Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-07-02

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began to be drawn. It was not the
coming of night that soothes and re-
freshes; it was the swinging Of a great
gloom all around the heavens. God
hung it. AS when there is dead one
in the house you bow the shutters or
turn the lattice, SO God in the after
noon shut the windows of the world.
AS it is appropriate to throw q black
pail upon the coffin as 1t passes along,
so it was appropriate that everything
should be somber that day Us the great
hearse of the earth rolled on, bearing
the corpse of the King. A mans last
hours are ordinarily kept sacred. How
ever you may have hated or caricatured
man, when you hear he is dying silence
puts it's hand on your lips, and you would
have n loathing for n man who could
stand by deathbed making faces and
soothing. But Christ in His last hour
cannot be left alone. What, pursuing
Him yet after so long a pursuit? You
have been drinking His tears. Do you
want to drink His blood? They come
up closely, so that Notwithstanding the
darkness they can glut their revenge
with the contortions of His countenance.
They examine His feet. They want to
feel for themselves whether those feet
are really spiked. They put out their
hands and touch the spikes and bring
them back wet with blood and wipe
them on their garments. Women stand
there and weep but can do no good. 1t
is no place for the tender hearted wo-
man. 1t wants heart that crime has
turned into granite.
lift the covering from the maltreated
Christ to let you count the wounds and
estimate the cost. o! when the nails
went through Christ's right hand and
through Chsists left hand, that bought
both your hands with all their power TO
work, and lift, and write; when the
nails went through Christs right foot
and Christ's left foot, that bought both
your feet, with all their power to walk
or run or climb. When the thorn went
into Christ's temple, that bought your
brain, with all its power to think and
plan. When the spear cleft Christ's
side, that bought your heart, with all
it's powers to love and repent and pray.
o sinner, come, come back! If man
is in no pain, if he is prospered, If he is
well. and he asks you to come, you take
Your time and say: II can't come now.
III come after while. There is no
haste" But if he is in want and trouble
you say: II must go right away. I
must go now" To-day Jesus stretches
out before you two wounded hands, and
he begs you to come. Go and you live.
Stay away and You die. 0, that
10 him who bought us we might
give all our time and all our
prayers and all our successes. l would
we could think of nothing else, but
come to Christ. He is so fair. He is so
loving. He is so sympathizing. He is
SO good. wish we could put our arms
around His neck and say: IT hine,
Lord, will l be forever" o that you
would begin to love Him. Would that
could take this audience and wreathe
It around the heart of my Lord Jesus
Christ.
When the Atlantic cable was lost in
1865 do you remember that the Great
Eastern and the Midway and the Albany
went out to find it? Thirty times they
sank the grapnel two and a-half miles
deep in water. After awhile they found
The Gu BILE and brought 1t to the surface.
No sooner had it been brought to the
surface than they lifted shout OF exc
lltation, but the cable slipped back
again into the water and was lost Then
Tor two weeks more they swept the sea
With the graphing hooks and at last
hey found the cable and they brought
t up in silence. They fastened it this
lime. Then with great excite
nent they took one end OF the
able to the electricians room to see
+ there were really any life in it, and
when they saw spark and knew that
/ message could be sent, then every hat
vas lifted and the rockets flew and the
runs sounded until all the vessels on
he expedition knew the work was done !;
ind the continents were dashed to-
gether.
Well, my friends, Sabbath after Sab
,ath gospel messengers have come
down for your souls. We have
wept the sea with the graphing hook
# Christ's gospel. Again and again we
lave thought that you were ut the sur
ace and we began to rejoice at your re-
but at the moment of our
badness You sank back again into the
world and Dacar-~Gain into sin. To-day
We come with this gospel searching for
'our soul. We apply the cross of Christ
irst to see whether there Is any life
eft in you, while all around the people
itand looking to see whether the work
will be 'done and the angels of God bend
lown to witness, and, o, if now we
.ould see only one spark of love and
rope and faith we would send up
ihout that would be heard on the bat
dement's of Heaven AID two worlds
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