The Republican journal., 1902-07-10


given message: Daniel opened toward
Jerusalem three times day his WIN
| dows of prayer, fearing neither the
king nor the lions; and John the Bap-
| fist, by the same power, delivered his
| message of repentance and fire. hest
! tating not to declare the truth even to
! the face of the cruel and licentiouS An
+ tipas. 1t was the same heroic virtue
which enabled Martin Luther to appear
/ before the famous Diet saying: Here
| stand: | can do no otherwise: God
help me-" 1t was loyalty to God that
| Mohammedans and David Brainard in
young Gordon laid down his life on
Erromanga and Maekay at the borders
of [ ganda. Its sacredness and power
have been attested and sealed by the
/ blood of ten thousand martyrs from
Paul and Polycart to Crammer and
| Ridley and Latimer and the two hun
| dred missionaries and thirty thousand
/ native converts who fell III China dur
ing the recent Boxer uprising.
| The highest form of loyalty is that
which has a personal object. The viz
tue blossoms most luxuriantly in the
light of personality. Loyalty must
have its Alexander or its Charemange,
its Washington or its Lincoln as its in
spirer. Christian loyalty has its Per
sonal Object i'll Him who said. If any
! man would come after me. let him deny
himself. and take up his cross and fol
| low me.
! Christ's claims for allegiance are
many and mighty. They are based up
on what He is, in person and i'll office:
upon what He has done for men and
! what He waits to do with men. While
on earth our Lord WAS the very embody-
ment of friendship, charity and benev-
| olence. 1t is recorded Of Him that
He came not to be ministered unto,
| but to minister, ana to give His life a
ransom for many Silver and gold He
gave not. because He had them not.
Though rich, He became poor that
we through his poverty might become
: rich" His gifts We're more precious
than gold. TO the suffering He gave
relief; to the deaf He gave hearing: to
the blind He gave sight; to the nnpo-
tent He gave strength: to the leprous
He gave cleansing: to the dead lie gave
not burial but life: to the lost He gave
salvation. His ear was ever sensitive,
His eye was ever sympathetic. His
heart was ever compassionate. His
hand ever ready. And He is the same
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