The Red Cloud chief., 1892-07-08

o! I bless God that amid all the In
Justice that may have been inflicted NJ
on us In this world we have n divin,
! sympathizer. The world cannot liz
about you nor abuse you Va much ~
they did Christ. and Jesus stands to-day
In every court room, In every house, In
every store. aosl says: Courage! by
oil my hours of m~altreatment and abuse,
I will protect those who are trampled
upon" And when Christ forgets that
two o'clock morning scene, and tho
stroke Of the ruffian on the mouth, and
the bowling Of the unwashed crowd,
then he will forget you and me in the
upon ID.
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 n very dark day when the
sun was eclipscd. The fowl ut noon
day went TO their perch, al we looked
at the astronomical wonder. II was a
dark day in London when the plague
was Mt It's height, and the dead with UNI
covered faces were taken in open carts
and dumped In the trenches II was n
dark day when the earth opened and
Lisbon sank; but the darkest day since
tho creation Of the world was when the
carnage Of Calvary was enacted.
II vas about noon when the curtain
began TO be drawn. II was not the
coming Of a night that soothes and re-
freshcs; IL was the swinging Of a great
gloom oil around the heavens. God
hung II. AS whom there Ii . dead one
In the house you bow the shutters or
turn the lattice, SO God in tho after
noon shut the windows Of the world.
As IL il appropriate TO throw . black
pail upon the coffin a II passes along,
30 IL was appropriate that everything
should be somber that day A. the great
hcarse Of the earth rolled on, bearing
the corpse Of the King. A mans last
hours are ordinarily kept sacred. How.
ever you may have hated or caricatured
n man, when you hear he is dying silence
puts It's hand on your lips, and you would
have q loathing for . man who could
stand by . deathbed making faces and
soothing. But Christ In His last hour
cannOt be left alone. What, pursuing
Him yet after SO long q pursuit? You
have been drinking His tears. Do you
want TO drink His blood? They come
up closely, 30 that Notwithstanding the
darkness they n glut their revenge
with the contortions Of His c%ountenance.
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 garmentA Women stand
there and weep but q do no good. II
Is no place for the tender hearted wo-
Il wants o heart that crime has
turned into granite.
lift the covering from the maltrcated
Christ to let you count the wounds and
estimate the cost. o! when the nails
went through Christ's right hand and
through Chsist's left hand. that bought
both your hands with all their power to
work, nnd lift, and write; when the
nails went through Christ's right foot
and Christ's left foot, that bought both
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
It's powers to love and repent and pray.
o sinner, come, come back! II q mar
is in no pain, II he is prospered, II he Ii
well, and he asks you to come, you take
your time and say: ~ can't come now.
I'll come after u while. There Is no
haste" But II he Is in want and trouble
You say: 81 must go right away. /
must go now" To-day Jesus stretches
ont before you two wounded hands, and
he bcgs you to come. Go and you live.
Stay away and you die. o, that
to him who bought us we might
give oil our time and all our
prayers and all u successes. l would
we could think OF nothing else, but
come to Christ. He Is so fair. He 10 no
loving. He Is so sympathizing. He Is
30 good. wish we could put our arms
around His neck and say: Thine,
Lord, will l be forever" o that you
would begin to love Him. Would that
l could take this audience and wreathe
It around the heart Of my Lord Jesus
Christ
When the Atlantic cable was lost in
1867 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 a-half miles
deepin water. After awhile they found
the cable and brought 1t to the surface.
No sooner had 1t been brought to the
surface than they lifted a shout OF ex
ultation, 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 Mt last
they found the cable and they brought
II up in silence. They fastened 1t this
time. Then with great excite.
ment they took one end of the
cable to the electricians room to see
II there were really any life in it, and
when they saw u spark and knew that
n 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 to
gether.
Well, my friends, Sabbath after Sab
bath gospel messengers have como
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