Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-08-18
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South Mountain, you stand in admira-
tian at his heroism and patriotism;
but if Christ should make conspicuous
the five wounds gotten on Calvary
that Waterloo of all the ages he
would display only a small part of his
wounds. Wounded all over, let him
sit at the right hand of God. He has
right TO sit there. by the request
of God. the Father, and the unani-
nous suffrage of all heaven, let him
sit there. In the grand review, when
the redeemed pass by in cohorts of
plehdor, they will look at him and
shout Victory"
The oldest inhabitant of heaven
never saw a grander day than the one
when Christ took his place on the right
hand of God. Hosanna! With lips of
clay | may not appropriately utter it,
bat let the martyrs under the altar
throw the cry TO the elders before the
throne, and they can toss it to the
choir on the sea of glass until all
heaven shall lift it-some on point of
sceptre, and some on string of harp
and some on the lip of the green
branches. Hosanna! Hosanna!
A fourth cause of Pauls eXhilara-
Jion: After a clergyman had preached
a sermon in regard to lhe glories of
heaven and the splendors of the scene,
an aged woman said: "lf all that is
to go on in heaven, don't know what
will become of my poor head" Oh.
my friends, there will b. so many
things going on in heaven have some
times wondered if the Lord would not
forget YOU and mel
Perhaps Paul said sometimes: II
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here in Antioch, and in the prison,
and in the shipwreCk. There are so
many sailors, SO many wayfarers, so
many prisoners so many heart broken
men says Paul, "Perhaps God may
forget me. And then | am so vile a
sinner. How | whipped those Chris
tians. with what vengeance mounted
that cavalry horse and dashed up to
Damascus! O. it will take mighty
attorney to plead my cause and get
me free" But just at that moment
there came in upon Pauls soul some
thing mightier than the surges that
dashed his ship into Melita, swifter
than the horse he rode TO Damascus.
1t was the swift and overwhelming
thought of Christ intercession.
My friends, we must have an advo-
cate A poor lawyer is worse than no
lawyer at all va must have one vino
is able successfully to present our
cause before God Where is he? Who
is he? There is only one advocate IN
all the universe that can plead our
cause in tae last Judgment, that can
plead our cause LefOre God in the
great tribuna
Sometimes in earthly courts attor-
neys have specialties, and one man
succeeds better in patent cases, an.
other in criminal cases, another in
land eases, another in will eases, and
his success general y depends upon his
sticking to that speciality. have to
tell you that Christ can do many
things; but it seems to me that his
speciality is to take the bad case of the
sinner and plead it before God until
he gets eternal acluittal. Oh! we
must have him for our advocate.
But what plea can he make? Some
times an attorney in court will plead
the innocence of the prisoner. That
would be inappropriate for us; we
are all guilty! guilty. Unclean.
unclean. Christ our advocate, will
not plead our innocence. Some
times the attorney in court
tries to prove an alibi. He says:
- his prisoner was not at the scene;
he was in some other place at the
time" Such plea will not do in our
case. The Lord found us in all our
sins, and in the very place of our
iniquity. 1t is impossible to prove an
allbi. Sometimes an attorney will
plead the insanity of the prisoner, and
say he is irresponsible on that account.
hat plea will never do in our case.
We sinned against light, against
knowledge, agains the dictate of our
own conseiences; we knew what we
were doing. What then shall the plea
be?
The plea for our eternal deliverance
will be Christ's own martyrdom. He
will say: Look at all these wounds
by all these sutferings Il demand the
rescue of this man from sin and death
and hell. Constable, knock off the
shackles let TIE prisoner go free"
WHO is he that condemneth? 1t is
Christ that died, yea, rather that is
risen again, who is even at the right
hand of God, who so maketh inter
cession for us"
But why all this g'adness on the
faces of these sons and daughters of
the Lord Almighty? l know what
you are thinking of. A Savior dead,
"a Savior risen, a Savior exalted, a
Savior interceding. What" say you,
lis all that for me?" A /! all! Never
let me hear you complaining about
anything again. With your pardoned
sin behind you, ard a successful Christ
plading above you, and glorious
heaven before you, how can you be
respondent about anything?
But" says some man in the audi
ence. ''all that is very good and very
true for those who are inside the king
dom; but how about those of us who
are outsider Then l say, come into the
kingdom, come out of the prison house
into the glorious sunlight of Gods
mercy and pardon and come now.
1t was in the last DAYS of the reign
of terror, the year 1893. Hundreds and
thousands had persisted under the
French guillotine. France groaned
with the tyrannies of Robespierre and
the Jacobin club. The last group of
sufferers had had heir locks shorn by
Monchotte, the prison barber, so that
the neck might DE bare to the keen
knife of the guillotine. The carts
came up to the prison, the poor
wretches were placed in the carts and
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