The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-06-27

day since the creation of the world was
when the carnage Of Calvary was enacted.
IL was about noon when the curtain began
to be drawn. it was not the coming on OF
a night that soothss and refreshes; it was
the swinging of great gloom ali around
the heavens. God hung it. AS when there
Is dead one In the house you bow the
shutters or turn the lattice, so God in the
afternoon shut the windows OF the world.
As it is appropriate to throw a black pail
upon the coffin as it passes along, go 1t was
| appropriate that everything should be
somber that day as the great hearse of the
earth rolled on. bearing the corpse Of the
| king. A mans last hours are ordinarily
kept sacred. However you may have
hated or caricatured man, when you hear
be is dying, silence puts its hand
| on your lips, and you would have
! by q deathbed making faces and
soothing. Blu. Christ in his last hour can
not be left alone. What, pursuing him yet
after so long a pursuits You have been
drinking his tears. Do you want to drink
his bloodl They come up closely. so that
notwithstanding the darkness they can glut
their revenge with the contortions of his
countenance. They examine his feet. They
want to feel for themselves whether those
feet are really spiked. They put out their
hands and touch the spikes. aud bring them
back wet with blood and wipe them on their
garments. Women stand there and weep
but can do no good. 1t is no place for the
tender hearted women. 1t wants a heart
that crime hes turned into granite.
The waves OF mans hatred and Of helfs
vengeance dash up against the manRled
feet, and the hands of sin aud pain and
torture clutch for his holy heart. Had be
not been thoroughly fastened to the cross
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trampled him with bote 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 neighinR of the
chargers, and the believing Of the cruci-
flyers there comes a voice crashing through
loud, clear overwhelming, terrific. 1t is the
groaning OF the dying son of God! Look
what a scene! Look, world, at what you
have donel
l lift the covering from the maltreated
Christ TO let you count the wounds and
estimate the cost. OF when the nails went
through Christs 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
Christs 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 cleft Christ's side,
that bought your heart, with all its power
to love and repent aud pray.
o sinner, come, come back If 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, II can't come now. Phi
come after while There is no haste"
But If he is in want and trouble you say:
II must go right away. l must go now"
To-day Jesus stretches out before you two
wounded hands and he begs you to come. /
Go and you live. Stay way and you die.
o, that to him who bought as we might
give all our time and all our prayers aud all
our successes. l would we could think OF
nothing else, but come to Christ. He is so
fair. He is 30 loving. He is 30 sympathiz-
ing. He is SO good. l wish we could put
our arms around his neck and say: thine,
Lord will be forever" o that you would
begin to love him. Would that could take
this audience and wreate it around the
heart OF my Lord Jesus Christ.
When tie Atlantic cable was lost In '65.
do you remember that the Great Eastern
aGd the Midway and the Albany went out
to find itl Thirty times they sank the
grapnel two and a miles deep in water.
After awhile they found the cable and
brought it to the surface. No sooner had il
been brought to the surface than they lifted
a shout of exultation. but the cable slipped
back again into the water aud was lost.
Then for two weeks more they swept the
sea with the graphing hooks, and at
last they found the cable and brought
1t up in silence. They fastened it this time.
Then with great excitement they took one
end Of the cable to the electricians room
20 see If there were really any life in it, and
when they saw a spark and knew that
message could be sent, then every hat was
lifted and the rockets few and the guns
sounded until all the vessels on the expedi-
ton knew the work was done and the con
tinents we're dashed together.
Well, my friends, Sab ath after Sabbath
gospel messengers have come searching
down for your souls We have swept the
sea with the grappling-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
moment Of our gladness you sank back again
into the world and back again into sin. To-
day we come with this gospel searching for
your soul. We apply the cross Of Christ
first TO see whether there is any life left in
you, while all around the people stand,
looking to See whether the work will be
DONE and the angels OF God bend down and
Witness and OF 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 COM
soul, and your nature that has been sunken
in sin has been lifted into the light and the
joy of the gospel.
FARMER sTATBMEN.
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