THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, PA, THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 1898 THE DEATH OF STEPHEN. Five Pon Ploturss of the Last Mo- ments of a Gl rious Martyr. God Selects Iisa Choloest Treasures for the Galleries of Heaven The Christian's Dylng Day Is Always » Happy Experience. Rev. Dr. Talinage's latest sermon, given below, is a vivid story of martyr dom and an entrancing description of the glories awaiting the dying Chris tian. The text used is Acts 7: 50-60: “Behold I see the heavens opened,” ete. Stephen had been preaching a rous- ing sermon, and the people could not stand it. They resolved to do as men sometimes would like to do in this day, if they dared, with some plain preacher of righteousness—kill him. The only way to silence this man was to knock the breath out of him. So they rushed Btephen out of the gates of the city, and with curse, and whoop, aud bellow they brought him to the cliff, as was the custom when they wanted to take away life by stoning. Having brought him to the edge of the cliff, they pushed him off. After he had fallen they came and looked down, and see- ing that he was not yet dead, they be- gan to drop stones upon him, stone after stone. Amid this horrible rain of missiles, Stephen clambers up on his knees and folds his hands, while the blood drips from his temples to his cheeks, from his cheeks to his gar ments, from his garments to the ground; and then, looking up, he makes two prayers—one for himself and for murderers “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit;” that was for himself. “Lord, lay not this to their charge:” that was for his assail- ants. Then, pain and of blood, he swooned away and fell asleep. one his sin from loss I want to show you to-day five pic-| Heaven. | i shackels. tures. Stephen gazing into Stephen looking at Chirist. stoned. Stephen asleep. First, look at Heaven. Before want to know land. want to Stephen Stephen gazing into where you Before you climb a know to what point the ladder of Heaven, We would all moments ild be gazing into it do well 4 { There is enough in gazing. A man have statuary in the hall, and paint y be und in the same posture iy Heaven to keep us of large wealth may ings in the sitting room, and works of | art in all parts of the he has the chief pictures in the art gal lery, and there hour after hour you walk ever-increasing admiration. Heaven is the gallery gathered the chief realm. The w palace. stop there are many house, but with catalogue and glass and Well, where God has of His is His room where treasures hole universe In this lower we adornments; tes the out sellated fl winding cloud-stairs are stretched canvases on and purple, and safron, and gold But Heaven the chief glories are gathered amethyst, and on which commingle azure, is the gallery in which There are the brightest robes. There are the richest crowns exhilar: kings nd on ir. and after awhile the hull lisappears and then ch of sail on the sky one, and they are all ad yet we stand | mm. sowhen our friends go a we Keel ng down and that out and stand on some cloud, give us of and transfigured faces through the Narrows though v come gazing pected garing, would and blissful they one glimpse their While you long to join their compan jonship, and the years and the days go with such tedium that they break your heart, and the viper of pain and sorrow and bereavement keep gnawing at your vitals, you stand still, like Stephen, gaz ing into Heaven. You wonder if they have changed since you saw them last. You wonder if they would recognize your face now, so changed has it been with trouble. You wonder if, amid the myriad delights they have, they care as much for you as they used to when they gave you a helping hand and put their shoulder under your bur- deas. You wonder if they look any older, and sometimes in the evening- tide, when the house is all quiet, you wonder if you should call them by their first name if they would not ape swer, and perhaps sometimes you do make the ¢ ment, and when noone but God and yourself are there you distinetly call their names and Hsten, and sit gazing into Heaven. Pass on now, and see Stephen look. ing upon Christ. My text says he saw the Son of Man at the right hand of God. Just how Christ looked in this world, just how Me looks in Heaven, we cannot say. A writer in the time time of Christ says, describing the Saviour's a ce, that He had blue eyes and t complexion, Ld Stephen in his dying prayer. | { hold Him, little children, for if you | live to three score years and ten, you you take a leap you | are going to i ladder you | | hut woking in | 8 | hedrim; now he addresses al 1s into the future world | de as | | ence as a modern md a very graceful structore, but | suppose it was all guesswork, The painters of the different ages have tried to imagine the features of Christ and put them upon canvas, but we will have to wait until with our own eyes wo soe Him and with our own ears we can hear Him. And yet there is a way of seeing and hearing Him now, I have to tell you that unless you see and hear Christ on earth, you will never sce and hear Him in Heaven. Look! There He is. Behold the Lamb of God. Can you not see Him? Then pray to God to take the scales off your eyes. Look that way--try to