The Globe-republican., 1892-07-18

1nss The IRE, more trust In ~ osok THAT
prepares your food; moro trust In tie
clerk that writes your beokA In he drug.
glot that MAKES the medicine, In the bar
gain maker with whom Yeu trade,
moro trust In Ill these things than in
Christ although he stands tils moment
Offering without limit ssd without mis-
take, and without exception. universal
pardon to all who want Il Now, Is not
that cheap enough-all things for moth
ing?
This is the whole Of the Gospel rs
understand it-that II you believe that
Christ died to save you you are saved.
When? Now. No more doubt about It
than that you sit there. No mere doubt
about it than that you have q right
hand. No more doubt about it than that
there Is God. II you had committed
500. 600 trsnsgressions Christ would for
Give you just Is freely IS If you had
never com united but one; though you
had gone through the whole catalogue
OF crimes-arson and blasphemy and
murder-Christ would pardon you just
as freely, you coming to Him. rs though
you had committed only the slightest sin
of the tongue. Why, when Christ comes
to pardon soul He stops for nothing.
Height is nothing. Depth is nothing.
Enormity is nothing. Protractedness Is
nothing.
Der sins like mountains for their size,
The seas Of sovereign grace expand,
The seas of sovereign grace arise.
Lord Jesus. l give up all other props.
give up all other expectations. Ruined
and undone, Law hold thee. plead thy
promises l fly to thy arms. Lord
save me; perish" When the Christian
commission went into the army during
the war there were great multitude of
hungry men and only few lOaves OF
bread, and the delegate of the commits
sion was cutting the bread and giving it
out to the wounded and dying men.
Some one came up and said, 'Cut those
slices thinner or there will not be enough
to go around" And then the delegate cut
the slices very thin and handed the bread
around until they all had some, but not
much. But, blessed be God, there is no
need of economy In this Gospel. Bread
for all; bread enough and to spare. Why
perish with hunger?
Again, advise you, as one of the best
things you can do with Christ. to take
Him into your love. Now there are two
things which make US love any one-in-
herent attractiveness and then what He
does in the way of kindness toward us.
Now Christ Is in both these positions
Inherent NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. than the
children Of men, the luster of the morn
ing In His eye, the glow of the setting
sun in His cheek, myrrh and franklin
cense in the breath Of His lip. In q
heaven of holy beings, the best In
heaven Of mighty ones, the strongest
In heaven OF great hearts, the tender
est and the most sympathetic. Why,
sculpture has never vet been able to
chisel His form, nor painting to present
the flush Of His cheek, nor music to
strike His charms; and the greatest sur
prise of eternity will be the first moment
when we rush into His presence and
with uplifted hands and streaming eyes
and heart bounding with rapture. we cry
out, This is Jesus"'
All over glorious is my Lord,
He must be loved and yet adored;
His worth, if sill the nations knew
Sure the whole earth would love him too.
Has He not done enough to win our
affections? Peter the Great, laying aside
royal authority, went down among the
ship carpenters to- help them, but Russia
got the chief advantage Of that conde-
scension. John Howard turned his back
upon the retinements and went around
prisons to spy out their sorrows and re-
lieve their wrongs, but English criminals
got the chief advantage Of that ministry.
But when Christ comes, 1t is for you and
me. The sacrifice for you and me. The
tears for you and me. The crucifxion
for you aud me.
II were hopelessly in debt, and some
one came and paid my debts and gave
me receipt in full, aud called off the
pack of bounding creditors, if were on
a laundering ship, and you came In a
lifeboat and took me of, could ever for
get your kindness? Would ever allow
an opportunity to pass without render
ing you service or attesting my graft
tude and love? Oh, how ought we to
feel toward Christ who plunged into the
depths of our sin and plucked US out!
Ought it not to set the very best
emotions Of our heart into the warm
est-aye. red hot glow? The story is
so old that people almost get asleep
while they are hearing it. Yet there lie
hangs-JeSus the man, Jesus the God.
Was there anything before or since, any,
thing to be compared to this spectacle of
generosity and wos? Did heartstrings
ever snap with a worse torture? We're
tears ever charged with heavier grief?
Did blood ever gush. in each globule the
price of a soul? The wave Of earthly
malice dashed its bloody foam against
one foot, the wave OF internal malice
dashed against his other loot, while the
storm of Gods wrath against SIN heat ON
his thorn pierced brow, and all the hosts
of darkness with cleaning lances RAM
PACED through His holy SOUL
On. see the reinforcement of Heavens
King! the conQueror fallen from the
white horse! the massacre Of a God!
Weep. ye who have tears. over the lone
Illness of His exile and the horrors OF His
darkness. Christ sacrificed on the funeral
pyre OF a worlds transgression: the good
for the bad, the great for the mean; the
infinite for the finite, the God for the
man. Oh, if there be in ali this audience
one person untouched by this story of
the Saviour's love, show men where BE
is. that I may mark the monster Of in
gratitude and of crime. II you could see
Christ as He is you would rise from your
seat and fling yourselves down at His
foot cryipo ssMy Lord nv LIGHT NV