Arizona republican., 1892-08-14

life that may be inflicted upon us.
 Further, remark: The last great in- stallment paid for our redemption was the demise of Christ. The world has seen many dark days. Many summers ago there was very dark day, when the sun was eclipsed. The fowl at noon- day went to their perch, and we felt gloom as we looked at the astronomical wonder. It was dark day in London when the plague was at its height, and the dead with uncovered faces were taken in open carts and dumped in the trenches. It was dark day when the earth opened and Lisbon sank; but the darkest day since the creation of the world was when the carnage of Calvary was enacted.
 It was about noon when the curtain began to be drawn. It was not the com ing on of night that soothes and re- freshes it was the swinging of great gloom all around the heavens God hung it. As when there is a 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 black pail uponthe coffin as it passes along, so it was appro- priate 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 he is dying silence puts its hand on your lips, and you would have a loathing for the man who could stand by deathbed making faces and scotting But Christ in his last hour cannot be left alone. What! pursuing him yet after 80 long a pursuit? You have been drinking his tears, Do you want to drink his blood? They come up closely, so that notwith- standing 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, and bring them back wet with blood, and wipe them on their garments Women stand there and weep, but can do no good. It is no place for the ten der hearted women. It wants a heart that crime has turned into granite.
 The waves of mans hatred and of hell's vengeance dash up against the mangled feet, and the hands of sin and pain and torture clutch for his holy 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 snutfed at the bloodl Had Roman officer called out for a 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. It is the grooming of the dying son of God! Look! what scene! 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.
 o sinner. come, come backl If q man is in no pain, if he is prospered, if he is well, and he asks you to come, you take your time aud you say: q can't come now I'll come after awhile. There is no haste" But if he is in want and trouble you say: Il must go right away. must go now" Today Jesus stretches out before you two wounded hands, and he bcgs 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 Christ. He is so fair He is so loving. He is so sym pathizing He is so good. wish we could put our arms around his neck and say, "Thine, Lord, will 1 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 Christ
 When the Atlantic cable was lost, in 1865, do you remember that the Great Eastern, and the Medway, 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 90 tho surface Shan they lifted Q shout of c:nitaIion, brt tho cable slipped back again into the water and was lost. Then for two Eecks more they swept tho sea with the Gr1ppling hooks, and at last they found the cable and they brought it up in silence. They fastened it this time. TEen with great excitement they took orc end of the cable to the cleo trician's room to soc if there were really any fife in it,Gnd when they saw spark and knew that q message could be sent, then every hatwas 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 lashed together.
 Well, my friends, Sabbath after Sab bath Gospel messengers have come