The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-11-10

putting into poem q beautiful scene enacted
on one of the Western prairies An engineer
passing along day after day saw little girl
come out in front of her fathers cabin and
wave to him and he waved back, and every
day that was the 10y of the old engineers
heart, as passing along in his locomotive over
the prairies the little child came and waved to
him and he waved back But one evening the
train was belated and it was belated until
the darkness came on, and by the headlight
of the locomotive, the old engineer saw that
little child on the track. Sho had como out
dere1 why so long he tarried. She
knew not her peril When the old
engineer saw the little girl ou the track a
great horror froze his soul. He reverse l the
engine and leaped over on the cowcatcher,
and though the train was slowing uo aud
slowing up worry much, it did seem to the
old engineer as if it were gaining in
velocity. But standing there and wait
ing for the right moment, with almost
supernatural clutch he seized her and fell
back on the cowcatcher. The train halted,
the passengers came around to see what was
the matter aud there lay the old engineer
tainted dead away, with the little child all
unhurt in his arms He had saved her.
Bravo! you say, bravo! for the cd engineer
But behold my Christ. the son Of God.
When long trains of disaster were coming
lasting woe and darkness and doom, He
went out in his own Almighty strength and
snat he'd us out of the doom, and snatched
us out of darkness, Himself perishing in the
sacrifice Oh, the grandeur Of the vicarious
suffering Of the Son Of God who laid down
islite for you and for me. Oh, His grace
it is so high, it is so Deep it Is so long it is so
broad. Yes, yes. We have sympathizer
in this Christ. know that. You cannot
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you cannot tell Christ anything about
suffering. Ho has been through it all
You will never have load as
heavy to carry as the load He carried up thu
bloody mount. You will never have any
suffering worse than that which Christ felt
when, with tongue hot and parched and
cracked and swollen, He cried out: II
worse enemies than Christ had
They hailed down His prayers and they
snuffed I'D with glee the smell of His blood.
This day lay His crushed heart at your feet
Oh, He must have been tremendously in
earnest, or all the obstacles would have
driven Him back. But, no, no. He comes
right on, and He is here more certainly than
you and I are here, for he fills all the place
with His presence, AMI I put His crushed
heart at your feet. Oh, let it not be told in
Heaven that after all your opportunities Of
accepting this Christ, and after all that
Christ has done for you, you despised His
grace and put of this opportunity. Many Of
you I see for the first time and the last time.
1t is so every Sabbath morning and it
is 80 every Sabbath night see you
once and then never again until the great
throne Of judgment is lifted and they shall
come from the North and the South and the
East and ths West We will all be there.
However deep down in the earth we may
be buried we will hear the blast Of the great
trumpet, and we shall come up. we shall
come up. And yet have to tell you this
morning-and it breaks my heart to
tell you-that Notwithstanding all that
all His magnificent work and all the story Of
cross aud crown and thorns are for some
people dead failure Helena, the Empress,
went out to find in the Holy Land q cross,
the particular cross on which Christ was
cruciied, and tradition says-of course there
was superstition mingled with the tradition
tradition says three crosses were exhumei.
They did not know which of the three was
the cross of Christ, so they took 4 deal boiy
and put it upon one cross and the body
moved not. Then they took tho dead body
and put it upon the second cross, but the
body moved not Then they took the
dead body and they put it upon the
third cross and it sprang into life-it
sprang into life. 1t may have been-that
story may have been mere tradition or super
stition; but it is not a superstition that in the
cross Of the Son of God there is a life giving
power for your dead soul and mine. Awake,
thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead
and Christ shall give thee lifen