Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-06-16

| don in 1t; so much heaven in it. pro.
| claim Him the Lord God, meroiful
gracious, and long-suffering, abundan
| 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 Him. Sea Him on tbs
Mount of Crucifixion, the sweat on His
brow tlnged with the blood exuding from
His lacerated templssi See His eye:
swimming in DEATH Hear the loud
breathing of the sufferer as he pants will
a world on his hearth Hark to the fall
of the blood from brow, and hand, and
foot, on the rocks beneath.
DROP DROP DROP
Look at the nails! How wide the
wounds are! Wider do they cape as His
body CONES down upon them. OH this
cruoifixion agony Tears melting into
tears. Blood flowing into blood. Dark
ness dropping on darkness. Hands of
men joined with hands of devils to tear
apart the quivering hearts of the Son of
God?
Oh! VIII he never speak again? VIII
that crimson face never light ND again?
He will speak again; while the blood
is suffusing His brow and reddening His
cheek, and gathering on nostrII and lip,
and you think He is exhausted and can
not speak, He cries out until all
the ages hear Him: "Fsther, for
give y them, they know not what
they do!' Is there no emphasis
in such scene as that to make your dry
eyes weep, and your hard heart 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
on our children?' What does it all
mean; my brother, my sister? Why, it
means that for our lost race there was a
Fathers kiss. Love brought him down
Love opened the gate. Love led to the
sacrifice. Love shattered the grave.
Love lifted him up in resurrection.
Sovereign love! Omnipotent love! In
finite love! Bleeding love! Everlasting
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sob, for this love let rocks and hills
Their lasting silence break;
And all harmonious human tongues
The Savior's praises speak,
Now, will you accept that Fathers
kIss2 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 to late; that there is one
door, one road, one cross, one sacrifice,
one Jesus? It is the Holy Ghost.
My most urgent word Is to those who,
like the young man of my text, are
great way off, and they will start for
home,
AND THEY WILL GET HOME.
They will yet preach the gospel and on
communion days carry around the
consecrated bread, acceptable to every
body, because of their holy life, and
their consecrated behavior. The Lord is
going to save you. Your home has got
to be rebuilt. Your physical health has
got to DO restored. Your worldly bust
ness 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 nor
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 ID
the wind before the rain falls. There
are those who would give anything if
they could find relief in tears. They
say: sob, my wasted life! Oh, the
bitter pastl Oh, the graves over which
1 have stumbled Whittier shall fly?
Alas for the futurel Everything is
dark-so dark, so dark. God help
me! God pity mel" Thank
the Lord for the last utterance. You
have begun to pray, and when man
begins to petition, that sets all heaven
wing this way, and God steps in and
beats back the hounds of temptation to
their kennel, and around about the poor
soul puts the covert of His par
doning mercy. Harkl 1 hear something
fall. What was that? 1t is the bars of
the fence around the sheep-fold. The
lets them down, and the hunted
sheep of the mountain bound in; some
of them their fleece torn with the bram-
bles, some of them their feet lame with
the dogs; but bounding in. Thank Godl
Saved for time, and saved for eterniny.