The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1892-10-08

,hrist to suffer" that the nature OF hui
nan guilt might be demonstrated.
There is not a common-sense man in
he house to-day that will not admit
hat the machinery OF society 1t out OF
rear, that the human mind and the hui
nan heart are disorganized, that some
hing ought to be done, and done right
way for its repair and REIMBURSEMENT.
But the height, and depth, and length,
ind breadth, and hate, and reckless
Tess, and Internal energy of the human
aeart for sin would not have been
if against the holy and
One of the Cross it
had not been hurled in one bolt
IF fire. Christ was not the first
man that had been put to death.
There had been many before Him put
10 death, but they had their whims,
their follies, their sins, their inconsist-
encies. But when the mob outside OF
Jerusalem howled at the Son of God,
it was hate against goodness, it was
against virtue; it was earth
against Heaven. What was it in that
and loving face of Christ that
excited the vitupcration and tho con-
tumely and scorn of men? It He had
bantered them to come ON, II He had
laughed them into derision, If He had
denounced them as the vagabonds they
were, we could understand their fe-
rocity: but it was against inoffensive-
ness that they brsndished their spears
and shoolk their fists, and ground their
teeth, and howled, and scofed, and
ieered, and Knocked. What evil had He
done? Whose eye-sight had He put QUIT
None; but He had given vision to the
blind. Whose child had He slain?
None; but He restored the dead dam.
sci to her mother. What law had He
broken? None; but He had inculated
obedience to government What foul
plot had He enacted against the happi-
ness of the race? None; He had come t.
save 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. Heal
the red-hot scorns Of the world hissinl
in the pools of . Saviour's blood! AM
standing there to-day, let us see wha
an unreasonable, loathsome, hateful
blasting, damning thing is the iniquit..
of the human heart Embossed, wha
will not sin do? 1t will scale an.
height, it will fathom the very dept
of hell, it will revel in all lascivious
ness. There is no blasphem
it will not utter, Their
are no cruelties on which it will nc
gorge itself. 1t will wallow in fltl
| Il will breathe the air of charne
houses of corruption, and call ther
aroma; it will quaff the blood OF in
mortal souls and call it nectar. Whe
sin murdered Christ on the cross,
showed what it would do with tn
Lord God Almighty if it could get
Him. The prophet had declared
| think It was Jeremiah-had declare
centuries before, the truth, but nc
until sin shot out its forked tongue a
the crucifixion and tossed its sting int
the soul of martyred Jesus was
Illustrated that the heart is deceitf,
above all things, and desperatel
wicked"
| Again: 'Tt behooves Christ to su
fer" that our affections might be e:
cited Christward. Why, sirs, the b
havior of our Lord has stirred the a
fections of all those who have ev'
heard of it. 1t has hung the art ga
leries of the world with such pictur'
as Ghirlandajo's "Worship Of the Magi
Giotto's Baptism of Christ" He
mad Hunts 'sChrist in the Temple
Tintoret's agony in the Garden
. Angeles '.Crucifxion," and it b
called out Handels Messiah" u
rung sweetest chimes in Young's Mig
Thoughts, {" and filed the psalmody
the world with the penitential notes
sorrow and the hosannas of Christi'
triumph. Show me any 9th
king who has so many sub1ec
What is the most potent name tod
IN inc ~ nlteO SutCcs III 4 ~AA~Ss - -
gland, in Scotland, in Ireland? jest
Other kings have had many subjec
but where is the king who has SO ma
admiring subjects as Christ? Show M
: regiment of a thousand men in thu
army, and / will show you battali
of ten Thousand men in Christ's arm
show me in history where one M
has given his property and his life
: anyone else, and / will show You
. history hundreds and thousands
t men who have cheerfully died Il
? Christ might reign. Aye, there arr
hundred men in this house who. II M
7 were, would step out and die for Jes
Their faith may now seem to be TAI
? and sometimes they may be inc
. sistent; but let the fires of martyrd
, be kindled, throw them into the
cover them with poisonous serpen
pound them, fail them, crush the
and will tell you what their last
I would be: ''Come, Lord Jesus, &C
$ quickly!"
e Oh, yes! the Lord Jesus has won
affections of many OF us There
: some Of us can say this morning: IL
% Jesus, my light and my song; my b
. for time, my expectation for eternit
1 Altogether lovely Thou art Ny SC
. is ravsshed with the vision. Thou
10 mine. Come, let me clasp Thee. Co
It life, come death, come scorn and p
y e<,-.A xvh;r1ino wind and darkness IL