The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-07-01

in the house you bow the shutters or
turn the lattice, so God in the afternoon
shut the windows of the world. AS II IA
to throw black pail uponthe
coffin as 1t passes along, so 1t was appro.
pirate that everything should be soinber
that day as the great hearse Of the earth
rolled on bearing the corpse of the king,
A mans last hours are ordinarily kept
sacred, However you may have hated
or caricatured man, when you hear he
is dying silence puts its hand on your
lips, and you would have loathing for
the man who could stand by deathbed
making faces and soothing But Christ
in his last hour cannot be left alone.
What! pursuing him yet after so long a
pursuit? You have been drinking his
tears. Do you want to drink his blood?
They come up closely. so that notwith-
standing the darkness they can glut
their revenge with the contortions of his
countenance, They examine his feet.
They want to feel for themselves whether
those feet are really spiked. They put
out their hands and touch the spikes,
and bring them back wet with blood,
and wipe them on their garments.
Women stand there and weep; but can
do no good. 1t is no place for the ten
der hearted women. 1t wants heart
that crime has turned into granite.
The waves of mans hatred and Of
hell's vengeance dash up against the
r1.,l l,., 10 Of OH ND
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 snuifed at the blood!
Had Roman officer called out for a
light, his voice would not have been
heard in the tumult; 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! Look! what scene! Look.
world, ut 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 OF 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! If man
is in no pain, if he is prospered, if he is
we'll, and he asks you to come, you take
your time and you say: 81 can't come
now. III come after awhile. There is
no haste" But if he is In want and
trouble you say! II must go right away
must go now" Today Jesus stretches
out before you two wounded hands, and
he hegs 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 oul
successesl would we could think OF
nothing else, but come to Christ. He is
so fair. He is SO loving. He is SO sym
naxhizing. He is SO good. ] wish we
said put our arms around his neck and
say, "Thine, Lord, will | be forever
Oh, that you would begin to love him
Would that could take this audience
and wroathe it around the heart of my
Lord Jesus Christ.
When the Atlantic cable was lost, in
1865, do you remember that the Great
Eastern, and the Midway, and the Al
bany went out to find it? Thirty times
they sank the grapnel two and hall
miles deep in water. After awhile they
found the cable and brought it to the
surface. No sooner had it been brought
to the surface than they lifted 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 at last
they found the cable and they brought
it up in silence. They fastened it this
time. Then with great excitement they
took one end of the cable to the cleo
trician's room to see if there were really
any life in it, and when they saw spark
and knew that message could be sent
then every hat was lifted, and the rockets
flew, and the guns sounded, until all the
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 come
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 al
the surface, and we began to rejoice
over your redemption, but at the mo
ment of our gladhess you sank bach
again into the world and back agair
into sin. Today we come with this Cos
pei searching for your soul. We apply
the cross of Christ first to see whether
there is any life left in you, while al
around the people stand, looking to SET
whether the work will be done, and the
angels of God bend down and witness
and oh! if now we could see only one
spark of love and hope and faith, w,
would send up shout that would bt
| heard on the battlements of heaven, ant
two worlds would keep jubilee becaus,
communication is open between Chris
and the soul, and your nature that ha'
been sunken in sin has been lifted int
the light and the joy of the Gospel.
Vulite as IA Fire Extinguisher.
Vulite is ~ chemical compound, til,
invention of Max Eberhardt, of Lucerne
and is stated to be nine times more eff
fective than ordinary water in extin
gushing fire, and among its other quail
tiles possesses the remarkable faculty 0
rendering individuals virtually fireproof
The impunity with which the exhibitor
approached great masses of flame, anC
appeared to be almost as if in their IA