Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-22

away from me! Lady Jane Grey. Take
her away! Lady Jane Grey. 1t was
the voice of his conscience. And no man
ever does anything wrong, however great
or small, but his conscience brings the
matter before him, and at every step of
his misbehavior it says, " Wrong
wrong. - Sin is a leprosy, sin is a
paralysis, SIN is a consumption, sin is n
pollution, sin is death. Give it fair
chance and il will swamp you, body,
mind and soul forever. In this world it
only gives faint intimatioE of
its virulenee. You see patient
in the first stages of typhoid
fever. The cheek is somewhat flushed,
the hands somewhat hot, preceded by
slight chill. "Why, - You sey, "ty-
phoid fever does not seem to be much of
disease - But wait until the patient
has been six weeks under it, and all his
energies have been wrung out, and ne is
too weak to lift his little finger, and his
intellect is gone, then you see the full
havoc OF the disease. Now sin in this
world is an aiiment which is only III its
very first stages; but let it get under full
way and it is an all-eonsuming typhoid.
Oh, if we could see our upaFdoned sins as
God sees them our teeth would chatter,
and our knees would knock together and
our respiration would be choked, and our
heart would break. If your sins are un-
forgiven, they are bearing down on you,
and you are notwithstanding away from
happiness, sinking away from God, sink
ing away from everything that is good
and blessed.
SWIFT SWIMMER WANTED.
Then what do we want? A swimmer
y strong swimmer? A swift swimmerl
And blessed be God, in my text we have
him announced ''He shall spread forth
His hands i'll the midst of them, as he
that swimmeth spreadeth forth his hands
20 swim. - You have noticed that when
a swimmer goes ont to rescue any one,
he puts off his heavy apparel. He must
not have any such impairment about him
if he is going 10 Go this great deed. And
when Ch rist stepped forth TO save us He
shook off the sandals OF Heaven, aud His
feet were free; and He laid aside the robe
OF eternal royalty, and His arms were
free; and then He stepped down into the
wave of our transgressi0ns. and it came
up over His wounded feet, and it came
above the spear stab IN His side-aye, it
dashed 10 the lacerated temple, the high
water mark of His anguish. Then,
rising above the flood, He stretched
forth His hands ia the midst OF them, as
he that sWimmeth spTeadeth forth his
hands TO swim. -
If you have ever watched q swimmer,
you notice that his whole body is brought
into play. The arms are heXed, the
hands drive the water back, the knees
are active, the head is tossed back to es-
cape strangulation, the whole body is i'll
propulsion. And when Christ sprapg
into the deep to save us, He threw His
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His Omniscience, His goodness, His love,
His omnipotence- bead, heart, eyes,
hands, feet We were so far out on the
sea and so deep down in the waves and
so far out from the shore that nothing
short of an entire God could save US.
Christ leaped out for our rescue, saying:
"Lol l come to DO thy will, and all
the surges of human and satanic hate
beat against Him, and those who watched
Him from the gates of heaven feared He
would go down under the wave, and in
stead of saving others would Himself
perish; but. putting His breast to the
foam, and shaking the surf from His
locks, He came on and on, until He is
now within reach of every one here. Eye
omniscient, heart infinite, arm omnipo-
tent Mighty to save, even Unto the
uttermost Oh, it was not half God
that trampled down believing Gennes-
aret. 1t was not quarter of God
that mastered the demons of Gadara.
1t was not two-thiTds of q God that
lifted up Lazarus into the arms of his
overjoyed sisters. 1t was not frag-
ment of a God who offered pardon and
peace to all the race. No. This
mighty swimmer threw His grandeur,
His glory, His might, His wisdom, His
5v,N1 hais
one act. 1t took both hands of God to
save us-both feet. How do prove it?
On the cross, were not both hands
nailed? ON the cross were not both feet
nailed? His entire nature involved in
our redemption.
THE REsCUER MUST BE FEARLESS.
If you have lived much by the water,
you notice also that if any one is going
out to rescue the drowning he must be in
dependent. self reliant, able to 90 alone.
There may be time when he must spring
out to save one, and he cannot get life
boat, and if he goes out and he has not
strength to bear himself up, and bear
another up, he Will sink, and instead of
dragging one corpse out of the torrent
YOU will have two to drag out. When
Christ sprang out into the sea to deliver
us He had no life buoy. His father did
not help Him Alone in the wine
press. Alone in the pang. Alone
in the darkness. Alone IN the sea.
O, if He saves us He shall have all the
credit, for 'there was none to help
No oar No wing. No ladder. When
Nathaniel Lyon fell in the battle charge
in front of his troops, he had a whole
army to cheer him. When Marshal Ney
sprang into the contest and plunged in
the spurs TIL the horses tanks spurted
blood. all France applauded him. But
Jesus alone. "Of the people there was
none to help 'Au forsook Him and
fed =" O, it was not fiotiila that
sailed down and saved us 1t was not a