Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-08-20

Love at the sick mans couch. Love at
the cripple's crutch. Love sweating in
the garden. Love dying on the cross
Love wrapped in the grave. You can
not mistake it. The blindest eye must
see ii. The hardest heart must feel it.
The deafest ear must hear it. Parable
and miracle, wayside talk and seaside
interview, all the scenes of His life, all
the sufferings of His death. proving be-
yond controversy that for our migrate
earth God has yearned with stupendous
and inextinguishable love.
But I remark again: 1T beloved
Christ to suffer" that the nature Of hui
man guilt might be demonstrated.
There is not a common sense man in
the house to-day that will not admit
that the machinery of society is out of
gear. that the human mind and the hui
man heart are disorganized, that some
thing ought to be done, and done right
away for its repair and readjustment
But the height, and depth, and length,
and breadth, and hate, and recklessness,
and internal energy Of the human heart
for sin would not have been demon
strated ifagainst the holy and innocent
One of the Cross it had not been hurled
in one bolt of fire. Christ was not the
first man that had been put to death.
There had been many before Him put
to death, but they had their whims,
their follics their sins, their inconsis-
tencies. But when the mob outside
of Jerusalem howled at the Son
of God it was hate against
goodness; it was blasphemy against
virtue; it was earth against
Heaven. What was it in that innocent
and loving face of Christ that excited
the vituperation and the contumely and
scorn of men? If He had bantered them
to come on, if He had laughed them in
to derision, if He had denounced them as
the vagabonds that they were, we could
understand their ferocity; but it was
against inoffensiveness that they BRAN
dishcd their spears. and shook their
fists, and ground their teeth, and howled,
and scoffed, and jcered, and Knocked.
What evil had He done? Whose eye
sight had He put out? None; but He
had given vision to the blind. Whose
child had He slain? None; but He re-
stored the dead damsel to her mother.
What law had He broken? None;
but He had inculcated obedience to
government. What foul plot had He
enacted against the happiness of
the race? None; but He had come
to save world. The only cruelty lie
ever enacted was to heal the sick. The
only ostentation He ever displayed was
to sit with publicans and sinners, and
wash the disciples feet. The only
selfshness He ever exhibited was to
give His life for His enemies. And yet,
all the wrath of the world surged
against His holy heart. Hear the red
hot scorn of the world kissing in the
pools of a Saviour's blood! And stand
ing there to-day let us see what an I'M
reasonable, loathsome, hateful. blast
ing, damning thing is the iniquity of
the human heart
Embossed. what will not sin do? 1t
will scale any height, it will fathom
the very depth of hell, it will revel in
all lasciviousness. There is no bias
phemy it will not utter, there are no
cruelties on which it will not gorge
itself 1t will wallow in filth, it will
breathe the air of charmed houses of
corruption, and call them aroma; it will
quaff the blood of immortal souls and
call it nectar. When sin murdered
Christ on the cross, it showed what it
would do with the Lord God
Almighty if it could get at Him.
The prophet think it was Jeremiah
had declared centuries before the
truth. but not until sin shot out its
forlled tongue at the crucitiXion and
tossed its sting into the soul of mar
tyred Jesus was it illustrated, that
''the heart is deceitful above all things,
and desperately wicked"
Again: 1T beloved Christ to suffer"
that our affections might be excited
Christward Why, sirs, the behavior of
our Lord has stirred the affections of
all those who have ever heard of it. It
has hung the art galleries of the world
with such pictures as Ghirlandajos
Worship of the Magi," Giotto's ''Bap-
tism of Christ" Holman Hunts "Christ
in the Temple" Tintorets agony in
the Garden" Angeles "CrucifiXion,"
and it has called out Handel's ''Mes-
siah" and rung sweetest chimes in
Young's might Thoughts" and filed
the psalmody of the world with the
penitential notes of sorrow and the
hosannas of Christian triumph. Show
me any other king who has so many
subjects. What is the most potent
name to-day in the United States, in
France, in England, in Scotland, in Ire
land? Jesus Other kings have had
many subjects, but where is the king
who has so many admiring subjects as
Christ? Show me regiment of 1000
men in their army, and will show you
n battalion of 10000 men in ChriS.'s