The Penn's Grove record., 1892-07-01

been tempted, He is able to succor all those
who are tempted.
/ care not how great the height or how
vast the depth, with Christ within us ana
Christ beneath US AMI Christ above US and
Christ all arounl US nothing can beiall usin
the way Of harm. Christ Himself having
been in the tempest will deliver all those
who put their trust I'm HIN. bisssef bs HIS
glorious name forever,
The third installment paid for our re.
demption was the Saviour's sham trial. l
call 1t q sham trial-there has never been
anything 50 indecent or unfair in .
OF Christ. Why, they hustled Him into the
courtroom at Q O'Clock 10 the morning. They
gave Him no time for counsel. They gave
Him no opportunity for sutp9 ialns WIZ
nesses. The rut1aus who were wandering
around throu yh the midnight, OF course they
saw b arrest and went into the COURT
room. But Jesus's frien1s were sober men,
were respectable men, AMI at that hour,
2 O'Clock in the morning, Of course they were
at home asleep. Consequently Christ entered
the courtroom with the rufians.
Oh, look ut HINT No one to speak a WORD
for Him. 1 lift the lantern until l can LOOK
into His face, and as my heart beats In sym.
patty for this the best friend the woria
ever had, Himself now utterly friendless, an
III - taS ~ "a S1AAAh
Him on the mouth, and 1 see the blood steal
ing from gum and lip. OIL it wasa farcs
Of q trial. lasting only perhaps an hour, ana
then the judge rises for sentence. Stopl IL
Is against the law to give sentence unless
there has been an adjournment OF the court
between condemnation and sentence: but
what cares the judge for the lawf "Ihs
man has no friends-let Him die" says the
judge; and the ~ruffisns outside the rail cry:
"Ahai aha that's what we want. Pass him
out here to usi Away with Himl Away
with Himr'
OIL 1 bless God that amid all the injustice
that may have been inflicted upon US In tnn
world cannot lie about you nor abuse you a.
much as they did Christ, and Jesus stands to.
day in every courtroom, In every house, In
every store, and says: 'Courage! By all
my hours OF maltr eatment and abuse, l Will
protect those wac are trampled upon" And
when Christ forgets that two O'Clock morn
ing scene, and the stroke OF the rufian on
the mouth, AMI the bowling OF the unwashei
crowd, then He will forget you and me IN
the injustices Of life hat may be inflicted
upon US.
Further, I remark: The last great INSTALL
ment paid for our re iemption was the de-
mise Of Christ. fhe world has seen many
dark days. Many summers ago there was a
very dark day when the sun was eciipsed.
The fowl at MONDAY went to their perch,
and we felt q gloom as wa looked at the as.
Economical wonder. It was a 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. 1t was a dark day when the earth
opened and Lisbon sank. but the darkest
day since the creation of the world was
when the carnag OF Calvary was enacted.
It was about noon when the curtain be.
gan to be drawn. 1t was not the coming on
OF a night that soothes and refreshes; it was
the swinging Of a great gloom all round
the heavens. God hung 1t. As when there
Is q dead one in the house you bow the shut
tiers or turn the lattice, so God in the after
noon shut the windows of the world. As it
10 appropriate to throw a black pail upon
the coffin as it passes along. SO it was appro- |
pirate that everything should be somber
that day as the great hearse of the earth
rolled on, bearing the corpe Of the King.
The waves of a mans hatred and of hell's
vengeance dash up against the mangledf feet.
and the hands of sin and pain and torture
clutch for His holy heart. Ha1 He not been
thoroughly fastened to the cross they would
have torn Him down and tramDled Him with
both feet. How the cavalry horses arcned
their necks and champed their bits, and
reared M snuffed at the blood Had a
Roman officer called out for a light his
voics would not nave been heard in the tu-
muIk but louder than the clash OF spears,
and the waiting OF womanhood, and the
neighing OF the chargers, and the believing
OF the cruciiers there came a voice crashing
through-lou1, clear, overwhelming, ter
rife. It Is the groaniny of the dying Sou Of
Godi Lookl what a scsnei LooI, world,
at what you have donel
lift the covering from the maltreated
Christ to let you count the wounds and
estimate the cost. Oh, when the nails went
through Christs right hand and through
Chrisfs left hand, that bought both your
hands with all their power to work and lift
and writei When the nails went through
Christs 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 thiuk aud plan.
When the spear cleft Christ's side, that
bought your heart, with all its power TO
love and repent and pray:
On, sinner, come, come backi Ifa man Is
In no pain, IL he is prospered, il he is well,
and he asks you to come, you take your m
and you say: II can't come row.. Pn come
after q while. There is no haste" But IL
he Is in want and trouble you say: II must
20 right away. ! must go now" To-day
Jesus stretches out before you two wounded
hands and BE bess you to come. Go and you
live. Stay away and you die.
When the Atlantic cable was lost, in 1865,
do you remember that the Great Eastern,
! and the Midway, and the Albany went out
to find It'll Thirty times they. sank the Crap
| mel two and q half miles deep in water.
| After awhile they found the cable and
brought it to the surface. No sooner had it
been brought to the surface than they lifted
a shout of emulation, but the cable slipped
| Jack again into the water and was lost.
| Then for two weeks more they swept
the sea with tina graphing hooks, and
at last they found the cable, and
| they brought 1t up in silence. They
| fastened 1t this time. Then, with great ex.
| element they took one end OF the cable to
| the electricians room to see IL there were
really any life In it, and when they saw a
| spark and knew that a message could be
| sent then every hat was lifted, and the
rockets dew and the guns soun led until all
the vessels on the expedition knew the work
was done, and the continents were lashed
Wall INV friends, Sabbath after Sabbath
Gospel messengers have come searching
| down for your souls. We have swept the sea
with the graphing hook OF Christ's Cos
pel. Again and again we have thought
| That Won were at the surface, and we began
to rejoice over your redemption; but at the
| moment Of our gladness -a sank back
| AGAIN into the world and back again into
sln. To-day we come with this Gospel
searching for your soul. We apply the
cross Of Christ first to see whether there is
any life iert In you, WINE hii around the peo-
| pie stand, looking co see whether the work
will be dons and the angels of God bend
down and witness an OIL il now we could
see only one spark Of low and hope and faith,
we would send up q shout that would be
heard on the b~attlenents Of heaven, and
two worlds would keep jubilee because COM
m~unication is open between Christ and the
soul. and your nature that has been sunken
in sin has been lifted into the light and the
low of the Gospel.
Barred Out.
Briggs-Are you going back to the
Bangup hotel this year,?
Griggs-Not much came away