look that way. His voice comes down to you this day-—comes down to the blindest, to the deafest soul, saying: ‘Look unto Me, all ye ends of the earth, and be saved, for I am God, and there is none else. Proclamation of universal emaneipation for all slaves. Proclamation of universal amnesty for all rebels. Belshazzar gathered the Babylonish nobles to his table, George I. entertained the lords of England at a banquet, Napoleon IIL welcomed the czar of Russia ani the Sultan of Turkey to his feast, the em- peror of Germany was glad to have our minister, George Bancroft, sit down with him at his table, but tell me, ye who know most of the world's history, what other king ever asked the aban- doned and the forlorn and the wretched and the outcast to come and sit beside him? Oh, wonderful invitation! You ean take it to-day, and stand at the head of the darkest alley in any city, and say: “Come? Clothes for your rags, salve for your sores, a throne for your eternal reigning.” A Christ that talks like that, and acts like that, and pardons like that —do you wonder that Stephen stood looking at Him? I hope to spend eternity doing the same thing. I must see Him; I must look upon that face once clouded with my sin, but now radiant with my pardon. I want to touch that hand that knocked off my I want to hear that voice whieh pronounced my deliverance. Be- will see none so fair. Behold Him, ye aged for He only can shine through the dimmness of your failing eyesight. Behold Him, earth. Behold Him, Heaven. What a moment when all the nations of the saved shall gath- er around Christ! All faces that way ones, { All thrones that way, gazing on Jesus. His worth If all the nations knew Sure the whole earth would love Him, too I pass on now, and look at Stephen stoned. to get rid of good men assault wickedness. Out with Stephen through the gates of the city. Down with him over the preci- Let every man up and drop a stone upon |} But these men did not Stephen as they killed Every stone rebounded is an upon ices, come iis head kill themselves them. murderers were transfixed by the scorn f all good men admiration of Christendom phen stoned, but Stephen alive. so much upon all Ste Soall men must be pelted. All who will i ri woud live godly in Christ Jesus must suffer | perseoution. It is no eulogy of 8 man that everybody likes him. Show i is doing all his duty to FRAY h, and 1 will show you terly abhor him ’ If all men Speak well of % ni. i cause you dolt 3 either a laggard are If a steamer makes rapid prog water will around it Christ will ress boil Te through the waves, the foam all udiers of Je and Brave hear the When I see a man and us carbines with ClUCcK voice, and money, influence all on the right side, and some caries r at him, and him me } 0 who pre- ture him, and s« me Snee ounce Ht motives ast him out hen stoned mn great n patti . EXpOosin by act caurci ng g wicked ve means and better y and i find that some spite, 1 after in, and Pa But y¢ and Ml notios ile they as sulted eed reall a xd hey did not suo ing him. Y on n kill Ou may assauit man, h m nest } cannot Ki On day of | his death, Stephen in the San | Christen- the spoke before a fe people Paul the addressing a handful m Apostle stood on Mars of philoso phers who knew not so much about sci girl. Today he talks to all the millions of Christen dom about the wonders of justification and the glories of resurrection. John Wesley was howled down by the mob to whomn he preached, and they threw bricks at him, and they denounced him, and they jostled him, and they spat upon him, and yet to-day, in all lands, he is admitted to be the great father of Methodism. Booth's bullet vacated the presidential chair; but from that spot of coagulated blood on the floor in the box of Ford's theater there sprang up the new life of a nation. Stephen stoned, but Stephen alive. Pass on now and see Stephen in his dying prayer. His first thought was not how the stones hurt his head, nor what would become of his body. His first thought was about his spirit. “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.” The murderer standing on the trap door, the black cap being drawn over his head before the execution, may grim- ace about the future, but you sad I have no shame in confessing some anx- lety about where we are going to come out. You are not all body. There is withiz Jou a soul. 1 see it gleam from your eyes, and I see it irradiating your countenance. I do not eare what you do with my body when my soul is gofle, or whether you believe in cremation or inhumas- tion. I shall sleep just as well in a wrapping of sackcloth ae in sutin lined with eagle's down. But my soul school Stephen lives in the” \ The world has always wanted | Their very life | | from the way he lived | he preached, and the | enemies. While these | «=bhefore this day passes I will ind ont where it will land. Thank God for the intimation of my text, that when we die Jesus takes us. That answers all questions for me. What though there were massive bars between here and the city of light. Jesus eould remove them, What though there were great Baharas of darkness, Jesus could illume them. What though I get weary on the way, Christ could lift me on His omnipotent shoulder. What though there were chasms to eross, his hand eould trans