Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1902-07-14

tyreS death most OF them also did. So
1t may be your Christian duty to keep
on living for Christ and testifying of
his love in place of persecution and
among companions who make Christ
an object of daily ridicule, as did the
prosecuted young Roman officer whose
epitaph can still be read in one of the
Roman cemeteries in these words: "He
lived long enough to shed his blood for
Christ"
Now, l want you, my Christian
friends, you who are experiencing
these daily prosecutions, to fully real
lie that not one drop of blood which
fell from the Christian martyrs Of
Caesars ancient palace was ever shed
in vain. From those prosecutions the
great influence of the church of Jesus
Christ was started. From those per-
secutions were lighted the gospel
torches which are today shedding
their glorious rays all round the world.
From those prosecutions came not so
much Pauls death and the death of
the saints in Caesars palace as the
eternal life of millions upon millions
secuted Christian, only keep true to
the gospel faith in the difficult places
where you are stationed you may not
only win your father and mother and
husband and children for God, but you
may win thousands upon thousands of
immortal souls for Christ = beings
whose names you have never read
yxyh er1n irrr f0nn lnr1,O
shall never see until you look upon
them among the redeemed before the
great white throne.
Familiar Faces In Cesar's Palace.
So, repeat, this glorious text brings
the salutations of the saints in Caesars
palace to the rich and the poor the
high and the low, the old and the
young alike. 1t brings its salutations
to the rich and the great men. There
were many great men and women in
Caesars household who were without
doubt members of the household of
faith. Nero's household, intellectually
and financially, was the noted court of
it's day. And some of the saints in
Caesars palace must have been num-
bered among the princes and prin-
cesSes of the realm and among the
great commanders of the Roman le-
gion, the cabinet officials and the men,
bers of the privy council. So we find
today, among the great and the ia
nous Of the earth, there have been
saints in Caesars palace. Witness Will
liam Mckinley, shot down by an as
sassin's bullet, calmly turning his face
toward his invalid wife, saying, God S
will, not ours, be done" Witness
Stonewall Jackson, leaving his army
hat outside of his tent as sign that he
did not wish to be interrupted because
he was then on his knees to God in
prayer. Witness Neal Dow and Fred
erick Robertson and William e. Glad
stone and Thomas Chalmers and John
Knox and a whole army of earthly
saints of whom the world was not
worthy. These are some of the famous
modern saints who have already won
immortal fame by laying down their
lives for Christ.
But also find that in Nero's ancient
palace there We're slaves as we'll as
rich mobiles. There We're menials who
had to perform the most humble serv-
ices, as we'll as generals who command
ed Neros armies or prime ministers
who decided the international policies
or financial ministers who levied the
taxes. There were the cooks and the
chambernaids. There We're the porters
and the gardeners and the messengers
the private guards and the negro serv-
ants, as well as the white servants
There were the scullions, as we'll as
the ladies in waiting, who stood by the
empress side. and the saints in Caesars
palace were in all probability found in
the kitchen as well as in the parlOr, in
the servants livery as we'll as in the
courtier's uniform. All of which prove:
that God is ready to honor the man OF
one talent, If he is q saint, just as
much as he honors the man of ten tai
ents who makes spiritual use of his
genius.
My hearers, no matter what our WALL
of life may be, will you today be 8
saint of God and throw yourself upoI
Will you here and now dedicate yOul
life to the Saviour even if that dedica
ton means the shedding of your life's
blood? VIII you be willing to suffer
for Christ as we'll as to have the pleas
ure and the joys that come from TIT
Christian life? Are you ready to shout
der for Christ the heavy burden. Ar,
you ready, for him, to have the fee
ache, the hands ache, the back ache
the head ache and the heart ache?
I would plead with you to be willing
to make these sacrifices for Christ, al
did the saints in Caesars palaces, be
cause it is on account Of their sacri
fees that Jesus is going to rewart
you in another place which he ha
builded for you, not in Rome, but upol
the golden boulevard of heaven. It il
only a step from the palace of perse
cution into the palace of reward.
is only a step from Caesars thron