Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1892-06-30

Had a 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 a voice crashing
through-loud, clear, overwhelming,
terrific. 1t is the groaning of the dying
son of God! Look! what a scene! Look.
world. at what you have done!
i lift tie covering from the maltreat-
ed Christ to let you cV,nt the wounds
and estimate the cost. Oh! when the
nails went through Christ's right hand
and through Christ's left hand, that
bought botn 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 a 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: Il can't come
now. I'll come after awhile. There IS
no haste" But if he is in want and
trouble You say: 81 must go right away.
1 must 20 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! l would we could think OF
nothing else, but come to Christ. He is
so fair. He is so loving. He is so SYM
pathizing. He is so good. wish we
could put our arms around his neck and
say, Chine, Lord, will I be forever"
Oh, that you would begin to love him.
Would that l could take this audience
| AID wreathe it around the heart OF ny
Lord Jesus Christ.
When the Atlantic cable was lost, in
1865, do you remember that the Great
Eastern, and the Midway, ana the AL
bany went out to find it? Thirty times
they sank the grapnel 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
to the surface than they lifted a shout
of e~xultation, 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 We're really
any life in it, and when they saw spark
and knew that a message could be sent,
then every hat was lifted, and the rockets
few, and the guns sounded. until all the
vessels Gu the expedition knew the work
was done and the continents We're 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 a.
the surface, and we began to rejoice
over your redemption, but at the mo-
mcnt 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 first to see whether
there is any life left III 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. if now we could see Only one
spark of love and hope and faith, We
would send up a shout chat would be
heard on the battlements Of heaven. and
two worlds would keep jubilee because
communication is ope- between Christ
and the soul, and your natur that has
been sunken IN sin mas been lifted into
the light and the JOY Of the Gospel.