The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1886-12-08
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puptluB lnpC n poem q DeduG1tul SC9n0 0naCt0Q
on one Of the Western ~prairies. Au engin or
passing along day after day saw q Little girl
come out in front of her fathers cabin and
wsvo to him and he viewed ba *, and everv
day that was the Joy of the old engineers
heart, MS passing along in his loc, motive over
the prairies tho little child anne and wavol to
him and he waved back. But one evening tho
train was bolated and 1t was bolated until
Of the locomotive, tho old e~ngineor saw that
little child on the track. She had como out
looking for tho old engineer. She won
dored why SO long, ho tarried; She
engineer saw the little girl on the track q
great horror froze his soul. He reversed the
engine aud leaped over on tho rowcatcher,
and though tho train was slowing W aud
old engineer as II It wore gaining IN
velocity. But standing there and waie.
Ssuocrna' ural c,uS'h he sci cd hor and fell
back on tho cowcatchcr. Tho train halted,
the ~aSsengerS camo around to SEQ what was
the matter, anl thore lay tho old engineer
tainted dead away, with the little child oil
nnhurt In his arms. He had saved her.
bravo. on say, bravo for the cd engineer.
When long trains Of disaster were C ming
L." ~ -" ~"tions-lorg trains OF cvcr.
"A - ~ 81. d,riness and doom, Hs
went out In his own Almighty strength AMI
snat he'd us out OF the doom, aud snatchei
us ont OF darkness, Himself perth ng in thu
sacrifice, Oh, tn, grandeur Of tho vicari u,
suffering of the Son of God who laid down
1t is so hl,h, it is so deep, it Is so long, 1t is so
broad. Yes, yes. We nave a sympathiher
In this Christ l know that. You cannot
tell, my brother, you cannot toll. my sister,
you cannot tell Christ anything about
suffering: He - ben through II oil
heavy to carry as the load He carried up tn
bloody mount. You will never have any
suffering worse than that which Christ felt
when. with tongue hot and rarohed and
thirst" Alb, you vii never have any
They hailed down His prayers ard they
snutfed no with glee the smell of His blood.
Oh, He must havo been tremendoi sly in
earnest, or all the obstacles would have
driven Him boc'. BIT, no, no. II, comes
right on, and He is here moro certainly than
with His presence, anl I put His crushed
heart at your fect. Oh, lot it not be told in
Heaven that after all your opportunities OF
a"cepting this Christ, and after all that
grace and put oEf this opportunity. Many Of
you | see for the FIST time and tho last time.
1t is SO every Sabbath morning and it
Is 80 every Sabbath night. l 500 you
once and then mover again until the great
throne Of judgment is lifted and thev sht
come from the North and tho South aud Y
Fast and tho West We will al be the ..
However deep down In tho earth we may
be buried we will hear tho blast Of tho great
trumpet, and we shall como up. we shall
come up. And yet l rave to tell YOU this
morning-and it breaks my helrt to
tell you-thnt Notwithstanding all that
Christ has done because of His re ,ection,
all His magnificent work AMI oil the story of
cross anil crown and ,horns are for some
people n dead failure. Helena, the Empress.
went out to find in tao Holy Land a cross
tho particular cross on which Christ was
crucihcd, and tradition says--of course thera
was superstition mingled with the ira iitiOp
tradition says three crosses wero ovhlume /.
they did not know which OF tho three was
the cross OF Christ, so they took n dea | 10 iy
and put 1t upon ono cross aud the body
moved not Then they took the dead BODY
and put 1t upon tho Second cross, but the
body moved not. Then they t,ol the
dead body anil they put it upon the
third cross and it sprang into life-it
spranS into life. 1t may have been--that
story ma havo boen mere tradition or super.
%stitlon; hut it is not n sIperstiJion that in the
cross OF the Son Of God there is a life giving
power for your dead solI and mine Avn e'
thou that sleepeSt, aud arise fro the dcod
and ChrLit shall Give thee life"