The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-07-12

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worlds without tearing this p4y sit to |
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oy which this body and sou1 Sall the
.ime be kept togethera Is oes-
cape from this separations ne; alb
soiutely none. So look ofe! his audi
ance today-the vast maJq Of you
seeming in good health spirits
and yet realize that in short time all
of us will be gone-gone fram earth, and
gone forever. A great many men tumble
through the gates of the xpnre, as it
were, and we do not know where they
have gone, and they only aqo gloom and
mystery to the passage Jesus
Christ so nightly stormed & gates of
that future world that they hfe never
since been closely shut H1t knows
what it is to leave this lds Of the
beauty of which he was more Feciative
than we ever could be. He lows the
exquisiteness of the phosph cence of
the sea; he trod it. He know b glories
of the midnight heavens; fd hey were
the spangled canopy of his ilderness
pillow. He knows about ~ ihes; he
twisted them into his ION. He
knows about the fowl the
the air; they whirred 6eir way
through his discourse He kfs about
the sorrows of leaving tbs Eutiful
world. Not a taper was kindls(lzn the
darkness. He died physicru1eg& He
died in cold sweat and dtzlRA and
hemorrhage and agony tdj - pas
him in sympathy with all the dying! He
goes through Christendom and he gath
ers up the stings out of all the death pill
lows and he puts them under his own
neck and head. He gathers on his own
tongue the burning thirsts of many gen.
erations. The sponge is soaked in the
sorrows of all those who have died in
their beds as well as soaked in the sor-
rows of all those who perishsd in icy or
fiery martyrdom. While heaven was
was deriding, he took the vinegar!
To all those in this audience to whom
life has been an acerbity-a dose they
could not swallow, a draught that set
their teeth on edge and a-rasping|I
preach the omnipotent sympathy of Jesus
Christ The sister of Herschel, the as
tronomer, used to help him in his work.
He got all the credit; she got none. She
used to spend much of her time polishing
the telescopes through which he brought
the distant worlds nigh, and it is my am
bition now, this hour, to clear the lens of
your spiritual vision, SO that looking
through the dark night of your earthly
troubles you may behold the glorious con-
stellation of Saviour's mercy and a
Saviours love. o, my friends, do not
try to carry all your ills alone. Do not
put your poor shoulder under the
Apeninnes when the Almighty Christ is
ready to lift up all your burdens. When
you have trouble of any kind, you rush
this way, and that way, and you wonder
what this man will say about it. and
what that man will say about it, and you
try this prescription, and that prescrip-
ton, and the other prescription. o, why
do you not go straight to the heart of
Christ, knowing that for our own SHINING
and suffering race, he took the vinegar!
There was a vessel that had been
tossed on the seas for a great many
weeks and been disabled, and the sup
ply of water gave out, and the crew were
dying of thirst. After many days they
saw sail against the sky. They sig
nailed it. When the vessel came nearer
the people on the suffering ship cried, 70
the captain of the other r---~Sei: oeno US
some water. We are dying for lack of
water. And the captain on the vessel
that was hailed responded: "Dip your
buckets where you are. You are in the
scores Of miles of fresh water all around
about you, and hundreds of feet deep"
And then they dropped their buckets
over the side of the vessel and brought
up the clear, bright, fresh water and
put out the fire of their thirst. So hail
you today, after a long and perilous voy
age, thirsting as you are for pardon, and
thirsting for comfort and thirsting
for eternal life; and ask you what is
the use Of your going in that death
struck state, while all around you is the
deep, clear, wide, sparkling flood of
Gods sympathetic mercy. Oh, dip your
buckets, and drink, and live forever.
''Whosoever will, let him come and take
of the water of life freely"
Yet my utterance is almost choked at
the thought that there are people here
who will refuse this Divine sympathy;
and they will try to fight their own bat
ties, and drink their own vinegar, and
carry their own burdens; and their life,
instead of being a triumphal march from
victory to victory, will be hobbling on
from defeat to defeat, until they make
final surrender to retributive disaster.
Oh, wish I could today gather up in
mine arms all the woes of men and
women-all their heart aches-all their
sappointments-an their chagrins-and
just take them right to the feet of sym,
pathizing Jesus, He took the vinegar.
Mana Sahib, after he had lost his last
battle in India, fell back into the jungles
Of Iheri-jungles SO full of malaria that
40 mortal can live there. He carried
with him also ruby of great luster and
of great value. He died in those jungles
his body was never found, and the ruby
has never yet been recovered. And
fear that today there are some who viii
fall back from this subject into the sick
ening, killing jungles of their sin, carry
ing gem of infinite value-a priceless
soul-to be lost forever. O, that that
ruby might flash in the eternal corona
ton. But no. There are some, l fear
in this audience who turn away from
this offered mercy, and comfort, anc
Divine sympathy: notwithstanding thai
Christ, for all who would accept hi
grace, trudged the long way, and sui
fered the lacerating thongs, and received
in his face the expectorations OF th'
filthy mob, and for the guilty and thu
discouraged, and the discomforted OF tn
race, took the vinegar. May God Al
mighty break the infatuation, and iea6
| you out into the strong hope, and tn
good cheer, and the glorious sunshine O
this triumphant Gospel.
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