News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1892-06-30

| heart. Had he not been thoroughly
| fastened to the cross they would have
torn him down and trampled him with
both feet. How the cavalry horses
arched their necks and champed their
| bits and reared and snuffed at the blood!
| Had Roman officer called out for
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 comes voice crashing
| through-loud, clear, overwhelming,
terrific. 1t is the groaning of the dying
son of God! Look! what scenei Look.
world, at what you have done!
| lift the covering from the maltreat-
ed Christ to let you count the wounds
and estimate the cost. Oh! when the
nails went through Christ's right hand
and through Christ's left hand, that
bought both 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 or 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.
0 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: 81 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.
l must go 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
successesl 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. l wish we
could put our arms around his neck and
say, thine, Lord, will l be forever"
Oh, that you would begin TO love him!
Would that could take this audience
and wreathe it around the heart of my
Lord Jesus Cnr1SU.
When the Atlantic cable was lost, in
1866, do you remember that the Great
Eastern, and the Midway, and the AL
bany went out to find it? Thirty times
they sank the grapnel two and 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 exultation, 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 J
time Then with great excitement they I
took one end of the cable to the cleo |
trician's room to see if there were really |
any life in it, and when they saw spark |
and knew that message could be sent, |
then every hat was lifted, and the rockets
flew, and the guns sounded, until all the
vessels on the expedition knew the work
was done and the continents were dashed
together.
Well, my friends, Sabbath after Sab
bath Gospel messengers have come
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 at
the surface, and we began to rejoice
over your redemption, but at the mo-
nent 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
here is any life left in you, while all
around the people stand, looking to see
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 shout that would be
heard on the battlements of heaven, and
two worlds would keep jubilee because
communication is open between Christ
and the soul, and your nature that has
been sunken in sin has been lifted into
the light and the joy of the Gospel.