquering His foes He
conquered yours. And have you no
tic,d that passage in Colossians that
represents Him "having despoled prin
cipalities and powers, He made show
Of them, openly triumphing" SO bring
ing before us that overwhelming spec
tacle of a Roman triumph?
When Pompey landed at Brindsi,
Italy, returned from his victories, he
disbandej 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
doms he had conquered, and howers
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 800 cities he had destroyed and
the 12,OO0,000 people he had conquered
or slain. Then the banquet was spread,
and ont of the chalices filled to III"
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
Anrelian made his entrance to Rome in
triumphal car, in which he stoJc while
winged figure of Victory held a
wreath above his head. Zenoba. cap
tive queen Of Pa.myra, walked behind
his chariot, her person encircled with
fetters 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 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 Nandals.
II 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,
openly triumphing." But, oh, the diff
ference in those triumphsl The Ro-
man triumph represented arrogance,
cruelty. oppression and wrong, but
Christ's triumph meant emancipation
and holiness and joy. The former was
a procession Of groans accompanied by
clank of chains, the other a process
sion of hosannas by millions set for
ever free. The only shackled ones OF
Christ's triumph will be Satan and his
coborte tied fO Our Lords chariot wheel.
with all the denominations Of all the
earth bound for an eternal captivity.
rrbep will come a feast In which the