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CHOIR ENTERTAINED
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Elizabethville, Pa., March 3. Mrs.
Ella J. Klinger entertained the
Evangelical choir on Wednesday eve
ning at her bungalow in East Main
street. A pleasant evening was spent
with games and music, after which a
I repast was served.
LAYMAN WAS
FIRST MARTYR
"Death of Stephen" Subject of
International Sunday
School Lesson
The International Sunday School Les*
son for March 5 is "Th« Death of i
Stephen.—Acts 7:1 to 8:3.
(By William T. Ellis.)
All sorts of honors have come to
laymen in the long history of the
Christian Church. Their greatest
distinction, however, is that the first
crown of Christian martyrdom was
laid on the brow of a layman. Dea
con Stephen led that long procession
of martyrs which has extended
through th e centuries from Jerusa
lem to Armenia and which has held
priests and laymen, women and
children.
Although he was only a layman,
Stephen was singularly popular in
the early Church. Immediately aft
er the experience of the last lesson.
Dr. Luke's story proceeds to tell of i
the ministry of Stephen. One preg- j
nant phrase pictures him, "Stephen I
full of grace and power." There is
j-our model layman; strength plus
charm; power with poise small
wonder the community could not
withstand him. We may outargue
a man's wisdom, but we cannot rea
son down the grace of his life. The
sweetness and flavor of holiness are
not a special perquisite of the minis
try but are meant to flower in the
lives of the laity, even as In Ste
phen of old. We can imagine how
the hearts of the apostles exulted as
they contemplated the growth in
grace of the new Deacon.
When Might Gets After Right
Unable to withstand the wisdom
and the spirit by which Stephen
spoke when his gospel was chal
lenged, the Jews resorted to that
stupid old trick of the strong i
throughout all ages they tried to
crush him by power. Adopting the
same ruse as they used in the case
of Jesus, they bribed witnesses to
make charges of blasphemy against
Stephen and carried him before the
Sanhedrin.
The ordeal was no easy one for
this ministering layman. To be
taken from his lowly tasks of serv
ice to face the very tribunal that had
crucified his Lord, we should not be I
surprised had he been afflicted with
consternation and fear. On the con
trary, this seems to have been the
experience that brought Stephen to
his height. In the heart of the
storm that raged about him fie was
incarnate peace. "All that sat in
the council, fastening their eyes on
him, saw his face as it had been
the face of an angel." Like Moses,
Stephen knew not that his face
j shone, hut this "solar look," as Jos
eph Cook calls the radiance of the
face which comes only from nobility
of soul, preached for Stephen as ef
fectively as his own lips could do.
Si ill when the high priests chal
lenged him, "Are these things so'.'"
Stephen was ready with an answer
that is one of the longest sermons in
the New Testament.
A Layman's Sermon
This is the day of the preaching
layman. Ten thousand of him are
at work all over the land speaking
jin conventions and conferences and
] churches and schools. What a won
derful work these devoted laymen
I are doing! They do not aspire to
■ fill the preacher's place, but they
supplement his ministry. Their ex
emplar in this was Stephen who,
though he never had attended the
j school of the rabbis, was able to
; make answer concerning the faith
i that was in him.
Most of Stephen's sermon is a re
hearsal of the Old Testament his
tory. He told the story of the deal
ings of God with man. Perhaps if
there were less abstract, philosophy
' and more concrete telling of the
great Story that we find between the
covers of our Bible, there would be
; more convincing sermons. Nothing
is more impressive on the mission
1 field than the fact that the mission
aries do not argue or contend; they
' chiefly tell the Story and that Story
is winning the world.
Like a good preacher, Stephen
j found common ground with his hear
ers, even though he had to go clear
back to Mesopotamia. He got to the
application in good time, and It cer
tainly was not remote; for hard upon
the heels of _a straight quotation
from Scripture he made the applica
tion:
"Ye stiffnecked and uncir
cumcised in heart and ears, ye
do always resist the Holy Spirit
it: as your fathers did, so do ye.
Which of the prophets did not
your fathers persecute? and
they killed them that showed
before of the coming of the
Righteous One; of whom ye
have now become betrayers and
murderers; yet who received the
law as it was ordained by an
gels. and kept it not."
When Aristocrats Became a Mob
Most of us have seen at. sometime
or other a cultivated man lose his
poise and return to the primitive.
The sight is not a pretty one. That
is what happened with the Sanhe
drin. Those learned and reverened
doctors of the law, clothed in robes
of state and dignity, began to gnash
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their teeth like an unrestrained rab
ble. Imagine the flower of the aris
tocracy of the Hebrew nation becom
ing a howling mob, crying with a
loud voice, stopping their» ears and
rushing upon saintly-faced Stephen,
and hustling him outside the city
walls, where they began to stone
him to death.
By the way, there is a gate in the
present city of Jerusalem called "St.