port me. Then let Stephen's prayer be my dying litany: “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.” It may be in that hour we will be too feeble to say a long prayer. It may be in that hour we will not be able to say the “Lord's Prayer,” for it has seven petitions. Perhaps we may be too feeble even to say the infant prayer our mothers taught us, which John Quiney Adams, 70 years of age, said every night when he put his head upon his pillow: Now 1 lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep. We may be too feeble to employ either of these familiar forms; but this prayer of Stephen's is so short, is so eoncise, is so earnest, is so comprehen sive, we surely will be able to say that: “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.” Oh, if that prayer is answered, how sweet it will be to die! This world is elever enough to us. Perbaps it has treated us a great deal better than we deserve to be treated; but if on the dying pil- low there should break the light of that better world, we shall have no more regret about leaving a small, dark, damp house for one large, beautiful and eapacious. That dying minister in Philadelphia some years ago beau- tifully depicted it, when, in the last moment, he threw up his hands and cried out: “I move into the light™ Pass on now, and I will show you one | Stephen | With a pathos and simplicity | Scriptures, the text | “He fell asleep.” | “Oh,” you say, "what a piace that was | rock under him, stones | more plctwke, and that is naleep. peculiar says of to the Stephen to sleep! A hard falling upon him, the streaming, the mob howling. place it was to sleep!™ text takes that symbol blood down What a | And yet my | of slumber to | “ALL WORKED OUT.” An Instructive Lesson in the Death Roll of Our Great Men. in tender and tearful It is a lengthy and a sad list. We can casily recall many who have seemed to for its sudden ending. were tired out, exhausted. its prime cause and at once set describe his departure, so sweet was | it, so contented it. life, his chief the he was it, work had been to care How many loaves of how many bare many he kind for poor. distributed, sandaled, and ministries of love, 1 do not know; but and the way way he died, I laborious Christian over He bread feet h cota blessed had how sickness @ of distress with ness and Le RN know he But that Was a is all now, so peaceful was | Stephen had lived a very laborious | has | pressed the cup to the last fainting lip. | He has taken the last insult from The last stone to been hurled. Stephen is dead! The They take him up. They wash away the blood from the They straighten out iimbs. They brush back the hair from the brow, and they pass aroun disciples come wounds, bruised tangled then wok upon the oslm countenance of the th i lived for poor and the truth Stephen asleep! I have » hurricane sn with the caught in th and wave rising i as if above wave seemed the tempest about to storm seen the crouch, smooth and a camping place Sol have life has been tossed hen I have waATes vihing become Deavens, and t arop, and the : and ever burnished as though for the gl seen A man, and coming down at last to an infinite calm, hush wies of Heaven whose driven, in which there was the of Heaven's lullaby Stephen asleep! I saw such an one 8 Against poverty He fought all his day and against abuse They traduced his door knob for t the peace and Heaven dawned, light of earth's name. They rattled at the while was dyin with duns debts he seyrs led 3 Ve * wy of God brooded ¢ r in while the and the night was or pillow, Heaven's tear. No asle ep! the I can never tell by the setting be a drought or not. leannot tell by the blowing of the wind whether it wiil be fair weather or foul on the morrow. But | can prophe- ™ prophesy what weather it will be when you, the Christian, come to You may have it very rough It may be this week one annoy It may be this year one bereavement, the next another bereavement. Before this year has passwd you may have to beg for bread, or ask for a scuttle of coal, or a pair of shoes: but at the last Christ will come in and darkness will go out. And though there may be no hand to close your eyes, and no breast on which to rest your dying head, and no eandle to lift the night, the odors of God's hanging garden will regale your soul, and at your bedside will halt the chariots of the King. No more rents to pay, no more agony because flour has gone up, no more struggle with “the world, the flesh, and the devil!” but peace-—long, deep, everlasting peace. Stephen asleep! Asleep in Jeans, blessed sleep, From which none ever wake 10 weep; A calm and undisturbed repose, Uninjured by the inst of foes Asleep in Jesus, far from thee Thy kirdred and thelr graves may be; But thers is still a blessed sleep, From which nene ever wake to weep. You have seen enough for one morn- ing. No one can successfully examine more than five pioturesin aday. There- fore, we stop, having seen this cluster of Divine Raphaels—Stephen gazing into Heaven: Stephen looking at Christ; Stephen stoned; Stephen in his dying prayer; Btephen aaleep. we Tes and Colles in Ceylon. ile the tea ind of Ceylon 1a a4 16s beak the cullen plansers are near ruin. Disease is destroying the plants rapidly. 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