Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-15

United States, in France, in England, In
Scotland, in 1relandf Jesus.
Show me in history where one man has
given his property and his life for anyone
else and 1 will show you in history hun
dreds and thousands of men who have
cheerfully died that Christ might reign.
Aye. there are hundred men In this house
who. II need we're, would step out and die
for Jesus. Their faith may now seem to be
faint, and sometimes they may be fncon-
sistent; but let the fires of martyrdom De
with poisonous serpents, pound them. fall
them, crush them, and will tell you what
their last cry would be: Come, Lord Jesus'
come Quicklyr
Oh, yesl the Lord Jesus has won the af-
fections Of many of us. There are some OF
us who can say this morning, "Lord Jesus,
my light and my song; my hope for time.
my expectation for eternity" Altogether
lovely Thou art. My soul is ravished with
the vision. Thou art mine. Come, let me
clasp thee.
You Cannot Give Up Jesus.
Come life, come death, come scorn and
pain, come whirlwfnd and darkness, Lord
Jesus, cannot give Thee up. have heard
Thy voice. l have seen Thy bleeding side.
Lord Jesus, if had some garland plucked
from heavenly gardens, would wreathe 1t
for Thy brow. If had some gem worthy Of
the place, 1 would set it in Thy crown. II
had seraphic harp, would strike it in Thy
praise. But come lost and ruined and un-
done, to throw myself at Thy feet.
Noprice bring:
Simply to Thy cross ! cling.
But remark again: cit behooved 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
enemies, and yet in Quiescence he endured all
outrage. He might have hurled the rocks
of Golgotha upon his pursuers; he might
have cleft the earth until it swallowed up
his assaflants; he might have called in rein
forcement or taken any thunderbolt from
the armory of God Omnipotent, and hurled
it seething and frey among his foes; but he
answered not again.
oh my hearer! has there ever been in the
history of the world such an example OF en-
during patience as we find in the Cross.
Some of you suffer physical distresses: some
of you have lifelong ailments, and they
that God has given you a cup too deep and
too brimming. Sometimes you see the
world laughing and romping on the high
ways of life, and you look out of the window
while seated in invalid's chair.
The Unparalleled sufferings OF Christ.
want to show you this morning one who
had worse pains in the head than you have
ever had, who was wounded in the hands
and wounded in the feet, and suffered all
over; and want that example to make you
more enduring in your suffering and to
make you say: Father, not my will, but
Thine be done" You never have had any
bodily pain, and you will never have any
bodily pain that eQualed Christs torture.
Some of you are prosecuted. There are
those who hate you. They criticise you.
They would be glad to see you stumble and
fall. They have done unaccoun table mean.
nesses toward you. Sometimes you feel
angry. You feel as if you would like to re-
tort. StopI Look at the closed lips. look at
the still hand, look at the beautiful de-
meanor of your Lord. Struck, not striking
back again. Obi If you could only appre-
ciate what he endured in the way of perse-
cution, you would never complain of perse-
cution. The words of Christ would be your
words: "Fa ther, If it be possible, let this cup
pass from me; but IL not, Thy will be done"
cit behooved Christ to suffer" persecution,
that he might show you how to endure per-
Some of you are bereft. 1t is no random
remark, because there is hardly q family
here that has not passed under the shadow.
You have been bereft. Your house is diff
ferent place from what it used to be- The
same furniture. the same books, the same
pictures, but there has been a voice hu shed
there The face that used to light up the
whole dwelling has vanished. The patter-
ng of the other feet does not break up the
oneliness. The wave has gone over your
'oul, and you have sometimes thought what
you would tell him when he comes back: but
hen the thought has flashed upon you, he
Will never come backl All! my brother my
Tesus of the bereft soul is here to-day. Be-
lold Him! He knows what is to weep at tile |
omb. 1t seems to me as if all the storms of |
he worlds sorrow were compressed into |
me sob, and that sob were uttered in two /
words: "Jesus wept."