Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-19

MS insanity he kept saying: .tTake her
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
MS mlsbehavior it says, fWrong
wrong. Sin is d leprosy, sin is
paralysis, sin is CONSUMPTION. sin is a
pollution, sin IS death. Give il a fair
chance and it Will swamp you. body
mind and soul forever. In this world it
only gives a faint intimatior of
its virulence. You see a patient
IN the first stages of typhoid
fever The cheek is somewhat flushed
the hands somewhat hot, preceded by a
slight chill. fWhy you say, t'ty-
phoid fever does not seem to be much of
q disease. But wait until the patient
has been six weeks under it, and all his
energies have been wrung out. and he is
too weak to lift his little finger, and his
intellect is gone, then you see the full
havoc Of the disease Now sin III this
world is an ailment which is only in its
very first stages; but let it get under full
way and it is an all-consuming typhoid
Oh, ii we could see orr upardoned sins as
God sees them cur teeth would chatter,
and our knees would knock together and
our respiration would be choked and our
heart would break. II your sins are un-
forgiven, they are bearing down on you,
and yeu 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? swimmer!
a SyT-iT orr A zrr-s,y
And, blessed be God, in my text we have
him announced. ''He shall spread forth
His hands in the midst of them as he
that swinmeth spTeadeth forth his hands
to swim. - You have noticed that when
a swimmer goes out to rescue any one,
he puts off his heavy apparel. lie must
not have any such impeachment about him
If he is going to DO this great deed And
when Ch rist stepped forth to save us He
shook off the sandals of Heaven, and 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 tTansgressiOnS. and it came
up over His wounded feet, and it came
above the spear stab III 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 in the midst of them, as
he that swimmeth spreadeth forth his
hands to swim. -
If you have ever watched a swimmer,
yOu notice that his whole body is brought
into play. The arms are teXed, 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 spTang
into the deep to save us, He threw His
entire nature in it-all His GOdhead,
His Omniscience, His goodness, His love,
His omnipotence- head, heart, eyes,
hands, feet. We were so far out on the
sea and so deep down i'll the waves aud
so far out from the shore that nothing.
short of an entire God could save MS.
Christ lcaped out for our rescue, saying:
F'Lol l come TO do thy viii, - 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
VI
that trcmpled down believing Gennes-
aret. It was not a quarter of God
that mastered the demons of GadaTa.
1t was not two-thirds of a God that
lifted uD Lazarus into the arms of his
overioyCd sisters It was not a frag-
ment of God who offered pardon and
peace to all the race. No. This
mighty swimmer threw His grandeur,
His glory, His might, His wisdom, His
and His eternity into this
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.
II 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 go alone. /
There may be a time when he must spring |
out to save one, and he cannot get life |
boat, and if he goes out and he has not |
to bear himself up, and bear |
another up, he viii sink, and instead of |
dragging one corpse out of the torrent !
you will have two to drag ont. When |
Christ sprang out into the sea TO deliver
Us IlC ildN4 llb ltAb Dubs Ills ldJiFA OlNl
not help Him. Alone in the wine
press. Alone in the pang. Alone |
in the darkness Alone III the sea.
O, if He saves us He shall have all the
credit, for ''theTe was none to help
No oar. No wing. No ladder. When |
Nathaniel Lyon tell in the battle charge
in front of his troops, he had a whole
army to cheer him. When Marshal Ney /
5prang into the contest and plunged in |
the spurs till the horses TANKS spurted~
blood, all France applauded MIN. But
Jesus alone. "Of the people there was
none to help. - ''An forsook Him and /
fed. - O, it was not a hotilla that
sailed down and saved us. 1t was not 4
cluster of gondolas that came over the
wave. 1t was one person, Independent
and alone, spreading out His handsf
among us as a swimmer spreadeth fetzh
his hands to swim. -
Behold then to-day, the spectacle OF e.
drowning soul and Christ the swimms5
! believe it was in 1913, when there xsere
six English soldiers of the Fifth Fusifiers
who were hanging to the bottom of a cap
sized hoat-a boat that had been upset by
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