The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1886-12-08
into g poem a beautiful soono enacted

putting into q poem @ beautiful sceue enacted
on one of the Western p~raIries. An ougin or
passing along day after day saw q little Girl
come out in front of her fathers cabin and
wave, to BIN and he waved ba *, and every
day that was the Joy Of the old IN yipeer's
heart, as passing along in his locomotive over
tho prairiestho little child anne and wavoi to
him and he waved back. But ono evening tho
train was bolated and 1t was belated until
tho darkness came on, and by the beadli' hit
OF the locomotive, the old IN yineor saw that
little child on tho track, She had como out
dored why so long ho tarried, She
engineer saw the little girl on the track q
great horror frozo his soul. He reversed tho
engine aud leeped over on tho "owcatcher,
and though tho train was slowing W aud
slowing up very much, 1t did seem to the
old engineer as II 1t wore gaining In
velocity. Bot standing there and wait.
ing Tor the right moment, with almost
Dack on Tho cowcatchcr. The train halted,
tho aSss myers camo around to seq what was
the matter, anl thore lay tho old engineer
tainted dead away, with the little child all
Bravo! J on say, bravo! for the cd engineer.
BIT bet old my Christ. tho son OF Cod.
when long trains Of disaster were C ming
y" - -" r"t'ons-lorg trains OF over.
=. - ~ ~.s d.r%ness and doom, Hs
went out In his own Almighty strength AMI
snat he'd us out Of the doom, aud snatchei
us out of darkness, Himself perth ng in tho
sacrlnce. On, II grandeur Of tho vicari Nv
suffering of tho Son Of God who aid down
Hisli Q TOR you and for me. Oh, His grace
It Is so high, it is so deep, it Is so long, 1t is so
broad. Yes, yes. We nave a sympatbiher
In this Christ I know that. You cannot
tell, my brother, you cannot toll, my sister,
you cannot tell Christ anything about
You will nevor have a load as
heavy to carry as the load lie carried up th,
bloody mount. You will nevor ave any
suffering worse than that which Christ felt
when, with tongue hot and rarohed and
cracked and swollen, He criel out: II
thirst" Ah, you viii never have any
worse enemies than Christ hal
They hailed down His prayers and they
snu'fed 10 with glee the smeli of His blood.
This day I lay His crushed heart Mt your feet.
Oh, He must have been tremendo isly in
earnest, or all the obstacles would havo
driven Him bac'i. ut, no, no. III, comes
right on. and He is here moro certainly than
you and arc here, for II, fills all tho place
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 dcspised His
you | see for the fist time and tho last time.
10 Is SO every Sabbath morning and It
Is so every Sabbath night. 500 you
once and then mover again until tho great
ohIoue OF Judgment Is ltted ana thew shall
come from the North and tho South and the
East and tho West. We will oil be there.
However deep down In tho earth we NAV
be buried we will hear tho blast OF tho great
trumpet, and we shall como UP. we shall
come up. And yet | have to tell YOU this
morning-and 1t breaks my he,rt to
tell %you--thnt notwithstanding all that
Christ has done because Of His re ,ection,
all dis magnificent work AMI oil tho story OF
cross ami crown and ,horns are for sono
people a dead failure. Helena, tho Empress,
went out TO find in tho Holy Land a cross
THO particular cross on which Christ was
cruclticd, and tradition says-of course thers
was superstition mingled with the ira iition
tradition says three crosses wertcvhumol
They did not know which OF tho three WIS
the cross Of Christ, SO they took a dea 30 iy
ana put 1t upon ono cross aud the body
moved not Then thcy took tho dead body
and put 1t upon tn, se.ond cross, but the
body moved not. Then they tro.t the
dead boiy anil they put it upon the
THRU cross and it spraug into life-it
spranS into life. 1t may nave been--that
story MAJ havc boon mere tradition or super.
%stition; hut it is not n superstition that in the
cross of the Son Of God there is a life giyins
power for your dead SOIL and mino. Avn "a,
thou that sleepe>t, aud arise fro.n the lead
and Chriit shall Give thee life"