The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-03-31
CHRIST CHURCH.
Christ's WOunis-SermOn by the Rev.
Hugh Miller ThOmp sOn.

Christ's WOunds-SermOn by the Rev.
Hugh Miller Thompson.
There was a numerous congregation at Christ
church. Fifth avenue and Thirty fifth street, yes
terday afternoon. The afternoon services in Christ
church derive peculiar interest from the fact that
they are free to all who choose to come. The poor
and the rich, all are equally welcome. The Rev.
Hugh Miller Thompson took his text from Zecha-
rlah Xi 6-"And one shall say unto him, what
are these wounds in thine hands9 Then he shall
answer, those with which was wounded in the
house Of my friends" The prophet stood the
mount OF vision, he said, and he did not know half
the time, the precise meaning of his visions The
hand OF God was upon him. Now he could see
clearly, and then darkness gathered as his sight
was clouded. In all cases there was one vision
that closed the scene. The coming man, the Christ
that was to be. was the closing object. All the
prophets saw him in various characters Some
times He was the captain of the hosts of the Lord
the spendor Of heaven flashing out before HIM;
sometimes He was the
KING ENTHRoNED IN STATE,
to whom all nations bowed, and sometimes as
here I'M Zecharah, He was the man OF sorrow,
bound and scourged, and suffering the tortures OF
the closing vision As God lifted the clouds rom
Him, Iechariah saw this vision. IL was no longer
the strong Captain OF Gods hosts, but before him
stood suffering, bleeding, wounded Christ.
"What are these wounds in thine hands 9'' he
asked. He saw the crucifed Redeener, and the
the house OF nay friends.n No man was surprised
10 he wounded in the house OF his enemies. But,
wounded in the house Of his friends What did
that mean ? The men in the loyal house Of judah
and David. He came to them. BY direct descent
He was their rightiul King. He came to His own,
and His own received Him not. They rejected
Him. That the Romans should have rejected Him,
that the Gentiles should have turned from Him
was not strange; but the men who cried "Let
Hin be crucihed" were His own Kindred and His
own flesh.
The ship had gone down in the tempest and
n IN q tonk and
NEARER AND NEARER TO THE SHORE.
He hoped to be saved though the land be Inhabited
by sarages-though they would speak tongue
that he would not be able to understand. should
slavery and death await him in store? Such things
possible, at the least. But II this land be his
own land, II these mountains were remembered by
him from the days OF his childhood and If he should
find there illtreatment and cruelty, alas would it
not have been far better II he had persisted in the
deepY Abroad and from strangers they could
expect such treatment but fslsehOod treachery,
have strength OF mind to bear that? How could a
man fear the trcachcry and deception OF the wife
OF his bosemS And yet to the Lord Christ this hap
pened. 1t was His own who wrOnged Him, who
wrung the heartstrings OF the Son OF God. The
wounds were there still, and this eternal, wounded
God was wounded and still men asked-"What are
THESE woundsY' The same eternal answer
ECHOED THROUGH THE HEAVENS.
I'm the house OF my friends" The crucfxion was
rom the beginning and was crucifed to the end
The wounds were received in His world and
the broadest sense of the term The men Of
Christian lands TO whom Christ gave the sove
regniy Of the world, the 400, ooo 900 who held the
destnies OF the human race in their hands could
make the world Christian from end to end. The
energy that was concentrated and used in twenty
four hours in the United States could conquer
Africa and make il Christian from end to end
They could say That they, the Christian people,
were His own, and these wounds were given by
them. After founding all their missions, II a
sad fact that one ship could go to Africa from
Christian port and 90 more eyD than al their mje