New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-06-13


icating draught made out of wine and myTrl,
but lie declined it. He wanted to die sober.
No water.
Then. my friends, there was the absence
OF light. Darkness ALWAYS exaspsrates trou-:
bic. never shall forget the night IN the
summer of 1873, iii the steamer Greece. lnil-
Atlantic, every. moment expecting.t the 7sean-.
er to go down. All the lights IN the cabin
wers blown out. The captain came crawl
ing on his hands and knees, for he conl not
stand uprl ght, SO violently was tile vessel
pitching. and he cried out ]: Light up, light
upm The steward said: g We can't ght
up; the candle 8 are gone and the holders
are gone The. captain said: 81 can't
help that; light upw The storm was awful
when the lights were burning, worse when
the lights went OUT,
Then there was the absence of faithful
nurses. When you are Ill it is pleasant to
have the head bathed and the hands and
feet rubbed. Look at the hands and feet OF
Christ! Look at the face of Christ. There
We're women there who had cared for the
sick, but none of them might come I'D near
enough to help. There was Christ's mother,
but she light not come up near enough to
help. They said: STAND back! stand
back! This is nc place for you" The high
priests and the soldiers wanted it their own
Way; they had it their own way.
The hours pass on, and it is II O'Clock of
| Slyiops suffering, and it is o'clock, and it
IS 2 O'Clock. and it is almost 5 O'clock Take
the last look at that suffering face; wan and
plnched, the purple lips drawn back against
the teeth, the eyes red with weeping and
sunken as though grief had pushed them
back, blackness under the lower lid, the
Whole body adroop and shiyering with the
last chill, the breath growing feebler, and
feebler, and teebler, and euler until He
gives one long. deep, last sigh. He Is dead!
Q, my soul, He is dead! Can you tell
Why! Was lie fanatic dying for Il princi.
pie that He did not amount to ANYTHING?
Was Hea man Infatuated? No; to save
your soul from sin, and mine, and make
eternal life possible He died. There had 10
be Il substitute for sin. Who shall it. be?
s.Let 1t be me?s said Christ 'sLet it be me.''
You understand the meaning of thai word
SUBSTITUTION. You We're drafted for the last
War, some one took your place, marched
Your march, suffered your wounds, and died
at gettysburg. Christ comes TO us while
we are fighting our battle witt sin and death
and hell, and He is our substitute. He
marches our march, tights our battle, suffers
our wounds, anu dies our death. Substitute.
ton Substitution!
How do you feel in gard to that scene
LIZ
around ABOUT the text? Are your sympathies
aroused CT are you SO dead in sin and so
abandoned by reason of your trans gressions
that you can look upon all that fearless and
unmoYed! N o, no ;there are thousands of peo-
pie here this morning who can say, in the
depths of tneir soul: s.No. no, no If Jesus
endured that and all that for me, l ought to
love Him. must love Him; Il will love Him;
l do love Him. Here, Lord, / give mysf to
Thee; It's all taat can do''
But how are yOu going to test your love
ana test yo1r earnestness? My text gives a
test. 1t says chat while Christ carried a
cross for you, you must be Willing to carry a
eros 1or Christ. "Well, = you say, 81 never
could understand that. There are no crosses
to be carried in this land: those prosecutions
have passed, and in all the land there is no
one TO be crucified, and yet in the pulpit and
IN the prayer-meetings you all keep talking
about carrying cross. What do YOU mean,
slr?" l mean this: That is a cross which
Christ calls you to do Which is unpleasant
the story of this Christ and all that He has
endured for me am ready 10 do anything
Tor Him. just tell me what have 10 do and
III do it. / am ready to carry any crcss.o
Suppose should ask you at the close of a
rell2 lous service to rise up announcing your.
self on the Lord side-coulu you do it, ..Oh,
nor you say,sI have shrinking and a
possible for me to rise before a large
assemblage, announcing myself on the LORDS
SIDE" just as l feared. You cannot stand
that cross. The first one that is offered YOU,
you reject. Christ carried a Himalaya,
Chris6 carried a world for you, and you can
not lift an ounce for him.
But here is a man whose cross Will be TO
announce among his business associates to-
morrow morning on exchange thathe las be-
gun new life, that, While he wants to be
faithful in his.worlaly duties, he isliying for
| another WORLD, and lie ought to advise all of
| his associates, so far as he can influence
them, to begin with the Christian life. Could
you do that, my brother? "Oh, no,' YOU say.
mot just that. I think religion is religion,
and business is business, and 1t would be i'm
possible Tor me to recommend the Christian
religion i'll places OF worldly business just
as feared. There is a second cross offered
you and you cannot carry it. Christ lifted a
mountain for you and you cannot lift an
ounce for Him.
There is someone whose cross it will be to
present religion in the home circle Would
you dare to kneel down and pray il YOUR
| brother and sister were looking at YOU?
Could you ask blessing at the tea table?
4 Could you take the Bible. and gather your
| family around you and read of CHRIST and
heaven and your immortal soul? Could you
then kneel and pray fer a blessing on your
household? 'sOl, you say, "not exactly that.
couldn't quite Go that, Because ] have a
very quick temper, and if protested relig-
ion and Tried to talk religion in my house.
hold and after thatI should lose nv temper.
they would scott at NE and say: You are
pretty Cnristianv" So you are .cowea
down and their sarcasm keeps YOU out of
/ heaven and away from Christ when under
1 God you ought to take away your whole
family into the kingdom. Christ lifted a
mountain, lifted q Whole world for you; you
can rot lift an ounce for him. | see now it
is; you want to be favorable to religion,
YOU want to support Christian institutions,
you like to be associated With those VINO love
the Lord Jesus Christ; but as to taking pos
tive step on this subject you can noI-you
cannot and my text, like a gate of hun
dred bolts, bars you away from peace on.
earth and glory in heaven.
There are hundreds Of men and women
here, brave enough in other things s1n lite,
who simply for the lacka of manIiness stay
away from God. They dare not say: s.For.
ever and forever, Lord Jesus, L take Thee.
Thou hast ledeemed me by Thy blood, here
is my immortal spirit. Listen, all my friends.
Listen. all the world They are lurking
around about the kingdom of God they are
| lurking around about it, expecting to crawl
in some time when nobody is look M, 1or.
gettulot the tremendous words of my text:
| ssW nosoeyer doth not bear His cross and
ffn,, Il,