Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-08-19

Jne mousse to-day JnaJ VIII noJ uuInlL
that the machinery of society is out of
gear, that the human mind and the
human heart are disorganized, that
something ought TO be done, and done
right away, for its repair and read
justment. But the height, and depth,
and length, and breadth, and hate, and
recl1lessness, and internal energy Of the
human heart for sin would not have
been demonstrated if against 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 foiiies,
their sins, their inconsistencies. But
when the mob outside OF Jerusalem
howled at the Son of God, it was hate
against goodness, it was blasphcmy
against virtue, it was earth against
heaven,
Hear the red-hot scorn of the world
Kissing in the pools of aSavior's blood
Al d standing there today, let us see
what an unreasonable, oathsome, hate
fri, blasting and 1amning thing is
the in guilty of the human heart. I'm
loose, what will not sin do? II will
scale any height, it will fathom
the very depth % hell, il will revel in
all lascivious iess. There is no
biasphcmy it will not utter, there
are no cruelties on which it will not
gorge itself. 1t viii wallow
in filth, it will breathe the air of char.
mel houses of corruption, and call them
aroma; it viii luaf the blood of i'm.
mortal aouls and call it nectar. When
sin murdered Christ on the cross, il
showed what it would do with the
Lord God Almighty if it could get al
him. The prophet had declared
think it was Jeremiah-had declared
centuries before, the truth, but not un.
til sin shot out its forl1ed tongue at the
crucifxion and tossed its sting into the !,
soul of n martyrcd Jesus was it illus.
trated, that 18th, heart is deceitfui
above ~, things, and desperately
wicked"
SHOW me II history where one mar
has given his property and his life for
anyone else, and | will show you in his I
tory hundreds and thousands of men
who have eheerfully died that Christ
might reign. Aye, there are a hundred
men in this house who, if need were,
would step out and die for Jesus.
Their fai IN may now seem TO be faint,
and sometimes they may seem TO be
inconsistenti but let the fires of mar.
tyrdom be kindled, throw them into
the pit, cover them with poisonous ser.
penis, pound them, fail them, crush
them, and l will tell you what their
lost cry would be: "Come, Lord Jesus,
como quickly
no price HIRING;
Simply TO Thy cross cling.
Thou knowest all things. Thou know.
est that Lore Thee.
But remark again: at behooved
Christ to suffer" that the world might
learn how TO auffer. Sometimes people
suffer because they cannot help them
selves, but Christ had IN his hands all
the weapons 10 punish his enemies, land
yet in quiescence he endured all out.
rage. He might have hurled the rocks
of Golgotha Gpon hir pursuers, he
might have cleft the earth until il
, swallowed up his assailants; he might
have called in reinforcement or taken
any thunderbols from the armory OF
God Omnipotent, and hurled it seething
and fiery among his foes; but he en-.
swered not again.
Omy nearer! has there ever been IN
the history of the world such TN exam
pie of enduring patience as we find in
the cross? Some of you suffer physical
actresses, some of you have lifelong
ailmen IS, and they make you fretful
Sometimes yoL think that God has
given you a cup too deep and toe
trimming. Sometimes you see the
world laughing and romping on the
( highways of life, and you look out Of
/ the window while seated in invalid's
cheir.
Some of you are prosecuted. There
arc those who hate you. They criticise
you. They would be glad to see you
stumble and fall. They have done un.
| accountable meannesses toward you.
Sometimes you feel angry. You fee
/ as if you would like to retort Stop!
Look at the closed lips, look at the
] SlllA lOOh db LilC OtduJllul Ot-
meanor of your Lord. Struck, not
striking back again. OH if you could
only appreciate what he endured ia
the way of persecution, you never
would complain IT persecution. The
words of Christ would be your words;
Father, if it be possible, let this cup
pass from me; but if not, thy will be
done" sit behooved Christ TO suffer-
persecution that he might show you
how Co endure persecution.
Some of you are bereft. 1t is no ran
dom remark, because there is hardly
family here that has not passed under
the shadow. You have been bereft.
Your house is different place from
what it used TO be. The same furniture,
the same looks, the same pictures, but
there has been voice hushed there.
The face that dsed to light up the
whole dwelling has vanished. .vht
pattering of the other feet does moi
break up the loneliness. The wave
has gone over your soul, and you have