The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-11-28
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penai administration OF the law must be dis
regarded, or yOu,. or substitute, must SUITE
That penalty. a guilty fact must be f0ltoWei
by death. Doom and death follow Sid
4 Either you must perish, or the Son Of Goo
4 must perish In your pince. I have some
times thought that II the Son Of God shad
stood before,thelaw and simply Issued d pro
clamation that men might live, though hay
| ing stnned, 1t would have been enough. Btu,
i no, the law regarded not the Son OF jGoG
himself, but He was stricken beneath it's de-
scendlng stroke; and bowed His head and
dted-ded for our sins; became the saviour
OF all men, In that he makes salvation posi-
bic for all men. But 1t was not mere com.
mercial transaction; this sacrifice did not
secure life Internationally outside of law.
Every man at will may take bis own atti-
tude In regard to the law of God. When
he holds Christ in the range between him
and the law he is sheltered behind the Cross.
Put Christ between me and the law, and
feel it not. Though 1t falls with force suffi.
| cient to unsphere world, feel itnot, nor
| does it,in the least jar the joy and peace oil
lbelieving. But without Christ between us
| and 1t, it falls with force that grinds to
| powder. Be it known, oh, man !! if the law
| respected not the Son of God, as BE stood
| In Its way, it will not regard you. .
| What are the conditions upon the part Of
man that shelter him behind the Cross
justification and regeneration, pardon, and
| the new life awakened, to which this gospel
law is ordained. "The love Of God is shed
abroad In our hearts by the holy Ghost given
| unto u.s."
A young man OF position and education
stood in the aisle of a church weeping, and
be was approached and asked: James, my
| son, why will you not be saved? o, he
| replied, had all the world would give it
| to be saved. / have no doubt you think
| yourself honest and truthful in your remark,
| was replied; but il you owned all this world
| you would not give halfa dollar to be saved.
He knew his friend too well to be offended.
though he looked astonished. Your sins,
your sins-the love Of your sins must be
given up. 1t is not that salvation that seeks
to escape bell.torments, or that seeks to en-
| ter the beautiful world Of light and glory
above-these are mere incidents, but not the
essence of salvation. To be holy in life and
| thought, pure in character, is what you do
not want; you lone your sins; they are ruin.
ing you.
al pray God that the sword of His spirit
may cleave asunder the joints and marrow
OF your souls and your SINS ]" You cannot
divide Christian experience from Christian
| morals. In all the relations of life they are
truly concomitant. In the domestic, finan-
cial, business, social, political, and all others,
| true christianity constrains man to do his
duty-to conscientiously and truly obey
| Gods law, only in the faithful observance of
which are the conditions Of high and JOY
Gus experience fully met. Looseness in life,
in any of these particulars, argues at least a
low state of piety. God knows better than
l do how to make allowance for human in
feriority, but the man whose life contradcts
his profession will never be successful in
| winning souls to Christ. If man is a con-
verted man, this law becomes subjective
controls the inner life and being of the man,
and the Justice and truth Of God are estab-
lished with power and vindication that the
| damnation of worlds would not have eXhib-
tied.
| Why is it that polished and learned preach
ing sometimes seems but as scattering hand
fuls of chaff before the wind, while often the
unlettered message seems to fall with IRE.
sistble influence? Every word seems to
weigh a pound, and the slain of the Lord
| fall before the proclamation bruised and
broken in muscle, and bone, and nerve. Ii
| is because they preach an experience which
| they inwardly enjoy. The Kingdom and
power of God is In love, joy, and peace in
the Holy Ghost, who is no respecter Of per-
soDs, but with whom and wherever the con.
ditions Of this gospel.law of life are met, He
is there present 10 own and bless the word.
| A long time ago DR.. Lee came to him and
| told him be wanted him to come to Virginia.
Whenever he met him be grasped him by the
| Aaa opH JnuinulU invited him
to Virginia. He bad come, and he thanked
God be was here! He loved Methodist
preachers with peculiar love. There was
a sort of free.masonry among them that
bound them together with an indissouble
love. He believed they were Gods own
chosen agents and instruments for good.
Here the Bishop mounted the walls OF
Zion and waved the gospel banner so
nightly, as he cheered on the veterans and
heroes of the Cross that the whole audience
was bathed in tears, and many calculations of
praise went up to God. It was something
that can never be written or experienced by
| the understanding alone it can only be en-
joyed by the heart. And there was JOY in
this-Elizabeth City.
He said he believed those who would be
most honored in heaven would be foreign
missionaries, and the rank and file Of itin-
| Grant preachers. With no spirit or impress
sion of bigotry did he say this, but with a
broad catholicity of spirit, he seemed to EN-.
brace those of every age and of every name,
| who, like some OF. the prophets and apostles,
left all and went out, not knowing whittier
| they went.
There is one expression of Isaiah'S that
always impressed him profoundly, and he
loved to linger around it--"HS shall see OF
the travail of his soul and be satisfied"
Yes, when the Son of God beholds the re-
deemed gathered together, whom no man
could number, wearing their armors and
waving their palms, and making high heaven
echo with their volumes of praise, He--eYen
He-should look back 10 the indignation of
the judgment ball, the agony of Gethse-
name. and the triumph of death over life
upon cross, and of life over death In the
tomb, and be satisfed-yes, fully satisfied
that the bride is adorned for the King in His
beauty, to be indissolubly welded forever.
And you, my brother, when you gather your
little band around you there, each one OF
whom shall sparkle as diaEond in your
radiant crown, shlll be satisfied; and taen
YOU would not have one trial on earth re-
moved, one sacrifice abated, for you shall be
satisfied. Your very suferings for Jesus here
shall exalt and brighten the glory there you
shall be satisfied.
Gethsemane! 0, what if Christ then had
abandoned His mission, when, for a mo-
ment. in the weakness of His humanity, He
exclaimed, " IF it be possible, let this cup
mass from me"! But instantaneously the
willing spirit urged the weak flesh onward!
The arrest and mock trial! The crown OF
therns pressed upon His head, the points OF
the thorns penetrating the hesh causetn
blood to stream down over His lace, SO tnas