Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-06-27

der hearted women. II wants = heart
that crime has turned into granite.
The waves Of mans hatred and OF
hells vengeance dash up against the
mangled feet, and the hands Of sin and
pain and torture clutch for his holy
heart. Had he not been thoroughly
fastened TO the cross they would have
torn him down and trampled him with
both feet. How the cavalry horses
arched their necks and champed their
bits and reared and snuffed at the blood.
Had Roman officer called out for
light, his voice would not have been
heard in the trmult; but louder than
the clash of spears and the wailing Of
womanhood, and the neighing of the
chargers, and the believing of the cru
cifyers there comes . voice crashing
through-loud, clear, overwhelming,
terrific. 1t is the grooming OF the dying
son Of God! Lookl what scene! Look,
world, at what you have done!
/ lift the covering from the maltreat-
ed Christ to let you count the wounds
and estimate the cost. Oh! when the
nails went through Christ's right hand
and through Christ's left hand. that
bought both Your hands, with all their
power to work and lift and write; when
the nails went Through Christ's right
foot and Christ's left foot, that bought
your feet, with all their power to walk
or run or climb; when the thorn went
into Christ's temple, that bought your
brain, with all its power to think and
plan; when the spear left Christ's side,
that bought your heart, with all its
power to love and repent and pray.
APPEAL TO SINNERS.
O sinner, come, come back! II man
is in no pain, if he is prospered, If he is
well, and he asks you to come, you take
your time and you say: 81 can't come
now. I'll come after awhile. There is
no haste" But if he is in want and
trouble You say: ~ must go right away.
must go now" Today Jesus stretches
out before you two wounded hands, and
he begs you to come. Go and you live.
Stay away and you die. Oh, that to
him who bought us we might give all
our time and all our prayers and all our
successes! would we could think of
nothing else, but come to Christ. He is
SO fair. He is SO loving. He is SO SYM
yathuing. He is so good. wish we
could put our arms around his neck and
say, Thine, Lord, will / be forever"
Ga, that you would begin to love him!
Would that could take this audience
and wreathe 1t around the heart Of my
Lord Jesus Christ.
When the Atlantic cable was lost, in
1855. do you remember that the Great
Eastern, and the Midway, and the Al
bany went out to find itl Thirty times
they sank the grspnel two and a half
miles deep in water. After awhile they
found the cable and brought It to the
surface No sooner had it been brought
~ tho SURFACE Jn1n Lney nKJeo . shout
Of exultation, but the cable slipped back
again into the water and was lost. Then
for two weeks more they swept the sea
with the graphing hooks. and ut last
they found the cable and they brought
it up in silence. They fastened it this
time. Then with great excitement they
took ono end of the cable to tho cleo
trician's room to see il there were really
any life in it, and when they saw aspaxk
and knew that message could be sent,
then every hat was lifted. and the rockets
few, and the guns sounded, until all tho
vessels on the expedition knew the work
was done and the continents were dashed
together.
Well, my friends, Sabbath after Sab
bath Gospel messengers have como
searching down for your souls. We
have swept the sea with the graphing
hook of Christ's Gospel. Again and
again we have thought that you were at
the surface, and we began to rejoice
over your redemption, but ct the mo.
nnent Of our gladness you sank back
again into the world and back again
into SIN. Today we come with this Cos
pei searching for your soul. We apply
the cross Of Christ 6rst to see whether
there is any life left in you. while all
around the people stand. looking to see
whether the work will be done. and the
angels of God bend down and witness:
and OH IL now we could see only one
spark Of love and hope and faith, we
would send mp q shout that womb %
heard on the battlements of heaven, and
two worlds would keep jubilee because
communication is open between Christ
Snd the soul, and your nature that has
hsen sunkcn in sin has been lifted into
the light and the JOY Of the Gospel.