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Asan ps The Eminent Washington BDivine's Sunday Sermon, Subject: “A Passion of Souls.” Trxr: “I could wish that mvaslt were kinsmen according to the fesh,"-~Bomans ix., 3 A tough passage, indend, for tL:oss who take Paul literally, When gome of the old theologinns declared that they w to be damned for the glory of God, what no one belfeved., Paul did not in the text mean he was willing to die forever to save his relatives, Ho used hyperbole, and when he declared, I rould wish that myself were accursed from Christ r my brethren, wy kinsmen according to the flesh. meant in the most vehement o wnvs to de I of his relatives and fr for souls, Not mo of thous it desire sal and me It w thoy said sinre his for the salvation It wns a passion oe { out ads of wuld take ever cat ost wond acterization the world ever saw or felt was n peasant in the Far East, wear a plain blouse like an inverted wheat saok, with three openings for the neok and the other two for the arms Hiz lather a wheelwright and house builder and given to various carpentry. His mother at first andes suspicion because of the circumstances of His nativity, and He chased b Herodic mania otit of His native land to liv the shadows of the sphinx and pyramid of Gizeh, afterward confounding the L.I. Ds of Jerusalem, then stopping the paroxysas of tempest and of madman. His path strown with slain dropsies and catalepsies and oph- thalming, tracsfigured on one mountain, preaching on another mountain, dyiog ou another mountain and ascending from an other mountain the greatest, the loveliest the mightiest, the kindest, the most seifsnc. rificing, most beautiful being whose feet ever touched the earth, Tell ne, yo desorts wh deck, on beach, on hillside; tell us, Gol. gotha, who heard the stroke of the hammer unt the spikeheads and the dying groan in that midpight that dropped on midnoon, did anyone like Jesus have this passion for EONS But breaking right in upon me is the Pauline and Christly longing for savad im- mortalities? | answer, by better apprecist- ing the pro.ongation of the somi’s existence compared with everything physical and ma- terini, How I hope that sargeon will sue. cessfully remove the cataract from man seye! It is such a sad thing to be blind, Let us pray while the doctor is busy with the delicate operation. Bat for how long a tire will he be sbie to give his patient syesight? Weil, If the patient be forty years oi nee, he will add to his happiness perhaps fifty years of evesight, and t will bring the man to ninety years, nad it is not prob. able that ‘he will jive longer than that, or that he will live so long. But what is good eyesight for fifty years more as compared with clear vision for the soul a billion of esutucins? 1 hope the effort to drive back We typlicid fever from yonder home will be suceessful, God help the doctors! We will walt in great anxiety until the fires of that { what heartiness we will welcome the fresh air und the church olicles! shall live sixiy years mors that him ninety, him will health for a quadrillion This world, since fitted up for man's resis dence, has existed about six thousand years, How much longer will it exist? We will sup pose it shall Inst as much longer, which is vary doubtful, That will makes ts exist ence twelve thousand years, But what are or will be twelve thousand years ¢ with the eternity preceding those y { the eternity following them-~time, us com. | pared to eternity, like the drop of the dew shaken from the top of a grass | | the cow's hoof ong its way afield this | ing, as compared with Mediter M1 | Arabian and Atlantic and Pacifle wate mins mort- nud ' ns! | A stranger desired to purcha the owner would not it. The stranger hire sell it one erop, tire that « Wis a pract rit, and hb ext, wal ad it read t this half of the last decadas « esnlury the temperature in w, and most later in the no aii aks § ; which is next ¢ best. for that | 5a 1 rossryoad ~=@futer the ureh with a stately his head, or at any rate shut prayer time, or closes them enough to look turn toward the pulpit with holy dullness while the preacher speaks, put a rent piece or, if the times be hard, a 1 cont piece—aon the collestion platter, kind of shov. ing it down uader the other coln so that it might be, for all that the usher knows, a 85 wold ploce and then, after the benadistive, go quietiy home to the bigaest repast of all the week. That is all the majority of Christinns are doing for the rectification of this planes, and they will do thet until, at the ciose of ite, the pastor opens a black book at the head of their casket and reads, * Blessed are the deat who die in the Lord, They rest from r the javes stern. bo LJ w his eves in slrany, in me that when [I hear these Seripture words read at the obsequies of one What work? And in wha! And do they foliow on foot or on the wing? And how long will they follow before they cateh up? name Look her position with the troops and weapon into the ranks?” “Wall,” she said, “I ean show, at Isast, which side [ am oa. vocabulary —namely, a passion for souls. T's prove that ft is possible to have much of that spirit, I bring the conseeration of 299) foreign missionaries, It is usually estimated that there are at least 3000 missionaries, | make a liberal allowanse and admit there may be 10 tad missionaries out of the 3000, but not believe there is one. All English an American merchants leave Bombay, Cal cutta, Amoy and Pokin as won as they make their fortunes, Why! Because no European or Amerionn in his senses would stay in that ecilmate after monetary induce- ! ments have ceased. Now the missionaries there are put down on the barest necessities, and most of thet do not Iny op €1 in twenty years, Why, thes, do they stay In those innds of intolerable heat und cobras and playing at 189 and 140 degreas of oppressive noss, 12.000 miles from hb me, because of the the prevailing im regions compelied to send unhealthy olimate and moralitios of those their ehildrea to Engiand or Be America, probably never to y thom ngain? O blessed Christ! Can it be anything but a [ passion for souls? It is easy to understand ali this frequent depreciation of foreign mis- slonaries when you know that they are all osud to the opinm traffle, and that inter | fores with commerce, and then the mission. nries moral, and that is an offense to many of the merchants—not all of them, many of them vho, absent from all wiraint, ral that we ean make only falut allusion to the moastrosity of thelr abominations, Oh, Iw when the itiand or Onn Vi are Are Ro jmm paid Hike to ba Me Ir ting are st it, Wao w and lif ff you what soldiers call the “Jong Al drams beat it becanss the enem: ing, and all the troops mus got into line. What scurrying camp and putting of the arms straps of the koapsack, and saying good-by to comrades you may never moet again! some of you Germans or Frenchmen have heard that long roll just before Sedan, Some of you Diallans may have heard that long roil just bsfors Bergamo. Booms of you everiasting the veh inn it just before the battles of the Wilderasss, You keow its stirring and solemn menan- ing. aud so 1 sound the long roll to-day. 1 beat this old gospel drum that has for cen. furies been calling thousands to take their places in line for this battle, on one sido of which ars all the forces beatific and on the other side all the forces demoniac, Here the long roll eall, “Who $s oa the | Lord’s side?’ “Quit yourselves like men.” In solemn column march for Go! and happl= ness and heaven, Bo glad am I that { do fit have fo “wish mysel! nocurssd’ and throw away my heaven that you may win | your heaves, but that we may have a whole conveniion of heavens--hieaven added to | heaven, heaven build on heaven, And while {I dwell upon the theme I begin to experi. ence in my own poor ssif that which I take i to be something like a passion forsouls. And | now unto God, the only wise, the only good, Amen! 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