Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-07-01

OfIlCef OF Tue COuIblOOil CJutt-o oh '-hie~'
Him on the mouth. and sea the blood stell-
inc from gum and lip. Ohl it was farce
of a trial. lasting only perhaps an hour. ant
then the Judge rises for sentences. Stop IL
is against this law to give sentence ullass
there has been an adjournmsns OF the court
between condemnation and sentence: but
what cares the Judge for tho law "Ih9
man has no friends-let Him die, says the
iudge. and the ruff ans outside the rail cry:
"Abal aha that's what we want. Pass Hin
out here to usl Away with himl Away
with Him.
Obi bless God that amid all the inju'tic,
that may have been inflicted upon Us IN thr
world we have divine sympathizer. The
word cannot lie ABOUT you nor abuse you as
much as they did Christ, aud Jesus stands TO.
day in every courtroom, in every house, in
every store, and says: "Couragel By alt
my hours or maltreatment aud abuse, | will
protect those VINO are trampled upon" Aud
when Christ forgeti that two O'Clock morn
ing SC enc and the stroke OF tbs ruff IN on
the mout >, an the bowling OF the unwdshei
crowd. then He will forget you and me in
the injusticss Of life that may be- inflicted
upon u.
Further, remark The last great install
ment paid for our re lempton wa, the de-
mise OF Christ. The 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 10 their perch,
and we felt gloom as We lo)Sel at the as O.
Economical wonder. II was dark day in
London when the plague was at its height,
aud the dead with uncovered faces were
taken in open carts and dumped in the
trenches. 1t was a dark day when the earth
opened aud Lisbon sank, but the darkest
day slncs the creation OF the world was
when the carnage OF Calvary was enacted
It was about noon when tbs curtain be.
gan 10 be drawn. 1t was not the coming on
Of night that sOothes and refreshes; it was
the swinging of a great gloom all around
the heavens. God hung it, As when there
is a dead one i'm 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
is 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 ami of hells
vengeance dash up against the mangled feet.
and the hands OF sin and pain and torture
clutch for His holy heart. Ha He not been
thoroughly fastened TO the cross thew would
have torn Him down and tramOlet Him with
both feet. How the cavalry horses arcned
their necxs and champed their bits, and
reared and snuffed at the blood Had a
Ro nan officer called out for light his
voice would not have been eard in the tn
multi; but louier than the clash OF spears
and the waiting OF womanhool, and the
neighing OF the chargers, and the believing
OF the crucfers there came voice crashing
throu ;h-loul clear, overwhelming. ter
rife IL is the groanins OF the dying Son OF
God Look, what scenei Look, world,
at what you have donel
lit the covering from the maltreate1
Christ 10 let you count thu wounds and
estimate the cost Oh when the nails went
through Chrsts right hand ami through
Christs left hand. that bought both your
hands with all their power to WORK and l'ft
and write When the nails went through
Christs right foot and Christ's left foot.
that bought your feet, with all their power
10 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 Chrisrs side, that
bought your heart, with all its power to
love and repent and pray.
Oh. sinner, come, come bacsi Ii IA man Is
in no pain, II be is pros )sred, il he Is well,
and he asks you to come, you take your time
and you say 81 emit come now. LII come
AFTER n Wulies lNeIt - NJ udolts bub II
he is in want and trouble you say II must
20 right away. ] must 60 now" To-Day
Jesus stretches out before you two wounded
hands and lie bess you 10 come. GO and you
live. Stay away and you die
When the Atlantic able was lost, in 1850,
do YOU remembsr that th1 Greas Eastern,
and the Me1way, and thu Albany went on
TO find it, Thirty times they sank the crap
mel two and a half miles deep in water
After awhile they found the cable and
brought il b the surface. No sooner had It
been brought 10 tn surface than they lifted
a shout Of exultalion, but the cable slipped
back again into the water and was lost.
Then for two weeks moro they swept
the SEA with the graphing hoOks and
at last they found the cable, and
they brought it up in silence. Iney
fastened it this time. Then, with great eN-
element, they took one end of the cable to
the electricians room 10 see if there were
really any life in it. aud when they saw a
spark aud knew that q message could be
sent, then every hat was lifted, and thu
rockets few and the guns sounded until all
the vessels on the expedition knew the Work
was done, and the continents were laihed
together.
We'll, my friends Sabbath after Sabbath
Gospel messengers have come searching
down for your souls. We have swept the sec
with the graphing hook of Chrlsts Cos
pei. Again and again We have thought
that you were at the surface, and we begar
10 rejoice over your redemption; but at the
moment Of our gladness you sank PACK
again into the world and back again into
sin. To-day we come with this Gospel
searching for your soul. We apply tbs
cross of Christ first to see whether there Is
any life left in YOU while all around the PEG
pie stand, looking to see whether the wors
will be done and the angels OF God ben.
down and witness, an on il now we could
see only one spark OF love and hope and faith
we would send no a shout that would b'
heard on the battlements OF heaven, ant
two worlds would keep jubilee because com
munication is open between Christ and tn
soul, and your nature that has been sunkei
in sin has been lifted into the light AMI tn
JOY of the Gospel.