Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-06-27

woiitd have torn him down and trampled
him with both feet. How the cavalry
horses arched their necks and champed
their bits. and reared and snuffed at the
bloodl Had Roman officer called out for
n light his voice would not have been
heard in the tumult; but louder than the
clash of spears, and the wailing of woman
hood. and the neighing OF the chargers,
and the believing of the cruciflers there
comes a voice crashing through = loud
clear. overwhelming terrific. 1t Is the
grooming of the dying son Of Godl Look!
what a scenel Look, world, at what you
have done
CALL TO THE UNCONVERTED.
lift the covering from the maltreated
Christ to let you count the wounds and
estimate the cost. Oh, when the nails
went through Christ's right hand and
through Christ's left hand, that bought
both your hands with all their power to
work and lift and writel When the nails
went through Christ's 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
it's power to think and plan. When the
spear cleft Christ's side, that bought your
heart, with all It's power to love and re-
pent and pray.
Oh. sinner, come, come backl If a man is
In no pain, if he is prospered, if he is well,
and he asks you to come, you take your
time and you say: 81 can't come now. I'll
come after awhile. There is no haste.
But If he Is in want and trouble you say.
~ must 90 right away. ! must go now"
Today Jesus stretches out before you two
wounded hands and he begs you to come.
| Go and you live. Stay away and you die.
| Oh, that to him who bought us we might
! give all our time, and all our prayers, and
all our successes. l would we could think
of nothing else, but come to Christ. He
Is SO fair He is SO loving. He is so sym
pathizing. He Is so good. wish we could
| nut our arms around his neck and say
Chime, Lord, will be forever" Oh, that
Won would begin to love him. Would that
could take this audience and wreathe II
around the heart of my Lord Jesus Christ
When the Atlantic cable was lost, in 1865
do YOU remember that the Great Eastern
and the Midway, and the Albany wen
out to find itY Thirty times they sank The
prapnel two and half miles deep in wa
ter. After awhile they found the cabl'
and brought it to the surface. No soone
had NJ been brought to the surface thai
tbey lifted a shout of eXultation, but tn
cable slipped back again into the waite
and was lost. Then for two weeks NOR
they swept the sea with the GRAPHING
hooks, and at last they found the cable
and they brought it up in silence. The
fastened 1t this time Then, with grea
excitement, they took one end of the cabl
TO the electricians room to see If Their
were really any life in it, and when the
saw a spark and knew that messag
could be sent, then every hat was lifted
and the rockets few and the guns sounc
, ed until all the vessels on the expeditio
knew the work was done and the cont
nents were dashed together.
Well, my friends, Sabbath after Sabbat
Gospel messengers have come searchin
| down for your souls. We have swept the sc
/ with the graphing hook of Christ's 60
pel. Again and again we have though
] that YOU were at the surface, and we bega
to rejoice over your redemption; but at tt
moment of our gladness you sank bac
again into the world and back again I'M
:, sin. Today we come with this Gosp
! searching for your soul. We apply IL
n cross of Christ first to see whether there
y any life left in you, while all around Il
o people stand, looking to see whether ii
n work will be done and the angels OF Gt
@ bend down and witness, and OH if now
n could see only one spark Of love and hol
y and faith, we would send up shout til
is would be heard on the battlements
70 heaven, and two worlds would keep jubil
vt because communication is open betwe'
$ Christ and the soul, and your nature tn
le has been sunken in sin has been lifted In
le the light and the Joy of the Gospel.