News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1892-08-18

had come to save a world. The only
cruelty he ever enacted was to heal the
sick. The only ostentation he ever dis
played was to sit with publicans and
sinners and wash the disciples feet.
The only selfishness he ever exhibited
was to give his life for his enemies.
And yet all the wrath of the world
surged against his holy heart. Hear
the redhot scorn of the world kissing
in the pools of Saviour's bloodl And
standing there today let us see what an
unreasonable, loathsome, hateful, blast
ing, damning thing is the iniquity of
the human heart. Embossed, what will
not sin do? 1t will scale any height, it
will fathom the very depth of hell, it
will revel in all 1asciviousness. There
is no blasphemy it will not utter, there
are no cruelties ON which it will not
gorge itself. 1t will wallow in filth, it
will breathe the air of charnelhouses of
corruption and call them aroma, it will
quaff the blood of immortal souls and
call it nectar.
When sin murdered Christ on the
cross it showed what it would do with
the Lord God Almighty if it could get at
him. The prophet had declared think
it was Jeremiah-had declared centuries
before the truth, but not until sin shot
out its forked tongue at the crucifx and
tossed its sting into the soul of a mar
tyred Jesus was it illustrated, that ''the
heart is deceitful above all things, and
desperately wicked"
OUR LOVE TOWARD CHRIST.
Again, cit beloved Christ to suffer-"
that our affections might be excited
Christward. Why, sirs, the behavior of
our Lord has stirred the affections of all
those who have ever heard of it. 1t has
hung the art galleries of the world with
such pictures as Ghirlandajo's "Wor-
ship of the Magi," Giotto's Baptism of
Christi Holman Hunts ''Christ in the
Temple" Tintoret's "Agony in the Gar
den," Angeles ''Crucifxion," and it has
called out Handel's "Messiah," and rung
sweetest chimes in "Youngs "Night
Thoughts and filled the psalmody of
the world with the penitential notes of
sorrow and the hosannas of Christian
triumph. -
Show me any other king who has so
many subjects. What is the most po-
tent name today in the United States, in
France, in England, in Scotland, in Ire
land? Jesus. Other kings have had
many subjects, but where is the king
who has so many admiring subjects as
Christ? Show me regiment of thou
sand men in their army and l will show
YOU battalion of ten thousand men in
Christ's army.
Show me in history where one man
has given his property and his life for
any one else, and will show you in his
tory hundreds and thousands of men
who have cheerfully died that Christ
might reign. Aye, there are hundred
men in this house who, if need were,
would step out and die for Jesus. Their
faith may now seem to be faint, and
sometimes they may be inconsistent,
but let the fires of martyrdom be kim
died, throw them into the pit, cover
them with poisonous serpents, pound
them, fail them, crush them, and | will
tell you what their last cry would be,
"Come, Lord Jesus, come quicklyr
Oh, yes! the Lord Jesus has won the
affections of many of us. There are
some of us who can say this morning,
.tLord Jesus, my light and my song; my
hope for time, my expectation for eter-
nifty" Altogether lovely thou art. My
soul is ravished with the vision. Thou
art mine. Come, let me clasp thee.
Come life, come death, come scorn and
pain, come whirlwind and darkness
Lord Jesus, cannot give thee up.
have heard thy voice. have seen thy
bleeding side. Lord Jesus, if had some
garland plucked from heavenly gardens
/ would wreathe it for thy brow. If l
had some gem worthy of the place
would set in thy crown. If had seraphic
harp would strike it in thy praise.
But come lost and ruined and undone
to throw mggelf at thy feet.
No price bring;
Simply to thy cross cling.
Thou knowest all things. Thou know
est that / lave thee.
But remark again, sit beloved
Christ to suffe,'," that the world might
learn low to suffer. Sometimes people
suffer because they cannot help them
selves, but Christ had in his hands all
the weapons to punish his enemies, and
yet in quiescence he endured all out.
rage. He might have hurled the rocks
of Golgotha upon his pursuers; he might
have cleft the earth until he swallowed
up his assailants; he might have called
in reinforcement or taken any thunder
bolt from the armory of God Omnipo-
tent and hurled it seething and fiery
among his foes, but he answered not
again.
Oh, my hearerl has there ever been in
the history of the world such an exam
pie of enduring patience as we find in
the cross? Some of you suffer physical
distresses, some of you have lifelong
ailments and they make you fretful
Sometimes" you think that God has
given you cup too deep and too brin-
ming. Sometimes you see the world
laughing and ronlping ON the highways
of life, and you look out of the window
while seated in invalid's chair.
PATIENT SUFFERING OF CHRISTIAN LOVE.
want to show you this morning one
who had worse pains in the head than
you have ever had, whose back was
scourged, who was wounded in tile
hands and wounded in the feet, and suf-
fered all over; and I want that example
to make you more enduring in your suf-
fering, and to make you say, Father,
not my will, but thine be DONE" You
never have had any bodily pain, and
you will never have any bodily pain
that equaled Christ's torture. at be-
hoved Christ to suffer-" that he might
show you how physically to suffer.
Some of you are prosecuted. There
are those who hate YOU. They criticise
you. They would be glad to see you
stumble and fall. They have done I'M
accountable meannesses toward you.
Sometimes you feel angry. You feel as
if you would like to retort. Stopi Look at
the closed lips, look at the still hand, look
at the beautiful demeanor of your Lord.
Struck, not striking back again. Oh, if
you could only appreciate what he en-
dured in the way of persecution you
never would complain of persecution.
The words of Christ would be your
words, "Father, if it be possible, let this
cup pass from me; but if not, thy will |
be done. "st'It beloved Christ to suffer-
persecution, that he might show you how
to endure persecution.
Some of you are bereft. It is no ran
dom remark, because there is hardly a
family here that has not passed under
the shadow. You have been bereft.
Your house is different place from
what it used to be. The same furni-
ture, the same books, the same pictures,
but there has been voice hushed there.
The face that used to light up the whole
dwelling has vanished. The natterinp