The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1892-02-12

IN MS eyes ana TWO outsJreJcneu, man
gled hands OF love
You come home some night and finC
the mark of muddy feet on your from,
steps. You hasten in. and find an ex
cited group around your child. He fell
into pond, and had IL not been for a
brave lad, who'plungcd in and brought
him out, and carried him home 20 be
resuscitated you would have been
childless You feel that you can not
do enough for the rcscucr. You throw
your arms around him. You offer him
any compensation. You say To- him:
ANY thing that you want shall be
| yours. | will never cease 20 be grate-
/ full" But my Lord Jesus sees your
/ soul sinking and attempts TO bring IL
/ ashore, and you not only refuse Him
/ thanks, but stand on the beach and say:
/ Drop that soul If want il saved I
will save it myself"
wish you might know what job
Jesus undertook when He carried your
case to Calvary. They crowded Him to
the wall They struck Him. They
spat on Him. They kicked Him. They
cuifed Him. They scoffed at Him.
They scourged Him They murdered
Him. Blood! Blood! As He stoops
down 10 lift you up the crimson drops
upon you from His brow, from His
side, from His hands. DO you not feel
the warm current on your face? Oh,
for thee the hunger, the thirst, the
thorn-sting, the suifocation, the dark.
ness, the groan, the sweat, the struggle,
the death!
great plague came in Marseilles
The doctors held consultation, and
decided that u corpse must be dissectcd
or they would never know how to stop
the plague. A DR.. Guyan said: "To
morrow morning will proceed to n dis.
section He made his will; prepared
for death; went into IA hospital; dissectcd
body; and died in twelve hours. Beau
tiful self-sacrifice, you say. Our Lore
Jesus Christ looked out from Heaven
and saw plague stricken race. Sin
must be dissectcd. He made His will,
giving everything To His people He
comes down into the rceking hospital
of earth. He lays his hand to the work.
Under our plague He dics-thc healthy
for the sick, the pure for the polluted,
the innocent for the guilty. Behold
the love. Behold the sacrifice! Behold
the rescue.
Decide, on this first Sabbath of the
year, whether or not YOU will have
Jesus He viii not stand forever beg.
ging for your love. With some here
His plea ends right speedily. This +,
year thou shalt die"
This great salvation of the gospel |
now offer to every man, woman and |
child Gou can not buy it. You can |
not earn it. A Scotch writer SAYS that |
n poor woman, one cold winters day, !
looked through the window OF kings |
and saw IA bunch of |
grapes hanging against the glass She
said: 'Oh, if | only had that bunch of |
grapes for my sick child at home" At
her spinning-wheel she earned a few
and went to buy the grapes
The kings gardener thrust her out very
and said he had no grapes to
sell. She went off and sold blanket
and got some more shillings, and came
back and tried to buy the grapes. But
he gardener roughly assaulted her and
old her TO be off. The kings
laughter was walking in the
garden at the time and heard
he excitement, and, seeing the poor
woman, said to her: my father is not
! merchant, to sell, but he is n king,
md gives" Then she reached up and
'lucked the grapes and dropped them
nto the poor woman's apron. So
'hrist is King, and all the fruits of
lis pardon he freely gives They may
lot be bought Without money and
without price, take this sweet cluster
rom the vineyards of God.
| am coming TO the close of my SER
non. ! sought for text appropriate
or the occasion. | thought Of taking
ne in Job my days fly as a weavers
huttle;' of text in Psalms: $50 teach
IS to number our days that we may ap,
ly our hearts up to wisdom;" of tn
rayer OF the vine dresser: Lord, let il
lone this year also;" but pressed upon
~ attention, first of all and last of all,
nd above all, were the words, This
ear thou shalt die" perhaps il NAV
iean me.
Though in perfect health now, it does
ot take God one week to bring down
ne strongest physical constitution.
o not want to die this year We had
lans and projects on foot that want '
see completed; but God knows best,
nd He has n thousand better men than
to do the work yet undone. / have
ope that, Notwithstanding all my
ms and wanderings | shall through
he infinite mercy Of my Saviour. {
'me out at the right place. have
othing To brag of by way of Chris r
an experience. but two things | have