The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-04-25

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stances If we have His grace. Why, He
made Paul sing in the dungeon, and under
that grace st. John from desolatc Patmos
heard the blast of the apocalyptic trum-
pets. After all other candles have been
snuffed out this is the light that gets
brighter and brighter unto the perfect
day, and after, under the hard hoofs OF
calamity, all the pools of worldly enjoy
ment have been tramplcd into deep mire,
at the foot Of the eternal rock, the Chris
tian, from cups OF granite, lily rimmed
and vine covered, puts out the thirst of
his soul.
Again I remark that Christ is above all
in dying allevations. ] have not any sym
/ pathy with the morbidty abroad about
our demise The Emperor of Constantine
| pie arranged that on the day of his coron-
nation the stonemason should come and
consult him about his tombstone that after
a while he would need and there are men
who are monomanical on the subject of
departure from this life by death, and the
more they think of it the less prepared
are they to go. This is an unmaniness
not worthy of you, nor worthy of me.
Saladin, the greatest conqueror of his
day. while dying ordered the tunie he had
on him to be carried after his death ON a
spear at the head Of his army and then
the soldier ever and anon should stop and
say: Behold all that is left of Saladin. the
emperor and conqueror! OF all the states
he conquered, of all the wealth he accumu-
lated, nothing did he retain but this
shroud!"
l have no sympathy with such behavior
or such absurd demonstration, or with
much that we hear uttered in regard to de-
parture from this life to the next. There
rs a common-sensical idea on this subject
that you and / need TO consider - that
there are only two styles of departure
A thousand feet under ground. by light
n TOLL -, Il. IL
ot rock may fall upon us, and we may die
q miners death. Far out at sea, falling
IRON the slippery ratlines and broken on
the halyards, we may die a sailors death.
On mission OF mercy in hospital, amid bro
ken bones and reeling leproses and raging
fevers, we may die a philanthropist's
death.
On the field of battle, serving God and
our country, slugs through the heart, the
gun carriage may roll over u.s. and we may
die patriots death. But. after all, there
are only two styles of departure-the death
OF the righteous and of the wicked, and
we all want to die the former
What did the dying Janeway say? T
can as easily die as close my eyes or turn
my head in sleep. Before few hours have
passed | shall stand on Mount Zion with
the one hundred and forty and four thou
sand and with the just men made perfect
and we shall ascribe riches and honor and
and the Lamb" DR.. Taylor, condemned
to burn at the stake. on his way thither
broke away from the guardsmen and went
bounding and leaping and jumping toward
the fire, glad to go to Jesus and to die for
Him. Sir Charles Hare in his last moment
had such rapturous vision that he cried,
Upward, upward, upward" And so
great was the peace of one of Chrst's dis
ciples that he put his finger upon the
pulse in his wrist and counted it and OBJ
served its halting beats until his life had
ended here to begin in heaven. But
grander than that was the testimony of
the wornout first missionary when in the
Mamartine dungeon he cried: 81 am now
ready to be offered. and the time of my
departure is at hand | have fought the
good fight / have finished my course. /
have kept the faith, Henceforth there is
laid up for me crown of righteousness,
which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will
give me in that day, and not to me only,
but to all them that love His appearing"
Do you not see that Christ is above all in
dying alleviations?
Toward the last hour of our earthly resi-
dence we are speeding. When ! see the
spring blossoms scattered, | say, Another
Bible on Sabbath night | say, Another
Sabbath departed" When ! bury friend,
| say, "Another earthly attraction gone
forever" What nimble' feet the years
have!
The roebucks and the lightnings run not
so fast. From decade to decade, from sky
to sky. they go at bound. There is a
place for us, whether marked or not, where
you and | will sleep the last sleep, and the
men are now living who will with solemn
tread carry us to our resting place
So, also, Christ is above all, in heaven.
The Bible distinctly says that Christ is
the chief theme of the celestial ascription,
all the thrones facing His throne, all the
palms waved before His face, all the
crowns down at His feet Cherubim to
cherubim, seraphim to seraphim, redeemed
spirit to redeemed spirit, shall recite the
Saviours earthly sacrifice.
Stand on some high hill of heaven, and
in all the radiant sweep the most glorious
object will be Jesus. Myrads gazing on
the scars Of His suffering, in silence first,
afterward breaking forth into acclamation.
The martyrs, all the purer for the flame
through which they passed will say, This
is Jesus, for whom we died" The apos-
ties, all the happier for the shipwreck and
the scourging through which they went,
will say, "This is the Jesus whom we
preached at Corinth, and in Cappadocia,
and at Antioch, and at Jerusalem" Lit
tie children, clad in white will say, This
is the Jesus who took us in His arms and
blessed us, and when the storms of the
world We're too cold and loud brought us
into this beautiful place. The multitudes
OF the bereft will say, This Is the Jesus
who comforted us when our heart broke"
Many who had wandered clear off from
God and plunged into vagabondism, but
were saved by grace, will say This is the
Jesus who pardoned us. We were lost on
the mountains, and He brought us home.
We were guilty and He made us white as
snow" Mercy boundless, grace unparal-
leled And then, after each one has recited
his peculiar deliverances and peculiar mer-
cies, recited them as by solo, all the voices
will come together in a great chorus,
which shall make the arches re-echo with
the eternal reverberation Of gladness and
peace and triumph.
Edward /. was so anxious to go to the
Holy Land that when he was about to eX-
pire he bedueathed Sl60,000 to have his
heart after his decease taken and deposit
ed in the Holy Land, and his request was
complied with. But there are hundreds to-
day whose hearts are already in the holy
land of heaven. Where your treasures are,
there are your hearts also. John Bunyan,
of whom i spoke at the opening OF the
discourse, caught glimpse OF that place,
and in his quaint way he said And l
heard in my dream, and, 10, the bells Of
the city rang again for Joy. And as they
opened the gates to let in the men l
looked in after them, and, 10, the city
shone like the sun, and there were streets
of gold, and men walked on them, harps
in their hands To sinQ Draiscs with all,