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Hall stood and spoke as scarcely any Hlill-
spircd man ever, did speak of the glor1es
of heaven: And as he stood Sabbath ak
his face kindled with the glory. rohn
Foster, Christian man, said of this man,
Robert Hall is only acting. and the smile
on his face is a reflection of his own van.
ity." John Wesley turned all England
upside down with Christian reform. and
vet the punsters were after him, and the
meanest jokes in England were perpetrated
about John Wesley. What is true of the
pulpit is true OF the pew: it is true e the
street: it is true Of the shop and the store.
All who live .godIy in Christ Jesus must
suffer persecution.
in all your Christian experience if you are
any of you at peace with all the, world.
The religion Of Christ is war. 1t is a
challenge to "the world, the flesh and the
devil" and if you will buckle on the whole
armor of God you will find a great host
disputing your path between this ana
heaven. ~
But what are you to do when you are
assaulted and slandered and abu=ed as
suppose nearly all Of you have been in your
life?a-Go out and hunt up the slanderer!
Oh, no, silly man While you are explain
ing away q falsehood in one place fifty peo-
plaees I4eounsel you to another course.
While you tare mot TO omit any opportunit,-,
Of Getting yourselves right. l want to tell
YOU Of One who had the hardest things
said about Him. whose sobriety was dis
puted, whose mission was secuted: whose
championship was denounced. who was
pursued aa a babe and spit upon as a man.
who waJ howled ats after He was dead.
win have you 80 INTO Him with your
saying: Il see Thy wounds5woggnfds f2 OF
head, wounds Of feet. wounds OF sI heart !
have suffered and through what battles I
am, going, and entreat Thee by those
wounds Of. Thine sympathize with me"
And He will sympathize and He will help.
Go and tell Jesus.
Again, T commend the behavior Of the
disciples to all the bereaved. How many
in garb Of mourning! How many emblemss
of sorrow you behold everywhere! God
has His own way ylof taking apar: a fam.
lily. We must Jgetsout Of the way fol- com.
ing geperations,y We must get off the
STAGE sthat othersspaay come on: and for
this reason there is 81 long processlon reach.
ing sdpMn al The time into the valley o.
shadows. This emigration from tine into
;"
the cIang of the sepulchral gate. The
sod nist5be broken. The ground must be
plowed for ,resrrrectic harvest. Eternity
must be peopled, The dust must press Our
eyelids. 1ts is appointed unto all men
tonce to die = This emigration from time
|Sinto eternity. keeps three e-fourths, of the
families of the earth in desolation. The
air is rent with farewells, and the black
tasseled vehicles of death rumble through
serery street. The body of the child that
was folded 80 closely to the mothers heart
il put away in the cold and the darkness.
The laughter freezes to the girls lip, and
the rose scatters. The bow in the harvest
head" and they FRY him home to die on
the lap Of his mother. .Widowhood stands
with tragedies of woe struck into the pal.
lor of the check. Orphanage cries in vain
for father and mother. Oh. the grave. is
cruel! With teeth of stone it clutches for
its prey. Between the closing gates of the
sepulcher our hearts are mangled and
crushed. a
Now, what are such to do? Are they
merely to look up into a brazen and un-
pitying sky? Are they to walk a blasted
heath unfed of stream, unsheltered by
overreaching trees? Has God turned us
out on the barren common to die? On,
no. no, no! He has not. .,
He comes with sympathy and kindness
and love. He understands all our grief.
He sees the height and the depth and the
length and the breadth of it. He is the
only One that can fully sympathize. Go
aGd tell Jesus.
But Christ is always neai before you,
behind you, within you: No mother ever
threw her arms around her child with such
warmth and ecstacy of affection as Christ
has shown toward you.
Close at hand, nearer than the staff upor
which you lean, nearer. than the cup you
put to your lip. nearer than the handker.
chief with which you wipe away your tears,
| preach Him an ever present, all sympa-
thizing, compassionate Jesus. How can
you stay away one moment from Him with
1t is often that friends have no power
to relieve US. They would very much Like
to do it, but they cannot disentangle our
finances, they cannot cure our sickness
and raise our dead, but glory be to God
that He to whom the disciples went has all
power in heaven and on earth. and at our
call He will balk our calamities and at
just the right time, in the presence of an
applauding earth and 4 resoundinG heaven,
will raise our dead. He is mightier than
Herod. He is swifter than the storm. He
is grander than the sea. He is vaster than
eternity. And every sword of Gods ON.
impotence will leap from it's scabbard and
the resources of in6nity be exhausted rath-
er than that Coos child shall not be de-
livered when he cries to Him for rescr,.
Suppose your child was in trouble. How
much would you endure to get him out?
You would say, "I don't care what it will
cost I must get him out of that trouble"
Do you think God is not SO good . father
as you? Seeing you! are in trouble and
having all power. will He not stretch out
mighty to save. He can level the mount
ain and divide the sea, and can extinguish
the fire and save the soul. Not dim of
eye, not weak of arm, not feeble of re-
sources, but with all eternity and the uni.
verse at His feet. Go and tell Jesus. Will
you?
Ye whose cheeks are wet with the night
dew of the grave, We who cannot look up.
we whose hearts are dried. with the breath
of sirocco, in the name Of the religion of
Jesus Christ, which lifts every burden and
wipes away every tear and delivers every
captive and lightens every darkness, i'm
plore you now 90 and til Jesus.
A little child went with her father.
sea captain, to sea, and when the first
storm came the little child was very much
frightened, and in the night rushed out of
the cabin and said, "Where is father,
where ia father" Then they told her.
Father is on deck guiding the. vessel and
watching the storm" The little child i'm
mediately returned to her berth and said,
cts all right, for fathers on deck"
O We who are tossed and driven in this
world, up by the mountains, and down by
the valleys and at your wits ends. | want
YOU to know the Lord God is guiding the
ship. Your Father is on deck. He will
bring you through the darkness into the
harbor. Trust in the Lord. Go and tell
Jesus.
If You 60 to Him for pardon and sym
pathy, all is well. Everything will bright.
en- up, and JOY will come to. the heart, and