The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-08-15


broken None; but be inculcated obedi-
anoa TO government. What foul plot had
he enacted against the happiness OF the
race None he had come to save world
The only cruelty he ever enacted was 70
heal the sick The only ostentation he ever
displayed was to sit with publicans and sim
ners and wash the disciples feet. The
only seishness 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 SaVlors
blood And standing there to-day, let US
see what an unreasonable, loathsome, hate
full, blasting, damning thing is the iniquity
of the human heart Embossed, what Will
not sin dol 1t will scale any hight, 1t Will
fathom the very depths Of hell, 1t will revel
in all lasciviousness. There is no blasphemY
IL will not utter, there are no crueltes on
which it will not gorge itself 1t will walow
In filth 1t will breathe the air OF charnel
houses OF corruption and call then aroma;
it will Quaf the blood or tmm Jrtal souls
and call it nectar. When sin murdered
Christ on the cross it showed what 1t would
do with the Lord God Almighty if it could
get at him The prophet had declared
think it was Jeremiah-had decl AIRED centu-
ries before the truth, but not until sin shot
out its forked tongue at the oruclnxlon ana
tossed its sting into the soul OF martyred
Jesus was ID illustrated that "the heart 10
deceitful above all things, and desperately
wicked"
Again: III behooved Christ to suffer"
shat our affections might be excited Christ
ward. Why, sirs, the behavior OF our Lord
has stirred the affections of all those who
have ever heard Of it. 1t has hung in the
art galleries of the world, with such pictures
as Ghirandajo's, Worship Of Magi;"
Giotto's, Baptism of Christ" Holman
Hunts, ''Christ in the Temple" Tintoret's,
"Agony in the Garden" Angeles, Cruel
hxion;" and it has called out HandeIs
s'Messiah,n and rung sweetest chimes in
Youngs might Thoughts" and filed the
psalmody of the world with the peni-
tential 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 Irelandl Jesus. Other kings have bad
many subjects, but where is the king who
has SO many admiring subjects as Christi
Show me a regiment OF a thousand
men in their army, and l will show
you battalion OF ten thousand men in
Christs army.
Show me in history where one man has
given his property and his life for any one
else, and will show you in history hundreds
and thousands of men who have cheerfully
died that Christ might reign. Aye, there
are hundred men In this house who, il
need were, would step out and die for Jesus.
Their faith may now seem to be faint, and
they may be inconsistent; but let the fires
of martyrdom be kindled, throw them into
the pit, cover them with poisonous serpents,
pound them, fail them, crush them, and |
will tell you what their last loud cry
would be: "Come, Lord Jesus, come
quicklyln
o, yesl the Lord Jesus has won the
affections Of many of US. There are some
of US who can say this morning, Lord
Jesus, my light and my song; my hope for
time my expectation for eternity" Alto
Rebher lovely thou art. My soul is ravished
with the vision. Thou art NINE Come,
let me clasp thee. Come life, come death,
come scorn aud pain, come whirlwind and |
darkness, Lord Jesus, l cannot give thee
up. l have heard thy voice. I have seen
thy bleeding side. Lord Jesus, il l had
some garland plucked from heavenly
gardens. l would wreathe it for thy brow
II l had some gem worthy Of the place |
would set it in thy crown. II had serAphic
harp l would strike it In thy praise. But |
come lost and ruined and undone, to throw
myself at thy feet
No price bring;
Simply to thy cross / cling.
Thou knowest all things Thou knowest
that love thee.
But remark again: ut behoo we'd Christ
to suffer" that the world might learn how
TO suffer. Sometimes people suffer because
they cannot help themselves; bus Christ had
in his hands all the weapons to punish his
enemies, and yet In quiescence ne endured
all outrage. He might have hurled the
rocks Of Golgotha upon his pursuers.
he might have cleft the earth
until it swallowed up his assailants; he
might have called IN reinforcement or
taken any thunderbolt from the armoPy of
God Omnipotent, and hurled it seething
and fiery among his foes; but he answered
not again.
n NV haararl baa thara avar haan in hba
history of the world such an example OF en-
during patience as we find in the cross1
Some of you suffer physical distresses, some
of you have life long ailments, and they
make you fretful. Sometimes you think
that God has given you cup too deep aud
too trimming. Sometimes you see the
world laughing and romping on the high
ways of life, and you look out Of the window
while seated In invalid's chair.
/ want to show you this morning one
who had worse pains In the head than you
have ever had, whose back was scourRed
who was wounded In the hands and wounded
In the feet, and suffered all over, and
want that example to make You more en-
during in your suffering, and to make you
say, "Father, not my will, but thine be
DONE" You never have had any bodily
pain, and you will never have any bodily
pain that eqHaled Christ's torture. SIT be-
hooved Christ to suffer" that he might show
you how ply sically TO suffer.
Some OF you are perseouted. There are
those who hate you. They criticise you.
They would be glad to see you stumble and
fall. They have done unaocountable mean
nesses toward you. Sometimes you feel
angry. You feel as il you would like to
retort. Stopl Look at the closed lips, look
at the still hand, look at the beautiful de-
meanor Of your Lord. Struck, not striking
back again. o! If you could only appre-
ciate what he endured in the way Of perse-
cution, you never would complain of perse-
cution. The words of Christ would be your
words: Father, if it be possible Leu this
cup pass from me; but If not, thy will be
DONE" at behooved Christ to suffer" perse-
cution, that he might show you how to en-
dure persecution"
Some Of you are bereft 10 is no random
remark, because there is hardly family
here that has not passed under the shadow.
You have been berett. Your house is a
different place from what it used to be.
The same furniture, the same books, the
same pictures, but there has been voice
hushed there. The face that used TO light
up the whole dwelling has vanished The
pattering Of the other feet does not break
up the loneliness. The wave has gone
over your soul, and You have some
times thought what you would tell
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