Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1892-08-19


filth, it will breath the air Of charnel-
houses of corruption and call them aroma,
it will quaff the blood of immortal souls
and call it nectar
When sin murdered Christ on the cross
it showed what it would do with the Lord
God Almighty if it could get at him. The
prophet had declared think it was Jere-
miah-had declared centuries before the
truth, but not until SIN shot out its forked
tongue at the erucihxiOn and tossed its
sting into the soul Of a martyred Jesus
was it illustrated, that "the heart is de
ceitful above all things and desperately
wicked"
TO STIR OUR AFFECTIONS.
Again, ut beloved Christ to suffer"
| that our affections might be excited Christ
ward Why, sirs, the behavior of our Lord
! has stirred the affections of all those who
1 have ever heard OF it. 10 has hung in the
art galleries OF the world with such pic
/ lures as Ghirlandaios Worship Of the
| Magi," Giotto's Baptism OF Christ" Hol-
man Hunts Christ In the Temple" Tin
toret's agony in the Garden" Angeles
"CrucifxiOn," and it has called out Han
! del's Messiah" and rung sweetest chimes
in Youngs might Thoughts" and filed
the psalmody of the world with the peni-
tential notes of sorrow and the hosannas
Of Christian triumph.
Show me any other king who has so many
subjects What is the'most potent name
today in the United States, in France, in
England in Scotland, in Irelandg Jesus
Other kings have had many subjects, but
where is the king who had so many I'D
miring subjects as Christi Show me a
regiment of a thousand men in their army
and / will show you a battalion of ten
thousand men in Christ's army.
Show me in history where one man has
given his property and his life for any one
else and / will show you in history hun
dreds and thousands of men who have
cheerfnlly died THAT Christ might reign.
+. Ave, There are q 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 be iucon-
sistent bat let the fires Of martyrdom be
kindlcd. throw them into the pit, cover
them with poisonous serpents, pound them,
fail them, crush them, and / will tell you
what their last cry would be, Come, Lord
Jesus, come quiclslym
Oh, yesl the Lord Jesus has won the !
affections Of many of us. There are some
Of us who can say this morning, Lord Je
sus, my light and my song, my hape for
time my expectation for eternity" Alto
gether lovely thou art. Ny soul is ray
ished with the vision. Thou art mine |
Come, lot me clasp thee. Come life, come |
death, come scorn and pain, cCme whirl- |
wind ana darkness Lord Jesus, IcannOt /
give thee up. ! have heard thy voice. ] |
have seen thy bleeding side. Lord Jesus, /
if had some garland plucked from heav- |
emily gardens, would wreathe it for thy .
brow. II had some gem worthy Of the |
place, would set it ia thy crown. II |
had seraphic harp, ! would strike it in thy /
praise. But / come, lost and ruined and
undone, to throw my self at thy feet.
No price bring;
Simply TO thy cross cling.
Thou knowest all things Thou knowest
that love thee.
LEARN HOW TO SUFFER.
But ! remark again. 1T beloved Christ
to suffer- that the world might learn how
to suffer Sometimes people suffer because
they cannot help themselves, but Christ
had in his hands all the weapons to punish
his enefaics. ard yet in quiescence he en-
durcd all outrage, He might have hurled
the rocks of Golgotha upon his pursuers;
he might have cleft the earth until il
swallowed up his assailants; he might
have called IN reinforcement or taken any
thunderbOlt from the afmOry Of God ON
uipotent and hurled it seething and fiery
among his foes, but he answered not again.
Oh, my hearcr has there ever been in
5he history of he world such an example
If enduring patience as we find in the
CROSSE Some Of you suffer physical dis
5resses, some of you have lifelong ailments
lnd they make you frctfpl Sometimes
'ou think that God has given sou q cup
90 deep and too trimming Sometimes
gu see the world laughing and romping
IN the highways of life, and you look out
If the window while seated in invalid's
hair,
want to show YOU this morning one
Who had worse pains in the head than
gu have ever had, whose back was
eourgod, who was wounded in the hands
md wounded in the feet and suffered al
ver, and ! want that example 10 make
-ou more enduring in your suffering aud
o make you say Father, not my will
nut thine be DONE You never have had
ny bodily pain, and you win never have
ny bodily pain that equaled Christ's tor
ure 1T beloved Christ to suffer" that
e might show you how physically 70
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some Oh g0u art pIlHENuAgAls lMGAt ilE ]
hose who hate you. They criticise You.
hey would be glad to see you stumble
nd fall They have done unaccOuntablt {
toward you. Sometimes YOU q
eel angry You feel rs il you would like s
o retort Stop! Look at the closed lips,
1ok at the still hand look vt the beauti- {
III demeanor Of your Lord Struck, not 3
Lriking back again. Oh II you could
My appreciate what he endured in the
ray al persecution yOu never would COM !
lain Of persecution The words Of Christ
rould be your words, Father, if it be
ossible, let this cup pass from me; but j. /
ct, thy will be done" 1T beloved
,hrist to suffer" persecution. that Ne
night show you how to endure persecu
ion.
Some OF you are bereft. It is no random p
emark, because there is harily family
ere that has not passed Hader The shadow. a
'ou have been bereft. Your house is t
ifferent place from what it used to be- q
he same furniture, the same books, the b
anne pictures, but there has been voice {
ushed there. The face that used to light {
p the whole dwelling has vanished. The e
altering of the other feet does not break
D the loneliness The wave has gone over
and You have sometimes Thought
hat you would tell him when be comes n
ack, but then the thought has flashed 4
pom you, he will never come back. {
Ali my brother, my sister, Christ has y
bundled al that depth jesus Of tho be- b
Eft soai is here today Behold HIM lie {
nows what " is 20 weep at the tomb. lt d
GEMS to me as if all the storms Of the b
'orld's sorrow were compressed into one s.
lb and that sob were uttered in two s.
'ords. ''Jesus-wept O
7 cIosr my cfrrnon with a doxolnuv. "