The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1902-01-10

slave trade, but now hhicn ~ s1-
plished is suggested by Lord broug
hams remark concerning Wilberforco
after his decease: ..He went 70
Heaven with S0O,ouo broken fetters n
his hand.' Some one, trying 70 dis.
suade Napoleon from his invasion q
Russia. said: ssNlan proposes. but God
disposes.' But you remember MOS
COW, and $4,000 corpses in the snow
hanks. The only kind of Boosting that
prospers was that Of Paul, who cried
out: II glory in the cross OF CHRIST
And that of John Newton, VINO de-
clared: II am not what ought 70
he. i am not what / wish to be; 1
am not what hope to be, but, by the
grace CT God, ] am not what was
Do not boast of your moral
strength, One of the most brilliant
men Of the nineteenth century, hav-
ing temporarily reformed from N.
ebriacy. stood on the platform Of
broadway tabernacle, New York, and
said: '.Were this great globe one
crystallite and / were offered the pos
session of it if / would drink one
glass of brandy would refuse with
scorn, and want no religion 70 heip
me-" But that same man dled az
Poughkeepsies a drunken pauper. Bet
ter underrate than overrate our
selves.
Notice also my text takes it for
granted that you must put on the har-
ness. else how can you take it OFT? Life
is a battlea 80 years, 40 years or 2
GO years war. Helmet you must have,
for the battleaxes of skepticism and
agn mysticism are aimed at your head.
Every possible effort will be made to
make you think wrong. The young
man who gets his head filled with
wrong notions about God, about Christ,
about the soul, about the great beyond,
is already captured. Put on the helmet.
the latchet we'll adjusted under the
chin. Think right and you will ACT
right. Yes, breastp.ate for the heart.
That is the most impc .tant part to be
defended. That decides what you love
and what you hate. what you hope tor
and what you despise. That decides
earthly happiness and eternal destiny.
Keep the heart pure and the lie VIII
be pure. Have the heart corruptan
your actions will be corrupt. On, that
all of us might have a new heart COW
cred with divinely wrought breast
plate! Yes, greaves for the feet. 80
many dangerous roads are we COM
PEELED to walk. So many people tread
on sharp prongs of temptation and go
lame and limping all the rest OF their
days. Iron mailed shoes for the feet.
l ongratulate all those who are
now in the thickest Of life's battle
that the time is coming when the
struggle will end and you will put the
harness off, helmet and greaves and
breastplate having fulfilled their mis-
sion. You cannot in one visit to Lon
don Tower see all. You must go again
and again to that place which is as
ISOLATED with the story Of Lady Jane
Grey and Anne Boleyn and Walter
Raleigh and Sir Thomas More. You
will see the crowns of kings and
queens, the robe worn by the Black
Prince, and silver baptismal fonts
from which royal infants were chris
tened, and the block on which Lord
Loyat was beheaded. But no part OF
London Tower will more interest you
than the armory, in which is skillful-
ly and impressively arranged collec-
ton of all styles of armor worn be-
tween the thirteenth and eighteenth
centuries, suggesting 500 years OF
confict-cuiras and neck guard and
chin piece and lance rest and gauntlet
ana girdle and mailed apron. You see
Just how from head to heel those old
time warriors were defended against
sharp weapons that would cut or
thrust or bruise and allowing them
to come out of battle unhurt when
otherwise they would have been slain.
o We soldiers of Jesus Christ, when
the war of life is over and the victors
rest in the soldiers home on the
| heavenly heights, perhaps there may
be in the city of the sun tower OF
| spiritual armor such as incased the
warriors for Christ in earthly COM
bat. Some day we may be in that
armory and hear the heroes talk OF
how they fought the good fight OF
faith and see them with the scars OF
wounds forever healed and look at
the weapons of offense and defense
with which they became more than
conquerors. In that tower of Heaven,
as the weapons of the spiritual con-
fiict are examined, st. Paul may point
out to us the armor with which he
advised the Ephesians to equip them
selves and say; "That is the shield
of faith. That is the helmet of sal
walton. That is the girdle of truth.
! That is the breastplate of righteous