Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-11-12

putting into q poem = ..eautiful 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 Joy 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. She had come out
looking for the old engineer. She Won
derel why so long he tarried. She
knew not her peril When the old
engineer saw the little girl GU the track
great horror froze his soul He reversed the
engine and leaped over on the cowcatcher,
and though the train was slowing up aud
slowing up very much, it did seem TO the
Old engineer rs IL it were gaining in
velocity. But standing there and wait.
ing for the right momont, with almost
supernatural clutch be seized her and fell
back on the cowcNtcher. Tho train halted,
the passengers came around TO see what was
the matter, aud there lay the old engipeer
tainted dead away, with the little child all
unhurt in his arms He had saved her.
Bravol you say, bravol for the cd engineer.
But behold my Christ the son of God.
When long trains of disaster were coming
bONu Ou IliC DlllOLS-lDll9 lldluo VI Of0A~
lasting woe and darkness and doom, He
went out in his own Almighty strength and
snat he'd us out of the doom, aud snatched
us ont of darkness, Himself perishing in the
sacrifice. Oh, tho grandeur of the viCarjou5
suffering of the Son Of God who laid down
Hislise for you ard for me. Oh, His grace
it is high, it is So Deep it is so long, it is so
broad. Yes, yes. We nave a sympathizer
in this Christ. l know that You cannot
tell NV lPDtbpr Won fell NV SiStaT.
you cannot tell Christ anything about
suffering. He has been through it all
You will never have load as
heavy to carry as the load He carried up tho
bloody mount. You will never have any
suffering worse than that which Christ felt
when, with tongue lot and parched and
cracked and swollen, He cried out: 81
thirstm All, you viii never have any
worse enemies than Christ had.
They hailed down His prayers and they
snuffed uo with glee the smell of His blood.
This day l 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 cones
right on, and He is here mora certainly than
You and | are here, for He fills all the place
with His presence, AMI l 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
Sul ISL LAS OOut 10Y you, you ueSplS5u dis
grace and put Off this opportunity. Many of
you see for the first time and the last time
1t is so every Sabbath morning and it
is so every Sabbath night. l see you
once and then never again until the great
throne Of judgment is lifted and they shall
come from the North aud the South and the
East and the 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 l have t. tell you this
mOrning-and it break; my heart to
tell you-that Notwithstanding all that
Christ has done because of His rejection
Gil Ills magnificent work AMI all the story OF
cross and 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
crucfied, and tradition says-oe course thera
was superstition mingled with the ira lition
tradition says three crosse were exhumel.
They did not know which of the three was
the cross of Christ, so they took deal o1y
and put it upon one cross and the body
moved not. Then they took the dead body
and put it upon the second cross but the
| body moved not. Then they took tn
dead body and they put it upon the
third cross and it sprang into life-it
sprang into life 1T may have baen-that
story may have been mere tradition or super
stitlon but it is not q superstition that in tn
cross of the Son of God there is n life giving
power for your dead soul and mine Awake
thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead
and Christ shall give thNe life"
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