Milford chronicle., 1901-09-20

ing to the people about the conspicuity of
Christian example he said: 'The world is
looking at you. Be careful. A city that
is set on hill cannot be hid" While be
was speaking of the divine care of Gods
children a bird few past He said, BE
hold the ravens" Then looking down
into the valley, all covered at that sea-
son with flowers, he said, Consider the
lilies" Oh, my brother Christian work
ers, what is the use of going away off in
some obscure part of history or on the
other side Of the earth to get an illustra-
ton when the earth and the heavens are
full Of illustrations?
VicaFIOus Suffering.
Why should we go away off to get an
illustration of the vicarious suffering of
Jesus Christ when at Bloomfield, ". J..
two little children were walking on the
rail track and a train was coming; but
they were on a bridge of trestlework.
and the little girl took her brother and
let him down through the trestlework as
gently as she could toward the water,
very carefully and lovingly and cautious
ly, so that he might not be hurt in the
fall and might be picked up by those
who were standing near by; while doing
that the train struck her, and hardly
enough of her body was left to gather
into a funeral casl,et? What was that?
Vicarious suffering. Like Christ Pang
for others. Woe for others. Suffering
for others. Death for others What is
the use of our going away off to find an
Illustration in past ages when in Michi-
gan a mail carrier on horseback, riding
on, pursued by those flames which had
swept over hundred miles, saw an old
man by the roadside, dismOunted, helped
the old man on the horse, saying, "Now,
whip up and get away?" The old man
got away, but the mail carrier persisted.
just like Christ dismounting from
the glories of heaven to put us on the
way of deliverance, then falling back
into the flames of sacrifice for others.
Pang for others. Woe for others.
Death for others. VicariOus suffering
What is the use Of our going away off
in ancient history to find an illustration
Of the fact that it is dangerous to defy
God when in the AGirondacks I saw
fash Of lightning and bolt so vivid I
said, "That struck something very near?"
a few hours afterward we found that
two farmers that Monday morning had
been seated under tree, the one boast
ing how that the day before-on the
Lords day-he had got his hay in and so
cheated the Lord out Of that part Of the
time anyhow, and both of them laughing
over the achievement by which they had
wronged the Lord of his holy day, when
the lightning struck one dead instantly,
and the other had been two weeks in bed
when we left the Adirondacks and has
become an invalid, l suppose, for life.
He did not make as much out Of the
Lord as he thought he did. Was 1t any
less an illustration for my soul because
l met the clergyman on his way home
from the funeral, aud he told me Of the
/ facts and said the body of the man who
| had been destroyed was black with the
electricity?
o Christian workers, we have got to
freshen up. What is the use Of our 60
| ing back in the Christian classics to find
an illustration of the victorious Chris
tian deathbed when my personal friend,
! Alfred Goodman, a few years ago went
away in as imperial grandeur as did
Edward Payson? Is it any less an illus
tration to me and to you because l met
him a few weeks before in front Of Trim
ity church, Broadway, and l said. Cook
man. you look as if you were working
too hardH Where in all the classics is
there such a story as that Of Goodman
when, in his last moment, he cried, 81
am sweeping through the gates washed
in the blood of the Lamb?"
The Blessed Rest.
What is the use of going away off to
get an illustration when in a house on
Third avenue, Brooklyn, l saw a woman