The Washington weekly post., 1900-09-11

ing the same thing. I must see him; I
must look upon that face once elouded
with my sin. but now radiant with ny
pardon. I want To touch that hand that
knocked OF my shack.es. / want 10 hear
that voice which pronounced my deliver
ance. Behold Him. little children. .Or X
you I've 10 three score years and ten. you
will see none so fair. Behold Hin. ye
aged ones. for He only can shine through
the dimness OF your falling eyesight
Behold Him. earth. Behold Him. heaT1 n.
What moment when all the nations Of
the saved shall gather around Christi All
faces that way. All thrones that way,
gazing on Jesus.
His worth If all the nations knsw.
sure the whole earth would love him. too.
The Worid Abhsr- g.ooa 3ieB.
Il pass On now and look at Stephen
stoned The world has always waniei 10
get rid OF good men Their very life Is
an assault upon wickedness. Out with
Stephen through the gates OF the city.
Down with hiTn over the precipices. Let
every man come up and drop a stone upcl
his Gead- But these men did not so much
Kill stephen as they killed themselves.
Every stone rebounded upon them. while
these murderers We're transhxed BY the
scorn or all good men. Stephen lives IN
the admiration OF all Christendosl. Ste
phen stoned. but Stephen alive. SO al
good men must be pelted. All who a-.Il
I'VE gOdiy In Christ Jesus must suffer
persecution. IL is no eulogy of man to
say that everybody likes him. Show ne
any one who Is doing all his duty 70 stare
or church. and I viii show YOU men who
utterly abhor him.
III al men speak well OF you. II is be-
cause You are either a laggard or a dolt.
II steamer makes rapid progress
through the waves, the water will boil
ana foam all around it. Brave soldiers Of
Jesus Christ will hear the carbines click.
Nhen see man with voice. and money.
ana influence all on the right side and
some caricature him, and some sneer at
MIN, and some denounce him, and men
VINO pretend 10 be aetuated by right mo-
tlves conspire to cripple him. to cast him
ed
When I see a man in some great moral
or religious reform battling against evil
exposing wickedness in high places. bv
active means trying to purify the church
and better the worlds estate. and 1 find
NS'A-N VI AAAI newspapers dHdluEIHd-
tie him. and men, even good men, oppose
him and denounce him, because, though
be does good he does not do II in their
way, sa-: stephen stoned The world
with infinite spite, took after John Fred
erick Oberlin. and Paul, and stephen of
the text. But you notice, my friends. that
while they assaulted him they did not
succeed really in killing him. You may
assault good man, but you cannot kill
him.
Triumphs of Martyrdom.
"On the day of his death. Stephen spoke
before a few people in the Sanhedrim;
DOW he addresses all ChristendOm- Paul
the Apostle stood on Mars Hill addressing
a handful of philosophers who knew not
so much about science as a modern school
girl. To-day ne talks to all the millions
of Christendom about the wonders CT
justification and the glories of resurree-
ton. John Wesley was howIed down by
the mob to whom he preached, and they
threw bricks at him, and they denounced
him, and they jostled him. and they spat
upon him. and yet to-day, in all lands. he
is admitted TO be the great father Of
Methodism. Booths bullet vacated the
Presidential chair; but from that spot Of
coagulated blood on the floor in the box of
Ford's Theater there sprang up the new
life Of a nation. Stephen stoned. but
Stephen alive.
Pass on now and see Stephen in his
dying prayer. His first thought was not
how the stones hurt his head, nor what
would become of his body His first
thought was about his spirit. Lord
Jesus, receive my spirit The murderer
standing on the trap door, the black cap
h 1fr0rr u L. 4.
ecution may grimace about the future
but you and 1 have nc shame in confess
ing some anxiety about where we are go
ing to come out. You are not all body
There is within you a soul. see ii CLEAN
from your eyes, and l see 1t irradiating
your countenance. Sometimes / am
abashed before an audience, not because
come under their physical eyesight, out
because l realize the truth that / stand
before so many immortal spirits. The
probability is that your body will at last
find sepulcher in some of the cemeteries
that surround your town or city. There
is no doubt but that your obsequies will
be decent and respectful, and you will be
able to pillow your head under the maple
or the Norway spruce, or the cypress, or
the oioSsoming mr.; but this spirit about
which stephen prayed, what direction viii
tnat take? What guide will escort it?
What gate will open to receive it? What
cloud will be cleft for its pathway? After
IL has got beyond the light of our sun,
VIII there be torches lighted for il the rest
of the way? VIII the soul have to travel
through long deserts before IL reaches the
good land? If we should lose our path
way, VIII there be castle at whose gate
we may ask the way TO the city? Oh,
this mysterious spirit within u.s. Ii has
two wings, but 1t Is in cage now. II is
locked fast 10 keep IL; but let the door cf
This cage open the least, and that soul is
of. Eagles wings could not catch it. The
lightnings are not swift enough TO take I'D
with il. When the soul leaves the bOdy
il takes fifty worlds at a bound. And
have l no anxiety about it? Have you no
anxiety about it?.
When We Come 10 Die.
''I do not care what you do with my
body when my soul is gone, or whether
you believe in cremation or inhumation.
/ shall sleep just as we'll In a wrapping
of sackcloth as in satin lined with eagles
down. But my soul-before this day passes
/ will find out where ii will Land Thank
God for the intimation Of my text that
when we die Jesus takes us That an
swers all questions for me. What though
there were massive bars between here
and the city of light Jesus could remove
them. What though there were great Sa-
haras OF darkness, Jesus could Hume
them. What though / get weary on the
way, Christ could lift me on His omnipo-
tent shoulder. What though there were
chasms to cross. His hand could transport
me. Then let Stephens prayer be nay dy-
ing litany: Lord Jesus. receive my splr-
it, IL may be in that hour we will b. too
feeble 10 say long prayer. 1t may be IN
that hour We will not be able 20 say the
Lords Prayer. for it has seven petitions.
Perhaps We may be too feeble even 10 say
the infant prayer our mothers taught Us,
which John Quincy Adams, seventy years
Of age, said every night when he put his
head upon his pillow:
Nov lay he down to sleep;
! pray the Lord my soul 70 keep