The Forrest City times., 1888-07-14

when the tops, and the strings, and the pheils
 were left amid floor but oh you would bt
 willing to hase the trinkets scattered all oyei
 The hoof aseia, II they we're scattered bs ths
 same hands. With what q ruthless plough
 sharo bereavement rips up the heart But
 Jesus knows all about that You cannot
 tell Him anything new in regard to be
 reavement He had only few
 friends and when He lost ono ii
 brought tears to His eyes Lararu.
 had often entertained Hum at his house. Nov
 Lazarus ia dead and buried, and Chriei
 btesks trwn with eirction--the oonyuision
 of cries shuddering through all the ages of
 bereavement Christ knows what 1t Is to go
 through the house missing 6 familiar inmate.
 Christ knows what 1t Is 10 see an unoccupied
 place at the table. Were there not four oi
 them-Mary, and Martha, and Christ and
 Lazarusi Four of them. But where is
 Lakarusi Lonely and afflicted Christ Hit
 great loving eyes filed with tears, which drot
 from eye to cheek, and from cheek to beard
 and from beard to robe, aud from robe to floor.
 Oh, yes, yes. He knows all about the lonliuess
 and the hesrtbreak He took the vinegart
 Then there is the sourness of the death
 hour Whatever else we may escape that
 scld-sponge will be pressed to our lips
 sometimes have curiosity to know how
 will behave when l come to die. Whether
 will be calm or exclted-whetber l will be
 filed with "reminiscences or with anticipation.
 l cannot say. But come to the point I must
 and you must. In the six thousand years
 that have passed, only two persons have got
 Into the eternal world without death, and l
 do not suppose that God Is going to send .
 us up the steeps of heaven; but I suppose
 we will have to 20 like the preceding gener-
 ations An officer from the future world will knock at the door of our heart and serve uu
 us the writ ct etertiiient, and we will have to surrender. And we will wake up after these
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 mery glories have vanished iron our vision
 we will wake up Into realm which has only one season, and that the season of cverlast- Ing love. But you say: .1 don't want 10
 break out from my present associations. II is so chilly and so damp to 70 down the stairs Of that vault l don't want any thing drawn so tightly over my eyes If there were only some way of breaking through the partition between worlds without tearing this body all to shreds wonder if the surgeons and the doctors cannot compound a mixture by which this body and soul can all the time De kept togethert Is there no escape from this separationw None. absolutely nune So look over this audience to-day-the vast majority Of you seeming fin good health and sprits-and yet realize that in a short tlme All of us will Do gone-gone from earth and gone for ever. great many men tumble through the gates of the future, as 1t wefe, and we do not know where they have gone. and they only add gloom aud mystery to the passage; but Jesus Christ SO nightly stormed the gates of that future world, that they have never since been closely shut. Christ knows what 1t is to leave tbis world, of the beauty of which He Nas more appreciative than we eFet could be. lie knows the ex- guislteness of the pbosphoresence of the sea He trod It. He knows the glories of the mid night heavens; for they were the spanged canopy of His wilderness pillow. He knows about the lilies; He twisted them into His lrtA. ka.x ( &kx C., zf Al. air; they whirred their way through bis dis. course. He knows about the sorrows of leaving this beautiful world. Not taper was kindled in the darkness He died physi- cianless, He died in cold sweat, end ditti- ness. and hemorfhage, and agony that have goes through Chrstendom, and He gathers up the stiDgs out of all the death pillows, and He puts them under His own neck and head. He gathers on His own tongue the burning thirsts of many genera snpnsw. .ions; The sponge iso. s soaked in the died in their beds as well as soaked in the sorrow of all those who perished in icy or fiery martyrdom. While heaven was plying, and earth was mocking, and hell was derid- ing 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 thelr teeth on edge and a-rasping-1 preach the omnipotent sympathy of Jesus Christ The sister of Herscbel, the astronomer. used to help him in bis work. He got all the credit; she got none. She used to spend much of her time polishing the telescopes through wbich he brought the distant worlds nigh, and 1t Is my ambition now, this hour, to clear the lens Of your spiritual vision, so that looking through the dark night of your earthly tronbles you may behold the glorious con. stellatlon of Saviour's mercy and Saviours lnva rny frtapHs do frg h al your ills alone. Do not put your poor shoulder under Apenlnnes when the Al mighty Christ Is ready to lift up all your burdens When you have a trouble of any kind, you rush this way, and that way, and YOU wonder what this man will say about it. and you try this 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 vessel thnt had been tossed on the seas for a great maJy weeks, and been disabled, and the supply Of water gave out. and the crew were dying of thirst After many days they saw sail against the sky. They signaled 1t. When the vessel came nearer, the people on the suffering ship cried to the captain of the other vessel; ''Send us some water. We arc dying for lack of water" And the captain on the vessel that was hailed re- sponded: Dip your buckets where you are. You are in the mouth of the Amazon, and there are 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 l hail you to-day, after long and perilous voyage, thirsting as you are for pardon, and thlrsting for comfort, and thrstihg for eternal life; and I 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 sympa. thetic mercy. 0, dip your buckets, and drink, and live for ever. "Whosoever will, let him come and take of the water of life freelyn
 Yet my utierance 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 battles, and drink their own vinegar, and carry their own burdens; and their life instead of being a triumphal bling-on from defeat to defeat, until they make final surrender to rctrlbutive disaster. O. l wish could to day gather up in mine arms all the woes of men aud women-all their heart-aches-al their disappointmeDts all their chagrius-aud just take them right to the feet of a sy mpathizlng Jesus. He took the vinegar
 Mana sshib. after he had lost his last battle in India, fell back into the jungles of lheri- iungles so full of malaria that no mortal can live there. He carried with bim also a ruby of great lustre and of great value. He died in those jungles; his body was never found, and the ruby has never yet been recovered. And l fear that to-day there are some who will fall from this subject into the sickening, killing iungles Of their sin. carrying a gem of infinite value-a priceless soul-to be lost forever. O, that that ruby might flash in the eternal coronation. But no. There are some, fear, fin this audience who turn away from this offered mercy and comfort, and Divine sympathy; notwithstsnd- ing that Christ for all who would accept His grace, trudged the long way, and suffered he lacerating thongs and received in His face the corporations of the filthy mob, and for the guilty, and the discouraged, and the discom- forted of the race, took the vinegar. May God break the infstuation. and lead you out into the strong hope, and the good cheer, and the glorious sunshine of this triumphant Gospel
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