The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-01-29

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was gentle wor;i, :i:er@ WIS = &es!
thy touch. They cocia Got s.v"r away
from him.
In addition tc the spttnes; ., car
acter, there WAS u fiery momentum.
How the old hypocriter tremb;eii be
fore him. How the kings O, iaA earia
turned pale, Here is a !iai:1 max,
with few sailors a, Is back, cslui0g
on the sea of Galiiee, &o;h% up IS the
palace of the Caesars, making that pal
ace quake 10 tnc foundations, anG Ut
te.ipg u WORD Of mercy aun kindness
which throbs through al the earth, and
through ali the heavens, and through
all the ages O! he was a loving
Christ. But it was no5 ettieminacy, OK
insipidity cfcharacter; 1t vas accom-
panied with majesty. Infinite ara
o.anipotent. Lest the world should
not realize His earnestress, this Christ
mounts tie cross! You say: III Chris5
Las to die, way not let Him take some
deadly potion and lie on = coucn IN
some bright and beautiful home: Il
he must die, let Him expire amid all
kindly attentions No, the world
must hear the hammers Oh the heads
of the spikes The world must listen
to the death rattle OF the sufferer. Tie
world must feel His warm blood crop
ping on each cheek, while it looks up
into the face of His anguish. And so
the cross mast be lifted, and the hole
is dug on the to OF Calvary. 1t must
| be dug three feet deep, ard then the
cross is laid on the ground, and tie
sufferer IS stretched upoa it, ana tue
nails are pounded through nerve, and
muscle, and bone, through TIE right
/ hand through the left hand; and then
they shake his right haud to seeit it is
fast, and then they shake his lett foot
TO see if it is fast, aud then they heave
up the wood, half = dozen shoulders
under the weight, and they put the
I end ofthe cross to the mouth of the
! hole, and they plunge it in, all the
! weight of his body coming down for
| the first time on the spikes, and while
! some hold the cross upright others
throw in the dirt and trampleit down,
and trample it hard. O, piaut that
tree well and thoroughly, for il is TO
| bear fruit such as no other tree ever
| bore. Why did Christ endureis? He
! could have taken those rocks, and with
them crushed his cruciGers. He could
! have reached up and grasped the sword
of the omnipotent God, and with one
! clean cut have tumbled them into
perdition. But no, he was to die. he
| must die. His life for my life. His
| life for your life. In one OF the Euro
pean cities young man died or the
scafold for the crime of murder, Some
time after, the mother OF this young
( man was dying, and the priest came
| in, and she made confession to re
priest that she was the murderer, and
not son: in moment of anger she had
struck her husband blow that slew
| him. The son came suddenly into the
room, and was washing away the
wounds and trying to resuscita!e his
father when so e one looked through
| the window and saw him, and suppes-
ed him to be the criDsinal. That young
man died for his own mother. You
saw: 1T was wonderful that he never
| exposed But I tell you of a srander
thing. Christ, the Son of God, died
| not for his mother, not for his father,
but tor his sworn enemies O, such a
Christ as tnau-so loving, so seltsacihc-
ing-can you not trust Him?
I / think there are many under the
spirit of God who are saying: u will
trust him if you will only tell me
how" and the great question asSed
by thousands in this asseInblage is;
"Eox? how?" And while answer
yoVr question IiooEup and utter the
prayer which Rowland Hill so often
uttered in the midst ofsermons; Mas
ter, help,' How are you to trust IN
Christ? Just as you trust any one.
YOU trust your partner IN business
with important things. lfa coznmer-
cial house give you note payable
three months hence, you expect the
payment of that note at the end Of
three months. You have perfect con-
fdence in their word and in their sbil.
ity. You 60 home today. You ex'
pect there will be food on the table
You have confidence in tbst. Now
ask YOU to have the same confidence
! in the Lord Jesus Christ. He says;
:'You believe; I take your SINS" and
they are ali taken away. What
you say, 'before l pray any more:
Before read my Bible any more?
Before cry over my sins any more?''
Yes, this, this moment! Believe with
| all your heart and you are saved
Why, Christis only visiting to get
from you what you give to scores OF
people every day. What is that?
! Confidence. II these people whom
you trust day by day are more wor-
thy than Christ, if they are more
faithful than Christ, if they have done
more than Christ ever did, then give
them the preference; but if you really
think that Christ is as trustworthy as
they are, then deal with him IS fairly.
ooh" say some one in a light way.
81 believe that Christ was born in
Bethlehem, and I believe that he died
on the cross" Do you believe it with
/ youihead or your heart? I will illus
tsate the difference. You are in your
own house. In the morning you open
a newspaper, and you read how Capt.
Braveheart on the sea risked his life
for the salvation Of his passengers.
You say: What a grand fellow he
must have been! His family deserve
very we'll of the country" lou fold
the newspaper and SIT down at the Ia
ole, and perhaps do not think Of that
incident again. That is historical
faith. But nov you are on the sea,
and it is night, ana you are asleep,
and are awakened by the shrek OF
':Fire.n You rush out on the deck
| You hear, amid the wringing Of the
hands and the fainting, the cries: 'No
hope. we are lost! we are lost" The
sal! puts out its wings Of fire, the ropes
! make y hurnino ladder in the nirht