Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-08-18
Kissing IN the pools Of Sarior,s hlnon

Kissing in the pools of Savior's blood
And standing there to-day, let us Sc,
what an unreasonable, loathsome, hate.
full, blasting and damning thing is
the iniquity of the human heart. I'm.
loose, 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
blasphemy 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 win quaff the blood of i'm.
mortal souls and call it nectar. When
sin murdered Christ on the cross, 1t
showed what it would do with the
Lord God Almighty if it could get at
| him. The prophet had declared
think it was Jeremiah-had declared
centuries before. the truth, but not un.
til sin shot out its forked tongue at the
crncifixion and tossed it's sting into the
soul of a martyred Jesus was it illus
trated that ''the heart is deceitful
above all things, and desperately
wicked"
Show me in history where one man
has given his property and his life for
anyone else, and will show you in his
tory hundreds and thousands of men
! who have cheerfully 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 faith may now seem to be faint,
and sometimes they may seem to be
inconsistent; but let the fires of mar.
tyrdom be lindled, throw them into
the pit, cover them with poisonous SER
penis, pound them, fail them, crush
them, and / will tell you what their
last cry would be: "Come, Lord Jesus,
come quickly
No price hiring;
Simply to Thy cross cling
Thou lknowest all things. Thou know
est that love Thee.
/ But | remark again: st behooved
Christ to suffer" that the world might
learn how to suffer. Sometimes people
suffer because they cannot help them
selves, but Christ had in his hands all
the wesfons to punish his enemies, and
yet in quiescence he endured all out
rage. He might have hurled the rocks
of Golgotha upon his pursuers, he
might have cleft the earth until it
! swallowed up his ASSISTANTS; he might
have called in reinforcement or taken
any thunderbolt from the -armory of
God Omnipotent, and hurled it seething
and fiery among his foes; but he an
swered not again.
| o my nearer! has there ever been in
the history of the world such an exam
! pie of enduring patience as we find in
| the cross? Some of you suffer physical
! distresses, some of you have lifelong
ailments, and they make you fretful.
! Sometimes you think that God has
! given you cup too deep and too
| 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
chair.
Some of you are prosecuted. There
/ are those who ha tie you. They criticise
you. They would be glad to see you
stumble and fall. They have done I'M
accountable mednnesses toward you.
Sometimes you feel angry. You feel
as if you would like to retort. Stop!
Look at the closed lips, look at the
I still hand. look at the beautiful de-
meanor of your Lord. Struck, not
striking back again. Oh. if you could
only appreciate what he endured in
tba Xvav pf ,naTSanntinp ynr, nava,.
would complain of 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 1T behooved Christ to suffer-
persecution that he might show you
how to endure persecution.
Some of you are bereft. 1t is no ram
dom remark, because there is hardly a
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 furnit ire,
the same looks, the same pictures, but
there has been a voice hushed there.
The face that used to light up the
whole dwelling has vanished. The
break up the loneliness. The wave
has gone over your soul, and you have
sometimes thought what you would tell
him when he comes back: but then
the thought has flashed upon you
he will never come back. All. my
brother, my sister, Christ has sounded
all that depth. Jesus of the bereft
soul is here to-day. Behold him' He
knows what it is to weep at the tomb.
1t seems to me as if all the storms of
the worlds sorrow were compressed
into one sob, and that sob were uttered
in two words: Jesus wept."
/ close my sermon with a doxology
blessing, and glory, and honor, and
power be unto him that stitch upon
the throne, and unto the lamb, forever.
Amen. and amen"'