National Republican., 1886-11-15

me, wilt Thou? Lord, remember me when
Thou Gomest into Thy Kingdom Only just
Likewise must we repent You say, 'T have
guilty of the mightiest felonyof the universe.
for we ,o have ICbSed IGOdIrPbbSG Him 1on, Of
robbed Him Of our services" Suppose
you send man west as an agent OF your firm;
and every month you pay him his salary, and
at the end of ten years you find out that he has
been servidg another firm, but taking your SAL
Hry, would you not at once condemn him MS
dishonest God sent us into this world TO
serve Him. He has given us wages all the
time. One half Of us have been serving an.
other master. When q man Is convicted of
treason, he is brought out regiment sur
round him, and the command is given. AT;
the man falls with bundled bullets through
his heart. There comes time in mans his
tory when the Lord calls up the troop OF his
Tito him concentrated volley OF torture. You
say, II don't feel myself to he sinner" That
may be-. Walk along by the cliffs, and you
see sunlight and flowers at the mouth OF the
cave; but take torch and go in, and before
you hnvegone far you see the flashing eye
OF a wild beast or hear the hiss of n serpent.
SO the world seems In the sunlight Of worldll.
and go down into the deep cavern of the
heart alas for the brstling horrors and the
r%ng Hng Sys you eyer noticed the
heart is deceitful?' That seems enough. But
the passage goes on aud says: "The heart is
deceitful above all things VIII you not say
inrther and says: THE heart Is deceitiul
above all things and desperately wicked" If
we could see the true condition of the uupar-
doned before God, what wringlng of hands
there would be What a thousand.voiced
shrek of supplication and despair But you
are sinner, a sinner. | speak not to the
person who sits next to you, but to you. You
time have been gathered up into an avalanche.
| AT any moment 1t may slip from the cliffs and
crush you forever. May the Lord Almighty,
| Ny His grace, help us to repent of our sins
| While repentance Is possible.
| ,Nhis lefthand cross was relieving cross,
| There was no guess work IN that prayer; no
noit' in that supplication.. The et;hand cross
| Gutg itself at the foot of the middle cross, eX-
Pectng mercy. Faith is only just opening the
hanat to take what Christ offers Us, The work
y L ALL done the bridge Is built strong enough
Gods Mercy with the tip OF your fingers, but,
as wdEior with igauntleted fists beats at the
castle gNe so, with all the aroused energies of
our SCUM let us pound at the gate of heaven
That gatdSs locked, You go to II with BUNCH
OF Keys, You try philosophy. That Will not
open It, Marge door generally has ponder:
Gus Eey, lElke the cross ana place the foot Of
i in the lock and by the two arms of the cross
imrn the lotI and the door opens.
-, ms lelt-hh ID cross was pardoning cross.
The crosses wAe only two orthree yards ap lrt.
It did not taEeS Spns Tor Christ 10 hear, Christ
might have TIMED away and said, GLOW
darcst thou speGk 70 Me? / am the Lord of
heaven s@ nan ana earih have seen your violence
When you struck fOwu that man in the dark
ness saw you. lSl are getting Il Just reward.
Die in darRness-dt forever" But Jesus said
not not so but rather lThis day thou shalt be
see you therei cont Worry. | will not only
bear my cross blt heb you with yours"
Forthwith the LEFT hand cross becomes the
factor soaked in Mol, becomes mes like the the Grim.
son upholstery ON kings couch When the
body becsmS SlItl Nd The surgeons feeling The
last mark oi pain bad gone from his face
Peace had smoothedls lofehead; peace closed
his eyes peace olosGaehs lips. Now you see
cross, for II has bcComta ladder into the skies.
That dying head Is (which has under it
the promise. This dayh hou shalt be with Me
with biasphemy, ye whS hands ior many
years have wrought unr hteousness, ye who
have comp9nioned y,n6, Win unrlean, ,ye who
haye sealed % every netsns MA trangresson and
treme of inquity, mercy macy!
"Iho dying thief relGSed to aee
That fountain in hisAlv,
And there may l. rs WAS H.
Wash all my slus away
have shown you the rlght-htv orv and
the leit,hand cross now come tahe middle
cross We stood at the one, al tClnj IL
yielded poison. We stood at tho aothe and
found 1t yielded bitter aloos. Comdt tow 1.-THE
middle cross, and shake down applAof I've.
Uncover your head. You never saw u, ten ar
a scene as this. You may have seen Nher, w
mother, or companion, or child die bun neyc
so affecting scene as this, The railins THE
: looked from one way and saw only the, rigll
side of Chrisps iaGe. The penitent thief ldpke
. from the other way aud saw the left slos {
Chrlst's face. But whore you sit to-day, in tn
full blaze of gospel light, you see Chrlst's fu
} face. II was suffering cross. II the weapOr
of torture had gone only through fatty portion
( of the body the torture would not huyc bee
SO great but they went through this halds, an
feet and temples; the most sensitive Iortion
I ! IL was not only the spear that went ito IL