The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-06-27

passion it; so much Heaven in It.
proclaim him the Lord tod, merciful,
gracious and long-sufering, abundant
in goodness and truth. Lest you would
not believe Him, He goes up Golgotha,
and while the rocks are rending,
and the graves are opening, and
the mobs are bowling, and the
sun is hiding. He dies for you. See
Himl See Him on the mount of cruel
flxion, the sweat on His brow tinged
with the blood exuding from his LAGER
ated temples! See His eyes swimming
in DEATH Hear the loud breathing OF
the sufferer as He pants with world on
His hearti Hark to the fall of the blood
from brow and hand and foot on the
rocks beneath-drop! dropl dropl Look
at the nailsl How wide the wounds arel
Wider do they cape as His body comes
down upon them. o! this crucifxion
agony! Tears melting into tears. Blood
flowing into blood. Darkness dropping
on darkness. Hands of men joined with
hands of devils to tear apart the CULVER
ing heart of the Son of God!
o, will He never speak again? Will
that crimson face never light up again2
He will speak again; while the blood is
suffusing His brow and reddening His
cheek and gathering on nostril and lip,
and you think He is exhausted and can
not speak, He cries ont until all the ages
hear Him: "Father, forgive them, they
know not what they dol" Is there no
emphasis in such thing as that to make
your dry eyes weep and your hard heart
to break? VIII you turn your back upon
it, and say by your actions what the
Jews said by their words: ''His blood
be on us and our children"
What does it all mean, my brother,
my sister? Why, it means that for our
long lost race there was Fathers kiss.
Love brought Him down. Love opened
Love shattered the grave. Love lifted
Him up in resurrection. Sovereign lovel
Omnipotent love! Infinite love! Bleed.
ing love! Everlasting love!
80. for this love let rocks and hills
Their lasting silence break;
And all harmonious human tongues
The Saviour's praises speak"
Now, will you accept that Fathers
kiss? The Holy Spirit comes to you
with His arousing, melting, alarming,
inviting, vivifying influence. Hearer,
what creates in thee that unrest? 1t is
the Holy Ghost. What influence now
tells thee that it is time to fly, that to-
morrow may be too late; that there is
one door, one road, one cross, one sacri-
fee, one Jesus? 1t is the Holy Ghost.
My most urgent word is to those who,
like the young man of my ext, are
great way off, and they will start for
home and they will get home. They
will yet preach the Gospel and on COM
munion day will carry around the con-
secrated bread, acceptable to everybody,
because of their holy life and their con-
secrated behavior. The Lord is
going to save you. Your home has got
to be rebuilt. Your physical health
has got to be restored. Your worldly
business has got to be reconstructed.
The church Of God is going to rejoice
over your discipleship. You are not
Gospel-hardened. You have not heard
or read many sermons during the last
few years. You do not weep, but the
shower is not far off. You sigh, and
you have noticed that there is always a
sigh in the wind before the rain falls.
There are those who would give any
thing if they could find relief in tears.
They say: 80. my wasted lifel o,
the bitter past! o, the graves over
which l have stumbled! Whittier
shall fly! Alas for the future! Every
thing is dark--so dark, so dark. God
help me! God pity me!' Thank the
Lord for that last utterance. You have
begun to pray, and when a man begins
to petition, that sets all Heaven flying
this way, and God steps in and beats
back the hounds of temptation to their
kennel and around about the poor
wounded soul puts the cover of His
pardoning mercy. Hark! hear some
thing fall. What was that? 1t is the
bars of the fence around the sheep fold.
The shepherd lets them down, and the
hunted sheep of the mountain bound in;
some of them their fleece torn with the
brambles some of them their feet lame
with the dogs; but bounding in. Thank
God! Saved for time, and saved for
eternity.