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he swung his tired feet from the bed and stood at the window. The men huzzaed, dipped their torn flags of bat tle, bared their hbads, their cheeks wet with the tears of manly grief as they looked on the pallid face of their prince. The bands were playing “Hail to the Chief,” when they saw rising, the hand that had so often pointed the way to vic tory. Slowly, painfully he lifted it to his brow, then let it fall. It was his last military salute. And the world said “ It was well done.” For Grant at the head of a million men had gone down to the southland in contention with the noble Lee, battle prince of the South, and in the red dew of carnage had helped to bind up the wound of a severed nation. But Jesus! Single-handed he came and single-handed he went down upon these fields where sin devastates and blasts and blights, where Death riots in ruin, and alone made contention; through death poining fierce strife with our foe till Death himself lay dead and sin was overcome, and stooping his mighty shoulders he lifted us back to God. “Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him and given him the name which is above every name, that in the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven and things on earth and things under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God, the Father.” And when I read that I said aloud, “Well done, God!! He deserved it!” Jesus Who Takes Away Fear Paul not only preached an exalted Jesus; he preached a Jesus who takes away the fear of death. For he himself, likewise, took part of the same: that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death; that is, the devil, and deliver them who through fear of death were all their life time subject to bondage. (Heb. 2:14-15). It is no little thing to die. Death is
and artist, that the Lord of life but waited his hour and rose, bursting hack the stone and passing forth in his might. “God raised him from the dead.” And Paul says that the energy or working of the strength or sinuosity of his might which he wrought in Christ when he raised Jesus from the dead, shall also quicken your mortal bodies. Paul not only preached a resurrected Jesus, he preached an exalted Jesus. Wherefore God also hath highly exal ted him and given him a name above every name that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in earth and thirigs under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God, the Father. Horace Porter tells of an incident in the life of, General Grant that is memor able and will never be effaced from the memory of those who shared it. It was Decoration Day in the city of New York, the last one he ever saw on- earth. The members of the Grand Army of the Republic were early astir. They shined up their buttons, unfurled their banners of battle, burnished the medals of honor which decorated their breasts for they were that day to march by the home of their dying commander to give him their last earthly tribute of love. Grant "was so ill that he could scarcely whisper his wants. Sjo feeble that the hands that knew to wield the sword of battle could scarcely lift a glass of water to his fev ered lips. Prostrate with anguish was that "tireless form that had ridden at the head of the conquering columns and had stood before princes and kings and emperors of the old world to receive unparalleled honors at his hand. Up the avenue came the strains of martial music and the sound of men moving in column with the swing and stride learned only in the march of war. With it Grant was hearing the music that mingled with the roar of his guns at Vicksburg. He understood it all. His old veterans were honoring their chief. Gathering up the remnant of his strength
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