The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1902-06-19

ing his native land to come to Ameri-
ca. Just as he was ready to step up-
on the vessel, a friend and companion
of his youth, who was then with him
grasped him by the arm, and with a
tear trlckling down his cheek, said:
John, remember eternity The
young man reached America and en-
tered profession. At every turn he
made there came the three words of
his friend ringing in his ears, "John,
remember eternity They made
such an impression upon his heart and
mind that he gave up all and sought
a Saviour.
Another young man was walking
one Sabbath morning with party of
his comrades, along the bank of a
stream near village. Their object
was to find a secluded retreat in order
to spend the day in reveling. AS they
strolled leisurely along the sound of
the village church bell broke in upon
the young mans soul, seeming to say:
Remember your mother'' 1t was
his mother who two years before, had
called her son to her dying bedside,
and gave him parting message.
The young man turned, left his COM
rades and from that day followed the
precepts of his mother.
One more case: A father realized
his end was near, so he called ABOUT
him his wife and all his children,
some of them having reached manhood
and womanhood, and gave to them a
parting message. 1t was not that they
should visit regularly his grave with
the floral wreathe, and there battle
the tomb with briny tears, not that
they should put lasting monument
of stone at his head, but this: "Wife,
children, said he, g am now about
to leave you. Remember your Lord.
He has bought you, he has sought you.
Improve upon my failures, sacrifice
all you have to the memory
of your Savior With these words
he left them.
Our Savior was about ready to leave
his disciples. He gathered them near
him i'll the upper chamber at Jerusa-
lem, and there gave them a parting
message. He was to be gone for a
long while. In the mean time, the
Comforter was promised them, but the
last words of the message was not
in every land a monument of
bronze or MARBLE" but simply this,
Remember me. " He left them a
memorial in the institution of the
Lords Supper, and said to them when
you partake of the elements of this
supper in after years, think of me.
Remember my life, my death,
my love for you -
He bids us as we assemble around
this table to remember his spotless
life. Every hero of the world who
left an impress upon it, left an i'm
press blemished, and impaired by some
fault, but not SO with our Savior.
Take a look sat that life. You see all
the scorn and criticism and contempt
of the sinful world focused on his
life, but not blemish is seen. For
all these years the skeptic, and the in
field, and the agnostic, have attempt
ed to porve that Jesus Christ of Naza-
reth was an impostor. Their efforts
fall fruitless at his feet as the small
hail stones are dashed to pieces at the
foot of the towering wall of granite.
He stands alone and supreme, the CEN
trail figure of all the ages, undisturbed
by the fury of his opponents. Lift the
veil of Scripture, and see Him in the
wilderness for forty days, tried and
tempted, beyond the. power of human
endurance, yet he passes thro' it ALL
Sec Him as the Pharisees and ssSadud-
GEES ply him with arrogant questions
to entrap him. Not breath of anger
crosses his soul, as he answers them in
his own way and passes on Again
look at Him, when he sits in the hall
with crown of thorns on his brow,
his face bruised with the insolent slap
of his enemies, his countenance be-
smeared with their spittle, the crown
ing act of contempt. There he sits,
with not frown across that brow, not
a culver on his lip, and not an evil
thought i'll his heart Then remember
too that prayer he breathed on Cal
vary, while his flesh was torn as
worthless garment. Remembering all
this, can there be but one conclusion?
That life was without single fault,
III thought, word or deed. Then in
this connection remember his COM
mand: Follow thou me!'' Is this
not a call to purer life, to deepen
ing of the religious experience? While
we call to mind the spotless life of our
Savior, do we not hear Him saying
to us, BE ye perfect, even as your
father in heaven is perfect" So then,
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