Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-27

sank; but the darkest day since the creation
of the world was when the carnage OF Cal
vary was enacted.
1t was about noon when the curtain began
to be drawn. 1t was not the coming on of q
night that soothes and refreshes: 1t WAS the
swinging OF great gloom all around the
heavens. God hung it. As when there Is q
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 ft Is ap-
propriate to throw black pail upon the
ate 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 a man, when you hear ne Is
dying silence puts its hand on your lips, and
you would have a loathing for the man who
could stand by a death bed king faces and
scoff1ng. But Christ in His last hour cannot
be left alone. What, pursuing Him yet
after so long PURSUIT. You nave Oeen
His blood? They come up closely, so that
Notwithstanding the darkness they can glut
their revenge with the contort1ons OF HIS
countenance.
After All Is Paid, Count the Cost.
lift the covering from the maltreated
Christ to let you count the wounds and esti-
mate the cost. Oh! when the nails went
through Christ's right hand and through
Chri.t's left hand, that bought both your
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 cleft Christ's side, that bought
your heart, with all its power to love ana
repent and pray.
no pain, II he is prospered. il 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 a while. There is no haste" But II he
is in want and trouble you say, 81 must 90
right away. must go now" To-day 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 successes. would
we could think of nothing else, but come to
SO sympathizing. He is SO good. l wish we
could put our arms around his neck ana say:
'Thine, Lord, will l be forever" Oh, that
You would begin to love him. Would thae
could take this audience and wreathe 1t
around the heart of my Lord, Jesus Christ
When the Atlantic cable was lost in 80 do
you remember that the Great Eastern and
the Midway and the Albany went out to
find it? Thirty times they sank the grapnel
two and half miles deep in the water.
The Lesson of the Atlantic Cable.
After awhile they found the cable and
brought 1t to the surface. No sooner had 1t
been brought to the surface than they lifted
q shout of exultation, but the able 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 time. Then
with great excitement they took one emu OF |
the cable to the electricians room to see II
there were really any life in 1t. ana when
they saw spark and knew that message
could be sent, then every hat was lifteo ana
the rockets few and the guns sounded, until
all the vessels on the expedition knew the
work was done and the continents were
lashed together.
Well, my friends Sabbath after Sabbath
gospel messengers have come searching
down for your souls We have swept the
sea with the graphing hook of Chrtst's gos-
pei. Again aud again we have thought that
you were at the surface, and We began to re-
joice over your redemption; but at the mo-
ment 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 hrst
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
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 battle
ments of heaven, and two worlds would /
between Christ and the soul, and your ma
ture that has been suDken in sin has been |
lifted into the light and the JOY of the gos- /