The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-08-18

anu tne spicuuprs VI tio sCcic tii uStu
woman said, IF all that is to go ON in
heaven, don't know what will become
of my poor head" Oh, my friends, there
will be so many things going on in heav-
on ! have sometimes wondered If the
Lord would not forget you and me!
Perhaps Paul said sometimes: II Won
der God does not forget me down here
in Antioch, and in the prison, and in the
shipwreck. There are so many sailors,
SO many wayfarers, so many prisoners,
so many heartbroken men," says Paul,
perhaps God may forget me. And then
am so vile sinner. How whipped
those Christians! With what vengeance
mounted that cavalry horse and dashed
up to Damascus! Oh, it will take a
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's intercession.
My friends, we must have an advocate.
A poor lawyer is worse than no lawyer
at all. We must have one who 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 the last judg-
ment, that can plead our cause before
God in the great tribunal.
CHRIST AS AN ADVOCATE.
Sometimes in earthly courts attorneys
have specialties, and one man succeeds
better in patent cases, another in insar-
ance cases, another in criminal cases,
another in land cases, another in will
cases, and his success generally depends
upon his sticking to that specially. l
have to tell you that Christ can do many
things, but it seems to me that his spe-
cialty is to take the bad case of the sim
! ner and plead it before God until hegets
eternal acquittal. 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, orr advocate, will not plead our
innocence Sometimes the attorney in
court tries to prove. an alibi. He says
'This prisoner was not at the scene. He
was in some other place at the time
Lord found us in all our sins and in the
very place of our iniquity. 1t is impos-
sible to prove an alibi Sometimes an
attorney will plead the insanity of the
prisoner and say he is irresponsible on
that account. That plea will never do
in our case. We sinned against light,
against knowledge, against the dictates
of our own consciences. 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 sufferings l demand the rescue
of this man from sin and death and hell
| Constable, knock off the shackles let
the prisoner go Free" "Who is he that
condemneth? 1t is Christ that died. yea,
rather that is risen again, whs is even
at the right hand of God, who also
maketh intercession for us"
But why all this gladness on the faces
of these sons and daughters of the Lord
Almighty? l know what you are think
ing of. A Saviour dead; Saviour risen:
Saviour exalted; a Saviour interceding
What" say you, sis all that for me?'
All, all! Never let me hear you cesa-
| planning about anything again. With
your pardoned sin behind you, and a
successful Christ pleading above you,
and glorious heaven before you, how
can you be respondent about anything?
COME INTO THE KINGDOM.
But" says some man in the audience,
"all that is very good and very true for
those who are inside the kingdom, but
how about those of us who are outsider
Then I 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 an6
thousands had persisted under the Frencl
guillotine. France groaned with The
tyrannies of Robespierre and the Jaco
bin club. The last group of sufferers
had had their locks shorn by Monchotte
the prison barber, so that the neck nigh
be bare to the keen knife of the guillo
tine.
The carts came up to the prison, tn
poor ~retches were placed in the cart
and driven off toward the scaffold, bu
while they were going toward the scaffolt
there was an cutlery in the street, ant
then the shock of firearms, and then tn
! cry: "Robespierre has fallen! Dow
with the Jacobins! Let France be free!
But the armed soldiers rode in upol
these rescuers, so that the poor wretche
in the carts were taken on to the scatfol,
and horribly died.
But that very night these monsters o
persecution were seized, and Robespierr
persisted under the very guillotine tina
he had reared for others, all France clar
ping their hands with joy as his hea
rolled into the executioner's basket
Then the axes of the excited populac
were heard pounding against the gate
of the prison, and the poor prisoner
walked out free. My friends, sin is tn
worst of all Robespierres. 1t is the ty
rant of tyrants. 1t has built prise
house for our soul. 1t plots our death
1t has shorn us for the sacrifice; but
blessed be God, this morning we hea
the axes of Gods gracious deliveranc
pounding against the door of our prison
Deliverance has come. Light break
through all the wards of the prison
Revolution! Revolution! "Where 81
abounded, grace does much NOR
abound; that whereas sin reigned unit
death even so grace may reign unit
eternal life through Jesus Christ on
Lord" Glorious TRUTH A Saviour deat
Saviour risen; Saviour exalted;
Saviour interceding!
Discussing Theology.