Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1892-08-18

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had come to save w6rid. Tie 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 a Saviours blood! And
sanding there today let us see what an
unreasonable, loathsome, hateful, blast
ing, damning thing is the iniquity OF
the human heart. Unlossed, what will
not sin do? 1t will scale any height. it
will fathom the very depth of hell, it
will revel in all lasciviousness. There
is no blasphelny 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, 1t will
ouaf 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 crucifix and
tossed its sting into the soul of mar
tvred Jesus was it illustrated, that ''the
heart is deceitful above all things, and
desperately wicked" 4"
OUR LOVE TOWARD CHRIST.
Again, cit beloved Christ to suffer"
that our affections might be excited
Christward. Why, si-s, 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
Christ > 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 "Young's Might
Thoughts and filed 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 / will show
YOU a battalion of ten thousand men III
Christs army.
Show me in history where one man
has given his property and his life foI
any one else. and l will show you in his
tory hundreds and thousands of men
who have cheerfully died rhat Christ
might reign Aye, there are hundred
men IN this house VINO, if need We're,
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 kin
died, throw them into the pit, cover
them with poisonous serpents, pound
them, fail them, crush them, and l will
tell You what their last cry would be,
Come, Lord Jesus, come quickly
Oh, yes, the Lord Jesus has Won the
affections of many of us. There ere
some of us who can say this morning,
Lord Jesus. my light and my song; my
hope for time, my expectation for eter-
nitv." Altogether lovely thou art. Ny
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, l cannot give thee up.
have heard thy voice. have seen thy
bleeding side. Lord Jesus, if had some
garland plucked from heavenly gardens
| would w.reathe it for thy brow. If
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