Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1892-08-18


- was a. 6fs>, ,eet Could the con
quest of this Insignificant planet hav.
paid him for his career of pain if it ha(
been mere matter Of applause: al
the honors of heaven surging at his feet
Would Your queen give up her throne
that she might rule miserable tribe IL
Africa: Would the Lord Jesus Christ
on the throne Of the universe come dow1,
to our planet # 1t We're a mere matter OF
applause and acclamation?
Nor was i an expedition undertaken
for the accumulation Of vast wealth.
What could all the harvestS ana .he
diamonds of our little world do for him
whose are the glories Of infnitude and
eternity: Nor was it an experiment
an attempt to show what he could Do
with the hard hearted race He who
wheels the stars IN their courses and
holds the pillars Of the universe or the
tips Of his fingers needed to make no
experiment to find what ne could do.
Oh, viii tell you. my friends, what it
was. 1t WAS nndisguised. unlimited.
all conquering, all consuming. inf
mite, eternal, ornnipotent love that
opened the gate, that started the
star III the east, with finger of light
pointing down to the nanger, that an.
rayed the Christmas choir above Beth
lehem, that opened the stable door where
Christ was born. taat lifted him on the
cross. Love thirsty at the well. Love
at the SICK mans couch. Love at the
cripple's crutch. Love sweating in the
garden. Love dying on the cross. Love
wrapped IN the grave. You cannot mis-
take it. The blindest eye must see it.
The hardest heart must feel it. The
deafest ear must hear it. Parable and
miracle, wayside talk and seaside inter
view. all the scenes of his life. all the
sufferings of his death, proving beyond
controversy that for our migrate earth
God has yearned with stupendous and
inaxtins'lishable love.
THE EXCEEDING SINFULNESs OF SIN.
But L remark a2ain. 1T beloved |
Christ to suffer, that the mature Of hu-
man guilt might be demonstrated. There
is not a common sense man in the house
today that will not admit that the ma
chlnery Of society is out of gear. that
the human mind and the human heart
are disorganized. that something ought
to be done and done righS ewav for its
repair and readiustment. But the height
and depth and length and breadth and
hate and recklessness and internal en-
ergy of the human heart for sin would
not have been demonstrated if against
the holy and innocent one of the cross
1t had lot been hurled in one bolt of
fire.
Christ was not the FIRST man tha; had
been put to death. There had been
many before him put to death, but they
had their whims, their follies, their sins.
their inconsistencies. But when the
mob outside Of Jerusalem howled at tie
Son of God it was hate against good
ness, 1t was blasphemy against virtue it
was earth against heaven. What was s
It IN that innocent and loving face Of I
Christ that excited the vituperatlon and |
he contrmely and scorn of men? If he
lad bantered them to come on, if he had
aughed them into der;sion, if he had de- I
lounced them as the vagabonds that t
hey were, we could understand their :
erocity, but it was against inoffensive-
less that they brandished their spears,
nd shook their fists, and ground their
eeth, and howled ard scofed and jeered
nd Knocked. O
What evil had he done? Whose eye
lght had he put out? None, but he had W
lveI vision to the blind. Whose child
ad he slain2 None; but he restored |
ne dead damsel to her moaner. What te
NV had he broken? None; but he had sh
iculcate1 obedience to government. z