Death to the Christian

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There is a very fine illustration of the power of military discipline to strengthen a man’s nerve and sense of honor in time of deadly peril. This particular story relates to the conduct of those who survived the explosion of the battleship Maine. After the awful catastrophe, when the ship was torn and reeling like a drunken man, enveloped in smoke, as Captain Sigsbee came out of his cabin, he was met by his orderly who was on guard there, and who had not moved from his place. Saluting his commander, the man said, “Sir, I have the honor to report that the ship has been blown up and is sinking.” There was something splendid about that which one cannot choose but admire; however, there is something not only just as splendid, but with an added touch of infinite joy, in the case of a Christian who feels that his body is failing him, but his spirit is mounting up to a victorious life. Hear Paul saying: “For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens” (2 Cor. 5:1).

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