The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-10-30

EHbtGE
with all Its triumpLs.
"Ye mourning saints dry every lear
For your departed Lord.
Behold the place. He is not here,
The Tomb Ia all unbarred.
The gates Of death were closed in vain.
The Lord Is risen, He lives again."
The third cause Of Paurs exhilaration: We
honor the right hand more thsn we do the left
II by accident or In battle we must lose one hand
let 1t be the left hand The left being nearest the
heart, We dare not use tt for much Of the work OF
life II man have his right arm In full play he
has something with which 10 battle his way
through. In all ages, TO sit at ones right hand
means strength and henOr. Hiram sat on the
right hand of Solomon. We say of some One
He iB my right hand man." Lafayette was the
right hand man of Washington: Marshal Ney
was Napoleon's right-hand man. Now you have
Pauls meaning In the text when he says of
Christ, who is ever at the right hand of God"
Aye the chief guest OF heaven, let him sit there.
See all those scaTsl Count them-1, 2, g. 4,5,678,
0, 10, H. IL, 49, a. 49, 49, 20 30l Men do not count
Alright the wounds. They look at hands and
feet and SIDE but what of the severer wounds that
came 70 the very brain, each thorn an excrucia.
i0D II men roll up their sleeve or throw off their
coat and show you marks got at Balls Bluff or
Lookout Mountain, you honor them. But If
Christ, the conquerOr, make conspicuous the
gotten on Calvary, the Waterloo Of all the ages
Let him take the right.hand seat. BY the right
OF God the Father and the unanimous suffrage of
heaven. let him take 1t. In the grand review of
troops as they come home from conquest let them
march past Him crying, "Victeryl" Oldest inh4b-
liant OF heaven never saw greater day in the city
than when Christ took the right hand seat Hos.
annal With lips OF dust know not how to cry II, ,
but let the martyrs under the altar take up the
cry and throw 1t to the elders before the throne
a n uotn md fnnu IN kban oh Nfr
on the sea of glass. Then all heaven lit It, some
on point Of sCepter, some on string Of harp, and
some on the tip OF the green palms. Nations
saved crying HOsanna Hosanna
The fourth cause Of Pauls exhilaration. Some
time ago preached sermon In another city on
the joys OF heaven, telling as well as could some
OF the gladnesses Of that old place which is ever
yet new. After church an aged Christian woman
said: IF they have so much going on there In
heaven, don't know what is to become Of my
poor headI' Well, heaven is q place where VIII
be everything going on that is blessed, and is 1t
not possible that with SO many mighty and glO.
rlous surroundings God will forget us2 The idea
may sometime have flashed across Pauls mind,
"Am Iworth noticing away down here at Corinth
and inthe shipWreck and In prikOnH There must
be 80 many sailors and 60 many prisoners and so
many Wavfarers on Gods mind that He may for
get me, Besides that have been one Of the worst
sinners. How did whip those Christiansl With
what vengeance mounted my horse to ride down
case and urge 1t before God will get no help"
Then came upon Paul's soul wave stronger
than that which drove his ship against Melits,
and an influence swifter than the cavalry horse
on which he rode to his prosecutions. 1t was the
swift and irresistible thought Of Christs interces
ton. Every thing depends on who pleads our
case. A poor lawyer is worse than none. In our
cities counsel have specialtes, One succeeds
best In cases OF patents or insurance or criminal
or land trials, and their success Is dependent on
their sticking to theirspeclalty. There are many
things that Christ can do but his speciality is that
OF taking the bad cause Of sinner and pleading
before God till He gets him acquitted. WHO also
maketh intercession for u.s." But oh, 1t will take
q strong plea to get US clear. Counsel sometimes
plead the innocence Of their client, but that will
not do In this case, since we are all unmistakably
guilty. Sometimes they prove an altbi, but that
will not do in this CASE for we were found on the
spot where the Otfense was committed. Some
times they pleaded Insanity, and consequent
lack of moral responsibility, but you and ! knew
we were SHINING Sometimes they pleaded pre-.
vi0us good character, but according 10 the Bible,
| from the womb we have gone astray, speaking
lies. Christs plea In our behalf will be his own
martyrdOm, and that secures an eternal clear.
aBce. Constable let the prisoner go free, II s
Christ that died, who also maketh intercessiOn
| for us. What makes you look SO glad, ye SOILS
and daughters of God2 / know what you are
thinking OLA Savior dying. Savior risen, a Sa-
| Vior exalted, Savlor'B intelcesslon. Enough to
| make your days bright and your nights blessed,
your life useful yonr death happy and your eter.
| nifty unending gladness what" say you, may
l take all that to myselfT All Never let me
hear you complaining again about nothing, II
| God spare not His own son, but gives Him up for
us, shall He not also with Him freely give us all
| things2 Your pardOned sins behind you, and a
successful Christ pleading above you, and eternal
heaven within you, how dare you be respondent?
But some of you, while very attentive and solemn,
don't you see what good this subject is TO do you,
| for you are outside this provision. would like
to get out Of the dark prison into the sunlight 1t
was near the end Of the Reign Of Terror, 1898.
| Hundreds of thousands of men and women had
gone out In the Place de Revolution to die under
the guillotine. The nation groaned under the
| tyrannies Of Robespierre aud his Jacobin Club.
| The people would endure IL no longer The last
group of victims had been shorn Of their long
| locks by M0uchette, the prison barber, In order
| that the neck might lie clear when the sharp
knife Of the guillOtine fell upon it. The carts had
| been driven to the door, the manacled victims
| mounted 1t and rode on, when there was q great
outcry in the distance and the boom of guns, and
| finally the cry: "Robespierre has fallenl Down
| with the JRcobinsl Let France be freelp But
armed men drove back the mob and the victims
mounted the scaffold and horribly died. But that
| night the monsters OF persecution were seized,
| and on the very guillOtine R0bespieTre left for
others, Robespierre died, all France clapped
its hands as his head tumbled into the execution
er's basket Then the axes Of an infuriated pop.
ulace sounded against the prison Of the Concierge
and the long inoarcerated victims marched out
free. Sin is The worst Of all Robesplerres- ty-
rant oftyrants, Itplans your imprisonment and
plots your death. II has slain its millions. Its
carts day and night rumble between prison cell
and executioneI's scefold. II has shorn thee for
the work, But hear the xesof deliveFance ring.
ing agains. the dungeons Of thy SOU, ResCne has
come, Light breaks through all the wards Down
with the tyrant that has brought on thy woel
ReV0lution That where sin abounded grace may
much more abound, That as sin hath reiQnei
unto death, even 30 might grace reign through
righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our
Lord grn