Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-06-19

love, and compassion in 1t; SO much par
don in 1t; so much heaven in il. pro-
claim Him the Lord God, 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 nobs are
bowling, and the sun is hiding, He dies
for you. See Himi Sea Him on the
Mount Of Cruclfxion. the sweat on His
brow tInged with the blood exudiug from
His lacerated templesl See His eyes
swimming in DEATH Hear the loud
breathing of the sufferer as he pants with
a world on MS heart! Hark TO the fall
of the blood from brow, and hand, and
foot, on the rocks beneath.
DRoPi DROP! DROP
Look at. the nailsl How wide the
wounds arei Wider do they cape as His
body comes down upon them. Oh! this
crucifxion 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?
Obi Will he never speak again? VIII
that crimson face never light uD again?
He will speak again: while the blood
is suffusing His brow and reddening His
cheek, aud gathering on nostrIl and lip,
and you think He 10 exhausted and can
not speak, He cries out until all
the ages hear Him: "Father, for
give them, they know not what
they do!' Is there no emphasis
in such a scene as that to make your dry
eyes weep, and your hard heart break!
Will 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 childreu?'' What does it all
mean; my brother, my sister? Why, it
means that for our lost race there was
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 i.
Sovereign love! Omnipotent love! In
finite love! Bleeding Lowell Everlasting
Lowell
''oh for this love let rocks and hills
Their lasting silence break;
And all harmonious human tongues
The Ssvior'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 ia time to fy, 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.
Ny most urgent word IS to those who
like the Young man of nv text, are a
great way off, and they will start fol-
| 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 be restored Your worldly busi-
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 IN
the wind before the ram falls. There
| are those who would give anything ii
thew could find relief in tears. They
say: "Oh, my wasted life! Oh, the
bitter past! Oh, the graves over which
1 have stumbled! Whittier shall 1 fly?
Alas for the future! Everything Is
dark-so dark, so dark. God help
mel God pity mel" Thank
the Lord for the last utterance. You
have begun to pray, and when man
begins to petition, that sets ell heaven
vying this way, and God steps in and
beats back the hounds of temptation &c
their kennel, and around about the poor
wounded soul puts the covert Of His par
| doning mercy. Hark! hear something
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 fleeos torn with tine BRAN
bIes, some of them their feet lame with
the dogs; but bounding in. Thank God
Saved for time, and saved for eterniny