Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1892-07-07
THE LOVE.

TIE LOVE
Why, wher Christ comes to pardon g
soul ne stops for nothing. Height is
nothing. Depth is nothing. Enor,nity
is nothing. Protractedness is nothing.
Ger sins Ike mountains for their size,
The seas TO sovereign grace expand.
The seas of sovereign grace arise.
Lord Jesus, l give up all other props,
/ give up all other expectations. Ruined
and undone, l lay hold thee. l plead
thy promises. l fly to thy arms. Lord.
save me; I perish"
When the Christian commission went
into the army during the III there
were a great multitude Of hungry men
| and only a few loaves of bread, and the
delegate of the commission was cutting
the bread and giving it out to wounded
and dying men. Some one came up and
said, "Cut those slices thinner, Or there
will not be enough to go around" And
then the delegate cut the slices very
thin and handed the bread around until
they all had some, but not much. But,
| blessed be God, there is no need of econ
omy in this Gospel. Bread for all; bread
enough and to spare. Why perish with
hunger9
Again, I advise you, as one of the best
things you can do with Christ, to take
him into your love. Now there are two
things which make US love any one-in-
herent attractiveness, and then what he
does In the way Of kindness toward US.
Now Christ is in both these positions.
Inherent attractiveness-fairer than the
children of men, the luster Of the morn
ing il his eye, the glow of the setting
sun in his cheek, myrrh and franklin
cense in the breath of his lip. In a
heaven of holy beings, the best. In a
heaven of mighty ones, the strongest.
In a heaven of great hearts, the tender
est and the most sympathetic.
Why, sculpture has never yet been
able to chisel his form nor painting to
present the flush of his cheek nor music
to strike his charms; and the greatest
surprise Of eternity will be the first mo-
ment when we rush into his presence
and with uplifted hands and streaming
eyes and heart bounding with rapture
we cry out, ''This is Jesus"
All Ger glorious is my Lord,
He must be loved and yet adored;
His worth, if all the nations knew,
Sure. the whole earth would love him too.
THE SUBLIME SACRIFICE.
Has he not done enough to win our
affections? Peter the Great, laying aside
royal authority, went down among the
ship carpenters to help them, but Russia
got the chief advantage of that conde-
sceusion. John Howard turned his back
upon the refinenlents and went around
prisons to spy out their sorrows and to
relieve their wrongs, but English Grim
inals got the chief advantage of that
ministry. But when Christ comes it is
fer you and me. The sacrifice for you
ard me. The tears for ~ and me. The
crucifxion Cor you and me.
If I were hopelessly in debt and some
one came and paid my debts, and gave
me a receipt in full, and called off the
pack of bounding creditors; if I were on
a laundering ship, and you came in a
lifeboat ard took me off, could l eve
forget your kindness? Would / ever
arrow an opportaHatyo pass without
rendering you a service or attesting my
gratitude and love? Oh, how ought we
to feel toward Christ, who plunged into
the depth of our sin and plucked us out!'
Oughtit not to set the very best emotions
of our heart into the warmest, aye, a red
hot glow? The story is so old that POO,
pie almost get asleep when they.
hearing it. And yet therA
Jesus the 1aa--