Stephen's Gate," and there are hosts
of great churches over the world
bearing St. Stephen's name; the most
notable of them being the cathedral
at Vienna. But I do not recall any
gates or churches or pillars or ruins
named after these members of the
Sanhedrin, who thought themselves
so great. They had power, but it
was only for a day. Alas, that the
custodian of eternal truth so often
falls into the hands of the local po
tentate with the power to slay.
Luke, who was an artist and knew
how to bring out his contrasts,
pauses in his description of the fury
of the Sanhedrin to show again the
serene llgure of Stephen who, "being
full of the Holy Spirit, looked up
steadfastl yinto heaven, and saw the
glory of God. and Jesus standing on
the right hand of God, and said. Be
hold, I see the heavens opened, and
the Son of man standing on the right
hand of God."
A Glimpse of Glory
I once heard Moody say, in a ser
mon on this text, that Stephen saw
Jesus standing on the right hand of
God, because the Lord of glory could
not remain seated on His throne
while a beloved disciple was going
forward to martyrdom in Ilis name.
Our imagination is stirred by the
consideration of what Stephen be
held through the opened windows of
1 heaven. Various eschatological ques
-1 tions arise, but we brush them aside
Ito recall chiefly that it was Jesus
; Himself whom Stephen saw. The in
j effable glory of the eternal kingdom
; seemed not worth speaking about
I when he could hold in full view his
i risen Lord, for whose sake he was re
joicing to die.
"The bride eyes not her garment,
But her dear bridegroom's face;
j I will not gaze at glory,
I But on my King of grace:
j Not at the crown he gifteth,
But on his pierced hand:
The Lamb is all the glory
Of Kmmanuel's land."
Some of the commentators suggest
that Stephen doubtless knew Jesus
on earth; that he must have been
one of the seventy sent out by the
Master, and so he recognized Him in
heaven. The point counts for little.
There is not a disciple of Christ in
all the millions since who has not
instantly recognized his Lord when
the gates of glory open to him.
There will be no need for introduc
tions to the Lover of our souls.
I know it is out of fashion in
these days to talk too much about
heaven, but the comfort that came
to Stephen as the rocks of hate
pounded against his flesh and crash
ed into the shining face was the
comfort of a real heaven and a liv
ing Christ. This was his encourage
ment to pray in the Spirit of Christ
he saw, and so long as there was
a vestige of his features left be
neath that storm of stones, there was
still the shining of the reflected
light of the soul of him who was
true unto death.
Victory l>,v Defeat.
Great as was Stephen's sermon,
his martyrdom was greater. The pic
ture is one that the world would not
lose from its memory; for Christ's
man died in Christ's way. At the
very last, even as when he had walk
ed in ministry among the poor and
lowly, Stephen reminded people of
his Master. His last words were like
those of his Lord, —"Lord Jesus, re
ceive my spirit," and "Lord, lay not
this sin to their charge" an echo
of Calvary's "Father, forgive them,
for they know not what they do."
This parallel in the two death
scenes must have set all Jerusalem
by the ears. "Behold, how these
Christians die" was on many
and even the stern implacability of
the Sanhedrin must have been sha
; ken as they saw a faith that martyr
| dom could not blot out: the Light
shone the brighter for the wind that
blew upon it.
The Man Who Held the Coats
There are strange links in history.
Stephen's was not the only apparent
defeat that led to a real victory.
Most zealous among the mob of the
murderers was a young man named
Saul", an aristocratic Pharisee or the
stricter sect. It Is not recorded of
him that he lost control of himself
as some of the elders did, and shout
ed and frothed and fumed, but he
kept watch over the coats of those
who stoned Stephen. He thoroughly
approved of the deed. While his
philosophic mind must have been
sorely puzzled, yet his religious
training taught him that this pes
tiferous Christian sect must be wiped
out by force.
Saul, Saul! how little you knew
that the torch that Stephen dropped
j from his bruised and broken hand
1 was to be picked up by you and car
ried as a blazing beacon across the
! then known world and throughout
I the ages! As dramatic as the death
jof this young man was to be Saul's
conversion to the faith for which he
died.
Most of the Christians were driven
out of Jerusalem by this persecu
tion, and they went wailing over
Stephen's but even as they
wailed they testified. They went
everywhere preaching the Gospel. In
his death Stephen accomplished
more than in his life. The fury of
persecution tested the infant Church
and challenged her faith. Tens of
thousands of Christians in this same
land have within less than a year
been forced to face for the first time
the question "Ts my Christianity
worth dying for,?" Hundreds of
thousands of corpses of slain Ar
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WITNESS IN MURDER TRIAL
Among 1 the witnesses who have
been called to Pittsburgh to testify
in the murder trial of Aaron Fell for
the murder of Mrs. Caroline Flaccus
Viohmier is H. F. Gamber, a clerk at
the Columbus Hotel. Fell's defense is
an alibi as he contends he was in this
city attending a poultry show on the
date of the crime.
TEACHER ENTERTAINS BOYS
Elizabethville, Pa.. March 3. Mrs.
j H. H. Collins pleasantly entertained
' her Sunday school class of boys at
her home on Wednesday evening,
j There were games and victrola musi<\
after which a light lunch was served.