The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1884-03-11

slandsrer dies a slandersr the de
bauchee dies q debauchee. As you
live you will die, in all probability,
Do not therefore, make your soul be-
lieve that you can 60 on in course OF
sin, and then in the last moment re-
pent. There is snch thing as death.
bed repentance. but / never saw one,
| never saw one. God, in all this
Bible. presents us only one case of that
kind, and it is not safe to risk it, lest
our case should happen not to be the
one amidst 10000.
BUT THERE WERE RAYS OF LIGHT
that streaned into the crucifction.
As Christ was on the cross and looked
down on the crowd of people, He saw
some very warm friends there. And
that brings me to the rsmarking of
the group of adherents that were
around the cross. The first in all the
crowd was his mother. You need not
point her out to me. L can see by
the sorrow, the anguish, the woe, by
the upthrown hands! That all means
mother! "Oh," you say, why did
she not 60 down to the foot of the hill
and sit with her back to the scene ? 1t
was too horrible for her to look upon. "
Do you not know when a child is in
anguish or trouble it always makes a
heroine of its mother, Take her
away" you say. "from the cross. !"
You cannot drag her away. She will
keep On looking; as long as her son
breattes she will stand there looking.
What a scene it is for a tender
hearted mother to lock upon! How
gladly she would have sprung to bis
relief 1t was her son. Her sou !!
How gladly she would have olambered
upon the cross and hung there herself
if her son could have been relieved !!
How strengthening she would have
been to Christ if she might have
come cluse to Him and sOOthed Him !!
There was a good deal in what the
little sick child said, upon whom a
surgical operation must be performed.
Fhe doctor said, "That child won't
live through this operation unless you
encourage him. "You must 90 and
get bis consent" The father ,old
him all the doctor said: "NOw, John,
will you go through it? Will you
consent to it?" He looked very pale
and thought minute and said: Yes
father, if you will hold my hand,
will" So the father held his hand
and led him straight through the
peril. o, woman, in your hour OF
anguish, whom do you want with you?
Mother. Young man, in your hour
of trouble, whom do you want to con-
sole you? Mother. If the mother
of Jesus could only have taken those
bleeding feet into her lap If she
might have taken the dying head ON
ner bosom! If she might have said
to Him: sit will soon be over, Jesus
it will soon be over and We will
meet again, and it will be all wellp
But 40; she dared not come up SO
close. They would have struck her
back with their hamners. They
would have kicked her down the
hill. There can be no alienation al
all. Jesus must suffer and Mary must
look. | suppose she thought of the
birtb-hour In Bethlehem. / suppose
she thought Of that time when. with
her boy on her bosom, she hastened
on in the darkness in the flight TO
ward Egypt. IsupPOss she though hi
Of His boyheod when He was the joy
of her heart. ] suppose she thought
of the thousand kindnesses He mad
done her, not forsaking or forgetting
her, even In His last moments, hut
turning to John, saving: There i,
mother; take her with you. she is
old now; she can not help herself
Do for her Just as | would have done
for her if | had lived. Be very gentle
and tender with her. Behold thy
mother" She thought it sll over
and there is no memory like a moth
er's memory, and there is no woe like
mothers woe.
THERE WAS ANOTHER ERIEND IN THAI
GROUP
and that was Simon the CyreRian. HI
was q stranger in the land, but has
been long enough there to show hi
favoritism fer Christ. l suppose h
was enc of those men who never Cal
see anybody imposed upon but b
wants to help him. Well, Simon
they cried out. you are such frien'
to Jesus help him to carry the eros.
You see him fsinting under it. So b
did. A scene for all the ages of tim
and all the cycles of eternity a eros
with Jesus at the one end oft an
Simon at the ether, suggesting tn
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